Postgraduate Jobs in England

Postgraduate
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 773 767
Rank change year-on-year +133 -6 +286
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 45 70 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.092% 0.078% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.18% 0.28% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11 51 69
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,125 £28,450
25th Percentile £36,617 £39,875 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £49,000 £47,047
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +4.15% -21.59%
75th Percentile £111,250 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £145,250 £82,500 £71,300
UK median annual salary £70,000 £47,560 £44,745
% change year-on-year +47.18% +6.29% -25.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Postgraduate 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 24,632 24,771 28,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.31% 27.69% 33.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,782 15,756 13,083
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,938 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

Postgraduate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Postgraduate in England

Postgraduate
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Postgraduate in England

Postgraduate
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Postgraduate in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Postgraduate in England

Postgraduate
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postgraduate within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
London +91 21 £50,000 -3.85% 27
Midlands +90 10 - - 37
West Midlands +64 10 - - 19
South East +89 4 £72,500 +61.11% 70
North of England +51 4 £47,928 +15.49% 59
East of England +43 4 £32,500 -25.64% 34
South West +103 2 £138,000 +320.55% 33
North West +9 2 £25,856 -37.70% 31
Yorkshire +60 1 £70,000 - 16
North East +46 1 - - 13
Postgraduate
UK

Postgraduate
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 2 (4.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) MTS
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) AutoCAD
2 1 (2.22%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (2.22%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (2.22%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.22%) Collibra
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
1 1 (2.22%) tcpdump
1 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (4.44%) Couchbase
1 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
1 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.22%) Metadata
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) MySQL
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Git
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) GDB
2 1 (2.22%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.22%) Liquibase
2 1 (2.22%) WinDbg
General
1 19 (42.22%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Local Government
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Humanities
3 7 (15.56%) Legal
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.22%) Advertising
7 1 (2.22%) Front Office
7 1 (2.22%) Games
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Lecturer
2 7 (15.56%) Civil Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Development Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.44%) Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Development Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Database Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Quantitative Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) Quantitative Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) Django
1 1 (2.22%) EDI
1 1 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (2.22%) libvirt
1 1 (2.22%) MFC
1 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.22%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) NHS
2 7 (15.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) FMCG
3 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.22%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.22%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.22%) Genomics
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.22%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Strategic Planning
2 13 (28.89%) Computer Science
3 12 (26.67%) Data Science
3 12 (26.67%) Mathematics
3 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (17.78%) ITIL
5 8 (17.78%) Psychology
6 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (15.56%) Due Diligence
6 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Management
6 7 (15.56%) Physics
6 7 (15.56%) Project Delivery
7 5 (11.11%) Biology
7 5 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (8.89%) Chemistry
8 4 (8.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (8.89%) C++
3 3 (6.67%) R
4 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.22%) C
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) CodeQL
5 1 (2.22%) Fortran
5 1 (2.22%) PHP
5 1 (2.22%) SQL
5 1 (2.22%) VB
5 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) Degree
2 7 (15.56%) AWS Certification
2 7 (15.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (13.33%) PhD
4 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) MBA
6 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Novell Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Ansible
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (4.44%) Informatica
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe
4 1 (2.22%) Ariba
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) Sparx