Degree Jobs in Birmingham

Academic Degree
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +6
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Degree 238 264 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.59% 11.00% 15.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.53% 43.71% 50.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59 142 183
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £27,635
25th Percentile £31,875 £38,000 £39,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £58,880 £66,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,738 £90,000 £73,500
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Birmingham.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 471 604 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.81% 25.17% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 208 382 365
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,272
25th Percentile £44,799 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,763 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £76,050
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +11.70%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Birmingham

Degree
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in Birmingham

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (2.52%) Confluence
2 5 (2.10%) nginx
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 51 (21.43%) Chatbot
2 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.52%) Revit
4 5 (2.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.42%) Simulink
7 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.84%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.08%) Azure
2 16 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (6.72%) Power Platform
3 10 (4.20%) AWS
4 6 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (2.10%) Amazon ELB
5 5 (2.10%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.10%) AWS KMS
5 5 (2.10%) Route 53
5 5 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.68%) SaaS
7 3 (1.26%) GCP
8 2 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.84%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.84%) Lucidchart
8 2 (0.84%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.42%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.36%) DNS
1 8 (3.36%) Firewall
2 6 (2.52%) HTTP
3 5 (2.10%) FTP
3 5 (2.10%) IMAP
3 5 (2.10%) OpenLDAP
3 5 (2.10%) SMTP
3 5 (2.10%) SSH
4 3 (1.26%) LAN
4 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.26%) VPN
4 3 (1.26%) WAN
5 2 (0.84%) DHCP
5 2 (0.84%) Network Security
5 2 (0.84%) VLAN
5 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.42%) Broadband
6 1 (0.42%) Mobile Broadband
6 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.88%) Power BI
2 10 (4.20%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.10%) MySQL
5 3 (1.26%) Metadata
5 3 (1.26%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.26%) Tableau
6 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.84%) Big Data
6 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.84%) Looker
6 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) DB2
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (5.04%) JIRA
2 7 (2.94%) Git
3 5 (2.10%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.10%) Vagrant
4 2 (0.84%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.84%) ERwin
4 2 (0.84%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.42%) Moq
5 1 (0.42%) MSTest
5 1 (0.42%) NSubstitute
5 1 (0.42%) NUnit
5 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 61 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.34%) Legal
4 26 (10.92%) Finance
4 26 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (8.82%) Manufacturing
6 20 (8.40%) Public Sector
7 19 (7.98%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (5.88%) Law
9 11 (4.62%) Automotive
9 11 (4.62%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.94%) Marketing
10 7 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.52%) Retail
12 5 (2.10%) Local Government
12 5 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.10%) Police
13 3 (1.26%) Back Office
14 2 (0.84%) Advertising
14 2 (0.84%) Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (21.43%) Trainer
2 49 (20.59%) Senior
3 31 (13.03%) Principal Engineer
4 22 (9.24%) Developer
5 21 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
6 20 (8.40%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 14 (5.88%) Graduate
7 14 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
8 13 (5.46%) Architect
9 12 (5.04%) Consultant
10 10 (4.20%) Analyst
10 10 (4.20%) Civil Engineer
11 8 (3.36%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.36%) Graduate C# Developer
12 7 (2.94%) Lead
13 6 (2.52%) Analytics Manager
13 6 (2.52%) Instrumentation Engineer
13 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Specialist
13 6 (2.52%) Senior Consultant
13 6 (2.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.94%) .NET
1 7 (2.94%) CSS
2 6 (2.52%) EDI
2 6 (2.52%) Middleware
3 5 (2.10%) ASP.NET
3 5 (2.10%) GWT
3 5 (2.10%) J2EE
3 5 (2.10%) JPA
3 5 (2.10%) jQuery
3 5 (2.10%) LDAP
3 5 (2.10%) Vaadin
3 5 (2.10%) WinForms
4 3 (1.26%) HTML
5 2 (0.84%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.84%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.84%) Entity Framework
5 2 (0.84%) HTML5
5 2 (0.84%) React
5 2 (0.84%) RESTful
6 1 (0.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.46%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.04%) NHS
3 7 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Licensing
5 5 (2.10%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.10%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.10%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.10%) Replication
6 4 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.26%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.26%) SCADA
8 2 (0.84%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.84%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.42%) BYOD
9 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.14%) Linux
2 11 (4.62%) Windows
3 7 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.10%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (2.10%) Rocky
4 5 (2.10%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (29.83%) Artificial Intelligence
2 51 (21.43%) Conversational UI
3 41 (17.23%) Mathematics
4 39 (16.39%) Computer Science
5 32 (13.45%) Chemistry
5 32 (13.45%) Systems Engineering
6 25 (10.50%) Agile
7 23 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (8.40%) Analytics
8 20 (8.40%) Collaborative Working
8 20 (8.40%) Project Management
8 20 (8.40%) Time Management
9 18 (7.56%) Mentoring
10 17 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (7.14%) ERP
11 16 (6.72%) Physics
12 15 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (6.30%) DevOps
12 15 (6.30%) SDLC
12 15 (6.30%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.49%) SQL
2 20 (8.40%) Python
3 13 (5.46%) C#
4 12 (5.04%) Java
5 8 (3.36%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.52%) PHP
8 5 (2.10%) C++
8 5 (2.10%) Groovy
9 4 (1.68%) R
10 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Bash
11 2 (0.84%) C
11 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 54 (22.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 37 (15.55%) Master's Degree
3 35 (14.71%) PhD
4 31 (13.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (7.56%) Numerate Degree
6 15 (6.30%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.36%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.36%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.94%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.94%) HND
9 6 (2.52%) HNC
10 5 (2.10%) ACCA
10 5 (2.10%) CIMA
10 5 (2.10%) CISM
10 5 (2.10%) CISSP
11 4 (1.68%) CITP
11 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.26%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.52%) NIST
3 5 (2.10%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.26%) GDPR
5 3 (1.26%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.26%) QA
5 3 (1.26%) RMADS
5 3 (1.26%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.42%) EMIR
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (2.52%) Docker
2 5 (2.10%) DFS Replication
2 5 (2.10%) Dovecot
2 5 (2.10%) Postfix
2 5 (2.10%) Squid
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.52%) Terraform
2 5 (2.10%) Grafana
2 5 (2.10%) Nessus
2 5 (2.10%) Prometheus
2 5 (2.10%) Proxmox
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.42%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (21.43%) PayPal
2 38 (15.97%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.78%) Adobe
3 9 (3.78%) Apple
3 9 (3.78%) Palo Alto
3 9 (3.78%) Siemens
4 6 (2.52%) Alteryx
4 6 (2.52%) Oracle
4 6 (2.52%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.10%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (2.10%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.26%) Cisco
6 3 (1.26%) Facebook
6 3 (1.26%) IFS
6 3 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.26%) YouTube
7 2 (0.84%) Databricks
7 2 (0.84%) Infor
7 2 (0.84%) Juniper
8 1 (0.42%) Meraki