Degree Job Trends in the North of England

Academic Degree
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,627 2,093 995
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 27.14% 16.92% 12.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.09% 60.40% 48.99%
Number of salaries quoted 485 633 629
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £28,350
25th Percentile £29,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,075 £50,000 £52,084
Median % change year-on-year -17.85% -4.00% +10.89%
75th Percentile £58,943 £60,530 £63,000
90th Percentile £72,900 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,698 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.01% -3.84% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,644 3,465 2,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.64% 28.01% 26.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 1,172 1,282
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,217 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -8.99% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,178 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,900 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.62% +2.43% +4.55%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Degree job vacancy trend in the North of England

Degree
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
North West +3 1,430 £46,000 -8.00% 367
Yorkshire +1 974 £33,000 -34.00% 243
North East +13 223 £33,500 -33.00% 107
Degree
England

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 32 (1.22%) SharePoint
2 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.30%) CMS
4 6 (0.23%) Confluence
4 6 (0.23%) WordPress
5 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.11%) Kinematics
6 3 (0.11%) Magnolia
6 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.11%) WinCC
7 1 (0.038%) Apache
7 1 (0.038%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.038%) IIS
7 1 (0.038%) SAS
7 1 (0.038%) Tomcat
Applications
1 656 (24.97%) Chatbot
2 410 (15.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 134 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.80%) AutoCAD
6 15 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.53%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.30%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.27%) Autodesk Inventor
11 5 (0.19%) Revit
11 5 (0.19%) Simulink
12 3 (0.11%) Trello
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
14 1 (0.038%) EPLAN
14 1 (0.038%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
2 7 (0.27%) SAP WM
3 4 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.11%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.076%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.076%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.076%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.076%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.076%) Primavera
5 2 (0.076%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.038%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.038%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.038%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.038%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 627 (23.87%) Cloud Computing
2 121 (4.61%) Azure
3 80 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (2.09%) AWS
4 55 (2.09%) Power Platform
5 31 (1.18%) SaaS
6 23 (0.88%) Entra ID
7 16 (0.61%) Serverless
8 15 (0.57%) GCP
9 11 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (0.34%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (0.27%) Google Analytics
12 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.19%) Figma
13 5 (0.19%) GitHub
13 5 (0.19%) IaaS
13 5 (0.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 625 (23.79%) Internet
2 25 (0.95%) VPN
3 24 (0.91%) Firewall
3 24 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.72%) DNS
5 16 (0.61%) VLAN
6 14 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
6 14 (0.53%) PPP
7 12 (0.46%) Network Security
8 11 (0.42%) VoIP
9 10 (0.38%) DHCP
10 9 (0.34%) LAN
10 9 (0.34%) WAN
11 8 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.23%) Asterisk PBX
12 6 (0.23%) PSTN
13 5 (0.19%) SAN
13 5 (0.19%) SSL
14 4 (0.15%) Intranet
14 4 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (2.02%) SQL Server
2 48 (1.83%) Power BI
3 14 (0.53%) Tableau
4 12 (0.46%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.42%) MySQL
6 8 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.27%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.27%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.19%) GIS
9 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.15%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.15%) Looker
10 4 (0.15%) Metadata
10 4 (0.15%) Mixpanel
11 3 (0.11%) QGIS
11 3 (0.11%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 57 (2.17%) JIRA
2 15 (0.57%) Git
3 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.15%) Artifactory
4 4 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.15%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.11%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.076%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.076%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.038%) CANoe
7 1 (0.038%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,350 (51.39%) Social Skills
2 707 (26.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 632 (24.06%) Banking
4 491 (18.69%) Manufacturing
5 477 (18.16%) Marketing
6 443 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
7 379 (14.43%) Electronics
8 272 (10.35%) Finance
9 85 (3.24%) Retail
10 43 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
11 41 (1.56%) Public Sector
12 38 (1.45%) Legal
13 28 (1.07%) Law
14 26 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 24 (0.91%) Spanish Language
16 21 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (0.76%) Telecoms
18 19 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
19 16 (0.61%) Avionics
20 15 (0.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 695 (26.46%) Trainer
2 530 (20.18%) Lecturer
3 133 (5.06%) Senior
4 125 (4.76%) Analyst
5 108 (4.11%) Coordinator
6 91 (3.46%) Support Specialist
7 71 (2.70%) Developer
8 68 (2.59%) Systems Engineer
9 65 (2.47%) Development Manager
9 65 (2.47%) Product Manager
10 63 (2.40%) Product Development Manager
11 59 (2.25%) Principal Engineer
12 57 (2.17%) Business Analyst
13 48 (1.83%) Consultant
14 45 (1.71%) Customer Support Specialist
15 44 (1.67%) Content Editor
16 42 (1.60%) Trainee
17 39 (1.48%) Architect
17 39 (1.48%) Trainee Analyst
17 39 (1.48%) Trainee Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.07%) CSS
2 23 (0.88%) .NET
3 17 (0.65%) ASP.NET
4 10 (0.38%) .NET Core
4 10 (0.38%) jQuery
4 10 (0.38%) React
5 9 (0.34%) RESTful
6 7 (0.27%) AngularJS
6 7 (0.27%) HTML
6 7 (0.27%) Web Services
7 6 (0.23%) FreeSWITCH
7 6 (0.23%) Software Packaging
8 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.19%) Flash
8 5 (0.19%) Middleware
8 5 (0.19%) Spring
8 5 (0.19%) Vue
9 4 (0.15%) Celery
9 4 (0.15%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 628 (23.91%) IoT
2 65 (2.47%) FMCG
3 58 (2.21%) Management Information System
4 54 (2.06%) Molecular Biology
5 45 (1.71%) Robotics
6 42 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 39 (1.48%) Driving Licence
8 30 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 26 (0.99%) Blog
10 20 (0.76%) Data Centre
10 20 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
11 19 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (0.61%) Social Media
13 13 (0.49%) SCADA
14 11 (0.42%) Operational Technology
15 10 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.38%) NHS
16 9 (0.34%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.97%) Windows
2 42 (1.60%) Linux
3 19 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.53%) Android
6 8 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.038%) CentOS
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,422 (54.13%) AI
2 689 (26.23%) Cybersecurity
3 673 (25.62%) Machine Learning
4 657 (25.01%) Conversational UI
5 650 (24.74%) User Experience
6 631 (24.02%) Web Development
7 391 (14.88%) CRM
8 368 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
9 355 (13.51%) Chemistry
10 342 (13.02%) Data Entry
11 341 (12.98%) Line Management
11 341 (12.98%) Supply Chain Management
12 229 (8.72%) Computer Science
13 206 (7.84%) Project Management
14 196 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 130 (4.95%) Decision-Making
16 125 (4.76%) Mathematics
17 122 (4.64%) Project Delivery
18 119 (4.53%) Physics
19 105 (4.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (3.77%) SQL
2 68 (2.59%) Python
3 54 (2.06%) C#
4 53 (2.02%) Java
5 50 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 17 (0.65%) C
7 17 (0.65%) C++
7 17 (0.65%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.46%) MATLAB
9 10 (0.38%) Bash
9 10 (0.38%) Delphi
9 10 (0.38%) PHP
10 6 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.23%) Perl
10 6 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.11%) R
11 3 (0.11%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.076%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.038%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,118 (42.56%) Master's Degree
2 1,049 (39.93%) PhD
3 627 (23.87%) Postgraduate
4 140 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 110 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (1.79%) HND
7 36 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 33 (1.26%) HNC
9 30 (1.14%) Chartered Engineer
10 29 (1.10%) PMP
11 28 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 24 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 23 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.80%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.76%) Security Cleared
15 20 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (0.69%) SC Cleared
17 17 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (1.18%) QA
2 20 (0.76%) GDPR
3 14 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 14 (0.53%) ISO 9001
4 13 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (0.49%) PMO
5 9 (0.34%) NEBOSH
6 8 (0.30%) IEC 61131
7 7 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.23%) GLBA
9 5 (0.19%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.19%) ISO 14001
9 5 (0.19%) NIST
10 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.15%) GAAP
11 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.11%) DO-254
11 3 (0.11%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 39 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.49%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.42%) Docker
5 9 (0.34%) vSphere
6 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.076%) Firmware
8 1 (0.038%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.038%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.46%) Grafana
4 11 (0.42%) Control-M
5 7 (0.27%) Functional Safety
5 7 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.19%) Autotask
6 5 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.19%) Terraform
6 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.15%) Ansible
7 4 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.076%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.038%) AssetCenter
9 1 (0.038%) Nessus
9 1 (0.038%) SCCM
Vendors
1 656 (24.97%) PayPal
2 363 (13.82%) SAP
3 224 (8.53%) Microsoft
4 62 (2.36%) Adobe
5 58 (2.21%) Google
6 47 (1.79%) Databricks
7 37 (1.41%) Cisco
8 25 (0.95%) Atlassian
9 22 (0.84%) Dell
10 19 (0.72%) VMware
11 18 (0.69%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.57%) TOWER Software
13 12 (0.46%) Bloomberg
13 12 (0.46%) Siemens
14 11 (0.42%) Apple
14 11 (0.42%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.38%) Oracle
15 10 (0.38%) Sage
15 10 (0.38%) Workday
16 8 (0.30%) Meraki