Degree Jobs in Essex

Academic Degree
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 14 2
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 0
Permanent jobs citing Degree 108 88 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 23.03% 10.13% 33.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.07% 50.00% 77.75%
Number of salaries quoted 42 72 47
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,690 £36,866
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,297 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +2.88% -10.00%
75th Percentile £64,000 £55,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £67,000 £76,250 £72,500
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +7.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 174 176 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 37.10% 20.25% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 58 136 89
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,759 £26,850
25th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,750 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.86% -22.28% -8.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £68,313 £71,250 £85,500
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £51,750
% change year-on-year +11.58% -8.21% +3.50%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Essex

Degree
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Degree in Essex

Degree
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Essex over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in Essex

Degree
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Essex region over the 6 months to 14 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
Chelmsford +9 14 £65,000 +40.40% 39
Loughton - 7 - -
Colchester +17 6 £27,500 - 17
Billericay +8 6 £50,000 +69.49%
Epping - 6 £32,500 - 1
Basildon +4 5 £90,000 +89.47% 29
Braintree - 4 £35,000 -
Buckhurst Hill - 4 - -
Southend-on-Sea -7 3 - - 2
Brentwood +8 2 - - 5
Canvey Island - 2 - -
Chigwell - 2 - - 3
Waltham Abbey - 2 - -
Hockley - 2 - -
Saffron Walden - 2 £55,000 - 9
Harwich - 1 - -
Benfleet - 1 - -
Degree
East of England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.85%) IIS
3 1 (0.93%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.93%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.93%) SAS
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.93%) InDesign
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.93%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.19%) Azure
2 18 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 11 (10.19%) AWS
4 10 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (9.26%) Serverless
5 8 (7.41%) GCP
6 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.85%) dbt
6 2 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Figma
7 1 (0.93%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.93%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (19.44%) Broadband
2 2 (1.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.93%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.41%) MySQL
3 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.85%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.85%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.93%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) PetaLinux
General
1 33 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.44%) Finance
3 18 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.63%) German Language
7 4 (3.70%) Electronics
7 4 (3.70%) Law
7 4 (3.70%) Legal
8 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.78%) Local Government
9 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Automotive
10 1 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (16.67%) Senior
2 17 (15.74%) Technology Specialist
3 16 (14.81%) Graduate
4 14 (12.96%) Developer
5 12 (11.11%) Project Manager
6 11 (10.19%) Support Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Graduate Developer
7 9 (8.33%) IT Graduate
8 8 (7.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Senior Manager
8 8 (7.41%) Senior Project Manager
9 6 (5.56%) Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Implementation Manager
9 6 (5.56%) Security Specialist
9 6 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Support Manager
9 6 (5.56%) Technical Implementation Manager
9 6 (5.56%) Technical Manager
9 6 (5.56%) Technical Support
9 6 (5.56%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.81%) .NET
2 14 (12.96%) ASP.NET
3 12 (11.11%) CSS
4 9 (8.33%) jQuery
5 5 (4.63%) SailPoint
6 4 (3.70%) JSON
7 3 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.78%) HTML
7 3 (2.78%) KnockoutJS
7 3 (2.78%) React
7 3 (2.78%) REST
7 3 (2.78%) Vue
8 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.93%) Bootstrap
9 1 (0.93%) EDIFACT
9 1 (0.93%) PySpark
9 1 (0.93%) XML
9 1 (0.93%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) NHS
2 8 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.63%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.63%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.85%) Robotics
7 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) FPGA
7 1 (0.93%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.93%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (0.93%) SCADA
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
7 1 (0.93%) Verilog
7 1 (0.93%) VHDL
7 1 (0.93%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.33%) Windows
2 8 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (3.70%) Linux
4 2 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 39 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (20.37%) Identity Management
4 21 (19.44%) Agile
5 20 (18.52%) ITIL
6 19 (17.59%) Mentoring
7 16 (14.81%) Risk Management
8 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.96%) MVC
10 13 (12.04%) Broadcast Engineering
10 13 (12.04%) Project Management
11 12 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 10 (9.26%) OO
13 9 (8.33%) Machine Learning
14 8 (7.41%) Coaching
14 8 (7.41%) Data Science
14 8 (7.41%) Performance Metrics
14 8 (7.41%) Personalization
14 8 (7.41%) Post-Production
14 8 (7.41%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.30%) Python
2 20 (18.52%) C#
3 15 (13.89%) Java
4 11 (10.19%) C++
5 9 (8.33%) PHP
5 9 (8.33%) SQL
6 8 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.63%) C
7 5 (4.63%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.70%) Ada
8 4 (3.70%) Ada 95
8 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.93%) OpenEdge ABL
9 1 (0.93%) Rust
9 1 (0.93%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (30.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (15.74%) DBS Check
3 9 (8.33%) PhD
4 8 (7.41%) HND
5 6 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.70%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.85%) CISSP
8 2 (1.85%) PMP
9 1 (0.93%) CCNA
9 1 (0.93%) CCNP
9 1 (0.93%) CISA
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CISM
9 1 (0.93%) HNC
9 1 (0.93%) MCP
9 1 (0.93%) MCSE
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) GDPR
2 3 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 31 (28.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.41%) Sun
3 7 (6.48%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.63%) Okta
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle
5 2 (1.85%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) PayPal
6 1 (0.93%) TikTok
6 1 (0.93%) Xilinx