Degree Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Academic Degree
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Degree 528 518 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 48.98% 25.62% 22.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 80.49% 66.67% 61.92%
Number of salaries quoted 38 159 75
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £37,500 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,163 £53,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,833 £71,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,350 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.85% -2.19% +5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 656 777 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 60.85% 38.43% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 116 280 165
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £27,900
25th Percentile £39,982 £37,500 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,309 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -6.72% +1.06%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,833 £70,000 £73,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,293 £51,350
% change year-on-year +14.74% +1.84% -0.29%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Buckinghamshire

Degree
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Degree in Buckinghamshire

Degree
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in Buckinghamshire

Degree
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes -6 32 £53,750 +19.44% 63
Buckingham +5 24 £32,500 -47.15% 4
Chesham +7 17 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Amersham - 17 £43,773 - 2
Chalfont St Giles - 16 - - 1
Beaconsfield - 16 - -
Newport Pagnell -1 14 - -
Bletchley 0 13 £35,000 - 4
Marlow -8 12 £55,000 +44.74% 2
Aylesbury +1 7 £40,000 -27.27% 10
Olney - 7 - -
High Wycombe +9 4 £70,000 +98.58% 12
Gerrards Cross - 4 £35,000 -
Princes Risborough - 2 - -
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (1.14%) CMS
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 58 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (1.33%) Azure
1 7 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (1.14%) Google Analytics
3 4 (0.76%) AWS
3 4 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (0.57%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.19%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.19%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.19%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.19%) IaaS
6 1 (0.19%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.19%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.19%) Serverless
6 1 (0.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 175 (33.14%) 5G
1 175 (33.14%) Bluetooth
1 175 (33.14%) LTE
1 175 (33.14%) Wi-Fi
2 166 (31.44%) GSM
2 166 (31.44%) UMTS
2 166 (31.44%) Wireless
3 25 (4.73%) TCP/IP
3 25 (4.73%) VPN
4 7 (1.33%) Broadband
5 4 (0.76%) Network Security
6 2 (0.38%) Firewall
6 2 (0.38%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.38%) SAN
7 1 (0.19%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.38%) MySQL
2 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.38%) Power BI
3 1 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.19%) Big Data
3 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.19%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.19%) DTS
3 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.19%) Impala
3 1 (0.19%) PowerCenter
3 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (4.73%) Cucumber
1 25 (4.73%) Robot Framework
2 11 (2.08%) JIRA
3 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.38%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) ERwin
5 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
General
1 246 (46.59%) Manufacturing
2 199 (37.69%) Electronics
3 147 (27.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 139 (26.33%) Retail
5 67 (12.69%) Social Skills
6 36 (6.82%) Dutch Language
6 36 (6.82%) Finnish Language
6 36 (6.82%) Norwegian Language
7 28 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (4.73%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.70%) Catalan Language
10 7 (1.33%) Finance
11 6 (1.14%) Marketing
11 6 (1.14%) Publishing
12 4 (0.76%) Law
12 4 (0.76%) Local Government
12 4 (0.76%) Social Housing
13 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 251 (47.54%) Test Engineer
2 188 (35.61%) Electronics Engineer
3 166 (31.44%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 149 (28.22%) Trainer
5 58 (10.98%) Electrical Engineer
5 58 (10.98%) Safety Engineer
6 47 (8.90%) Senior
7 25 (4.73%) Test Automation Engineer
8 22 (4.17%) Associate Engineer
8 22 (4.17%) Design Engineer
8 22 (4.17%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 22 (4.17%) PCB Design Engineer
8 22 (4.17%) PCB Engineer
9 15 (2.84%) Lead
10 13 (2.46%) Senior Test Engineer
11 12 (2.27%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 12 (2.27%) Senior Safety Engineer
12 10 (1.89%) Analyst
13 9 (1.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (1.70%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.84%) HTML
2 6 (1.14%) CSS
3 4 (0.76%) .NET
3 4 (0.76%) AngularJS
3 4 (0.76%) ASP.NET
3 4 (0.76%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (0.38%) React
5 1 (0.19%) Restlet
5 1 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 167 (31.63%) Driving Licence
2 135 (25.57%) Robotics
3 25 (4.73%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (1.70%) IoT
4 9 (1.70%) NB-IoT
5 7 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.14%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 5 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.76%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.76%) Housing Association
8 4 (0.76%) Operational Technology
8 4 (0.76%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.38%) NHS
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.19%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.19%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.19%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.90%) Windows
2 37 (7.01%) Linux
3 13 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (45.83%) Mentoring
2 204 (38.64%) Coaching
3 181 (34.28%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (32.20%) Validation
5 167 (31.63%) Verification and Validation
6 166 (31.44%) Customer Requirements
6 166 (31.44%) Test Strategy
7 159 (30.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 144 (27.27%) Machine Learning
9 135 (25.57%) Generative AI
9 135 (25.57%) LLM
9 135 (25.57%) Red Team
10 108 (20.45%) Data Privacy
11 58 (10.98%) Safety Engineering
12 32 (6.06%) CAD
12 32 (6.06%) Computer Science
13 31 (5.87%) Design for Manufacturing
13 31 (5.87%) DevOps
13 31 (5.87%) Project Planning
14 26 (4.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.09%) Python
2 40 (7.58%) JavaScript
3 36 (6.82%) Bash
4 34 (6.44%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.65%) SQL
6 13 (2.46%) C#
7 11 (2.08%) Java
7 11 (2.08%) MATLAB
8 10 (1.89%) C
8 10 (1.89%) PHP
9 9 (1.70%) C++
9 9 (1.70%) Dart
9 9 (1.70%) R
9 9 (1.70%) Ruby
9 9 (1.70%) Rust
9 9 (1.70%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.38%) Korn
11 1 (0.19%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.19%) MicroPython
11 1 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 188 (35.61%) HND
2 25 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.41%) Master's Degree
4 15 (2.84%) PhD
5 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (1.14%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.14%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.95%) MRICS
8 5 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.76%) MCSA
9 4 (0.76%) MCSE
10 3 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.38%) ACCA
11 2 (0.38%) CIMA
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.61%) QA
2 4 (0.76%) SLA
3 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.19%) GDPR
3 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (1.70%) Active Directory
1 9 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (1.70%) vSphere
2 4 (0.76%) Docker
3 2 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (1.70%) Ansible
1 9 (1.70%) Puppet
1 9 (1.70%) Terraform
2 2 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 141 (26.70%) Google
2 135 (25.57%) Adobe
2 135 (25.57%) Databricks
3 91 (17.23%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.17%) EMC
5 14 (2.65%) PayPal
6 9 (1.70%) VMware
7 4 (0.76%) SAP
7 4 (0.76%) Splunk
8 3 (0.57%) AlienVault
9 2 (0.38%) Dell
9 2 (0.38%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.19%) Canon
10 1 (0.19%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.19%) Concur
10 1 (0.19%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.19%) Informatica
10 1 (0.19%) Sage