Degree Jobs in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,435 17,935 20,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.66% 19.24% 15.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.35% 58.81% 60.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7,989 7,318 9,065
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,374 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,084 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,218 30,499 34,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.56% 32.72% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 13,726 16,723
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +4 3,774 £67,500 - 2,358
South East -2 2,849 £51,350 +2.70% 1,240
North of England 0 1,971 £47,500 -5.00% 1,077
Midlands -2 1,601 £46,000 -8.00% 810
South West -3 1,315 £48,000 +1.05% 642
North West +4 1,185 £47,500 -9.52% 625
West Midlands -3 1,064 £50,000 -4.76% 501
East of England -3 856 £47,500 -4.54% 676
Yorkshire +4 576 £46,250 -5.61% 320
East Midlands -5 526 £40,000 -15.79% 308
North East -9 210 £49,500 +4.76% 155
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
1 396 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 385 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 224 (1.80%) Confluence
4 115 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 114 (0.92%) SAS
6 105 (0.84%) CMS
7 66 (0.53%) Apache
8 65 (0.52%) IIS
9 64 (0.51%) WordPress
10 32 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 28 (0.23%) Tomcat
12 27 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
13 19 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 15 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
14 15 (0.12%) WebLogic
15 12 (0.097%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
16 11 (0.088%) nginx
17 9 (0.072%) Drupal
18 8 (0.064%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,304 (10.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1,195 (9.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 554 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 180 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 148 (1.19%) Simulink
6 132 (1.06%) MS Visio
7 80 (0.64%) AutoCAD
8 76 (0.61%) Photoshop
9 63 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 56 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
12 38 (0.31%) InDesign
13 36 (0.29%) SPSS
14 31 (0.25%) Chatbot
14 31 (0.25%) Stateflow
15 27 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
15 27 (0.22%) Trello
16 26 (0.21%) Revit
17 20 (0.16%) Adobe XD
18 18 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 190 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 34 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 32 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 30 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 26 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
9 17 (0.14%) Endur
9 17 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 17 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 16 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 16 (0.13%) Primavera
10 16 (0.13%) SAP Business One
10 16 (0.13%) SAP CX
10 16 (0.13%) Shopify
11 14 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
12 13 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
13 12 (0.097%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,659 (13.34%) Azure
2 1,131 (9.10%) AWS
3 1,116 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
4 719 (5.78%) Power Platform
5 384 (3.09%) SaaS
6 329 (2.65%) GCP
7 225 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 224 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
9 166 (1.33%) PowerApps
10 157 (1.26%) Entra ID
11 152 (1.22%) GitHub
12 142 (1.14%) Power Automate
12 142 (1.14%) Serverless
13 116 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
14 102 (0.82%) IaaS
15 99 (0.80%) PaaS
16 93 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
17 88 (0.71%) WhatsApp
18 83 (0.67%) Amazon S3
19 74 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 460 (3.70%) Firewall
2 379 (3.05%) WAN
3 309 (2.48%) Wireless
4 252 (2.03%) DNS
5 238 (1.91%) LAN
6 216 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 194 (1.56%) Network Security
8 186 (1.50%) Internet
9 183 (1.47%) SD-WAN
10 178 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 164 (1.32%) DHCP
12 148 (1.19%) VPN
13 139 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
14 121 (0.97%) WebEx
15 106 (0.85%) VoIP
16 93 (0.75%) SAN
17 90 (0.72%) 5G
18 80 (0.64%) Ethernet
19 70 (0.56%) VLAN
20 66 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 771 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 593 (4.77%) Power BI
3 395 (3.18%) Tableau
4 246 (1.98%) MySQL
5 242 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 214 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 204 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 165 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 164 (1.32%) Big Data
10 135 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 122 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 97 (0.78%) Redis
13 95 (0.76%) Data Mining
14 91 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 81 (0.65%) Data Lake
16 79 (0.64%) Hadoop
17 74 (0.60%) GIS
18 72 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
19 66 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
20 58 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 828 (6.66%) Git
2 511 (4.11%) JIRA
3 238 (1.91%) Visual Studio
4 134 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 122 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 102 (0.82%) Selenium
7 80 (0.64%) Sourcetree
8 78 (0.63%) GitLab
9 76 (0.61%) Subversion
10 70 (0.56%) LabVIEW
11 67 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 60 (0.48%) TeamCity
13 46 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
14 42 (0.34%) Moq
14 42 (0.34%) NUnit
15 39 (0.31%) Postman
16 38 (0.31%) CMake
17 34 (0.27%) Burp Suite
18 32 (0.26%) Metasploit
19 28 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5,127 (41.23%) Social Skills
2 2,577 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
3 2,310 (18.58%) Finance
4 1,120 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 927 (7.45%) Marketing
6 884 (7.11%) Retail
7 871 (7.00%) Manufacturing
8 654 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
9 646 (5.20%) Legal
10 594 (4.78%) Electronics
11 476 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
12 423 (3.40%) Law
13 419 (3.37%) Public Sector
13 419 (3.37%) Telecoms
14 337 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
15 333 (2.68%) Games
16 322 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 291 (2.34%) Automotive
18 286 (2.30%) German Language
19 283 (2.28%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,857 (14.93%) Senior
2 1,551 (12.47%) Developer
3 1,541 (12.39%) Analyst
4 966 (7.77%) Graduate
5 840 (6.76%) Lead
6 772 (6.21%) Software Engineer
7 701 (5.64%) Project Manager
8 598 (4.81%) Architect
9 422 (3.39%) Consultant
10 383 (3.08%) Junior
11 359 (2.89%) Software Developer
12 339 (2.73%) Systems Engineer
13 335 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
13 335 (2.69%) Support Engineer
14 331 (2.66%) IT Support
15 326 (2.62%) Senior Developer
16 293 (2.36%) Data Scientist
17 246 (1.98%) Senior Manager
18 239 (1.92%) IT Manager
19 235 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 897 (7.21%) .NET
2 633 (5.09%) HTML
3 568 (4.57%) CSS
4 523 (4.21%) React
5 347 (2.79%) AngularJS
6 238 (1.91%) ASP.NET
7 235 (1.89%) Node.js
8 209 (1.68%) HTML5
9 194 (1.56%) RESTful
10 192 (1.54%) .NET Framework
11 177 (1.42%) Web Services
12 171 (1.38%) .NET Core
13 159 (1.28%) XML
14 144 (1.16%) REST
15 130 (1.05%) JSON
16 125 (1.01%) Kafka
17 116 (0.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 116 (0.93%) Vue
18 105 (0.84%) jQuery
19 104 (0.84%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 872 (7.01%) Management Information System
2 795 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
3 681 (5.48%) Algorithms
4 499 (4.01%) Driving Licence
5 407 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 307 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 299 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 204 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 199 (1.60%) Social Media
10 182 (1.46%) Life Science
11 178 (1.43%) IoT
12 168 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
13 152 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 142 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 132 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 129 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
17 123 (0.99%) Robotics
18 120 (0.97%) FPGA
18 120 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
18 120 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1,409 (11.33%) Windows
2 845 (6.80%) Linux
3 395 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 394 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 256 (2.06%) Android
6 185 (1.49%) Unix
7 120 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 118 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 104 (0.84%) Apple iOS
10 103 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
11 82 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (0.60%) Windows 7
13 52 (0.42%) Ubuntu
14 35 (0.28%) Kali Linux
15 33 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
16 32 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 28 (0.23%) Solaris
17 28 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
18 25 (0.20%) VMS
19 24 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,768 (30.30%) Computer Science
2 3,614 (29.06%) Problem-Solving
3 2,339 (18.81%) Agile
4 1,777 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1,552 (12.48%) Software Engineering
6 1,383 (11.12%) Mathematics
7 1,091 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,091 (8.77%) Mentoring
8 1,062 (8.54%) Analytics
9 1,060 (8.52%) Cybersecurity
10 967 (7.78%) Decision-Making
11 960 (7.72%) Customer Service
12 950 (7.64%) DevOps
13 914 (7.35%) Data Analysis
14 880 (7.08%) Artificial Intelligence
15 862 (6.93%) ITIL
16 806 (6.48%) Project Delivery
17 791 (6.36%) Business Intelligence
18 730 (5.87%) Roadmaps
19 701 (5.64%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,880 (15.12%) SQL
2 1,765 (14.19%) Python
3 1,317 (10.59%) C#
4 1,097 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 653 (5.25%) Java
6 577 (4.64%) C
7 506 (4.07%) C++
8 383 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 378 (3.04%) TypeScript
10 256 (2.06%) PHP
11 223 (1.79%) MATLAB
12 215 (1.73%) R
13 188 (1.51%) T-SQL
14 171 (1.38%) Bash
15 116 (0.93%) VB
16 100 (0.80%) Embedded C
17 97 (0.78%) Fortran
18 72 (0.58%) Go
19 66 (0.53%) Perl
20 62 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,178 (17.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,396 (11.23%) Master's Degree
3 1,111 (8.93%) Security Cleared
4 653 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 575 (4.62%) DBS Check
6 430 (3.46%) PhD
7 361 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 288 (2.32%) CISSP
9 285 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
10 265 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 260 (2.09%) HND
12 254 (2.04%) HNC
13 207 (1.66%) PMI Certification
14 199 (1.60%) CCNA
15 187 (1.50%) CISM
16 174 (1.40%) DV Cleared
17 169 (1.36%) PMP
18 165 (1.33%) Azure Certification
19 156 (1.25%) MBA
20 126 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 592 (4.76%) QA
2 246 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 238 (1.91%) GDPR
4 222 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 202 (1.62%) SLA
6 182 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 165 (1.33%) PMO
8 127 (1.02%) NIST
9 104 (0.84%) ISO 9001
10 83 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 72 (0.58%) GMP
12 66 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 53 (0.43%) WCAG
14 44 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 42 (0.34%) NEBOSH
16 39 (0.31%) ISO 13485
16 39 (0.31%) ISO 26262
16 39 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 39 (0.31%) NCSC
16 39 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 795 (6.39%) Active Directory
2 490 (3.94%) Docker
3 309 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 265 (2.13%) Firmware
5 167 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 152 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
7 143 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 121 (0.97%) XenApp
9 109 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
10 105 (0.84%) XenDesktop
11 66 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
12 59 (0.47%) vSphere
13 40 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 19 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
16 16 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
17 10 (0.080%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.064%) KVM
19 5 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 4 (0.032%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 396 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 236 (1.90%) SCCM
3 215 (1.73%) Terraform
4 144 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 114 (0.92%) AirWatch
6 92 (0.74%) Ansible
7 51 (0.41%) WSUS
8 49 (0.39%) SCOM
9 42 (0.34%) CASB
10 38 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 30 (0.24%) Functional Safety
11 30 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 25 (0.20%) vCenter Server
13 23 (0.18%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.17%) Puppet
15 20 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
16 18 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
17 17 (0.14%) Grafana
17 17 (0.14%) Nessus
18 16 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2,626 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 424 (3.41%) Cisco
3 415 (3.34%) VMware
4 348 (2.80%) Google
5 345 (2.77%) SAP
6 260 (2.09%) Oracle
7 257 (2.07%) Adobe
8 203 (1.63%) Apple
9 189 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 187 (1.50%) EMC
11 186 (1.50%) Citrix
12 185 (1.49%) Databricks
13 128 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 118 (0.95%) HP
15 98 (0.79%) Dell
16 92 (0.74%) IBM
17 84 (0.68%) Meraki
18 72 (0.58%) Veeam
19 65 (0.52%) Juniper
19 65 (0.52%) Sage