Degree Jobs in the City of London

Academic Degree
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 9 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Degree 346 551 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 17.84% 16.49% 12.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.55% 58.00% 52.26%
Number of salaries quoted 219 372 431
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,125 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +5.36% -
75th Percentile £88,125 £97,500 £110,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £69,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +3.57% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 581 950 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.96% 28.43% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 374 623 741
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,563 £93,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - -3.57%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the City of London.

Salary trend for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the City of London region over the 6 months to 30 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
London Bridge -4 1 £120,000 +242.86%
Degree
Central London

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 34 (9.83%) SharePoint
2 27 (7.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (4.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
4 2 (0.58%) Liferay
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) MTS
Applications
1 51 (14.74%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (13.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (8.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.87%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.29%) Blender
6 1 (0.29%) InDesign
6 1 (0.29%) Maya
6 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.87%) Orchestrade
2 3 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (24.28%) Azure
2 44 (12.72%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (11.56%) AWS
4 34 (9.83%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.65%) SaaS
6 21 (6.07%) GCP
7 16 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (4.62%) Entra ID
8 14 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (4.05%) OneDrive
9 12 (3.47%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.89%) Google Analytics
11 9 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (2.02%) Google Ads
12 7 (2.02%) Google Sheets
12 7 (2.02%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.73%) Azure AI
13 6 (1.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.65%) HTTP
2 10 (2.89%) Firewall
2 10 (2.89%) WebEx
3 9 (2.60%) Broadband
4 8 (2.31%) DHCP
4 8 (2.31%) DNS
5 7 (2.02%) VLAN
6 6 (1.73%) Network Security
6 6 (1.73%) WAN
7 5 (1.45%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.45%) VPN
8 4 (1.16%) Internet
8 4 (1.16%) Wireless
9 3 (0.87%) VoIP
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.58%) LAN
10 2 (0.58%) SAN
10 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.58%) Telnet
10 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.20%) Power BI
2 12 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.89%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.60%) Tableau
5 8 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.87%) Big Data
7 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.87%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.87%) Redis
7 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.58%) Power Query
9 1 (0.29%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (4.91%) Git
2 7 (2.02%) JIRA
3 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.29%) Maven
3 1 (0.29%) Moq
3 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 178 (51.45%) Social Skills
2 98 (28.32%) Finance
3 74 (21.39%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (20.52%) Law
5 36 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (9.25%) Advertising
6 32 (9.25%) Legal
7 30 (8.67%) Retail
8 25 (7.23%) Telecoms
9 23 (6.65%) Games
10 21 (6.07%) Marketing
11 17 (4.91%) Banking
12 12 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.89%) Electronics
13 10 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.31%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.45%) Front Office
16 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.16%) Public Sector
17 3 (0.87%) French Language
Job Titles
1 93 (26.88%) Analyst
2 86 (24.86%) Senior
3 32 (9.25%) Architect
4 31 (8.96%) Developer
4 31 (8.96%) Software Engineer
5 29 (8.38%) Support Analyst
6 28 (8.09%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (6.65%) IT Support
8 22 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (6.07%) Senior Analyst
10 20 (5.78%) IT Analyst
10 20 (5.78%) IT Support Analyst
10 20 (5.78%) Lead
10 20 (5.78%) Support Specialist
11 18 (5.20%) Qualitative Analyst
11 18 (5.20%) Quantitative Analyst
12 17 (4.91%) IT Support Specialist
13 16 (4.62%) Senior Architect
13 16 (4.62%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 16 (4.62%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.20%) Kafka
2 14 (4.05%) .NET
3 13 (3.76%) CSS
3 13 (3.76%) HTML
4 9 (2.60%) JSON
4 9 (2.60%) Pandas
5 8 (2.31%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.31%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.02%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (2.02%) REST
7 6 (1.73%) HTML5
7 6 (1.73%) PySpark
7 6 (1.73%) WPF
8 5 (1.45%) .NET Framework
8 5 (1.45%) Puppeteer
8 5 (1.45%) React
8 5 (1.45%) Scrapy
9 4 (1.16%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.16%) Web Services
10 3 (0.87%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (5.49%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.20%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.05%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.18%) Social Media
8 9 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.02%) Robotics
10 5 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.16%) IoT
11 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.87%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 67 (19.36%) Windows
2 21 (6.07%) Windows 10
3 15 (4.34%) Linux
4 10 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.16%) Unix
6 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.87%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.58%) Rocky
8 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (42.77%) Computer Science
2 85 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (20.81%) Analytics
4 59 (17.05%) Agile
5 55 (15.90%) Data Science
6 54 (15.61%) Artificial Intelligence
7 48 (13.87%) Roadmaps
8 45 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (13.01%) Machine Learning
8 45 (13.01%) Mathematics
9 43 (12.43%) ITIL
10 42 (12.14%) Software Engineering
10 42 (12.14%) User Experience
11 35 (10.12%) Mentoring
12 34 (9.83%) Physics
12 34 (9.83%) Project Management
13 33 (9.54%) Data Management
13 33 (9.54%) DevOps
14 32 (9.25%) Decision-Making
15 29 (8.38%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 111 (32.08%) Python
2 58 (16.76%) SQL
3 44 (12.72%) C#
4 28 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 26 (7.51%) C++
5 26 (7.51%) Java
6 24 (6.94%) Scala
7 13 (3.76%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.45%) Bash
10 4 (1.16%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.87%) F#
11 3 (0.87%) Go
11 3 (0.87%) R
11 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.58%) C
12 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.58%) Rust
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (20.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 59 (17.05%) Master's Degree
3 22 (6.36%) A+ Certification
4 21 (6.07%) PhD
5 14 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.18%) DBS Check
8 7 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.02%) CISSP
8 7 (2.02%) Numerate Degree
9 6 (1.73%) ACCA
9 6 (1.73%) CIMA
9 6 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.73%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.73%) Security Cleared
10 5 (1.45%) CISM
11 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.16%) CCNA
11 4 (1.16%) CCSP
11 4 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.20%) QA
2 12 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.18%) GDPR
4 7 (2.02%) NIST
5 6 (1.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.45%) PMO
7 4 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.16%) SLA
8 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.58%) COBIT
10 1 (0.29%) CDISC
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.29%) MiFID
10 1 (0.29%) NCSC
10 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (10.40%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.18%) Docker
4 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (5.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (4.34%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.89%) Terraform
4 8 (2.31%) SCCM
5 2 (0.58%) Ansible
5 2 (0.58%) Grafana
6 1 (0.29%) DameWare
6 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.29%) Nessus
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (35.84%) Microsoft
2 45 (13.01%) Google
3 28 (8.09%) ServiceNow
4 26 (7.51%) Apple
5 17 (4.91%) VMware
6 14 (4.05%) HP
7 12 (3.47%) Dell
8 11 (3.18%) Workday
9 10 (2.89%) Databricks
9 10 (2.89%) SAP
10 9 (2.60%) Citrix
10 9 (2.60%) OpenAI
11 8 (2.31%) Oracle
12 7 (2.02%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.73%) Cisco
14 4 (1.16%) Saba
15 3 (0.87%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.87%) Barracuda Networks
15 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.87%) Riverbed