Degree Job Trends in the Midlands

Academic Degree
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -31 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Degree 478 1,230 2,105
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.61% 21.95% 15.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.60% 58.82% 63.52%
Number of salaries quoted 319 279 933
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,650 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,580 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £47,500 £45,001
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +5.55% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,115 2,091 3,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.98% 37.31% 25.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 837 1,789
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,594 £35,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -6.97%
75th Percentile £65,148 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,043
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.77% -9.93%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Degree job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Degree
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
West Midlands -27 314 £42,500 -16.21% 131
East Midlands -45 163 £37,663 -16.30% 127
Degree
England

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 27 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.09%) CMS
4 6 (1.26%) Confluence
5 4 (0.84%) IIS
5 4 (0.84%) PowerFactory
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (11.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (9.83%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (2.09%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.26%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.84%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.84%) Revit
8 2 (0.42%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.21%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.21%) Simulink
9 1 (0.21%) Solid Edge
9 1 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.84%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 4 (0.84%) Sage 50
2 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) Primavera
3 3 (0.63%) SAP EHS
4 2 (0.42%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 94 (19.67%) Azure
2 67 (14.02%) Power Platform
3 53 (11.09%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (9.41%) AWS
5 24 (5.02%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.56%) SaaS
7 12 (2.51%) GCP
7 12 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.88%) Smartsheet
10 8 (1.67%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.46%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.46%) Serverless
12 6 (1.26%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.26%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.44%) Firewall
2 17 (3.56%) LAN
2 17 (3.56%) WAN
3 16 (3.35%) DHCP
3 16 (3.35%) DNS
4 15 (3.14%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.14%) VPN
5 14 (2.93%) Wireless
6 10 (2.09%) VLAN
6 10 (2.09%) VoIP
7 9 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.46%) Bluetooth
8 7 (1.46%) Network Security
9 6 (1.26%) MQTT
9 6 (1.26%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.63%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.63%) FTP
10 3 (0.63%) SAN
10 3 (0.63%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (12.34%) Power BI
2 18 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.77%) Tableau
3 11 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (2.30%) Power Query
4 7 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.84%) QlikView
6 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.63%) MySQL
8 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.42%) DTS
8 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.21%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.21%) GIS
9 1 (0.21%) Metadata
9 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (6.28%) JIRA
2 15 (3.14%) Git
3 13 (2.72%) GitLab
4 12 (2.51%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.67%) Selenium
6 6 (1.26%) GDB
7 5 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.05%) JMeter
7 5 (1.05%) LabVIEW
7 5 (1.05%) Postman
7 5 (1.05%) TestRail
7 5 (1.05%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.05%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.84%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.84%) Gatling
8 4 (0.84%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.84%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.84%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.84%) SonarQube
General
1 166 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 103 (21.55%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (18.83%) Finance
3 90 (18.83%) Manufacturing
4 52 (10.88%) Legal
5 49 (10.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (7.53%) Retail
7 27 (5.65%) Law
8 26 (5.44%) Marketing
9 25 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (3.77%) Public Sector
12 17 (3.56%) Aerospace
13 13 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.72%) Electronics
14 12 (2.51%) Telecoms
15 10 (2.09%) Banking
15 10 (2.09%) Swedish Language
16 8 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (18.20%) Analyst
2 61 (12.76%) Senior
3 42 (8.79%) Lead
4 29 (6.07%) Graduate
5 27 (5.65%) Developer
6 26 (5.44%) IT Support
7 25 (5.23%) Business Analyst
8 18 (3.77%) Software Engineer
8 18 (3.77%) Technical Support
9 16 (3.35%) Data Scientist
9 16 (3.35%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.35%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (3.35%) Technical Support Engineer
10 15 (3.14%) IT Engineer
10 15 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (2.93%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.93%) IT Manager
11 14 (2.93%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (2.93%) Technologist
12 12 (2.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.93%) React
2 12 (2.51%) CSS
2 12 (2.51%) HTML
3 11 (2.30%) PyTorch
4 8 (1.67%) scikit-learn
5 7 (1.46%) Pandas
5 7 (1.46%) Playwright
5 7 (1.46%) XML
6 6 (1.26%) jQuery
6 6 (1.26%) Node.js
6 6 (1.26%) Yocto
7 5 (1.05%) Middleware
7 5 (1.05%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.84%) COM
8 4 (0.84%) DCOM
8 4 (0.84%) Flash
8 4 (0.84%) LDAP
8 4 (0.84%) pytest
8 4 (0.84%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (0.63%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.21%) Management Information System
2 23 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.35%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.93%) Driving Licence
6 12 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.88%) NHS
10 7 (1.46%) ARM Cortex
10 7 (1.46%) Device Driver
10 7 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.46%) Virtual Reality
11 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.26%) IoT
11 6 (1.26%) PKI
12 5 (1.05%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.05%) PMI
12 5 (1.05%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (10.88%) Windows
2 27 (5.65%) Linux
3 22 (4.60%) Windows 10
4 13 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.67%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.05%) OpenVMS
6 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.84%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.63%) Android
9 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.42%) Solaris
9 2 (0.42%) Unix
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (31.17%) Computer Science
2 138 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (16.53%) Agile
5 69 (14.44%) Decision-Making
6 65 (13.60%) Analytics
7 58 (12.13%) Mentoring
8 54 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
9 48 (10.04%) AI
9 48 (10.04%) Cybersecurity
10 46 (9.62%) ERP
11 44 (9.21%) Customer Service
11 44 (9.21%) Risk Management
12 43 (9.00%) Project Management
12 43 (9.00%) Validation
13 42 (8.79%) Service Delivery
14 41 (8.58%) ITSM
15 40 (8.37%) Mathematics
16 39 (8.16%) CRM
17 38 (7.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 85 (17.78%) SQL
2 51 (10.67%) Python
3 26 (5.44%) PowerShell
4 23 (4.81%) C++
5 15 (3.14%) Java
6 14 (2.93%) C#
6 14 (2.93%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.09%) C
8 8 (1.67%) R
9 7 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.26%) PHP
11 5 (1.05%) Bash
12 4 (0.84%) Rust
13 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.63%) VBA
14 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.21%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.21%) JCL
15 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 56 (11.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 42 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 37 (7.74%) Master's Degree
4 36 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (5.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (4.18%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.93%) Numerate Degree
8 12 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.51%) CISSP
8 12 (2.51%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.30%) HND
9 11 (2.30%) MCSE
10 10 (2.09%) ISTQB
11 9 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.88%) ISEB
11 9 (1.88%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.46%) A+ Certification
12 7 (1.46%) CISM
12 7 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (1.26%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.41%) QA
2 32 (6.69%) GDPR
3 24 (5.02%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (3.35%) SLA
6 15 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (2.30%) ISO 9001
8 9 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.88%) NIST
9 7 (1.46%) JTAG
10 6 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.26%) GRC
11 5 (1.05%) PMO
12 4 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.84%) ISO 14001
13 3 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 1 (0.21%) ISO 9002
15 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 44 (9.21%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.09%) Firmware
4 5 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.84%) Docker
5 4 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.42%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.05%) Grafana
4 4 (0.84%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.84%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.84%) Terraform
5 3 (0.63%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.42%) Ansible
6 2 (0.42%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.21%) Argo
7 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.28%) Cisco
3 18 (3.77%) VMware
4 14 (2.93%) SAP
4 14 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.72%) Dell
6 12 (2.51%) Juniper
6 12 (2.51%) McAfee
7 11 (2.30%) Google
7 11 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.88%) Databricks
8 9 (1.88%) Meraki
9 8 (1.67%) Apple
9 8 (1.67%) Logitech
9 8 (1.67%) Oracle
9 8 (1.67%) Yealink
10 6 (1.26%) SYSPRO
11 5 (1.05%) Aderant
11 5 (1.05%) Intapp
11 5 (1.05%) Red Hat