Degree Jobs 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,530 3,788 5,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.69% 16.03% 15.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.88% 56.25% 61.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,136 2,338 3,403
10th Percentile £40,903 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,797 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £52,600 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -12.50% +9.09%

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 4,371 6,734 8,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.01% 28.50% 25.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,995 4,260 5,606
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,831 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,600
% change year-on-year - -7.72% +8.36%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in London

Degree
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Degree in London

Degree
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

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 11 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
Central London +1 511 £68,250 -5.86% 303
South London +2 215 £60,000 +9.09% 50
West London +45 183 £62,500 +25.00% 138
North London +12 100 £56,750 -18.93% 13
East London +6 61 £91,250 +43.14% 59
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 77 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 67 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.95%) Confluence
6 13 (0.51%) Apache
7 9 (0.36%) CMS
8 8 (0.32%) IIS
9 7 (0.28%) SAS
10 6 (0.24%) Liferay
10 6 (0.24%) WordPress
11 5 (0.20%) Kinematics
11 5 (0.20%) Luigi
12 4 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) nginx
14 2 (0.079%) Appian
15 1 (0.040%) Moodle
15 1 (0.040%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.040%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 433 (17.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 155 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 151 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 34 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 32 (1.26%) Maya
7 31 (1.23%) Chatbot
8 16 (0.63%) Photoshop
9 12 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
10 11 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
11 8 (0.32%) Trello
12 7 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 7 (0.28%) Adobe XD
12 7 (0.28%) InDesign
12 7 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
13 6 (0.24%) Stata
14 4 (0.16%) QuarkXPress
15 2 (0.079%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.079%) Blender
15 2 (0.079%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 49 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.32%) Shopify
5 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.12%) CA PPM
7 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.12%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 417 (16.48%) Azure
2 317 (12.53%) AWS
3 154 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 147 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 139 (5.49%) GCP
6 123 (4.86%) SaaS
7 69 (2.73%) Entra ID
8 62 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
10 48 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (1.90%) Serverless
11 44 (1.74%) GitHub
12 37 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 34 (1.34%) PaaS
14 33 (1.30%) PowerApps
15 29 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
16 23 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (0.91%) Power Automate
17 22 (0.87%) dbt
17 22 (0.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 187 (7.39%) Broadband
2 93 (3.68%) Firewall
3 61 (2.41%) Network Security
4 53 (2.09%) DNS
5 43 (1.70%) VLAN
6 42 (1.66%) HTTP
7 35 (1.38%) DHCP
8 33 (1.30%) LAN
9 32 (1.26%) TCP/IP
9 32 (1.26%) WAN
10 28 (1.11%) VPN
11 26 (1.03%) SAN
12 21 (0.83%) Internet
13 19 (0.75%) Wireless
14 18 (0.71%) BGP
14 18 (0.71%) SMTP
14 18 (0.71%) VoIP
15 17 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
16 16 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (3.87%) Power BI
2 89 (3.52%) Tableau
3 86 (3.40%) SQL Server
4 50 (1.98%) NoSQL
5 46 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.62%) Data Lake
8 34 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 30 (1.19%) MySQL
10 23 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
11 19 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (0.75%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.67%) Big Data
13 16 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
13 16 (0.63%) Dremio
14 15 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.51%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.43%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 134 (5.30%) Git
2 78 (3.08%) JIRA
3 45 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.55%) IntelliJ
5 13 (0.51%) GitLab
5 13 (0.51%) Gradle
5 13 (0.51%) Selenium
6 10 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.40%) JMeter
6 10 (0.40%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.32%) MSTest
7 8 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.28%) Axure RP
8 7 (0.28%) Balsamiq
8 7 (0.28%) Maven
8 7 (0.28%) Postman
8 7 (0.28%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.24%) Moq
9 6 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.20%) Burp Suite
General
1 1,425 (56.32%) Social Skills
2 1,069 (42.25%) Finance
3 805 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 498 (19.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 474 (18.74%) Banking
6 396 (15.65%) French Language
7 386 (15.26%) German Language
8 375 (14.82%) Financial Institution
9 253 (10.00%) Law
10 185 (7.31%) Marketing
11 137 (5.42%) Legal
12 132 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
13 131 (5.18%) Retail
14 114 (4.51%) Games
15 86 (3.40%) Telecoms
16 75 (2.96%) Front Office
17 61 (2.41%) Public Sector
18 59 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
19 53 (2.09%) Advertising
20 50 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 669 (26.44%) Analyst
2 404 (15.97%) Senior
3 357 (14.11%) Research Analyst
4 356 (14.07%) Credit Analyst
5 235 (9.29%) Lead
6 198 (7.83%) Architect
7 169 (6.68%) Developer
8 97 (3.83%) Software Engineer
9 96 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (3.48%) Consultant
11 76 (3.00%) Product Manager
12 71 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
13 69 (2.73%) Senior Manager
14 65 (2.57%) Business Analyst
15 64 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
16 62 (2.45%) IT Support
17 61 (2.41%) Data Engineer
18 60 (2.37%) IT Manager
19 58 (2.29%) Project Manager
20 52 (2.06%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (3.68%) .NET
2 78 (3.08%) CSS
3 76 (3.00%) HTML
4 73 (2.89%) React
5 64 (2.53%) Pandas
6 59 (2.33%) Kafka
7 53 (2.09%) NumPy
8 52 (2.06%) REST
9 43 (1.70%) AngularJS
10 37 (1.46%) .NET Framework
10 37 (1.46%) RESTful
10 37 (1.46%) SciPy
11 34 (1.34%) PySpark
12 33 (1.30%) PyTorch
13 30 (1.19%) Node.js
13 30 (1.19%) TensorFlow
14 29 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
15 24 (0.95%) scikit-learn
16 23 (0.91%) ASP.NET
16 23 (0.91%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 401 (15.85%) Fixed Income
2 371 (14.66%) Credit Risk
3 178 (7.04%) Management Information System
4 106 (4.19%) Algorithms
5 83 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 81 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
7 64 (2.53%) Cloud Native
8 62 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (1.94%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 46 (1.82%) Onboarding
12 44 (1.74%) Equities
13 43 (1.70%) Derivative
13 43 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
13 43 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 35 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
15 34 (1.34%) Security Posture
16 33 (1.30%) Data Centre
16 33 (1.30%) Mobile App
16 33 (1.30%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 206 (8.14%) Windows
2 104 (4.11%) Linux
3 64 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.99%) Android
7 16 (0.63%) Unix
8 15 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.24%) Mac OS X
12 5 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
13 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.16%) VMS
14 3 (0.12%) AIX
14 3 (0.12%) Rocky
14 3 (0.12%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (35.02%) Computer Science
2 741 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
3 530 (20.95%) Risk Management
4 525 (20.75%) Decision-Making
5 510 (20.16%) Business Strategy
6 450 (17.79%) Roadmaps
7 436 (17.23%) Analytics
8 421 (16.64%) Asset Management
9 414 (16.36%) Agile
10 404 (15.97%) Portfolio Management
11 382 (15.10%) Mentoring
12 379 (14.98%) Risk Assessment
13 368 (14.55%) Financial Modelling
14 357 (14.11%) Credit Risk Analysis
15 293 (11.58%) Artificial Intelligence
16 271 (10.71%) Project Management
17 267 (10.55%) Product Management
18 230 (9.09%) Data Science
19 229 (9.05%) Software Engineering
20 221 (8.74%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 520 (20.55%) Python
2 328 (12.96%) SQL
3 171 (6.76%) Java
4 165 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 140 (5.53%) C#
6 101 (3.99%) PowerShell
7 66 (2.61%) C++
8 62 (2.45%) TypeScript
9 44 (1.74%) Scala
10 35 (1.38%) R
11 32 (1.26%) C
12 30 (1.19%) Bash
13 22 (0.87%) Rust
14 18 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.51%) PHP
17 11 (0.43%) Go
18 10 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.40%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 715 (28.26%) Master's Degree
2 608 (24.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 358 (14.15%) CFA
4 154 (6.09%) PhD
5 86 (3.40%) CISSP
6 81 (3.20%) Security Cleared
7 72 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
8 68 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 54 (2.13%) Azure Certification
10 53 (2.09%) PMI Certification
10 53 (2.09%) SC Cleared
11 52 (2.06%) AWS Certification
12 45 (1.78%) DBS Check
13 41 (1.62%) CISM
14 39 (1.54%) PMP
15 38 (1.50%) CCNA
16 37 (1.46%) CCNP
17 34 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
18 32 (1.26%) MBA
19 29 (1.15%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.78%) QA
2 64 (2.53%) GDPR
3 56 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 50 (1.98%) NIST
5 49 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.23%) GRC
8 28 (1.11%) PMO
9 26 (1.03%) HIPAA
10 17 (0.67%) SLA
11 14 (0.55%) GMP
11 14 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
14 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
14 9 (0.36%) WCAG
15 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 129 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 115 (4.55%) Docker
3 37 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.43%) vSphere
8 10 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) Firmware
10 3 (0.12%) Samba
11 2 (0.079%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.040%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.040%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.040%) HDFS
12 1 (0.040%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 127 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 86 (3.40%) Terraform
3 48 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.42%) Ansible
5 35 (1.38%) SCCM
6 31 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.95%) Grafana
8 13 (0.51%) WSUS
9 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.36%) CSIRT
11 7 (0.28%) CASB
12 6 (0.24%) Puppet
12 6 (0.24%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.20%) Argo
14 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.16%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.079%) Cisco CUCM
15 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Clustering
15 2 (0.079%) Packer
Vendors
1 433 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 367 (14.51%) Bloomberg
3 136 (5.38%) Google
4 89 (3.52%) Salesforce
5 82 (3.24%) Cisco
6 81 (3.20%) SAP
7 74 (2.92%) ServiceNow
8 66 (2.61%) Adobe
9 54 (2.13%) VMware
10 43 (1.70%) Databricks
11 39 (1.54%) Citrix
12 37 (1.46%) Oracle
13 31 (1.23%) Apple
13 31 (1.23%) Dell
14 23 (0.91%) CheckPoint
15 22 (0.87%) Fortinet
16 20 (0.79%) OpenAI
17 19 (0.75%) Veeam
18 17 (0.67%) F5
19 16 (0.63%) Workday