Degree Job Trends 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 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 413 1,036 887
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 6.62% 34.48% 12.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.57% 74.43% 54.09%
Number of salaries quoted 219 314 564
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £25,759
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,563 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% +21.58% -13.64%
75th Percentile £64,450 £66,230 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,720 £66,340 £74,925
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 1,161 1,392 1,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.60% 46.32% 23.92%
Number of salaries quoted 564 547 1,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,517 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,225 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.46% -8.75%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Degree job vacancy trend in the East of England

Degree
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

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 13 June 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -8 139 £46,500 +10.49% 50
Cambridgeshire -6 132 £59,450 +27.17% 91
Essex -9 76 £45,000 +38.46% 36
Bedfordshire -12 34 £40,000 -24.53% 14
Suffolk -26 21 £47,245 -28.65% 12
Norfolk -37 11 £40,750 -25.91% 15
Degree
England

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.66%) SAS
4 10 (2.42%) FactoryTalk
5 9 (2.18%) CMS
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 2 (0.48%) Luigi
8 1 (0.24%) Apache
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 29 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.94%) Simulink
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.73%) Autodesk Inventor
5 3 (0.73%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (1.21%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (1.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.73%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.24%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 66 (15.98%) Azure
2 50 (12.11%) AWS
3 49 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (6.30%) Entra ID
5 22 (5.33%) SaaS
6 16 (3.87%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.42%) Serverless
8 6 (1.45%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.21%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.73%) GCP
11 3 (0.73%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.33%) Firewall
2 14 (3.39%) DNS
2 14 (3.39%) Ethernet
3 10 (2.42%) Profibus
3 10 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (2.18%) DHCP
4 9 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.94%) VPN
6 7 (1.69%) Wireless
7 5 (1.21%) VoIP
8 4 (0.97%) Internet
8 4 (0.97%) Network Security
9 3 (0.73%) 4G
9 3 (0.73%) IMAP
9 3 (0.73%) NFC
9 3 (0.73%) POP3
9 3 (0.73%) RFID
9 3 (0.73%) SMTP
9 3 (0.73%) SSL
9 3 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.63%) Power BI
3 9 (2.18%) Big Data
3 9 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.18%) MySQL
4 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.73%) Redis
7 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.24%) Metadata
8 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (3.87%) JIRA
2 14 (3.39%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (1.69%) Git
4 6 (1.45%) Moq
5 4 (0.97%) LabVIEW
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) Poetry
8 1 (0.24%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 157 (38.01%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.37%) Electronics
3 68 (16.46%) Finance
4 52 (12.59%) Manufacturing
5 47 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (3.63%) Retail
11 13 (3.15%) Aerospace
12 11 (2.66%) Marketing
13 10 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.18%) Automotive
14 9 (2.18%) Law
15 8 (1.94%) Legal
15 8 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.69%) Publishing
17 6 (1.45%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (13.80%) Systems Engineer
2 50 (12.11%) Lead
3 48 (11.62%) Sales Executive
4 42 (10.17%) Developer
5 40 (9.69%) Analyst
6 36 (8.72%) Senior
7 33 (7.99%) IT Support
8 29 (7.02%) Graduate
9 27 (6.54%) Account Executive
9 27 (6.54%) Sales Account Executive
10 24 (5.81%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.60%) Software Developer
12 18 (4.36%) Telesales Executive
13 16 (3.87%) Graduate Developer
13 16 (3.87%) Graduate Software Developer
14 15 (3.63%) Team Leader
15 14 (3.39%) IT Analyst
15 14 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
15 14 (3.39%) Support Engineer
16 13 (3.15%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.87%) CSS
2 10 (2.42%) .NET
2 10 (2.42%) jQuery
2 10 (2.42%) XML
3 9 (2.18%) REST
4 8 (1.94%) .NET Framework
4 8 (1.94%) HTML
4 8 (1.94%) PyTorch
5 7 (1.69%) React
5 7 (1.69%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.45%) Entity Framework
6 6 (1.45%) JSON
6 6 (1.45%) Node.js
6 6 (1.45%) SOAP
6 6 (1.45%) XSLT
7 5 (1.21%) Google JAX
7 5 (1.21%) JAX
8 4 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.97%) Vue
9 3 (0.73%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.30%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.12%) Driving Licence
3 17 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.91%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.91%) SCADA
6 11 (2.66%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.42%) Embedded Systems
7 10 (2.42%) Replication
8 9 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.18%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.69%) IoT
9 7 (1.69%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.45%) Acoustics
10 6 (1.45%) Robotics
11 5 (1.21%) CUDA
11 5 (1.21%) Smart City
11 5 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.47%) Windows
2 27 (6.54%) Linux
3 10 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.94%) Android
5 7 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.48%) Unix
9 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (23.24%) Computer Science
2 87 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (14.29%) Agile
4 54 (13.08%) Software Engineering
5 50 (12.11%) AI
6 48 (11.62%) Mentoring
7 47 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
8 34 (8.23%) DevOps
9 32 (7.75%) Thought Leadership
10 29 (7.02%) Customer Service
10 29 (7.02%) Decision-Making
10 29 (7.02%) Telesales
11 27 (6.54%) Coaching
12 26 (6.30%) Machine Learning
13 25 (6.05%) CI/CD
13 25 (6.05%) ITIL
13 25 (6.05%) Project Management
14 24 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (5.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 52 (12.59%) Python
2 45 (10.90%) C#
3 44 (10.65%) C++
3 44 (10.65%) SQL
4 22 (5.33%) C
5 20 (4.84%) Java
6 17 (4.12%) PHP
7 13 (3.15%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.18%) MATLAB
9 6 (1.45%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.45%) XAML
10 5 (1.21%) Bash
10 5 (1.21%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.97%) Delphi
11 4 (0.97%) Embedded C++
11 4 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (14.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 56 (13.56%) DBS Check
3 43 (10.41%) Master's Degree
4 23 (5.57%) HNC
5 22 (5.33%) HND
5 22 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.12%) PhD
7 14 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (3.15%) Security Cleared
9 9 (2.18%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.69%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.69%) CCNA
12 6 (1.45%) CRISC
12 6 (1.45%) MCSE
12 6 (1.45%) PMP
13 5 (1.21%) APMP
13 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.42%) HAZOP
5 9 (2.18%) GRC
5 9 (2.18%) QA
6 8 (1.94%) SLA
7 7 (1.69%) NIST
8 6 (1.45%) ISO 31000
8 6 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 3 (0.73%) PMO
11 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.24%) COSHH
12 1 (0.24%) GDPR
12 1 (0.24%) JTAG
12 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.87%) Firmware
3 6 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.97%) Docker
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (5.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.42%) Wonderware InTouch
3 6 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.45%) Terraform
4 5 (1.21%) FTK
4 5 (1.21%) Grafana
5 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 70 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.65%) Dell
3 13 (3.15%) IBM
4 12 (2.91%) Allen-Bradley
4 12 (2.91%) Rockwell
4 12 (2.91%) Wonderware
5 11 (2.66%) Cisco
5 11 (2.66%) Oracle
6 9 (2.18%) Databricks
6 9 (2.18%) Informatica
6 9 (2.18%) SAP
7 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.69%) EMC
8 7 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.45%) Denodo
9 6 (1.45%) Teradata
9 6 (1.45%) VMware
10 5 (1.21%) Adobe
10 5 (1.21%) Cellebrite
10 5 (1.21%) Pardot