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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,241 18,693 20,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.55% 19.43% 15.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.98% 59.31% 59.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,001 7,468 9,033
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £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 £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 24,012 31,518 33,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.55% 32.77% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15,769 13,983 16,706
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,850 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,646 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% +4.81% -

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 16 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 16 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 3,714 £67,500 - 2,305
South East -2 2,861 £51,350 +2.70% 1,234
North of England +1 1,977 £47,500 -3.06% 1,075
Midlands -4 1,472 £45,000 -10.00% 759
South West -3 1,287 £47,657 +1.13% 641
North West +4 1,172 £47,500 -9.52% 618
West Midlands -4 944 £50,000 -4.31% 444
East of England -3 860 £47,500 - 654
Yorkshire +6 591 £47,500 -2.06% 328
East Midlands -5 517 £40,000 -15.79% 315
North East -9 214 £50,000 +8.00% 150
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
1 411 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 384 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 223 (1.82%) Confluence
4 118 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 112 (0.91%) SAS
6 103 (0.84%) CMS
7 63 (0.51%) WordPress
8 59 (0.48%) IIS
9 53 (0.43%) Apache
10 30 (0.25%) Skype for Business
11 26 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 19 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 19 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
13 15 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 14 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 12 (0.098%) nginx
15 12 (0.098%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
16 10 (0.082%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,177 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1,175 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 533 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 182 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 144 (1.18%) Simulink
6 128 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 84 (0.69%) AutoCAD
8 73 (0.60%) Photoshop
9 64 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 54 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
12 37 (0.30%) InDesign
13 36 (0.29%) SPSS
14 31 (0.25%) Chatbot
14 31 (0.25%) Stateflow
14 31 (0.25%) Trello
15 28 (0.23%) Revit
16 27 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
17 19 (0.16%) Adobe XD
18 18 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 187 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 41 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 34 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 33 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 25 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 19 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 19 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
8 18 (0.15%) Endur
9 17 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 17 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 17 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 16 (0.13%) SAP CX
10 16 (0.13%) Shopify
11 15 (0.12%) Primavera
11 15 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
12 14 (0.11%) SAP QM
13 11 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,676 (13.69%) Azure
2 1,129 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1,086 (8.87%) AWS
4 706 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 390 (3.19%) SaaS
6 330 (2.70%) GCP
7 231 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 214 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 168 (1.37%) Entra ID
10 163 (1.33%) PowerApps
11 161 (1.32%) GitHub
12 142 (1.16%) Serverless
13 140 (1.14%) Power Automate
14 115 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
15 108 (0.88%) IaaS
16 105 (0.86%) PaaS
17 93 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
17 93 (0.76%) WhatsApp
18 85 (0.69%) Amazon S3
19 74 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 466 (3.81%) Firewall
2 385 (3.15%) WAN
3 304 (2.48%) Wireless
4 263 (2.15%) DNS
5 239 (1.95%) LAN
6 215 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 187 (1.53%) Network Security
8 185 (1.51%) SD-WAN
9 183 (1.49%) Internet
10 181 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 174 (1.42%) DHCP
12 149 (1.22%) VPN
13 144 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
14 127 (1.04%) WebEx
15 110 (0.90%) VoIP
16 101 (0.83%) SAN
17 91 (0.74%) 5G
18 79 (0.65%) Ethernet
19 74 (0.60%) VLAN
20 64 (0.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 775 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 581 (4.75%) Power BI
3 340 (2.78%) Tableau
4 251 (2.05%) MySQL
5 244 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 217 (1.77%) NoSQL
7 206 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
8 188 (1.54%) Big Data
9 166 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
10 137 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 124 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 98 (0.80%) Redis
13 95 (0.78%) Data Mining
14 89 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 88 (0.72%) Data Lake
16 84 (0.69%) Hadoop
17 75 (0.61%) GIS
18 74 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
19 71 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
20 62 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 775 (6.33%) Git
2 502 (4.10%) JIRA
3 235 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 141 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 124 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 107 (0.87%) Selenium
7 79 (0.65%) Sourcetree
8 73 (0.60%) Subversion
9 72 (0.59%) LabVIEW
10 71 (0.58%) GitLab
11 70 (0.57%) Cypress.io
12 53 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 44 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
14 38 (0.31%) CMake
14 38 (0.31%) Postman
15 35 (0.29%) Burp Suite
15 35 (0.29%) Moq
15 35 (0.29%) NUnit
16 32 (0.26%) Metasploit
17 30 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 4,944 (40.39%) Social Skills
2 2,361 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2,294 (18.74%) Finance
4 1,112 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 907 (7.41%) Marketing
6 867 (7.08%) Manufacturing
7 844 (6.89%) Retail
8 633 (5.17%) Legal
9 608 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
10 579 (4.73%) Electronics
11 421 (3.44%) Telecoms
12 393 (3.21%) Public Sector
13 363 (2.97%) Law
14 362 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
15 333 (2.72%) Games
16 309 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 291 (2.38%) Automotive
18 290 (2.37%) German Language
19 246 (2.01%) Military
20 244 (1.99%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,820 (14.87%) Senior
2 1,558 (12.73%) Developer
3 1,354 (11.06%) Analyst
4 977 (7.98%) Graduate
5 832 (6.80%) Lead
6 761 (6.22%) Software Engineer
7 698 (5.70%) Project Manager
8 588 (4.80%) Architect
9 414 (3.38%) Consultant
10 388 (3.17%) Junior
11 360 (2.94%) Software Developer
12 341 (2.79%) Support Engineer
13 337 (2.75%) IT Support
14 336 (2.74%) Systems Engineer
15 334 (2.73%) Senior Developer
16 301 (2.46%) Data Scientist
17 298 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
18 243 (1.99%) IT Manager
18 243 (1.99%) Senior Manager
19 238 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 897 (7.33%) .NET
2 656 (5.36%) HTML
3 567 (4.63%) CSS
4 525 (4.29%) React
5 353 (2.88%) AngularJS
6 235 (1.92%) ASP.NET
7 231 (1.89%) Node.js
8 212 (1.73%) HTML5
9 196 (1.60%) RESTful
10 183 (1.49%) .NET Framework
11 173 (1.41%) .NET Core
12 162 (1.32%) XML
13 158 (1.29%) Web Services
14 140 (1.14%) JSON
14 140 (1.14%) REST
15 127 (1.04%) Kafka
16 116 (0.95%) Unity (Game Engine)
16 116 (0.95%) Vue
17 105 (0.86%) SOAP
18 98 (0.80%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 856 (6.99%) Management Information System
2 791 (6.46%) Self-Motivation
3 689 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 503 (4.11%) Driving Licence
5 409 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 305 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 290 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 210 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 201 (1.64%) Social Media
10 176 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
11 175 (1.43%) IoT
12 167 (1.36%) Life Science
13 153 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 145 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 136 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 132 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
17 126 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
18 125 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
19 120 (0.98%) Robotics
20 116 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1,407 (11.49%) Windows
2 811 (6.63%) Linux
3 401 (3.28%) Windows 10
3 401 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 263 (2.15%) Android
5 171 (1.40%) Unix
6 124 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 120 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 106 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 106 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 89 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 77 (0.63%) Windows 7
11 46 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 33 (0.27%) Kali Linux
13 31 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
14 29 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 25 (0.20%) VMS
16 23 (0.19%) Debian
17 22 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,792 (30.98%) Computer Science
2 3,460 (28.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2,337 (19.09%) Agile
4 1,774 (14.49%) Project Management
5 1,559 (12.74%) Software Engineering
6 1,223 (9.99%) Mathematics
7 1,109 (9.06%) Mentoring
8 1,049 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
9 1,025 (8.37%) Analytics
10 972 (7.94%) DevOps
11 969 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 950 (7.76%) Decision-Making
13 889 (7.26%) Artificial Intelligence
14 886 (7.24%) Data Analysis
15 884 (7.22%) ITIL
16 850 (6.94%) Customer Service
17 798 (6.52%) Project Delivery
18 777 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
19 728 (5.95%) Roadmaps
20 714 (5.83%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,822 (14.88%) SQL
2 1,718 (14.03%) Python
3 1,329 (10.86%) C#
4 1,106 (9.04%) JavaScript
5 665 (5.43%) Java
6 572 (4.67%) C
7 497 (4.06%) C++
8 401 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 387 (3.16%) PowerShell
10 259 (2.12%) PHP
11 222 (1.81%) R
12 221 (1.81%) MATLAB
13 183 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 174 (1.42%) Bash
15 113 (0.92%) VB
16 99 (0.81%) Embedded C
17 93 (0.76%) Fortran
18 75 (0.61%) Go
19 67 (0.55%) Perl
20 62 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,205 (18.01%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,395 (11.40%) Master's Degree
3 1,104 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 650 (5.31%) SC Cleared
5 526 (4.30%) DBS Check
6 432 (3.53%) PhD
7 364 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 274 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 271 (2.21%) CISSP
10 267 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 257 (2.10%) HND
12 250 (2.04%) HNC
13 208 (1.70%) PMI Certification
14 192 (1.57%) CCNA
15 190 (1.55%) DV Cleared
16 178 (1.45%) CISM
17 176 (1.44%) Azure Certification
18 170 (1.39%) PMP
19 152 (1.24%) MBA
20 131 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 603 (4.93%) QA
2 250 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 245 (2.00%) GDPR
4 216 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 210 (1.72%) SLA
6 164 (1.34%) PMO
7 160 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 125 (1.02%) NIST
9 102 (0.83%) ISO 9001
10 84 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
11 68 (0.56%) GMP
12 63 (0.51%) PCI DSS
13 54 (0.44%) WCAG
14 49 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 45 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 41 (0.33%) NEBOSH
17 40 (0.33%) GRC
18 39 (0.32%) ISO 13485
18 39 (0.32%) ISO 26262
18 39 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 822 (6.72%) Active Directory
2 518 (4.23%) Docker
3 312 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 255 (2.08%) Firmware
5 170 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
6 148 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 148 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 125 (1.02%) XenApp
8 114 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
9 110 (0.90%) XenDesktop
10 62 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
11 57 (0.47%) vSphere
12 38 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
13 24 (0.20%) Terminal Services
14 21 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 16 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
16 9 (0.074%) OpenSSH
17 8 (0.065%) KVM
18 5 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 4 (0.033%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 420 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 242 (1.98%) SCCM
3 214 (1.75%) Terraform
4 143 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 119 (0.97%) AirWatch
6 93 (0.76%) Ansible
7 51 (0.42%) WSUS
8 48 (0.39%) SCOM
9 38 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 36 (0.29%) CASB
11 33 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
12 30 (0.25%) Functional Safety
13 24 (0.20%) vCenter Server
14 23 (0.19%) Progress Chef
14 23 (0.19%) Puppet
14 23 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
15 19 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
15 19 (0.16%) Nessus
16 18 (0.15%) Grafana
17 16 (0.13%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2,613 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 426 (3.48%) VMware
3 417 (3.41%) Cisco
4 356 (2.91%) Google
5 353 (2.88%) SAP
6 254 (2.07%) Oracle
7 253 (2.07%) Adobe
8 195 (1.59%) Apple
9 192 (1.57%) Citrix
10 188 (1.54%) Salesforce
11 183 (1.49%) EMC
12 132 (1.08%) Databricks
13 126 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 117 (0.96%) HP
15 96 (0.78%) Dell
16 91 (0.74%) IBM
17 79 (0.65%) Meraki
18 73 (0.60%) Veeam
19 65 (0.53%) Juniper
20 64 (0.52%) Sage