Degree Jobs 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 10 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 4,204 1,995 2,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.38% 11.40% 15.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.64% 50.93% 52.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,032 1,436 868
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,125 £27,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £37,879
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £51,567
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.89% +17.20%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,708 £80,000 £72,875
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
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 6,820 3,917 5,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 59.01% 22.38% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,202 2,687 1,758
10th Percentile £27,775 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,734 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -11.20% +15.54%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North of England.

Salary trend for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 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 12 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
North West +8 3,095 £50,055 +4.28% 856
Yorkshire +11 912 £43,350 -3.67% 413
North East +10 200 £53,750 +11.13% 213
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 107 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 23 (0.55%) Confluence
3 22 (0.52%) CMS
4 20 (0.48%) Umbraco
5 17 (0.40%) IBM Domino
6 15 (0.36%) SAS
7 12 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.21%) Apache
9 7 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.071%) WordPress
12 2 (0.048%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.048%) GemFire
13 1 (0.024%) IIS
13 1 (0.024%) Moodle
13 1 (0.024%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 284 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
2 260 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 208 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 163 (3.88%) Simulink
5 158 (3.76%) Mathcad
6 143 (3.40%) Chatbot
7 142 (3.38%) Abaqus
8 49 (1.17%) SOLIDWORKS
9 32 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
10 25 (0.59%) AutoCAD
11 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
12 21 (0.50%) Trello
13 10 (0.24%) SPSS
14 3 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
15 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
15 2 (0.048%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 289 (6.87%) Teamcenter
2 65 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 38 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.12%) Markit EDM
4 5 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.12%) Pegasus Opera
4 5 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.071%) Maximo
5 3 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.048%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.024%) iTrent
7 1 (0.024%) Magento
7 1 (0.024%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.024%) Q-Pulse
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 150 (3.57%) Azure
2 118 (2.81%) Power Platform
3 58 (1.38%) AWS
4 52 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (1.21%) Entra ID
6 20 (0.48%) GCP
7 19 (0.45%) SaaS
8 13 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (0.26%) Serverless
10 10 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (0.19%) Figma
11 8 (0.19%) GitHub
11 8 (0.19%) Google Analytics
12 6 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (0.14%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.12%) Azure Functions
13 5 (0.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.095%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.095%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (0.69%) Wireless
2 27 (0.64%) Firewall
3 22 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 22 (0.52%) VoIP
4 20 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
4 20 (0.48%) Intranet
5 18 (0.43%) Network Security
6 17 (0.40%) VPN
7 16 (0.38%) DNS
8 15 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
9 14 (0.33%) LAN
10 13 (0.31%) SAN
11 12 (0.29%) WAN
12 10 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.21%) Bluetooth
14 8 (0.19%) 5G
14 8 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.19%) GSM
14 8 (0.19%) LTE
14 8 (0.19%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (2.50%) Power BI
2 96 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 28 (0.67%) Big Data
4 26 (0.62%) Tableau
5 18 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 17 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.40%) MySQL
7 13 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.26%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.26%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.14%) DB2
11 6 (0.14%) Dremio
12 5 (0.12%) Power Query
13 4 (0.095%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.095%) PowerPivot
13 4 (0.095%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.071%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.071%) GIS
Development Applications
1 146 (3.47%) Rational DOORS
2 112 (2.66%) JIRA
3 109 (2.59%) LabVIEW
4 23 (0.55%) Git
5 16 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 15 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.12%) ClearCase
9 5 (0.12%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.095%) Balsamiq
10 4 (0.095%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.095%) Eclipse RCP
10 4 (0.095%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.071%) webpack
12 2 (0.048%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.048%) GitLab
12 2 (0.048%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.048%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,425 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 586 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
3 585 (13.92%) Manufacturing
4 540 (12.84%) Aerospace
5 473 (11.25%) Finance
6 426 (10.13%) Automotive
7 367 (8.73%) Presentation Skills
8 363 (8.63%) Marketing
9 336 (7.99%) Electronics
10 222 (5.28%) Avionics
11 185 (4.40%) Telecoms
12 149 (3.54%) Aeronautics
13 120 (2.85%) Retail
14 107 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 96 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
16 94 (2.24%) Banking
17 71 (1.69%) Legal
18 64 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
19 38 (0.90%) Agriculture
20 30 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,212 (28.83%) Systems Engineer
2 1,188 (28.26%) Senior
3 504 (11.99%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 409 (9.73%) Principal Engineer
5 261 (6.21%) Analyst
6 260 (6.18%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 222 (5.28%) Trainer
8 200 (4.76%) Lead
8 200 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 197 (4.69%) Senior Electrical Engineer
10 174 (4.14%) Software Support Engineer
11 169 (4.02%) Product Manager
12 151 (3.59%) Technical Manager
13 136 (3.24%) Help Desk Manager
14 127 (3.02%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 122 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
16 121 (2.88%) Commissioning Manager
17 116 (2.76%) Developer
18 110 (2.62%) Engineering Specialist
19 108 (2.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (1.52%) .NET
2 52 (1.24%) CSS
3 43 (1.02%) HTML
4 36 (0.86%) Software Packaging
5 30 (0.71%) jQuery
5 30 (0.71%) React
6 26 (0.62%) HTML5
7 20 (0.48%) AngularJS
8 19 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 18 (0.43%) ASP.NET
10 13 (0.31%) Node.js
11 12 (0.29%) RESTful
12 11 (0.26%) Vue
13 10 (0.24%) REST
14 9 (0.21%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.21%) WinForms
15 8 (0.19%) JSON
16 7 (0.17%) Middleware
16 7 (0.17%) XML
17 5 (0.12%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 224 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 114 (2.71%) Social Media
3 113 (2.69%) FMCG
4 95 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 87 (2.07%) Robotics
6 64 (1.52%) NHS
7 55 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (1.14%) SCADA
9 30 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 30 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 23 (0.55%) Security Posture
11 15 (0.36%) Learning Management System
12 13 (0.31%) Renewable Energy
13 12 (0.29%) Data Structures
14 11 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.26%) Equities
14 11 (0.26%) Hedge funds
15 10 (0.24%) Client/Server
16 9 (0.21%) Credit Risk
16 9 (0.21%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 165 (3.92%) Windows
2 87 (2.07%) Windows Vista
3 62 (1.47%) Linux
4 26 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.36%) Android
7 10 (0.24%) Mac OS X
8 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.095%) Unix
11 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.071%) CentOS
11 3 (0.071%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.071%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.048%) VMS
13 1 (0.024%) AIX
13 1 (0.024%) Debian
13 1 (0.024%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,418 (33.73%) Systems Engineering
2 865 (20.58%) Mathematics
3 607 (14.44%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 602 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
5 547 (13.01%) Physics
6 526 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 454 (10.80%) Agile
8 408 (9.71%) Computer Science
9 370 (8.80%) SysML
10 357 (8.49%) Artificial Intelligence
11 332 (7.90%) Coaching
12 314 (7.47%) Software Engineering
13 308 (7.33%) Validation
14 304 (7.23%) Project Management
15 279 (6.64%) Business Case
16 275 (6.54%) Requirements Management
17 264 (6.28%) Customer Requirements
18 254 (6.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 237 (5.64%) Verification and Validation
20 232 (5.52%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 508 (12.08%) MATLAB
2 210 (5.00%) SQL
3 154 (3.66%) Java
4 148 (3.52%) C#
5 133 (3.16%) Python
6 59 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 44 (1.05%) C
8 28 (0.67%) C++
9 27 (0.64%) PowerShell
10 25 (0.59%) TypeScript
11 23 (0.55%) VB
12 20 (0.48%) Ada
13 16 (0.38%) PHP
14 13 (0.31%) Rust
15 12 (0.29%) Bash
16 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.21%) C-shell
17 9 (0.21%) Korn
18 8 (0.19%) PL/SQL
19 7 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 1,969 (46.84%) BPSS Clearance
2 801 (19.05%) HND
3 655 (15.58%) HNC
4 596 (14.18%) Master's Degree
5 273 (6.49%) Chartered Engineer
6 222 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 169 (4.02%) PhD
8 157 (3.73%) DBS Check
9 141 (3.35%) MBA
10 74 (1.76%) Numerate Degree
11 66 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 42 (1.00%) CISSP
13 41 (0.98%) CEH
14 38 (0.90%) ACCA
14 38 (0.90%) CIMA
15 34 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (0.81%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.76%) Security Cleared
17 31 (0.74%) CISM
17 31 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (5.11%) IEC 61508
2 179 (4.26%) Def Stans
3 157 (3.73%) QA
4 145 (3.45%) ISO 9001
5 108 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 84 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 59 (1.40%) DO-254
8 47 (1.12%) GDPR
9 46 (1.09%) NEBOSH
10 37 (0.88%) ARP4754
11 33 (0.78%) Accessibility
12 31 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 27 (0.64%) NIST
14 20 (0.48%) SLA
14 20 (0.48%) WCAG
15 18 (0.43%) EMIR
15 18 (0.43%) MiFID
16 8 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.14%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 28 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (0.57%) Firmware
4 21 (0.50%) Docker
5 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.095%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.071%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.071%) Postfix
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.024%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.024%) KVM
10 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.024%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 26 (0.62%) Kubernetes
2 16 (0.38%) Terraform
3 15 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.33%) Ansible
5 8 (0.19%) Grafana
6 6 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.14%) SCCM
7 5 (0.12%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.095%) Kibana
8 4 (0.095%) QRadar
8 4 (0.095%) SCOM
8 4 (0.095%) SCOrch
9 3 (0.071%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.048%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.048%) Nessus
10 2 (0.048%) SmoothWall
11 1 (0.024%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.024%) Automic
11 1 (0.024%) logstash
11 1 (0.024%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 423 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 196 (4.66%) ANSYS
3 143 (3.40%) PayPal
4 105 (2.50%) Google
5 92 (2.19%) Databricks
6 90 (2.14%) Adobe
6 90 (2.14%) SAP
7 81 (1.93%) Oracle
8 66 (1.57%) Sparx
9 56 (1.33%) Alteryx
10 51 (1.21%) Cisco
11 32 (0.76%) IBM
12 24 (0.57%) VMware
13 23 (0.55%) Atlassian
14 20 (0.48%) HP
15 16 (0.38%) Siemens
16 12 (0.29%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.29%) Capita
17 11 (0.26%) Symantec
18 10 (0.24%) MathWorks