Degree Job Trends in London

Academic Degree
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,254 2,648 3,519
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.58% 18.50% 16.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.34% 55.41% 59.15%
Number of salaries quoted 957 1,190 2,324
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,238 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +2.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £113,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,226 4,779 5,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.47% 33.40% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,235 2,007 4,190
10th Percentile £34,300 £41,250 £36,480
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,125 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £107,500
England median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -4.35%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Degree job vacancy trend in London

Degree
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in London over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Degree in London

Degree
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the London region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Central London -5 308 £82,500 +17.86% 297
West London +1 210 £47,000 -21.67% 74
South London +4 186 £36,500 -39.17% 29
East London +2 88 £85,000 +31.78% 59
North London +2 24 £38,750 -44.04% 7
Degree
England

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 73 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.06%) SAS
5 22 (0.98%) Confluence
6 17 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.40%) Apache
8 9 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) WordPress
11 2 (0.089%) Camunda
11 2 (0.089%) CMS
11 2 (0.089%) Kinematics
11 2 (0.089%) nginx
12 1 (0.044%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.044%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 173 (7.68%) Microsoft Office
2 123 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (2.09%) Chatbot
5 30 (1.33%) Maya
6 25 (1.11%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.80%) MS Visio
8 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
8 12 (0.53%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
9 10 (0.44%) SPSS
10 8 (0.35%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.22%) InDesign
12 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.18%) Sketch
13 2 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.089%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.089%) Pro Tools
14 1 (0.044%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 34 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.40%) Endur
5 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.18%) SAP FS
7 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
7 3 (0.13%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.089%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 418 (18.54%) Azure
2 414 (18.37%) Cloud Computing
3 349 (15.48%) AWS
4 172 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
5 158 (7.01%) GCP
6 136 (6.03%) SaaS
7 132 (5.86%) Power Platform
8 73 (3.24%) GitHub
9 44 (1.95%) PaaS
10 40 (1.77%) Serverless
11 38 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (1.69%) Figma
12 37 (1.64%) Entra ID
13 34 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (1.42%) IaaS
15 29 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (1.29%) Azure AI
16 28 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
17 27 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 381 (16.90%) Internet
2 86 (3.82%) Firewall
3 47 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 45 (2.00%) VPN
5 44 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
6 40 (1.77%) WAN
7 39 (1.73%) LAN
8 29 (1.29%) DNS
9 25 (1.11%) Wireless
10 24 (1.06%) DHCP
11 23 (1.02%) Network Security
12 18 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
13 16 (0.71%) VLAN
14 13 (0.58%) DSL
15 12 (0.53%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.53%) SSL
16 11 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
17 10 (0.44%) BGP
17 10 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.41%) Power BI
2 69 (3.06%) Tableau
3 66 (2.93%) SQL Server
4 54 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.26%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.82%) Big Data
6 41 (1.82%) Metadata
7 33 (1.46%) BigQuery
8 30 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 29 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (1.06%) NoSQL
11 21 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.71%) MongoDB
12 16 (0.71%) Redis
13 14 (0.62%) DB2
14 13 (0.58%) Hadoop
14 13 (0.58%) Oracle Database
15 12 (0.53%) MySQL
16 10 (0.44%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.44%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 70 (3.11%) JIRA
2 53 (2.35%) Git
3 41 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.84%) Axure RP
4 19 (0.84%) Balsamiq
4 19 (0.84%) GitLab
5 10 (0.44%) MLflow
6 9 (0.40%) Chocolatey
6 9 (0.40%) Gradle
6 9 (0.40%) Selenium
7 8 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.31%) Postman
9 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.22%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.18%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.18%) ERwin
10 4 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.18%) Vite
10 4 (0.18%) webpack
11 3 (0.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,184 (52.53%) Social Skills
2 671 (29.77%) Finance
3 639 (28.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 612 (27.15%) Banking
5 449 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (10.20%) Law
7 194 (8.61%) Marketing
8 155 (6.88%) Public Sector
9 115 (5.10%) Retail
10 104 (4.61%) Legal
11 100 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
12 83 (3.68%) French Language
13 81 (3.59%) Telecoms
14 76 (3.37%) Financial Institution
15 71 (3.15%) Electronics
15 71 (3.15%) Games
16 49 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
17 45 (2.00%) German Language
18 38 (1.69%) Front Office
19 36 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 330 (14.64%) Senior
2 327 (14.51%) Lecturer
3 271 (12.02%) Analyst
4 146 (6.48%) Architect
5 140 (6.21%) Lead
6 130 (5.77%) Developer
7 86 (3.82%) Account Executive
8 83 (3.68%) Sales Executive
9 72 (3.19%) Sales Account Executive
10 68 (3.02%) Software Engineer
11 65 (2.88%) Consultant
12 64 (2.84%) Data Analyst
13 61 (2.71%) Business Analyst
13 61 (2.71%) Support Engineer
14 60 (2.66%) IT Support
15 59 (2.62%) Telesales Executive
16 53 (2.35%) Azure Engineer
17 42 (1.86%) Data Engineer
17 42 (1.86%) Solutions Architect
17 42 (1.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (3.77%) React
2 71 (3.15%) .NET
3 68 (3.02%) HTML
4 61 (2.71%) CSS
5 55 (2.44%) Node.js
6 49 (2.17%) RESTful
7 41 (1.82%) Kafka
8 38 (1.69%) REST
9 36 (1.60%) PyTorch
10 33 (1.46%) Middleware
11 30 (1.33%) Spring
12 27 (1.20%) TensorFlow
13 26 (1.15%) OAuth
14 21 (0.93%) AngularJS
14 21 (0.93%) Django
15 20 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
15 20 (0.89%) LDAP
16 19 (0.84%) gRPC
16 19 (0.84%) Spring Boot
16 19 (0.84%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 393 (17.44%) IoT
2 143 (6.34%) Management Information System
3 126 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
4 113 (5.01%) Cloud Native
5 106 (4.70%) Onboarding
6 81 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 75 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.93%) Algorithms
9 64 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
10 59 (2.62%) Data Structures
11 51 (2.26%) Data Centre
11 51 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.82%) Security Posture
13 39 (1.73%) Blog
14 33 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 31 (1.38%) Social Media
16 30 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 29 (1.29%) Driving Licence
17 29 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
18 28 (1.24%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 163 (7.23%) Windows
2 84 (3.73%) Linux
3 58 (2.57%) Unix
4 30 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.20%) Android
6 21 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 17 (0.75%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.18%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.13%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.089%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (36.82%) AI
2 658 (29.19%) Computer Science
3 565 (25.07%) Machine Learning
4 560 (24.84%) Cybersecurity
5 490 (21.74%) User Experience
6 471 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
7 403 (17.88%) Web Development
8 386 (17.13%) Agile
9 343 (15.22%) Analytics
10 266 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 208 (9.23%) CI/CD
12 191 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
13 188 (8.34%) Business Strategy
13 188 (8.34%) Mentoring
14 186 (8.25%) Project Management
15 181 (8.03%) Data Science
15 181 (8.03%) Risk Management
16 180 (7.99%) DevOps
17 179 (7.94%) Mathematics
18 178 (7.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 393 (17.44%) Python
2 199 (8.83%) SQL
3 120 (5.32%) JavaScript
4 117 (5.19%) Java
5 76 (3.37%) C#
6 67 (2.97%) PowerShell
7 59 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 57 (2.53%) Go
9 51 (2.26%) Bash
10 39 (1.73%) C++
11 26 (1.15%) Rust
12 23 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 23 (1.02%) R
13 12 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.53%) Scala
14 8 (0.35%) C
15 7 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.22%) Ruby
17 4 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 692 (30.70%) Master's Degree
2 487 (21.61%) PhD
3 424 (18.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 393 (17.44%) Postgraduate
5 152 (6.74%) Security Cleared
6 120 (5.32%) SC Cleared
7 109 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 97 (4.30%) CISSP
9 66 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
10 65 (2.88%) PMI Certification
11 58 (2.57%) PMP
12 54 (2.40%) AWS Certification
13 50 (2.22%) CISM
14 49 (2.17%) MCSE
15 48 (2.13%) Azure Certification
16 40 (1.77%) Numerate Degree
17 35 (1.55%) CCNP
18 33 (1.46%) CCNA
18 33 (1.46%) MBA
19 30 (1.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 92 (4.08%) GDPR
3 87 (3.86%) QA
4 81 (3.59%) Data Quality
5 74 (3.28%) NIST
6 70 (3.11%) Accessibility
7 44 (1.95%) SLA
8 27 (1.20%) EU AI Act
8 27 (1.20%) GRC
9 25 (1.11%) Solvency II
9 25 (1.11%) WCAG
10 24 (1.06%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.93%) PSD2
12 16 (0.71%) PMO
13 14 (0.62%) IFRS
13 14 (0.62%) MiFID
14 13 (0.58%) ISO 9001
15 11 (0.49%) EMIR
15 11 (0.49%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 110 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.53%) Docker
3 25 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.49%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.13%) IAG
8 1 (0.044%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.044%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.044%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (3.46%) Kubernetes
2 67 (2.97%) Terraform
3 58 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (1.29%) Ansible
5 27 (1.20%) SCCM
6 26 (1.15%) Grafana
7 22 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.62%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.35%) EnCase
10 8 (0.35%) FTK
10 8 (0.35%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.22%) Argo
11 5 (0.22%) CASB
11 5 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.22%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.18%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 395 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 116 (5.15%) Dell
3 100 (4.44%) Google
4 66 (2.93%) Cisco
5 64 (2.84%) Salesforce
5 64 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 58 (2.57%) Adobe
7 57 (2.53%) Oracle
8 49 (2.17%) SAP
9 47 (2.09%) Databricks
10 40 (1.77%) Alteryx
11 39 (1.73%) PayPal
12 37 (1.64%) Bloomberg
12 37 (1.64%) VMware
13 30 (1.33%) Fortinet
14 28 (1.24%) CheckPoint
15 24 (1.06%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.98%) Apple
17 20 (0.89%) Palo Alto
18 18 (0.80%) Red Hat