Degree Jobs in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Degree 11,257 13,355 26,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.37% 18.79% 18.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.02% 56.26% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 6,543 9,871
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £29,256
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,233 23,740 40,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.10% 33.40% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,087 12,302 17,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,770 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in England

Degree
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Degree in England

Degree
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +2 3,226 £70,000 - 889
South East -1 2,334 £52,500 -2.46% 757
Midlands -1 1,926 £45,000 -10.00% 509
North of England -4 1,835 £47,500 -8.65% 617
West Midlands 0 1,225 £50,000 -4.76% 303
South West -2 1,134 £50,000 -0.28% 416
North West -5 1,030 £48,013 -12.70% 406
East of England -2 745 £50,000 -9.09% 318
East Midlands -1 693 £42,500 -10.53% 202
Yorkshire -2 631 £46,431 -7.14% 149
North East -11 174 £41,500 -12.95% 72
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 319 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 213 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 133 (1.18%) Confluence
4 115 (1.02%) CMS
5 92 (0.82%) Apache
6 73 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 62 (0.55%) IIS
8 49 (0.44%) SAS
9 37 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 34 (0.30%) WordPress
11 33 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 24 (0.21%) ArcGIS
13 16 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.098%) Skype for Business
14 11 (0.098%) WebSphere
15 10 (0.089%) Umbraco
16 9 (0.080%) nginx
17 8 (0.071%) Kinematics
18 7 (0.062%) Luigi
Applications
1 1,518 (13.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1,317 (11.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 498 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 168 (1.49%) Simulink
5 160 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
6 93 (0.83%) MS Visio
7 65 (0.58%) AutoCAD
8 59 (0.52%) Photoshop
9 49 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 44 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
11 33 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
12 27 (0.24%) OrCAD
13 25 (0.22%) SPSS
14 24 (0.21%) InDesign
15 22 (0.20%) Trello
16 20 (0.18%) Adobe XD
17 17 (0.15%) Revit
18 16 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
19 15 (0.13%) Sketch
19 15 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 137 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 44 (0.39%) NEC Housing
4 37 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
5 34 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 27 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 22 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 21 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 17 (0.15%) Primavera
10 16 (0.14%) SAP CO
10 16 (0.14%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 16 (0.14%) Shopify
11 15 (0.13%) Endur
12 14 (0.12%) Ripple
12 14 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
13 12 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
14 11 (0.098%) Maximo
14 11 (0.098%) SAP Business One
14 11 (0.098%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,421 (12.62%) Azure
2 973 (8.64%) AWS
3 788 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
4 669 (5.94%) Power Platform
5 328 (2.91%) SaaS
6 248 (2.20%) GCP
7 245 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 194 (1.72%) PowerApps
9 185 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 150 (1.33%) Power Automate
11 139 (1.23%) Entra ID
12 138 (1.23%) GitHub
13 122 (1.08%) Serverless
14 119 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
15 94 (0.84%) PaaS
16 90 (0.80%) IaaS
17 74 (0.66%) Amazon S3
18 68 (0.60%) Amazon Kinesis
18 68 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
19 66 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 382 (3.39%) Firewall
2 261 (2.32%) Internet
3 250 (2.22%) WAN
4 235 (2.09%) Network Security
5 200 (1.78%) DNS
6 192 (1.71%) LAN
7 188 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 148 (1.31%) DHCP
9 147 (1.31%) VPN
10 139 (1.23%) Wireless
11 126 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
12 109 (0.97%) SD-WAN
13 90 (0.80%) WLAN
14 76 (0.68%) VLAN
15 75 (0.67%) VoIP
16 74 (0.66%) SAN
17 73 (0.65%) 5G
18 72 (0.64%) Ethernet
19 63 (0.56%) Broadband
20 56 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 617 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 551 (4.89%) Power BI
3 396 (3.52%) Tableau
4 230 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 206 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 191 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
7 180 (1.60%) MySQL
8 179 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 165 (1.47%) Big Data
10 101 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 98 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 84 (0.75%) Redis
13 75 (0.67%) Oracle Database
14 73 (0.65%) GIS
15 65 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 63 (0.56%) Data Mining
17 61 (0.54%) Data Lake
18 60 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
18 60 (0.53%) MongoDB
19 54 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 781 (6.94%) Git
2 356 (3.16%) JIRA
3 171 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 109 (0.97%) GitLab
5 103 (0.91%) Selenium
6 101 (0.90%) Jenkins
7 69 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 61 (0.54%) LabVIEW
9 59 (0.52%) Moq
10 56 (0.50%) TeamCity
11 53 (0.47%) NUnit
12 47 (0.42%) Subversion
13 46 (0.41%) Sourcetree
14 43 (0.38%) Bitbucket
15 37 (0.33%) Postman
16 35 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
17 32 (0.28%) Vagrant
18 30 (0.27%) Gatling
19 29 (0.26%) CMake
20 28 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 5,123 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 2,388 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 2,074 (18.42%) Finance
4 1,179 (10.47%) Retail
5 942 (8.37%) Marketing
6 854 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
7 840 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 691 (6.14%) Legal
9 658 (5.85%) Manufacturing
10 496 (4.41%) Law
11 464 (4.12%) Electronics
12 456 (4.05%) Military
13 437 (3.88%) Public Sector
14 383 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
15 373 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 337 (2.99%) Banking
17 321 (2.85%) German Language
18 304 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
19 293 (2.60%) Telecoms
20 223 (1.98%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,819 (16.16%) Senior
2 1,449 (12.87%) Analyst
3 1,236 (10.98%) Developer
4 913 (8.11%) Graduate
5 737 (6.55%) Project Manager
6 691 (6.14%) Software Engineer
7 654 (5.81%) Lead
8 607 (5.39%) Architect
9 474 (4.21%) Consultant
10 331 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
11 311 (2.76%) Support Engineer
12 302 (2.68%) Software Developer
13 291 (2.59%) Systems Engineer
14 260 (2.31%) Senior Developer
15 249 (2.21%) Data Analyst
16 245 (2.18%) Business Analyst
17 240 (2.13%) Senior Manager
18 213 (1.89%) IT Support
19 210 (1.87%) IT Manager
20 203 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 782 (6.95%) .NET
2 634 (5.63%) HTML
3 548 (4.87%) CSS
4 402 (3.57%) React
5 250 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 233 (2.07%) ASP.NET
7 227 (2.02%) Web Services
8 198 (1.76%) .NET Framework
9 174 (1.55%) RESTful
10 170 (1.51%) HTML5
11 158 (1.40%) REST
12 152 (1.35%) XML
13 146 (1.30%) Node.js
14 138 (1.23%) JSON
15 136 (1.21%) jQuery
16 133 (1.18%) .NET Core
17 102 (0.91%) TensorFlow
18 101 (0.90%) Entity Framework
19 99 (0.88%) Pandas
20 93 (0.83%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 964 (8.56%) Onboarding
2 777 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 686 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
4 495 (4.40%) Driving Licence
5 445 (3.95%) Algorithms
6 281 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 236 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 195 (1.73%) Life Science
9 173 (1.54%) IoT
10 149 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 148 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 146 (1.30%) Social Media
13 110 (0.98%) Robotics
13 110 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 107 (0.95%) Mobile App
15 97 (0.86%) NHS
16 95 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
17 94 (0.84%) FPGA
18 90 (0.80%) Public Cloud
19 87 (0.77%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1,158 (10.29%) Windows
2 830 (7.37%) Linux
3 322 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 234 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 182 (1.62%) Unix
6 147 (1.31%) Android
7 103 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 98 (0.87%) Mac OS
9 88 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 82 (0.73%) Ubuntu
11 77 (0.68%) Apple iOS
12 63 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
13 62 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
14 51 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 46 (0.41%) Windows 7
16 44 (0.39%) CentOS
17 29 (0.26%) VMS
18 28 (0.25%) Solaris
19 25 (0.22%) Windows Vista
20 20 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,583 (31.83%) Problem-Solving
2 3,261 (28.97%) Computer Science
3 2,001 (17.78%) Agile
4 1,713 (15.22%) Project Management
5 1,364 (12.12%) Software Engineering
6 1,363 (12.11%) Mathematics
7 1,261 (11.20%) Customer Service
8 1,259 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 1,223 (10.86%) Data Analysis
10 1,191 (10.58%) Mentoring
11 1,115 (9.90%) Analytics
12 807 (7.17%) ITIL
13 767 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
14 766 (6.80%) DevOps
15 759 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
16 746 (6.63%) Process Improvement
17 742 (6.59%) Decision-Making
18 711 (6.32%) Business Intelligence
19 669 (5.94%) Machine Learning
20 655 (5.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,751 (15.55%) SQL
2 1,702 (15.12%) Python
3 1,095 (9.73%) C#
4 985 (8.75%) JavaScript
5 635 (5.64%) C++
6 600 (5.33%) Java
7 461 (4.10%) C
8 329 (2.92%) PowerShell
9 304 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 222 (1.97%) MATLAB
11 193 (1.71%) PHP
12 168 (1.49%) R
13 165 (1.47%) Bash
14 142 (1.26%) T-SQL
15 105 (0.93%) VB
16 103 (0.91%) Fortran
17 93 (0.83%) VBA
18 79 (0.70%) Scala
19 66 (0.59%) Kotlin
20 64 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,921 (17.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,134 (10.07%) Master's Degree
3 991 (8.80%) Security Cleared
4 616 (5.47%) DBS Check
5 537 (4.77%) HNC
6 520 (4.62%) SC Cleared
7 434 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 359 (3.19%) PhD
9 298 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
10 268 (2.38%) CISSP
11 224 (1.99%) HND
12 217 (1.93%) CCNA
13 192 (1.71%) DV Cleared
14 188 (1.67%) CCNP
15 176 (1.56%) CISM
16 172 (1.53%) PMI Certification
17 169 (1.50%) MCP
18 152 (1.35%) Azure Certification
19 142 (1.26%) PMP
20 128 (1.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 749 (6.65%) QA
2 215 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 204 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 197 (1.75%) GDPR
5 193 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 187 (1.66%) SLA
7 153 (1.36%) PMO
8 121 (1.07%) NIST
9 108 (0.96%) GMP
10 103 (0.91%) NEBOSH
11 82 (0.73%) ISO 9001
12 64 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 58 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
14 54 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
15 49 (0.44%) WCAG
16 34 (0.30%) GRC
17 30 (0.27%) GLP
17 30 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 23 (0.20%) IEC 62304
18 23 (0.20%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 553 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 343 (3.05%) Docker
3 277 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 193 (1.71%) Firmware
5 135 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 80 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
6 80 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (0.50%) vSphere
8 40 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 34 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 28 (0.25%) XenApp
11 19 (0.17%) Terminal Services
12 17 (0.15%) OpenSSH
13 15 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 11 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 8 (0.071%) Lustre
17 7 (0.062%) KVM
18 5 (0.044%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.044%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 320 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 220 (1.95%) Terraform
3 121 (1.07%) SCCM
4 117 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 96 (0.85%) Ansible
6 56 (0.50%) WSUS
7 45 (0.40%) SCOM
8 39 (0.35%) CASB
9 38 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 36 (0.32%) Stealthwatch
11 26 (0.23%) Grafana
12 25 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 25 (0.22%) Puppet
13 22 (0.20%) vCenter Server
14 21 (0.19%) IBM BigFix
14 21 (0.19%) Prometheus
15 18 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.15%) PowerCLI
17 16 (0.14%) Nagios
18 15 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2,320 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 341 (3.03%) VMware
3 324 (2.88%) Cisco
4 308 (2.74%) SAP
5 281 (2.50%) Databricks
6 255 (2.27%) Google
6 255 (2.27%) Oracle
7 247 (2.19%) Adobe
8 193 (1.71%) Apple
9 181 (1.61%) NEC
10 145 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 103 (0.91%) HP
12 96 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 91 (0.81%) Xilinx
14 89 (0.79%) Dell
15 87 (0.77%) EMC
15 87 (0.77%) Meraki
16 72 (0.64%) Citrix
17 70 (0.62%) Veeam
18 63 (0.56%) IBM