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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Degree 14,108 19,505 25,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.31% 18.79% 16.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.43% 57.70% 60.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,824 8,007 10,167
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +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 27,433 33,803 42,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 32.57% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,326 15,201 19,033
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 12,545 £52,500 -12.50% 7,331
UK excluding London -5 9,762 £48,750 -2.50% 5,162
Work from Home +5 4,243 £55,000 -8.33% 2,544
London +2 3,800 £67,500 -0.87% 2,455
South East -2 2,876 £51,425 +0.83% 1,307
North of England -1 1,979 £47,500 -5.00% 1,162
Midlands -2 1,624 £46,844 -6.31% 917
South West -3 1,335 £48,000 +1.05% 697
North West +3 1,189 £47,507 -9.51% 660
West Midlands -3 1,075 £50,000 -4.76% 569
East of England -3 859 £47,500 -5.00% 719
Scotland -27 702 £45,543 -8.91% 337
Yorkshire +4 575 £45,000 -10.00% 368
East Midlands -5 538 £40,000 -15.79% 346
Wales -6 262 £44,886 -0.25% 137
North East -9 215 £48,734 +2.60% 158
Northern Ireland +8 105 £43,000 +1.18% 71
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 6
Channel Islands -2 5 - - 5

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
1 410 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 398 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 269 (1.91%) Confluence
4 142 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 130 (0.92%) SAS
6 112 (0.79%) CMS
7 75 (0.53%) Apache
8 71 (0.50%) IIS
9 68 (0.48%) 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 29 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 29 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 19 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 17 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.085%) nginx
15 12 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.064%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,419 (10.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1,353 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 601 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 202 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 182 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 164 (1.16%) Simulink
7 87 (0.62%) AutoCAD
8 77 (0.55%) Photoshop
9 63 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 61 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 40 (0.28%) 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
1 191 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 59 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 41 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 38 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 36 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 32 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 27 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
10 24 (0.17%) 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 11 (0.078%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,850 (13.11%) Azure
2 1,258 (8.92%) AWS
3 1,156 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
4 802 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 444 (3.15%) SaaS
6 359 (2.54%) GCP
7 264 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 251 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
9 191 (1.35%) GitHub
10 184 (1.30%) Entra ID
11 178 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 171 (1.21%) Serverless
13 157 (1.11%) Power Automate
14 156 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
15 123 (0.87%) Figma
16 119 (0.84%) Amazon S3
17 118 (0.84%) IaaS
18 114 (0.81%) PaaS
19 100 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
20 92 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 512 (3.63%) Firewall
2 427 (3.03%) WAN
3 366 (2.59%) Wireless
4 276 (1.96%) LAN
5 274 (1.94%) DNS
6 254 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 227 (1.61%) Network Security
8 210 (1.49%) Internet
9 194 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
10 189 (1.34%) SD-WAN
11 184 (1.30%) DHCP
12 165 (1.17%) VPN
13 140 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
14 114 (0.81%) WebEx
15 106 (0.75%) VoIP
16 100 (0.71%) SAN
17 96 (0.68%) 5G
18 90 (0.64%) Ethernet
19 81 (0.57%) VLAN
20 67 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 878 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 668 (4.73%) Power BI
3 438 (3.10%) Tableau
4 290 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 281 (1.99%) MySQL
6 257 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 244 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
8 199 (1.41%) Big Data
9 183 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
10 154 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 139 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 100 (0.71%) MongoDB
13 99 (0.70%) Data Mining
13 99 (0.70%) Redis
14 97 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
15 96 (0.68%) Oracle Database
16 88 (0.62%) Hadoop
17 87 (0.62%) Data Lake
18 80 (0.57%) GIS
19 79 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 909 (6.44%) Git
2 593 (4.20%) JIRA
3 265 (1.88%) Visual Studio
4 220 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 131 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 115 (0.82%) Selenium
7 88 (0.62%) GitLab
8 85 (0.60%) LabVIEW
9 81 (0.57%) Subversion
10 80 (0.57%) Sourcetree
11 74 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 61 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 47 (0.33%) JUnit
14 46 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
15 45 (0.32%) Moq
16 43 (0.30%) Postman
17 42 (0.30%) NUnit
18 39 (0.28%) Mockito
19 38 (0.27%) CMake
20 36 (0.26%) Jasmine
General
1 5,963 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 2,893 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 2,818 (19.97%) Finance
4 1,510 (10.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,191 (8.44%) Marketing
6 1,092 (7.74%) Manufacturing
7 962 (6.82%) Retail
8 813 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
9 786 (5.57%) Law
10 734 (5.20%) Legal
11 673 (4.77%) Electronics
12 521 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
13 501 (3.55%) Public Sector
14 481 (3.41%) Telecoms
15 463 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
16 373 (2.64%) Banking
17 359 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 349 (2.47%) Games
19 305 (2.16%) Automotive
20 288 (2.04%) German Language
Job Titles
1 2,077 (14.72%) Senior
2 1,780 (12.62%) Analyst
3 1,721 (12.20%) Developer
4 1,143 (8.10%) Graduate
5 964 (6.83%) Lead
6 918 (6.51%) Software Engineer
7 751 (5.32%) Project Manager
8 698 (4.95%) Architect
9 491 (3.48%) Consultant
10 432 (3.06%) Junior
11 399 (2.83%) Software Developer
12 378 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
13 371 (2.63%) Senior Developer
14 357 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
15 356 (2.52%) Support Engineer
16 347 (2.46%) IT Support
17 311 (2.20%) Data Scientist
18 286 (2.03%) IT Engineer
19 278 (1.97%) IT Manager
20 266 (1.89%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 972 (6.89%) .NET
2 713 (5.05%) HTML
3 630 (4.47%) CSS
4 606 (4.30%) React
5 442 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 282 (2.00%) Node.js
7 257 (1.82%) ASP.NET
8 221 (1.57%) HTML5
8 221 (1.57%) RESTful
9 212 (1.50%) Web Services
10 209 (1.48%) .NET Framework
11 186 (1.32%) .NET Core
12 174 (1.23%) XML
13 172 (1.22%) Kafka
14 162 (1.15%) REST
15 156 (1.11%) Spring
16 144 (1.02%) JSON
17 132 (0.94%) Vue
18 116 (0.82%) Unity (Game Engine)
19 113 (0.80%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 975 (6.91%) Management Information System
2 847 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
3 740 (5.25%) Algorithms
4 545 (3.86%) Driving Licence
5 435 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 361 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 356 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 233 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 220 (1.56%) Social Media
10 213 (1.51%) IoT
11 196 (1.39%) Life Science
12 179 (1.27%) FMCG
13 171 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 170 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
15 153 (1.08%) Virtual Team
16 150 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 147 (1.04%) Cloud Native
18 140 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
19 133 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
20 130 (0.92%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1,538 (10.90%) Windows
2 1,009 (7.15%) Linux
3 446 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 392 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 262 (1.86%) Android
6 259 (1.84%) Unix
7 130 (0.92%) Mac OS
8 121 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 110 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 107 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
11 85 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (0.52%) Windows 7
13 60 (0.43%) Solaris
13 60 (0.43%) Ubuntu
14 47 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
15 35 (0.25%) Kali Linux
16 34 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 28 (0.20%) Debian
18 27 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 26 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,269 (30.26%) Computer Science
2 4,126 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
3 2,719 (19.27%) Agile
4 2,025 (14.35%) Project Management
5 1,850 (13.11%) Software Engineering
6 1,535 (10.88%) Mathematics
7 1,387 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,260 (8.93%) Mentoring
9 1,238 (8.78%) Analytics
10 1,167 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
11 1,137 (8.06%) Decision-Making
12 1,113 (7.89%) DevOps
13 1,051 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence
14 1,046 (7.41%) Customer Service
15 996 (7.06%) Data Analysis
16 942 (6.68%) ITIL
17 908 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
18 871 (6.17%) Roadmaps
19 854 (6.05%) Project Delivery
20 808 (5.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,185 (15.49%) SQL
2 1,958 (13.88%) Python
3 1,432 (10.15%) C#
4 1,190 (8.43%) JavaScript
5 776 (5.50%) Java
6 710 (5.03%) C
7 593 (4.20%) C++
8 411 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 409 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 282 (2.00%) R
11 270 (1.91%) PHP
12 239 (1.69%) MATLAB
13 218 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 199 (1.41%) Bash
15 153 (1.08%) Embedded C
16 129 (0.91%) VB
17 105 (0.74%) PL/SQL
18 97 (0.69%) Fortran
19 82 (0.58%) Go
20 80 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,468 (17.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,609 (11.40%) Master's Degree
3 1,254 (8.89%) Security Cleared
4 759 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 620 (4.39%) DBS Check
6 521 (3.69%) PhD
7 395 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 330 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 322 (2.28%) CISSP
10 278 (1.97%) HND
11 277 (1.96%) HNC
12 272 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 227 (1.61%) CCNA
14 221 (1.57%) PMI Certification
15 216 (1.53%) CISM
16 190 (1.35%) PMP
17 189 (1.34%) DV Cleared
18 173 (1.23%) MBA
19 170 (1.20%) Azure Certification
20 145 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 687 (4.87%) QA
2 268 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 254 (1.80%) GDPR
4 238 (1.69%) SLA
5 234 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 228 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 194 (1.38%) PMO
8 144 (1.02%) NIST
9 110 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 91 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 83 (0.59%) GMP
12 80 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
13 68 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 63 (0.45%) WCAG
15 47 (0.33%) ISO 13485
15 47 (0.33%) NCSC
15 47 (0.33%) NEBOSH
16 39 (0.28%) ISO 26262
16 39 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 39 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 822 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 543 (3.85%) Docker
3 347 (2.46%) Firmware
4 317 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 179 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 161 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 155 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 115 (0.82%) XenApp
9 102 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
10 98 (0.69%) XenDesktop
11 74 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
12 59 (0.42%) vSphere
13 46 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
14 38 (0.27%) 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 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 5 (0.035%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 474 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 243 (1.72%) Terraform
3 231 (1.64%) SCCM
4 154 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 113 (0.80%) Ansible
6 107 (0.76%) AirWatch
7 50 (0.35%) WSUS
8 48 (0.34%) SCOM
9 46 (0.33%) Data Guard
9 46 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 41 (0.29%) CASB
11 38 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 32 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
13 30 (0.21%) Functional Safety
14 28 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 26 (0.18%) vCenter Server
16 24 (0.17%) Puppet
17 20 (0.14%) Grafana
17 20 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
18 18 (0.13%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 2,915 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 451 (3.20%) Cisco
3 448 (3.18%) VMware
4 408 (2.89%) SAP
5 400 (2.84%) Google
6 377 (2.67%) Oracle
7 263 (1.86%) Adobe
8 218 (1.55%) Apple
9 216 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 207 (1.47%) Databricks
11 192 (1.36%) EMC
12 184 (1.30%) Citrix
13 132 (0.94%) Dell
14 127 (0.90%) ServiceNow
15 122 (0.86%) IBM
16 121 (0.86%) HP
17 95 (0.67%) Meraki
18 87 (0.62%) Sage
19 77 (0.55%) Qualtrics
19 77 (0.55%) Veeam