Degree Jobs in Devon

Academic Degree
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Devon with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Degree 96 175 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 19.63% 18.72% 22.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.56% 80.28% 50.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13 73 51
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £28,500 £31,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,729 £40,000 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year +29.32% -0.62% -5.29%
75th Percentile £54,565 £47,716 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,888 £65,000 £60,899
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% - +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Devon

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 Devon.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 231 218 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 47.24% 23.32% 43.94%
Number of salaries quoted 113 104 152
10th Percentile - £24,000 £25,900
25th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £30,932
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £40,000 £38,279
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +4.50% -2.57%
75th Percentile £43,750 £57,500 £47,625
90th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £57,325
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,600
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.73% +9.20%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Devon

Degree
Salary Trend in Devon

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

Salary trend for Degree in Devon

Degree
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Devon over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in Devon

Degree
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Devon region over the 6 months to 29 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
Paignton -1 32 - - 3
Plymouth +1 13 £51,729 +27.40% 32
Exeter -6 11 £47,500 +35.71% 23
Torquay - 11 - - 2
Okehampton +4 1 - -
Degree
South West

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.17%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.25%) Azure
2 5 (5.21%) GitHub
3 4 (4.17%) AWS
4 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.13%) GCP
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.13%) Serverless
5 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.04%) IaaS
6 1 (1.04%) PaaS
6 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.79%) 5G
1 19 (19.79%) Broadband
1 19 (19.79%) SD-WAN
1 19 (19.79%) WAN
2 4 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.13%) Firewall
3 3 (3.13%) Network Security
4 2 (2.08%) BGP
4 2 (2.08%) OSPF
4 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.08%) VLAN
5 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Power BI
1 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) JIRA
2 5 (5.21%) Git
3 4 (4.17%) LabVIEW
3 4 (4.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.04%) Postman
General
1 49 (51.04%) Social Skills
2 34 (35.42%) Presentation Skills
3 27 (28.13%) Electronics
4 21 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Finance
6 5 (5.21%) Marketing
7 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.13%) Military
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Games
9 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Law
9 2 (2.08%) Legal
9 2 (2.08%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Senior
2 22 (22.92%) Support Engineer
3 18 (18.75%) Lead
3 18 (18.75%) Technical Support
3 18 (18.75%) Technical Support Engineer
4 17 (17.71%) Technical Engineer
5 15 (15.63%) Electronics Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Design Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Senior Design Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Project Leader
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Project Leader
7 8 (8.33%) Software Project Leader
7 8 (8.33%) Technical Leader
7 8 (8.33%) Technical Project Leader
8 7 (7.29%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) pytest
2 2 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (1.04%) CSS
3 1 (1.04%) Flask
3 1 (1.04%) HTML
3 1 (1.04%) HTML5
3 1 (1.04%) jQuery
3 1 (1.04%) Kafka
3 1 (1.04%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.04%) React
3 1 (1.04%) Swagger
3 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.83%) Satnav
2 19 (19.79%) Self-Driving Car
3 15 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (11.46%) Optoelectronics
5 7 (7.29%) GNSS
6 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.13%) FPGA
7 3 (3.13%) MicroBlaze
7 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.13%) SCADA
7 3 (3.13%) VHDL
8 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.04%) Linux
2 15 (15.63%) Windows
3 4 (4.17%) Unix
4 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (40.63%) B2B
3 36 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 34 (35.42%) Computer Science
5 26 (27.08%) Mentoring
5 26 (27.08%) Requirements Analysis
6 19 (19.79%) Product Management
7 18 (18.75%) CRM
8 17 (17.71%) Scenario Testing
8 17 (17.71%) Software Engineering
9 16 (16.67%) Test Assurance
10 15 (15.63%) Defect Tracking
11 14 (14.58%) Broadcast Engineering
11 14 (14.58%) Creative Thinking
11 14 (14.58%) Validation
12 13 (13.54%) Agile
12 13 (13.54%) Project Management
12 13 (13.54%) Roadmaps
12 13 (13.54%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (12.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.54%) Python
2 10 (10.42%) C++
2 10 (10.42%) MATLAB
3 7 (7.29%) C
4 4 (4.17%) SQL
5 3 (3.13%) Perl
5 3 (3.13%) Tcl
5 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.13%) VB
6 2 (2.08%) C#
6 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) HND
2 19 (19.79%) HNC
3 14 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.21%) PhD
4 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) A+ Certification
5 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.04%) CCNA
7 1 (1.04%) CCNP
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.04%) CISSP
7 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) PMO
2 3 (3.13%) IEC 61131
2 3 (3.13%) NEBOSH
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Embedded Firmware
1 14 (14.58%) Firmware
2 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Ansible
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (17.71%) Salesforce
2 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.17%) Intel
3 4 (4.17%) PayPal
4 3 (3.13%) Altera
4 3 (3.13%) Green Hills
4 3 (3.13%) Sun
4 3 (3.13%) Xilinx
5 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco
6 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.04%) HP
6 1 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) VMware