Degree Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Academic Degree
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 31 11
Rank change year-on-year +29 -20 -4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 88 25 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 15.83% 6.94% 14.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.41% 29.76% 44.19%
Number of salaries quoted 53 10 54
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £66,250 £52,075
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% +27.22% +4.15%
75th Percentile £63,750 £87,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £74,250 £90,500 £83,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -38.46% +18.18% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 156 84 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 28.06% 23.33% 32.03%
Number of salaries quoted 86 41 112
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £31,742
25th Percentile £48,125 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +6.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,204
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £77,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £42,386 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.31% +1.82% +4.76%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Degree
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in Milton Keynes

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.14%) Confluence
1 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (27.27%) Chatbot
2 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (5.68%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.05%) Power Platform
2 9 (10.23%) Azure
3 7 (7.95%) Power Automate
4 6 (6.82%) AWS
4 6 (6.82%) Figma
4 6 (6.82%) GCP
4 6 (6.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 6 (6.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (4.55%) Miro
6 2 (2.27%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.14%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) SDH
1 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.91%) Power BI
2 7 (7.95%) Power Query
2 7 (7.95%) PowerPivot
3 6 (6.82%) GIS
4 2 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.14%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.14%) Metadata
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Axure RP
1 5 (5.68%) Balsamiq
2 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 4 (4.55%) Selenium
2 4 (4.55%) WebDriver
3 2 (2.27%) Git
4 1 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.14%) GitLab
4 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 46 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 42 (47.73%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 23 (26.14%) Law
5 18 (20.45%) Finance
6 6 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.41%) Banking
10 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.14%) Automotive
11 1 (1.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Trainer
2 17 (19.32%) Analyst
3 15 (17.05%) Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 7 (7.95%) Financial Analyst
6 6 (6.82%) Salesforce Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Business Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Designer
7 5 (5.68%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Product Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Content Editor
8 4 (4.55%) Lead
8 4 (4.55%) Senior
9 3 (3.41%) Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 3 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Power BI Specialist
9 3 (3.41%) Service Designer
9 3 (3.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) .NET
2 8 (9.09%) REST
3 7 (7.95%) Middleware
3 7 (7.95%) SOAP
4 6 (6.82%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (6.82%) Visualforce
5 4 (4.55%) Playwright
5 4 (4.55%) SAP CO-PA
6 3 (3.41%) CSS
7 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.27%) HTML
8 1 (1.14%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.14%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.14%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.14%) jQuery
8 1 (1.14%) JSON
8 1 (1.14%) RESTful
8 1 (1.14%) Spring
8 1 (1.14%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.27%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
1 1 (1.14%) Unix
1 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.50%) Agile
2 30 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (29.55%) AI
4 24 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 24 (27.27%) Conversational UI
5 23 (26.14%) Community of Practice
5 23 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
7 19 (21.59%) Analytics
8 17 (19.32%) Chemistry
9 14 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (15.91%) Data Analysis
9 14 (15.91%) Decision-Making
10 12 (13.64%) User Experience
11 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (11.36%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (11.36%) User Research
13 9 (10.23%) Data Modelling
13 9 (10.23%) DevOps
14 8 (9.09%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.45%) SQL
2 14 (15.91%) Java
3 12 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (11.36%) Python
5 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.95%) C#
6 7 (7.95%) VBA
7 6 (6.82%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.14%) Bash
8 1 (1.14%) C++
8 1 (1.14%) PHP
8 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (26.14%) Master's Degree
2 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (19.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (19.32%) PhD
4 7 (7.95%) ACCA
4 7 (7.95%) CIMA
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.09%) QA
3 6 (6.82%) WCAG
4 3 (3.41%) ISO 14001
4 3 (3.41%) NEBOSH
5 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.14%) GDPR
6 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Ansible
2 1 (1.14%) Control-M
2 1 (1.14%) Grafana
2 1 (1.14%) Kibana
2 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (27.27%) PayPal
2 14 (15.91%) SAP
3 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.95%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.82%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.68%) Adobe
7 3 (3.41%) Google
8 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.14%) IBM
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat