Degree Jobs in the West Midlands

Academic Degree
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 7 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,075 1,706 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.80% 25.83% 17.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.19% 62.86% 58.98%
Number of salaries quoted 613 508 678
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £59,125
90th Percentile £79,500 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,913 2,714 2,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.33% 41.08% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 979 1,181
10th Percentile £25,625 £28,140 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham -4 290 £55,000 -2.65% 146
Warwickshire +1 201 £37,500 -29.91% 83
Staffordshire +1 162 £40,000 -8.31% 72
Worcestershire +6 80 £50,000 +11.11% 50
Shropshire +1 69 £52,500 -4.55% 13
Wolverhampton +14 40 £25,000 -53.70% 24
Coventry -7 28 £33,750 -13.46% 62
Solihull -13 24 £50,000 +81.82% 13
Sutton Coldfield -2 11 £21,000 -79.00% 4
Tipton - 11 £25,000 -
Dudley - 9 £25,000 - 5
Wednesbury -2 7 £23,000 -34.29%
Walsall +11 6 £39,649 -15.19% 3
Halesowen - 5 - - 1
West Bromwich +1 4 - - 1
Rowley Regis 0 4 - -
Herefordshire -17 4 £85,000 +97.67% 10
Bilston - 4 - -
Willenhall - 4 - - 1
Brierley Hill - 4 - - 1
Smethwick - 4 - -
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 40 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (1.95%) WordPress
4 11 (1.02%) CMS
5 7 (0.65%) Confluence
6 6 (0.56%) IIS
7 5 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.37%) Apache
8 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.28%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.19%) Appian
10 2 (0.19%) Captiva
10 2 (0.19%) Documentum
10 2 (0.19%) MTS
10 2 (0.19%) WinCC
11 1 (0.093%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.093%) Umbraco
Applications
1 271 (25.21%) Microsoft Office
2 155 (14.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.49%) Simulink
5 15 (1.40%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.56%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.37%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.37%) InDesign
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.093%) Abaqus
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.093%) InVision
11 1 (0.093%) Sketch
11 1 (0.093%) SketchUp
11 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.84%) Shopify
3 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.37%) Magento
4 4 (0.37%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.28%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.28%) Sage 300 ERP
6 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 128 (11.91%) Azure
2 101 (9.40%) Power Platform
3 73 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (4.37%) SaaS
5 38 (3.53%) AWS
6 30 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (2.05%) PowerApps
8 21 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.67%) GCP
9 18 (1.67%) Power Automate
10 15 (1.40%) Entra ID
11 10 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (0.84%) Boomi
12 9 (0.84%) OneDrive
12 9 (0.84%) Snowflake
13 8 (0.74%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (0.65%) GitHub
15 6 (0.56%) WhatsApp
16 5 (0.47%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.81%) WAN
2 25 (2.33%) LAN
3 21 (1.95%) Firewall
3 21 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.77%) VoIP
5 17 (1.58%) Ethernet
6 16 (1.49%) DHCP
6 16 (1.49%) DNS
6 16 (1.49%) SD-WAN
7 14 (1.30%) Network Security
8 13 (1.21%) VPN
9 11 (1.02%) Internet
9 11 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.93%) SAN
11 6 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.56%) VLAN
12 5 (0.47%) WLAN
13 4 (0.37%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.37%) Wireless
13 4 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (8.56%) Power BI
2 68 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 33 (3.07%) Tableau
4 31 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (1.40%) MySQL
8 13 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (1.21%) Data Mining
9 9 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (0.65%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.65%) Power Query
11 6 (0.56%) Looker
12 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.47%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.37%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (2.23%) JIRA
2 20 (1.86%) Git
3 18 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.74%) CANoe
5 6 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.37%) Postman
6 4 (0.37%) Xcode
7 2 (0.19%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.19%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.093%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.093%) Moq
8 1 (0.093%) NUnit
8 1 (0.093%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 438 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 236 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 162 (15.07%) Influencing Skills
4 159 (14.79%) Finance
5 127 (11.81%) Organisational Skills
6 108 (10.05%) Manufacturing
7 106 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 68 (6.33%) Automotive
9 67 (6.23%) Military
10 65 (6.05%) Marketing
11 53 (4.93%) Legal
12 52 (4.84%) Electronics
12 52 (4.84%) Retail
13 44 (4.09%) Local Government
14 30 (2.79%) Public Sector
15 27 (2.51%) Telecoms
16 23 (2.14%) Games
16 23 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.67%) Back Office
18 12 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 243 (22.60%) Analyst
2 116 (10.79%) Product Analyst
2 116 (10.79%) Sales Analyst
3 113 (10.51%) Graduate
4 108 (10.05%) Senior
5 91 (8.47%) Project Manager
6 87 (8.09%) Developer
7 72 (6.70%) Lead
8 42 (3.91%) Software Engineer
9 36 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
10 34 (3.16%) Consultant
11 33 (3.07%) Architect
11 33 (3.07%) Junior
12 32 (2.98%) Data Scientist
13 22 (2.05%) Software Developer
14 21 (1.95%) Data Engineer
15 19 (1.77%) Digital Analyst
15 19 (1.77%) Forensic Analyst
15 19 (1.77%) Systems Engineer
16 18 (1.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (4.74%) .NET
2 32 (2.98%) HTML
3 28 (2.60%) RESTful
4 27 (2.51%) CSS
5 21 (1.95%) AngularJS
6 18 (1.67%) ASP.NET
7 16 (1.49%) .NET Core
8 15 (1.40%) XML
9 14 (1.30%) EDI
10 13 (1.21%) GraphQL
11 11 (1.02%) React
12 10 (0.93%) Vue
13 9 (0.84%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.84%) SOAP
14 8 (0.74%) Node.js
15 7 (0.65%) JSON
16 6 (0.56%) HTML5
16 6 (0.56%) PyTorch
16 6 (0.56%) TensorFlow
17 5 (0.47%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.79%) Onboarding
2 65 (6.05%) Management Information System
3 39 (3.63%) Algorithms
4 38 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 26 (2.42%) Driving Licence
7 26 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.58%) SCADA
8 17 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.21%) Social Media
10 12 (1.12%) Infotainment
10 12 (1.12%) Smartcard
11 11 (1.02%) CCTV
11 11 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.02%) PMI
12 10 (0.93%) IoT
12 10 (0.93%) NHS
12 10 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.93%) Windows
2 46 (4.28%) Linux
3 31 (2.88%) Windows 10
4 29 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.30%) Windows 7
6 10 (0.93%) Android
7 8 (0.74%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.74%) Unix
8 6 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.47%) SUSE
9 5 (0.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.37%) Solaris
10 4 (0.37%) VMS
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.19%) CentOS
12 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 275 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 236 (21.95%) Computer Science
3 236 (21.95%) Customer Service
4 193 (17.95%) Mathematics
5 172 (16.00%) Project Management
6 171 (15.91%) Customer Requirements
7 164 (15.26%) Agile
8 147 (13.67%) Data Analysis
9 121 (11.26%) Cybersecurity
10 111 (10.33%) Mentoring
11 91 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
12 89 (8.28%) Process Improvement
13 83 (7.72%) Software Engineering
14 81 (7.53%) Creative Thinking
14 81 (7.53%) Logistics
15 80 (7.44%) Decision-Making
16 79 (7.35%) Performance Metrics
17 76 (7.07%) Analytics
18 75 (6.98%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 122 (11.35%) SQL
2 73 (6.79%) Python
3 62 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 52 (4.84%) C#
5 30 (2.79%) C
6 26 (2.42%) C++
7 25 (2.33%) Java
8 21 (1.95%) MATLAB
9 19 (1.77%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.58%) Embedded C
10 17 (1.58%) PHP
11 15 (1.40%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.02%) Embedded C++
14 8 (0.74%) R
15 6 (0.56%) VB
16 4 (0.37%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
17 2 (0.19%) Bash
17 2 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 120 (11.16%) Computer Science Degree
2 67 (6.23%) Security Cleared
3 59 (5.49%) Master's Degree
4 38 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 27 (2.51%) CCNA
6 27 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (2.51%) HND
7 23 (2.14%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.86%) CCNP
8 20 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 17 (1.58%) CISM
9 17 (1.58%) CISSP
9 17 (1.58%) PMP
10 16 (1.49%) HNC
11 15 (1.40%) MCP
12 14 (1.30%) MCSE
13 13 (1.21%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 12 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.93%) QA
2 21 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.77%) ISO 9001
4 18 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 18 (1.67%) PMO
5 16 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.21%) ISO 26262
7 12 (1.12%) NIST
8 9 (0.84%) AUTOSAR
9 8 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.65%) GDPR
10 7 (0.65%) SLA
11 6 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.28%) Automotive SPICE
12 3 (0.28%) COSHH
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.19%) MISRA
13 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.77%) Firmware
4 15 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 14 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.93%) Docker
7 4 (0.37%) pfSense
8 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.093%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (1.30%) EnCase
1 14 (1.30%) SCCM
1 14 (1.30%) Terraform
2 10 (0.93%) Functional Safety
2 10 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.56%) SCOM
4 6 (0.56%) Stealthwatch
5 5 (0.47%) CASB
5 5 (0.47%) HP ALM
5 5 (0.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (0.37%) Autotask
6 4 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.093%) Nessus
8 1 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.093%) VxRail
Vendors
1 232 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.44%) VMware
3 31 (2.88%) Cisco
4 28 (2.60%) Adobe
5 27 (2.51%) Apple
6 21 (1.95%) IFS
7 19 (1.77%) EMC
8 17 (1.58%) Databricks
9 16 (1.49%) SAP
9 16 (1.49%) Workday
10 15 (1.40%) Meraki
11 13 (1.21%) Alteryx
12 12 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.93%) Cellebrite
13 10 (0.93%) Dell
13 10 (0.93%) Sage
13 10 (0.93%) Xamarin
14 9 (0.84%) Google
14 9 (0.84%) Oracle
15 7 (0.65%) Fortinet