Degree Jobs in the East of England

Academic Degree
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,194 888 1,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.23% 14.36% 27.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.98% 57.81% 65.85%
Number of salaries quoted 354 508 254
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £25,375
25th Percentile £40,875 £35,529 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,225 £65,313 £68,438
90th Percentile £66,327 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% -12.50% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,636 1,536 1,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 42.79% 24.83% 42.39%
Number of salaries quoted 611 967 552
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £25,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,219 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £83,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the East of England.

Salary trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Bedfordshire +3 353 £53,000 +10.95% 70
Suffolk +16 259 £66,219 +89.20% 28
Hertfordshire 0 205 £42,000 -16.00% 178
Cambridgeshire 0 151 £49,500 -10.00% 317
Norfolk +27 125 £47,683 +19.21% 39
Essex +3 101 £32,500 -31.58% 150
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 18 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.75%) IIS
4 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.084%) Apache
5 1 (0.084%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.084%) SAS
5 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 167 (13.99%) Chatbot
2 72 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 22 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.01%) Simulink
6 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.25%) InDesign
7 3 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.084%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.84%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.42%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.17%) Primavera
4 2 (0.17%) Shopify
5 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.084%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 114 (9.55%) Azure
2 61 (5.11%) AWS
3 34 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (2.76%) Serverless
5 32 (2.68%) GCP
6 25 (2.09%) Entra ID
7 24 (2.01%) SaaS
8 15 (1.26%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.75%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.50%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.25%) dbt
11 3 (0.25%) Figma
11 3 (0.25%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.17%) Boomi
12 2 (0.17%) Canva
12 2 (0.17%) GitHub
12 2 (0.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 1 (0.084%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 315 (26.38%) Wi-Fi
2 313 (26.21%) Bluetooth
3 312 (26.13%) 5G
3 312 (26.13%) GSM
3 312 (26.13%) LTE
3 312 (26.13%) UMTS
3 312 (26.13%) Wireless
4 98 (8.21%) Broadband
5 27 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.51%) VPN
7 10 (0.84%) WAN
8 9 (0.75%) Firewall
9 8 (0.67%) FTP
9 8 (0.67%) LAN
10 7 (0.59%) VoIP
11 6 (0.50%) BGP
12 4 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.25%) DNS
13 3 (0.25%) Internet
14 2 (0.17%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.02%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.59%) MySQL
3 15 (1.26%) Power BI
4 9 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.34%) Big Data
7 4 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.25%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.25%) Redis
9 1 (0.084%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.084%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.084%) GIS
9 1 (0.084%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.084%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (1.26%) Cucumber
1 15 (1.26%) Robot Framework
2 12 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (0.67%) JIRA
4 7 (0.59%) Git
4 7 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.25%) GitLab
5 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.25%) Moq
5 3 (0.25%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.084%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.084%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.084%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.084%) Selenium
7 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio
General
1 354 (29.65%) Electronics
2 352 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 176 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (7.29%) Finance
5 86 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 66 (5.53%) Manufacturing
7 44 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (3.35%) Marketing
9 37 (3.10%) Aerospace
10 31 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 29 (2.43%) German Language
12 28 (2.35%) Legal
13 24 (2.01%) Aviation
14 22 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.76%) Banking
16 20 (1.68%) Law
17 17 (1.42%) Telecoms
18 16 (1.34%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.34%) French Language
18 16 (1.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 332 (27.81%) Test Engineer
2 317 (26.55%) Electronics Engineer
3 312 (26.13%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 158 (13.23%) Trainer
5 133 (11.14%) Senior
6 79 (6.62%) Developer
6 79 (6.62%) Systems Engineer
7 77 (6.45%) Analyst
8 51 (4.27%) Support Engineer
9 48 (4.02%) Software Engineer
10 45 (3.77%) Account Executive
11 32 (2.68%) Junior
11 32 (2.68%) Lead
12 31 (2.60%) Graduate
13 29 (2.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 25 (2.09%) Architect
15 20 (1.68%) Technical Support
16 19 (1.59%) Insight Analyst
17 18 (1.51%) Cloud Engineer
18 17 (1.42%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (9.63%) HTML
2 32 (2.68%) .NET
3 24 (2.01%) CSS
4 21 (1.76%) ASP.NET
5 17 (1.42%) jQuery
6 13 (1.09%) PyTorch
6 13 (1.09%) TensorFlow
7 12 (1.01%) scikit-learn
8 11 (0.92%) SailPoint
9 10 (0.84%) Keras
9 10 (0.84%) NumPy
10 9 (0.75%) REST
11 7 (0.59%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.59%) JSON
12 6 (0.50%) Node.js
12 6 (0.50%) React
13 5 (0.42%) .NET Core
14 4 (0.34%) Swagger
14 4 (0.34%) XML
15 3 (0.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 336 (28.14%) Driving Licence
2 45 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 34 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (1.93%) Algorithms
4 23 (1.93%) SCADA
5 22 (1.84%) NHS
6 18 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.34%) Credit Risk
8 16 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.34%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.09%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.01%) Product Ownership
11 9 (0.75%) Social Media
12 8 (0.67%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.67%) Life Science
12 8 (0.67%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.59%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 84 (7.04%) Windows
2 29 (2.43%) Linux
3 26 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 10 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.50%) Android
7 5 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.34%) Unix
9 2 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (38.78%) Mentoring
2 370 (30.99%) Coaching
3 335 (28.06%) Validation
4 315 (26.38%) Verification and Validation
5 314 (26.30%) Customer Requirements
5 314 (26.30%) Test Strategy
6 246 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
7 205 (17.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 198 (16.58%) Computer Science
9 168 (14.07%) Conversational UI
10 118 (9.88%) Agile
11 104 (8.71%) Code Quality
12 99 (8.29%) Customer Service
13 92 (7.71%) Business Enablement
14 89 (7.45%) Software Engineering
15 82 (6.87%) Project Management
15 82 (6.87%) Technology Enablement
16 79 (6.62%) Systems Engineering
17 76 (6.37%) Mathematics
18 74 (6.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 240 (20.10%) Python
2 177 (14.82%) SQL
3 150 (12.56%) JavaScript
4 149 (12.48%) C#
5 134 (11.22%) C++
6 48 (4.02%) MATLAB
7 41 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 40 (3.35%) Java
9 31 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.93%) Bash
11 19 (1.59%) PHP
12 11 (0.92%) C
13 9 (0.75%) R
14 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.42%) Rust
16 3 (0.25%) SystemVerilog
17 2 (0.17%) Go
17 2 (0.17%) Solidity
18 1 (0.084%) OpenEdge ABL
18 1 (0.084%) VBA
Qualifications
1 331 (27.72%) HND
2 130 (10.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 108 (9.05%) Master's Degree
4 89 (7.45%) PhD
5 87 (7.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (2.60%) DBS Check
7 24 (2.01%) Security Cleared
8 20 (1.68%) HNC
8 20 (1.68%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.68%) SC Cleared
9 19 (1.59%) PMP
10 17 (1.42%) CBAP
11 16 (1.34%) CFA
12 9 (0.75%) Postgraduate
13 7 (0.59%) CISSP
13 7 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.34%) CEH
15 4 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.12%) QA
2 25 (2.09%) IEC 61508
3 19 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 14 (1.17%) ARP4754
4 14 (1.17%) DO-254
5 12 (1.01%) SLA
6 11 (0.92%) Def Stans
7 10 (0.84%) GDPR
8 8 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.59%) GxP
9 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.34%) NCSC
11 4 (0.34%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.34%) NIST
11 4 (0.34%) PMO
12 3 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.25%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 62 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.67%) Docker
3 5 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (0.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.42%) SmoothWall
3 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.34%) Nessus
3 4 (0.34%) Terraform
4 1 (0.084%) Ansible
4 1 (0.084%) SCCM
Vendors
1 167 (13.99%) PayPal
2 116 (9.72%) Microsoft
3 81 (6.78%) YouTube
4 26 (2.18%) Sun
5 16 (1.34%) Bloomberg
6 15 (1.26%) Cisco
7 14 (1.17%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.01%) Autodesk
9 11 (0.92%) Okta
10 10 (0.84%) Fortinet
10 10 (0.84%) IBM
11 9 (0.75%) Oracle
11 9 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.67%) Google
12 8 (0.67%) SAP
13 7 (0.59%) EMC
14 5 (0.42%) Broadcom
14 5 (0.42%) HP
14 5 (0.42%) Infor
14 5 (0.42%) Meraki