Degree Jobs in Cheshire

Academic Degree
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 21 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 97 233 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.33% 14.16% 16.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.29% 56.01% 53.33%
Number of salaries quoted 30 164 56
10th Percentile - £26,250 £23,513
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.83% +50.00%
75th Percentile £53,438 £57,500 £70,600
90th Percentile £57,625 £85,000 £96,250
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.38% -13.64% +17.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 219 416 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.83% 25.27% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 54 286 121
10th Percentile - £26,250 £25,420
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +8.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,875 £71,875 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -13.04% +21.05%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

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

Salary histogram for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Cheshire 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
Warrington +4 44 £35,000 -17.65% 30
Neston - 16 - -
Chester +5 12 £43,750 -7.89% 16
Crewe -5 6 £47,500 -26.92% 6
Ellesmere Port - 6 £55,000 - 4
Runcorn -7 5 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Widnes -4 1 £52,500 +65.35% 1
Degree
North West

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 12 (12.37%) IBM Domino
2 4 (4.12%) SAS
3 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) AutoCAD
1 4 (4.12%) Chatbot
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.03%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.28%) Azure
2 6 (6.19%) AWS
3 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.09%) GCP
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.06%) Serverless
6 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Broadband
2 2 (2.06%) Modbus
2 2 (2.06%) MQTT
2 2 (2.06%) Skype
2 2 (2.06%) VPN
3 1 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (1.03%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.03%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.12%) Power BI
3 3 (3.09%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.03%) GIS
4 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.03%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.03%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.03%) Git
1 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 36 (37.11%) Manufacturing
3 30 (30.93%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.46%) Retail
5 10 (10.31%) Finance
6 8 (8.25%) Legal
7 6 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.15%) Electronics
8 5 (5.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (4.12%) Dutch Language
9 4 (4.12%) Finnish Language
9 4 (4.12%) Norwegian Language
10 2 (2.06%) Banking
10 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Automotive
11 1 (1.03%) Local Government
11 1 (1.03%) Publishing
11 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Trainer
2 13 (13.40%) .NET Developer
2 13 (13.40%) Developer
3 12 (12.37%) QA Manager
3 12 (12.37%) Quality Manager
4 9 (9.28%) Senior
4 9 (9.28%) WinForms Developer
5 8 (8.25%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Account Executive
7 5 (5.15%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Sales Account Executive
7 5 (5.15%) Sales Executive
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Telesales Executive
8 4 (4.12%) .NET Software Developer
8 4 (4.12%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (4.12%) C# Software Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Procurement Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.46%) .NET
2 9 (9.28%) WinForms
3 6 (6.19%) .NET Framework
4 5 (5.15%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.12%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.06%) HTML
7 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.03%) CSS
7 1 (1.03%) CSS3
7 1 (1.03%) HTML5
7 1 (1.03%) Keras
7 1 (1.03%) NLTK
7 1 (1.03%) NumPy
7 1 (1.03%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.03%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.03%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.03%) RESTful
7 1 (1.03%) Seaborn
7 1 (1.03%) SpaCy
7 1 (1.03%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Robotics
2 10 (10.31%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.09%) e-Learning
4 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.06%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.06%) SCADA
5 2 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.03%) Blog
6 1 (1.03%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.03%) Infotainment
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.40%) Windows
2 7 (7.22%) Linux
3 3 (3.09%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.03%) Android
5 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (23.71%) Computer Science
3 21 (21.65%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (19.59%) Machine Learning
5 16 (16.49%) Generative AI
5 16 (16.49%) LLM
6 15 (15.46%) Red Team
7 12 (12.37%) Analytical Thinking
7 12 (12.37%) Data Privacy
7 12 (12.37%) Innovative Thinking
7 12 (12.37%) Logistics
8 10 (10.31%) Agile
9 9 (9.28%) Analytics
9 9 (9.28%) Code Quality
9 9 (9.28%) Design Patterns
9 9 (9.28%) E-Commerce
9 9 (9.28%) OO
9 9 (9.28%) OOP
9 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
10 8 (8.25%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.49%) C#
1 16 (16.49%) SQL
2 12 (12.37%) Python
3 7 (7.22%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.12%) Bash
4 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.09%) C++
5 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.06%) Java
6 2 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.06%) R
7 1 (1.03%) C
7 1 (1.03%) Dart
7 1 (1.03%) Julia
7 1 (1.03%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.03%) PHP
7 1 (1.03%) Ruby
7 1 (1.03%) Rust
7 1 (1.03%) VB
7 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (18.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (10.31%) Master's Degree
3 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.19%) PhD
5 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.12%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (2.06%) CEH
7 2 (2.06%) CISA
7 2 (2.06%) CISM
7 2 (2.06%) CISSP
7 2 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.06%) CRISC
7 2 (2.06%) GCIH
7 2 (2.06%) GIAC
7 2 (2.06%) GISF
7 2 (2.06%) ISACA
7 2 (2.06%) SANS
7 2 (2.06%) SSCP
8 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.43%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.09%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 13485
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) Functional Safety
1 5 (5.15%) SCCM
2 4 (4.12%) SCOM
2 4 (4.12%) SCOrch
3 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.46%) Adobe
2 15 (15.46%) Databricks
2 15 (15.46%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) Dell
3 5 (5.15%) SAP
4 4 (4.12%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) PayPal
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco
5 2 (2.06%) Citrix
5 2 (2.06%) Remedy
5 2 (2.06%) Sun
6 1 (1.03%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.03%) McAfee
6 1 (1.03%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.03%) Sage
6 1 (1.03%) Siemens
6 1 (1.03%) Symantec
6 1 (1.03%) VMware