Academic Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 13,997 19,765 24,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 18.89% 16.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.30% 57.64% 60.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,754 8,053 10,133
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,145 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £99,671 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree.

Salary trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -4 12,435 £52,500 -8.70% 6,803
UK excluding London -5 9,687 £48,500 -3.00% 4,789
Work from Home +5 4,215 £55,000 -8.33% 2,492
London +4 3,774 £67,500 - 2,347
South East -2 2,849 £51,350 +2.70% 1,237
North of England 0 1,971 £47,500 -5.00% 1,070
Midlands -2 1,601 £46,000 -8.00% 805
South West -3 1,315 £48,000 +1.05% 639
North West +4 1,185 £47,500 -9.52% 621
West Midlands -3 1,064 £50,000 -4.76% 497
East of England -3 856 £47,500 -4.54% 676
Scotland -26 707 £45,543 -9.76% 344
Yorkshire +4 576 £46,250 -5.61% 319
East Midlands -5 526 £40,000 -15.79% 307
Wales -6 264 £44,886 +0.12% 120
North East -9 210 £49,500 +4.76% 153
Northern Ireland +8 104 £45,000 +5.88% 85
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 5
Channel Islands -2 5 - - 3

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 416 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 412 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 269 (1.92%) Confluence
4 141 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 131 (0.94%) SAS
6 111 (0.79%) CMS
7 75 (0.54%) Apache
8 74 (0.53%) IIS
9 68 (0.49%) WordPress
10 45 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
10 45 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.23%) FileNet
11 32 (0.23%) Skype for Business
12 30 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 27 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
14 19 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 17 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 12 (0.086%) nginx
16 12 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
17 9 (0.064%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,421 (10.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1,342 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 592 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 201 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 180 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 160 (1.14%) Simulink
7 88 (0.63%) AutoCAD
8 77 (0.55%) Photoshop
9 64 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 60 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 40 (0.29%) SPSS
13 38 (0.27%) InDesign
13 38 (0.27%) UserZoom
14 34 (0.24%) Chatbot
15 31 (0.22%) Revit
15 31 (0.22%) Stateflow
15 31 (0.22%) Trello
16 27 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
17 24 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 195 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 60 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 40 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 38 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 35 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 32 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 28 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
10 23 (0.16%) Primavera
11 18 (0.13%) SAP CO
11 18 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 18 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 17 (0.12%) Endur
12 17 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 16 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
13 16 (0.11%) SAP Business One
13 16 (0.11%) SAP CX
13 16 (0.11%) Shopify
14 12 (0.086%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,839 (13.14%) Azure
2 1,236 (8.83%) AWS
3 1,171 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
4 784 (5.60%) Power Platform
5 450 (3.21%) SaaS
6 352 (2.51%) GCP
7 257 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 250 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 193 (1.38%) GitHub
10 188 (1.34%) Entra ID
11 173 (1.24%) PowerApps
12 169 (1.21%) Serverless
13 157 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
14 149 (1.06%) Power Automate
15 123 (0.88%) Figma
16 121 (0.86%) Amazon S3
17 120 (0.86%) IaaS
18 115 (0.82%) PaaS
19 101 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
20 94 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 515 (3.68%) Firewall
2 426 (3.04%) WAN
3 375 (2.68%) Wireless
4 275 (1.96%) LAN
5 274 (1.96%) DNS
6 256 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 226 (1.61%) Network Security
8 205 (1.46%) Internet
9 197 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 190 (1.36%) SD-WAN
11 185 (1.32%) DHCP
12 167 (1.19%) VPN
13 148 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
14 121 (0.86%) WebEx
15 110 (0.79%) VoIP
16 104 (0.74%) SAN
17 94 (0.67%) 5G
18 89 (0.64%) Ethernet
19 84 (0.60%) VLAN
20 66 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 878 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 649 (4.64%) Power BI
3 414 (2.96%) Tableau
4 284 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 281 (2.01%) MySQL
6 254 (1.81%) NoSQL
7 239 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 195 (1.39%) Big Data
9 179 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
10 156 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 140 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 99 (0.71%) Data Mining
12 99 (0.71%) MongoDB
13 97 (0.69%) Redis
14 96 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
14 96 (0.69%) Oracle Database
15 87 (0.62%) Hadoop
16 85 (0.61%) Data Lake
17 83 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
18 79 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 882 (6.30%) Git
2 593 (4.24%) JIRA
3 260 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 219 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 129 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 113 (0.81%) Selenium
7 85 (0.61%) GitLab
7 85 (0.61%) LabVIEW
8 81 (0.58%) Subversion
9 80 (0.57%) Sourcetree
10 73 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 61 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 46 (0.33%) JUnit
12 46 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
13 44 (0.31%) Moq
14 43 (0.31%) Postman
15 42 (0.30%) NUnit
16 38 (0.27%) CMake
16 38 (0.27%) Mockito
17 36 (0.26%) Jasmine
General
1 5,906 (42.19%) Social Skills
2 2,862 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2,784 (19.89%) Finance
4 1,480 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,186 (8.47%) Marketing
6 1,086 (7.76%) Manufacturing
7 947 (6.77%) Retail
8 790 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
9 763 (5.45%) Law
10 734 (5.24%) Legal
11 664 (4.74%) Electronics
12 521 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
13 501 (3.58%) Public Sector
14 480 (3.43%) Telecoms
15 464 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
16 353 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 352 (2.51%) Banking
18 348 (2.49%) Games
19 306 (2.19%) Automotive
20 288 (2.06%) German Language
Job Titles
1 2,058 (14.70%) Senior
2 1,757 (12.55%) Analyst
3 1,711 (12.22%) Developer
4 1,149 (8.21%) Graduate
5 950 (6.79%) Lead
6 909 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 753 (5.38%) Project Manager
8 678 (4.84%) Architect
9 487 (3.48%) Consultant
10 432 (3.09%) Junior
11 395 (2.82%) Software Developer
12 370 (2.64%) Senior Developer
13 366 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
14 356 (2.54%) Support Engineer
15 353 (2.52%) IT Support
15 353 (2.52%) Systems Engineer
16 302 (2.16%) Data Scientist
17 289 (2.06%) IT Engineer
18 276 (1.97%) IT Manager
19 257 (1.84%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 959 (6.85%) .NET
2 710 (5.07%) HTML
3 628 (4.49%) CSS
4 605 (4.32%) React
5 447 (3.19%) AngularJS
6 281 (2.01%) Node.js
7 258 (1.84%) ASP.NET
8 223 (1.59%) RESTful
9 220 (1.57%) HTML5
10 209 (1.49%) Web Services
11 203 (1.45%) .NET Framework
12 185 (1.32%) .NET Core
13 173 (1.24%) Kafka
14 170 (1.21%) XML
15 163 (1.16%) REST
16 155 (1.11%) Spring
17 146 (1.04%) JSON
18 136 (0.97%) Vue
19 117 (0.84%) SOAP
20 116 (0.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 973 (6.95%) Management Information System
2 845 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
3 734 (5.24%) Algorithms
4 544 (3.89%) Driving Licence
5 437 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 355 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 348 (2.49%) Data Centre
8 232 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 218 (1.56%) Social Media
10 208 (1.49%) IoT
11 193 (1.38%) Life Science
12 177 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
13 176 (1.26%) FMCG
14 172 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
15 153 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 149 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 147 (1.05%) Cloud Native
18 141 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
19 132 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
20 128 (0.91%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,550 (11.07%) Windows
2 997 (7.12%) Linux
3 451 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 403 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 269 (1.92%) Android
6 261 (1.86%) Unix
7 133 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 122 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 112 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 108 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
11 88 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (0.53%) Windows 7
13 60 (0.43%) Solaris
14 56 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 44 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
16 35 (0.25%) Kali Linux
17 32 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 31 (0.22%) Mac OS X
19 28 (0.20%) Debian
19 28 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,236 (30.26%) Computer Science
2 4,081 (29.16%) Problem-Solving
3 2,698 (19.28%) Agile
4 2,017 (14.41%) Project Management
5 1,832 (13.09%) Software Engineering
6 1,508 (10.77%) Mathematics
7 1,373 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,263 (9.02%) Mentoring
9 1,202 (8.59%) Analytics
10 1,166 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
11 1,116 (7.97%) Decision-Making
12 1,106 (7.90%) DevOps
13 1,047 (7.48%) Customer Service
14 1,039 (7.42%) Artificial Intelligence
15 972 (6.94%) Data Analysis
16 949 (6.78%) ITIL
17 888 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
18 867 (6.19%) Roadmaps
19 856 (6.12%) Project Delivery
20 792 (5.66%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,154 (15.39%) SQL
2 1,921 (13.72%) Python
3 1,416 (10.12%) C#
4 1,190 (8.50%) JavaScript
5 769 (5.49%) Java
6 699 (4.99%) C
7 578 (4.13%) C++
8 409 (2.92%) PowerShell
9 407 (2.91%) TypeScript
10 276 (1.97%) R
11 271 (1.94%) PHP
12 236 (1.69%) MATLAB
13 219 (1.56%) T-SQL
14 198 (1.41%) Bash
15 152 (1.09%) Embedded C
16 124 (0.89%) VB
17 106 (0.76%) PL/SQL
18 97 (0.69%) Fortran
19 82 (0.59%) Go
20 77 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,457 (17.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,606 (11.47%) Master's Degree
3 1,246 (8.90%) Security Cleared
4 757 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 602 (4.30%) DBS Check
6 518 (3.70%) PhD
7 391 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 322 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 322 (2.30%) CISSP
9 279 (1.99%) HND
10 276 (1.97%) HNC
11 272 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 223 (1.59%) CCNA
13 218 (1.56%) PMI Certification
14 217 (1.55%) CISM
15 186 (1.33%) PMP
16 185 (1.32%) DV Cleared
17 176 (1.26%) MBA
18 172 (1.23%) Azure Certification
19 141 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 689 (4.92%) QA
2 260 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 256 (1.83%) GDPR
4 242 (1.73%) SLA
5 237 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 223 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 189 (1.35%) PMO
8 143 (1.02%) NIST
9 111 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 95 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 80 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 80 (0.57%) GMP
12 69 (0.49%) PCI DSS
13 62 (0.44%) WCAG
14 48 (0.34%) NCSC
15 47 (0.34%) ISO 13485
15 47 (0.34%) NEBOSH
16 39 (0.28%) ISO 26262
16 39 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 39 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 841 (6.01%) Active Directory
2 541 (3.87%) Docker
3 341 (2.44%) Firmware
4 324 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 176 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
6 167 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 156 (1.11%) Hyper-V
8 122 (0.87%) XenApp
9 109 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
10 105 (0.75%) XenDesktop
11 73 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
12 59 (0.42%) vSphere
13 46 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
14 40 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
15 23 (0.16%) Terminal Services
16 20 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
17 10 (0.071%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.057%) KVM
19 5 (0.036%) HDFS
19 5 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 472 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 242 (1.73%) SCCM
3 236 (1.69%) Terraform
4 159 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 114 (0.81%) AirWatch
5 114 (0.81%) Ansible
6 51 (0.36%) WSUS
7 49 (0.35%) SCOM
8 46 (0.33%) Data Guard
8 46 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
9 44 (0.31%) CASB
10 38 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 30 (0.21%) Functional Safety
13 28 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 26 (0.19%) vCenter Server
15 23 (0.16%) Puppet
16 20 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
17 18 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
17 18 (0.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2,910 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 458 (3.27%) VMware
3 453 (3.24%) Cisco
4 407 (2.91%) SAP
5 400 (2.86%) Google
6 372 (2.66%) Oracle
7 261 (1.86%) Adobe
8 215 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 213 (1.52%) Apple
10 192 (1.37%) Citrix
11 190 (1.36%) EMC
12 188 (1.34%) Databricks
13 141 (1.01%) Dell
14 131 (0.94%) ServiceNow
15 122 (0.87%) IBM
16 118 (0.84%) HP
17 91 (0.65%) Meraki
18 87 (0.62%) Sage
19 78 (0.56%) Veeam
20 71 (0.51%) Qualtrics