The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Graduate in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graduate
Rank 179 149 173
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 1696 2051 1815
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 1.569% 1.699% 1.459%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.662% 1.793% 1.549%
Number of salaries quoted 1437 1819 1650
Average salary £23,500 £25,000 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.00% +6.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £20,000 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £32,500 £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
% change year-on-year
-2.17% +2.22%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Graduate within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Graduate within the UK.

Graduate Salary Trend

Graduate
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Graduate over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Graduate Salary Histogram

Graduate
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -28 1627 £23,500 -6.00%
London -30 593 £26,000 -7.14%
South East +5 462 £23,500 +2.17%
City of London +14 179 £27,500 -3.50%
East of England -29 143 £24,500 -2.00%
Surrey -2 112 £24,000 -4.00%
South West -6 109 £22,500 -6.25%
North West -43 101 £21,500 -
Yorkshire 0 95 £22,500 +2.27%
Berkshire -3 79 £23,500 -6.00%
East Midlands -25 73 £23,000 -
West Midlands -29 71 £22,500 -1.09%
Hampshire +7 68 £22,500 -6.25%
Buckinghamshire -5 62 £22,500 -
Manchester -38 61 £21,500 +2.38%
Bristol +2 56 £21,250 -9.57%
Cambridgeshire -13 48 £28,500 -5.00%
Oxfordshire -16 45 £24,000 -4.63%
West Yorkshire -37 42 £22,250 -1.11%
East Sussex +15 41 £24,000 +11.62%
Guildford +5 41 £25,000 -9.09%
Brighton +10 39 £24,000 +11.62%
Milton Keynes -27 38 £22,500 -
Cambridge -28 38 £30,000 -
North Yorkshire +25 36 £21,000 +5.00%
West Sussex -1 36 £22,500 -
Leeds -27 35 £22,250 -7.29%
Nottinghamshire -25 32 £25,000 +11.11%
Nottingham -24 31 £25,000 +12.35%
Somerset +21 28 £22,500 -

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Graduate in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Graduate in their job title.

1 1912 (57.33%) Degree
2 1297 (38.89%) Computer Science
3 1211 (36.31%) C#
4 1121 (33.61%) .NET
5 1100 (32.98%) Java
6 985 (29.54%) SQL
7 697 (20.90%) Finance
8 691 (20.72%) C++
9 658 (19.73%) JavaScript
10 637 (19.10%) SQL Server
11 601 (18.02%) ASP.NET
12 549 (16.46%) HTML
13 512 (15.35%) Microsoft
14 500 (14.99%) CSS
15 487 (14.60%) Windows
16 476 (14.27%) OO
17 463 (13.88%) Mathematics
18 344 (10.31%) MVC
19 335 (10.04%) C
20 327 (9.805%) PHP
21 312 (9.355%) Software Engineering
22 309 (9.265%) Linux
23 294 (8.816%) TDD
24 289 (8.666%) XML
25 287 (8.606%) MS Excel
26 286 (8.576%) Agile Software Development
27 245 (7.346%) Web Development
27 245 (7.346%) Python
28 233 (6.987%) .NET Framework
29 231 (6.927%) Scrum

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Graduate in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1121 (33.61%) .NET
2 601 (18.02%) ASP.NET
3 549 (16.46%) HTML
4 500 (14.99%) CSS
5 289 (8.666%) XML
6 233 (6.987%) .NET Framework
7 215 (6.447%) jQuery
8 209 (6.267%) WCF
9 195 (5.847%) ASP.NET MVC
10 179 (5.367%) WPF
11 178 (5.337%) Web Services
12 170 (5.097%) J2EE
13 147 (4.408%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 143 (4.288%) HTML5
15 139 (4.168%) WinForms
16 129 (3.868%) Razor View Engine
17 123 (3.688%) Ajax
18 111 (3.328%) Castle Windsor
19 109 (3.268%) Ninject
20 106 (3.178%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 61 (1.829%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.409%) MS Exchange
3 46 (1.379%) Tomcat
4 41 (1.229%) Apache
4 41 (1.229%) CMS
5 33 (0.990%) Drupal
6 25 (0.750%) SAS
7 24 (0.720%) WebLogic
8 22 (0.660%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 19 (0.570%) Magento
10 18 (0.540%) WordPress
11 14 (0.420%) IIS
12 12 (0.360%) Amazon AWS
13 9 (0.270%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (0.270%) Amazon S3
13 9 (0.270%) Route 53
13 9 (0.270%) Amazon ELB
13 9 (0.270%) CloudFront
13 9 (0.270%) nginx
14 8 (0.240%) Joomla!
Applications
1 287 (8.606%) MS Excel
2 131 (3.928%) MS Office
3 53 (1.589%) MS PowerPoint
4 28 (0.840%) Photoshop
5 11 (0.330%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.270%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.270%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.240%) MS Project
8 4 (0.120%) Simulink
9 3 (0.090%) SPSS
10 2 (0.060%) Stata
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.030%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.030%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (0.270%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.240%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 8 (0.240%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.210%) SAP HCM
4 6 (0.180%) Google Analytics
5 5 (0.150%) Visualfiles
5 5 (0.150%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.150%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.150%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.090%) SAP LE
7 2 (0.060%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.060%) WebTrends
7 2 (0.060%) Staffware
7 2 (0.060%) LabWindows
7 2 (0.060%) Rolfe and Nolan
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.030%) Taleo
8 1 (0.030%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.030%) Bond Adapt
8 1 (0.030%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 127 (3.808%) Internet
2 65 (1.949%) TCP/IP
3 47 (1.409%) HTTP
4 43 (1.289%) Broadband
5 38 (1.139%) VPN
6 35 (1.049%) Firewall
7 34 (1.019%) Intranet
8 27 (0.810%) LAN
9 24 (0.720%) SAN
10 19 (0.570%) WAN
11 17 (0.510%) VoIP
11 17 (0.510%) MPLS
12 16 (0.480%) LTE
13 14 (0.420%) Softswitch
13 14 (0.420%) NAS
13 14 (0.420%) Network Security
14 13 (0.390%) NFC
14 13 (0.390%) DSL
15 10 (0.300%) Wireless
16 9 (0.270%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 637 (19.10%) SQL Server
2 151 (4.528%) MySQL
3 120 (3.598%) SQL Server 2008
4 66 (1.979%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 61 (1.829%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 59 (1.769%) SQL Server 2005
7 41 (1.229%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (1.019%) Crystal Reports
8 34 (1.019%) RDBMS
9 23 (0.690%) SQL Server 2012
10 22 (0.660%) Data Mining
11 20 (0.600%) SQL Server 2000
12 19 (0.570%) GIS
12 19 (0.570%) Big Data
13 18 (0.540%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (0.390%) SQLPlus
14 13 (0.390%) Oracle 8/8i
14 13 (0.390%) NoSQL
15 12 (0.360%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.360%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 153 (4.588%) NUnit
2 145 (4.348%) Rhino Mocks
2 145 (4.348%) Moq
3 130 (3.898%) Visual Studio
4 106 (3.178%) MSTest
5 44 (1.319%) Eclipse
6 37 (1.109%) Team Foundation Server
7 32 (0.960%) Subversion
8 28 (0.840%) Git (software)
9 27 (0.810%) GoogleTest
10 23 (0.690%) Maven
11 20 (0.600%) JUnit
12 19 (0.570%) Ant
13 18 (0.540%) Selenium
14 17 (0.510%) CppUnit
15 14 (0.420%) JIRA
16 10 (0.300%) RSpec
17 9 (0.270%) FitNesse
18 8 (0.240%) Xcode
19 7 (0.210%) WebDriver
General
1 697 (20.90%) Finance
2 172 (5.157%) Banking
3 126 (3.778%) Games
4 118 (3.538%) Telecoms
5 114 (3.418%) Marketing
6 82 (2.459%) Electronics
7 69 (2.069%) Retail
8 68 (2.039%) Financial Institution
9 57 (1.709%) Manufacturing
10 56 (1.679%) Investment Banking
11 38 (1.139%) Front Office
12 35 (1.049%) Advertising
13 33 (0.990%) Music
14 30 (0.900%) Music Industry
15 26 (0.780%) German Language
16 21 (0.630%) Law
17 20 (0.600%) Back Office
17 20 (0.600%) Legal
18 19 (0.570%) French Language
19 18 (0.540%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1297 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 463 (13.88%) Mathematics
3 214 (6.417%) Physics
4 108 (3.238%) Inversion of Control
5 99 (2.969%) Open Source
6 83 (2.489%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (2.369%) Hedge funds
8 69 (2.069%) Digital Media
9 63 (1.889%) Mobile App
10 62 (1.859%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 57 (1.709%) Client/Server
12 52 (1.559%) Tandem
13 49 (1.469%) Fixed Income
14 48 (1.439%) Statistics
15 46 (1.379%) Derivative
16 41 (1.229%) Blackberry
17 39 (1.169%) Management Information System
18 32 (0.960%) Economics
18 32 (0.960%) Social Media
19 26 (0.780%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 487 (14.60%) Windows
2 309 (9.265%) Linux
3 167 (5.007%) UNIX
4 89 (2.669%) Android
5 69 (2.069%) Apple iOS
6 47 (1.409%) Windows Server 2008
7 39 (1.169%) Windows Server 2003
8 38 (1.139%) Windows XP
9 30 (0.900%) Windows 7
10 24 (0.720%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (0.510%) Ubuntu
12 13 (0.390%) Solaris
13 12 (0.360%) Windows 8
14 11 (0.330%) Embedded Linux
15 10 (0.300%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 9 (0.270%) Windows Vista
16 9 (0.270%) Mac OS X
17 8 (0.240%) SUSE
17 8 (0.240%) Windows Mobile
18 7 (0.210%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (14.27%) OO
2 344 (10.31%) MVC
3 312 (9.355%) Software Engineering
4 294 (8.816%) TDD
5 286 (8.576%) Agile Software Development
6 245 (7.346%) Web Development
7 231 (6.927%) Scrum
8 201 (6.027%) Web Application Development
9 155 (4.648%) Kanban
10 147 (4.408%) Continuous Integration
11 125 (3.748%) OOP
12 124 (3.718%) E-Commerce
13 116 (3.478%) Project Management
14 107 (3.208%) Dependency Injection
15 103 (3.088%) Business Intelligence
16 101 (3.028%) OOD
17 94 (2.819%) Unit Testing
18 92 (2.759%) MVVM
19 82 (2.459%) BDD
20 78 (2.339%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1211 (36.31%) C#
2 1100 (32.98%) Java
3 985 (29.54%) SQL
4 691 (20.72%) C++
5 658 (19.73%) JavaScript
6 335 (10.04%) C
7 327 (9.805%) PHP
8 245 (7.346%) Python
9 208 (6.237%) VB.NET
10 146 (4.378%) VB
11 114 (3.418%) Perl
12 108 (3.238%) Ruby
13 102 (3.058%) T-SQL
14 56 (1.679%) MATLAB
15 50 (1.499%) VBA
16 48 (1.439%) PL/SQL
17 39 (1.169%) Objective-C
18 30 (0.900%) VB6
19 23 (0.690%) Shell Script
20 20 (0.600%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1912 (57.33%) Degree
2 201 (6.027%) Microsoft Certification
3 169 (5.067%) MCP
4 152 (4.558%) MCSD
5 150 (4.498%) MCAD
6 148 (4.438%) MCTS
7 68 (2.039%) PhD
8 52 (1.559%) Security Cleared
9 34 (1.019%) ISEB
10 17 (0.510%) SC Cleared
11 15 (0.450%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.420%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.420%) CCNA
13 11 (0.330%) HND
14 9 (0.270%) MCSE
15 7 (0.210%) MCSA
15 7 (0.210%) Postgraduate
16 4 (0.120%) CCNP
17 3 (0.090%) JNCIA
17 3 (0.090%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (3.418%) QA
2 27 (0.810%) ISO 9001
3 23 (0.690%) SLA
4 19 (0.570%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.210%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.120%) TickIT
7 1 (0.030%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.030%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 69 (2.069%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.780%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.360%) VMware ESX
3 12 (0.360%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (0.120%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.090%) vSphere
6 2 (0.060%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.060%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.030%) vCloud
7 1 (0.030%) Xen
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.030%) NDS
Systems Management
1 5 (0.150%) Puppet
2 4 (0.120%) Opalis
3 2 (0.060%) Nagios
3 2 (0.060%) AppManager
3 2 (0.060%) SCCM
3 2 (0.060%) BladeLogic
4 1 (0.030%) CFEngine
4 1 (0.030%) Splunk
4 1 (0.030%) Cacti
4 1 (0.030%) Zenoss
4 1 (0.030%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.030%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.030%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (0.030%) CiscoWorks
4 1 (0.030%) OpenView
Vendors
1 512 (15.35%) Microsoft
2 221 (6.627%) Oracle
3 66 (1.979%) SAP
4 45 (1.349%) Zend
4 45 (1.349%) Cisco
5 36 (1.079%) VMware
6 34 (1.019%) JBoss
7 26 (0.780%) Red Hat
8 24 (0.720%) Google
9 23 (0.690%) Citrix
10 22 (0.660%) Huawei
11 19 (0.570%) Facebook
12 18 (0.540%) Bloomberg
13 15 (0.450%) Capita
13 15 (0.450%) Adobe
13 15 (0.450%) IBM
13 15 (0.450%) JD Edwards
13 15 (0.450%) Reuters
14 14 (0.420%) Business Objects
14 14 (0.420%) Cognos
City of London
Urgent! Graduate Java Developers - London - Circa £22-27kSuccessful and growing software house based in Central London have recently won a series of big orders for their popular and...
Salary: £20000 - £27000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 4 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Urgent! Graduate Java Developers (x6) - Bristol - Circa £22kSuccessful and growing software house based in the Bristol area have recently won a series of big orders for their popular...
Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
The primary day to day responsibilities will revolve around contributing to the rewriting of one of their key applications, changing from C language to C#.Net and SQL.....
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £23000 - £25000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
ASP.NET, .NET Developer, C# Developer, SQL Server, junior developer... The role involves working in a dynamic C# team developing their award winning software using C#, ASP.NET,...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £25000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
The graduate role also involves a degree of training and time outside of project work for this. You will work to best practice and help to continually improve...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: competitive
Posted: 7 May 2013
West Yorkshire
My client urgently requires a Graduate Java Developer to join their successful and expanding Leeds based team... The role of the Graduate Java Developer is to be involved...
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Key Skills* Experience programming with C#, VB.Net or PHP either commercially or through a degree course* Familiarity with ASP.Net beneficial* Good knowledge of SQL* Exceptional communication...
greywood
Salary: £17000 - £20000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Key Skills * Experience programming with C#, VB.Net or PHP either commercially or through a degree course * Familiarity with ASP.Net beneficial * Good knowledge of SQL * Exceptional communication...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £17000 - £20000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
To be part of this successful team you should have the following skills and experience: *Computer Science Degree or equivalent *Knowledge of Microsoft C# .Net development *Good communication...
Kingfisher Consultancy
Salary: £18000 - £21000 per annum + pension, life cover, health
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Urgent!... As such they want to give the opportunity to 2 recent graduates to join their expanding development team... They will interview at short notice. The company is...
Salary: £20000 - £24000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Keywords: Graduate, Junior, Developer, Development, C#, Agile, OO Commutable from: Bristol, Bath, Stroud, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Weston-Super-Mare, Chippenham, Swindon. A leading organisation based in the Bristol area...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits Package
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Key skills - Trainee Software Developer, Applications developer A brand new opportunity has become available to join a law firm based in Manchester. We are looking for a graduate...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £17000 - £22000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Why would you apply for this Graduate Programmer / Developer (C#/ASP.NET/SQL) role?... Requirements for the Graduate Programmer / Developer (C#/ASP.NET/SQL) role?... Computer People are...
Computer People
Salary: £17000.00 - £18000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newcastle, Staffordshire
Degree (or equivalent) C# / ASP.Net / SQL Server / HTML / CSS / Javascript Great opportunity for all who have completed a masters or bachelor degree to start a Graduate/Junior...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £18000 - £24000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
The role of the Graduate Java Developer is responsible for developing high quality software end to end; the successful Graduate Java Developer will be responsible for the delivery...
William Hill
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 29 April 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
They are ideally looking for IT Graduates who have achieved a First Class Degree or 2.1 to join the team... Any type of IT/ Computer Science Degree...
Smart Sourcing
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 24 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
This position will involve writing GUI for 3D modelling software written in C#, winforms so as long as you have a strong knowledge of OOP and either C#...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £17000 - £21000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The skills/ experience required for the role are as follows; You will be a University graduate with a BSc Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics or Similar...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
A leading Central London organisation are looking for Graduate Software Developers with a strong degree in ComputerScience, Maths or another Science/Engineering discipline... Python, C, C++, C# or...
Premier Group
Salary: £25000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Java Software Developer required from a Graduate/Entry Level position. Looking for someone who has a good understanding of software development and Java... Skills required for this role;...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Competivite Rate - Negoitbale on application
Posted: 22 May 2013
Northamptonshire
On top of utilising and strengthening you exposure to C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server it will also give you experience in engaging and communicating with your clients to...
ISL
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Junior Developer / Software Developer (.Net, C#, MVC, SQL, HTML, XML) - Central London... * C# / ASP.Net * SQL * HTML and XML * Understanding of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) The...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bonus & benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Wigan, Lancashire
Skills - ASP.Net / C# / HTML / CSS / SQL Server - This opportunity would suit a dedicated Junior Developer who has a good understanding of the software development lifecycle and is...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £18000 - £24000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Skills: Graduate, Russell Group, 1st Class, 2:1, Object Orientated, Java, C#, SQL... You will have an aptitude to write clear concise Object Orientated (OOP) code in Java,...
Sanderson
Salary: £22000 - £27000 per annum + Training+Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Oxfordshire
Skills: Graduate, Russell Group, 1st Class, 2:1, Object Orientated, Java, C#, SQL... You will have an aptitude to write clear concise Object Orientated (OOP) code in Java,...
Sanderson
Salary: £22000 - £27000 per annum + Training+Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013