Degree Jobs in the North West

Academic Degree
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,218 494 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.20% 12.19% 14.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.48% 41.69% 56.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 290 592
10th Percentile £35,802 £29,500 £28,525
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £59,081 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £73,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,287 1,185 2,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 43.27% 29.24% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,441 652 1,191
10th Percentile £35,802 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £61,110 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,571
% change year-on-year - +1.64% +2.86%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the North West

Degree
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 December 2024. 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
Cumbria +1 982 £45,383 -24.36% 39
Lancashire +4 619 £54,793 +5.20% 98
Manchester +8 421 £55,000 +4.76% 179
Cheshire +15 111 £50,000 +4.17% 59
Merseyside +6 83 £32,500 -19.75% 43
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 75 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.13%) CMS
2 25 (1.13%) Umbraco
3 15 (0.68%) Apache
4 10 (0.45%) Confluence
5 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.27%) IBM Domino
7 6 (0.27%) IIS
7 6 (0.27%) SAS
8 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.045%) Luigi
10 1 (0.045%) WordPress
Applications
1 183 (8.25%) Mathcad
2 157 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
3 141 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 100 (4.51%) SOLIDWORKS
5 97 (4.37%) Abaqus
6 86 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 52 (2.34%) Simulink
8 36 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
9 32 (1.44%) Photoshop
10 31 (1.40%) Adobe Illustrator
10 31 (1.40%) AutoCAD
11 7 (0.32%) CATIA
11 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
11 7 (0.32%) Siemens NX
12 3 (0.14%) Sketch
13 2 (0.090%) UserZoom
14 1 (0.045%) InDesign
14 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 89 (4.01%) Teamcenter
2 10 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.45%) Shopify
3 7 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (0.14%) CA PPM
5 2 (0.090%) Primavera
5 2 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.090%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.045%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.045%) Maximo
6 1 (0.045%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.045%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 114 (5.14%) Azure
2 83 (3.74%) Power Platform
3 52 (2.34%) AWS
4 41 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (0.90%) SaaS
6 15 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (0.63%) GCP
8 13 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (0.50%) Entra ID
10 9 (0.41%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (0.41%) IaaS
10 9 (0.41%) PaaS
11 8 (0.36%) Google Analytics
12 7 (0.32%) Figma
13 5 (0.23%) Nutanix
13 5 (0.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (0.18%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (0.18%) GitHub
14 4 (0.18%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.85%) PPP
2 28 (1.26%) LAN
3 25 (1.13%) Intranet
4 20 (0.90%) Firewall
5 16 (0.72%) WAN
6 13 (0.59%) DNS
6 13 (0.59%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.50%) DHCP
7 11 (0.50%) Wireless
8 10 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.41%) Bluetooth
10 8 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.23%) 5G
11 5 (0.23%) GSM
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) UMTS
12 4 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (0.18%) NetScaler
12 4 (0.18%) Network Security
12 4 (0.18%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (2.98%) Power BI
2 62 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.86%) DTS
4 17 (0.77%) Big Data
5 16 (0.72%) QlikView
6 13 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.41%) MySQL
7 9 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.41%) Tableau
8 8 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.32%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.32%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.32%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.32%) Redis
10 6 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.27%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.23%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.18%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 123 (5.55%) LabVIEW
2 57 (2.57%) JIRA
3 38 (1.71%) Rational DOORS
4 31 (1.40%) Dreamweaver
5 20 (0.90%) Rational Rhapsody
6 17 (0.77%) Git
7 7 (0.32%) Gatling
7 7 (0.32%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.23%) Postman
9 4 (0.18%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.14%) Babel
10 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.14%) JIRA Agile
10 3 (0.14%) Subversion
10 3 (0.14%) webpack
11 2 (0.090%) CMake
11 2 (0.090%) GCC
11 2 (0.090%) GDB
11 2 (0.090%) SpecFlow
General
1 730 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 304 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
3 275 (12.40%) Manufacturing
4 191 (8.61%) Finance
5 159 (7.17%) Aerospace
6 158 (7.12%) Automotive
7 110 (4.96%) Legal
8 90 (4.06%) Telecoms
9 63 (2.84%) Electronics
10 55 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 38 (1.71%) Avionics
12 38 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 37 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.40%) Military
15 30 (1.35%) Retail
16 28 (1.26%) Marketing
17 26 (1.17%) Law
18 25 (1.13%) Public Sector
19 22 (0.99%) Banking
Job Titles
1 873 (39.36%) Senior
2 254 (11.45%) Principal Engineer
3 149 (6.72%) Engineering Manager
4 148 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 142 (6.40%) Senior Electrical Engineer
6 137 (6.18%) Software Support Engineer
7 136 (6.13%) Lead
8 134 (6.04%) Analyst
8 134 (6.04%) Senior Manager
9 131 (5.91%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 131 (5.91%) Systems Engineer
10 105 (4.73%) Developer
11 104 (4.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 97 (4.37%) Engineering Specialist
13 83 (3.74%) Project Manager
14 73 (3.29%) Commissioning Manager
15 70 (3.16%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 53 (2.39%) Requirements Engineer
16 53 (2.39%) Systems Manager
17 52 (2.34%) Systems Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (3.34%) HTML
2 47 (2.12%) .NET
3 44 (1.98%) CSS
4 27 (1.22%) HTML5
4 27 (1.22%) React
5 26 (1.17%) jQuery
6 25 (1.13%) .NET Framework
7 16 (0.72%) ASP.NET
7 16 (0.72%) Web Services
8 13 (0.59%) .NET Core
9 12 (0.54%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.36%) REST
10 8 (0.36%) RESTful
10 8 (0.36%) WinForms
11 7 (0.32%) GraphQL
11 7 (0.32%) Laravel
12 6 (0.27%) Vue
13 5 (0.23%) Kafka
13 5 (0.23%) Node.js
13 5 (0.23%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 208 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 40 (1.80%) Social Media
3 25 (1.13%) NHS
4 24 (1.08%) SCADA
5 21 (0.95%) Product Ownership
6 19 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 14 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 13 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (0.54%) Acoustics
10 12 (0.54%) Credit Risk
10 12 (0.54%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.50%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.41%) Driving Licence
12 9 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 7 (0.32%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.92%) Windows
2 41 (1.85%) Windows Vista
3 25 (1.13%) Linux
4 14 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.54%) Android
6 11 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.090%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.090%) Unix
9 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (17.58%) Systems Engineering
2 359 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
3 241 (10.87%) Computer Science
4 219 (9.87%) Project Management
5 203 (9.15%) Agile
6 199 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 197 (8.88%) Mathematics
8 166 (7.48%) Finite Element Analysis
9 147 (6.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 142 (6.40%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 133 (6.00%) Resource Management
12 129 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 128 (5.77%) Analytics
13 128 (5.77%) Physics
14 127 (5.73%) Decision-Making
15 121 (5.46%) Risk Management
15 121 (5.46%) Workflow
16 118 (5.32%) Coaching
17 116 (5.23%) People Management
17 116 (5.23%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 263 (11.86%) MATLAB
2 201 (9.06%) SQL
3 136 (6.13%) Python
4 88 (3.97%) C#
5 69 (3.11%) JavaScript
6 62 (2.80%) Java
7 33 (1.49%) VB
8 27 (1.22%) C++
9 26 (1.17%) C
10 12 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.54%) VBA
11 9 (0.41%) Ada
11 9 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.36%) PHP
12 8 (0.36%) Scala
13 6 (0.27%) R
14 4 (0.18%) Rust
15 3 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 372 (16.77%) HND
2 298 (13.44%) Master's Degree
3 297 (13.39%) HNC
4 198 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 182 (8.21%) Chartered Engineer
6 138 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 95 (4.28%) CISM
8 80 (3.61%) MBA
9 66 (2.98%) CISA
10 48 (2.16%) CISSP
11 46 (2.07%) DBS Check
12 43 (1.94%) Security Cleared
13 33 (1.49%) ACCA
13 33 (1.49%) CIMA
14 30 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
15 27 (1.22%) PMI Certification
16 25 (1.13%) PMP
17 22 (0.99%) SC Cleared
18 17 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
19 15 (0.68%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (5.41%) ISO 9001
2 117 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 94 (4.24%) IEC 61508
4 93 (4.19%) Def Stans
5 79 (3.56%) GRC
6 49 (2.21%) NIST
7 48 (2.16%) QA
8 43 (1.94%) GDPR
9 31 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 26 (1.17%) Data Quality
11 25 (1.13%) NIST 800
11 25 (1.13%) WCAG
12 23 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 13 (0.59%) SLA
14 12 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 10 (0.45%) PMO
16 8 (0.36%) GMP
17 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.27%) IEC 62304
18 5 (0.23%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 22 (0.99%) Docker
2 20 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.090%) Firmware
5 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.090%) vSphere
6 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.045%) KVM
6 1 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (0.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.23%) Ansible
4 4 (0.18%) CA Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.18%) IBM BigFix
4 4 (0.18%) SCCM
5 3 (0.14%) Autotask
5 3 (0.14%) Terraform
6 2 (0.090%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.090%) Nessus
6 2 (0.090%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (0.090%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.045%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 251 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 52 (2.34%) ANSYS
3 46 (2.07%) Oracle
4 38 (1.71%) IBM
5 35 (1.58%) Citrix
6 27 (1.22%) Alteryx
6 27 (1.22%) HP
7 26 (1.17%) SAP
8 19 (0.86%) JDA
9 18 (0.81%) IFS
9 18 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 17 (0.77%) Google
10 17 (0.77%) Micro Focus
11 15 (0.68%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.63%) Siemens
13 12 (0.54%) VMware
14 10 (0.45%) Cadence
14 10 (0.45%) Cisco
14 10 (0.45%) Databricks
15 8 (0.36%) Serena