Degree Jobs in the North West

Academic Degree
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 15 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 500 1,372 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.10% 15.25% 10.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.67% 56.51% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 296 590 496
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,176 £37,000 £31,774
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,117 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.61% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,375 £75,000 £73,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,200 2,428 2,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.05% 26.99% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 667 1,185 1,251
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% +4.53%
75th Percentile £67,688 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,955 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.76% +1.74% -

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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
Manchester +1 271 £52,500 - 373
Merseyside +4 87 £40,000 -11.11% 66
Lancashire -6 54 £52,084 +22.55% 77
Cheshire -9 41 £48,000 +20.00% 165
Cumbria -1 37 £60,000 +50.00% 30
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 17 (3.40%) IIS
2 8 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.40%) SAS
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.60%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) nginx
4 3 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 44 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.80%) Windchill
6 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.40%) Demantra
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle ASCP
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.40%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 105 (21.00%) Azure
2 73 (14.60%) AWS
3 48 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (5.40%) GCP
5 21 (4.20%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (2.00%) GitHub
7 9 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (1.80%) SaaS
8 6 (1.20%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.00%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.80%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.60%) Serverless
11 3 (0.60%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.60%) Firewall
2 16 (3.20%) DNS
2 16 (3.20%) WAN
3 15 (3.00%) PPP
4 14 (2.80%) LAN
4 14 (2.80%) Structured Cabling
5 13 (2.60%) VoIP
6 12 (2.40%) SAN
7 10 (2.00%) NAS
7 10 (2.00%) VPN
8 9 (1.80%) DHCP
8 9 (1.80%) Network Security
9 8 (1.60%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.60%) Wireless
10 7 (1.40%) Software-Defined Radio
11 6 (1.20%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.80%) IP Telephony
13 3 (0.60%) Internet
14 2 (0.40%) MPLS
14 2 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.40%) MySQL
3 20 (4.00%) Tableau
4 14 (2.80%) Power BI
5 13 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.00%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.80%) Big Data
11 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.00%) Git
2 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.80%) AutoIt
4 4 (0.80%) eggPlant
5 3 (0.60%) Android Studio
5 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.60%) JSUnit
5 3 (0.60%) JUnit
5 3 (0.60%) Mocha
5 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 2 (0.40%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.20%) ERwin
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.20%) Redmine
General
1 176 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 75 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (13.00%) Finance
4 24 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 19 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.60%) Marketing
7 18 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.00%) Local Government
8 15 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.20%) Retail
10 10 (2.00%) Banking
11 9 (1.80%) Legal
11 9 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.20%) Automotive
14 5 (1.00%) Games
14 5 (1.00%) Law
15 4 (0.80%) Advertising
15 4 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 119 (23.80%) Developer
2 89 (17.80%) Senior
3 68 (13.60%) Analyst
4 41 (8.20%) Lead
5 36 (7.20%) Project Manager
6 25 (5.00%) Graduate
7 24 (4.80%) Lead Developer
8 23 (4.60%) Full Stack Developer
8 23 (4.60%) Senior Developer
9 22 (4.40%) Architect
10 21 (4.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 20 (4.00%) Senior Manager
11 20 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
11 20 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (4.00%) Team Leader
12 17 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.20%) Angular Developer
13 16 (3.20%) Business Developer
13 16 (3.20%) Enterprise Architect
13 16 (3.20%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.80%) React
2 30 (6.00%) .NET
3 29 (5.80%) HTML
4 27 (5.40%) CSS
5 25 (5.00%) RESTful
6 21 (4.20%) AngularJS
7 18 (3.60%) Node.js
8 16 (3.20%) ASP.NET
9 14 (2.80%) REST
10 12 (2.40%) ASP.NET MVC
10 12 (2.40%) Express.js
10 12 (2.40%) HTML5
11 10 (2.00%) ModSecurity
12 9 (1.80%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (1.80%) CSS3
12 9 (1.80%) Sass
12 9 (1.80%) Spring
13 8 (1.60%) MobX
13 8 (1.60%) Redux
13 8 (1.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.60%) Management Information System
2 20 (4.00%) Driving Licence
2 20 (4.00%) Virtual Team
3 13 (2.60%) Onboarding
3 13 (2.60%) Robotics
3 13 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.80%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (1.40%) FPGA
7 7 (1.40%) Smartphone
7 7 (1.40%) VHDL
8 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.20%) IoT
8 6 (1.20%) iPhone
8 6 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.00%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.40%) Windows
2 42 (8.40%) Windows Server
3 34 (6.80%) Windows Server 2012
4 27 (5.40%) Linux
5 23 (4.60%) Windows 10
5 23 (4.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (3.00%) Android
7 9 (1.80%) Unix
8 8 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.80%) Windows Vista
10 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.40%) VMS
11 2 (0.40%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (33.60%) Problem-Solving
2 138 (27.60%) Computer Science
3 95 (19.00%) Agile
4 55 (11.00%) DevOps
4 55 (11.00%) Project Management
5 52 (10.40%) Actionable Insight
5 52 (10.40%) Project Delivery
6 50 (10.00%) Front End Development
6 50 (10.00%) Mathematics
7 46 (9.20%) Mentoring
8 45 (9.00%) Analytics
8 45 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (8.20%) Scrum
9 41 (8.20%) Software Engineering
10 39 (7.80%) Artificial Intelligence
11 38 (7.60%) Migration
12 36 (7.20%) SDLC
13 32 (6.40%) ITIL
14 31 (6.20%) CRM
14 31 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 65 (13.00%) SQL
2 48 (9.60%) JavaScript
3 45 (9.00%) C#
4 44 (8.80%) Python
5 38 (7.60%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.00%) Java
7 15 (3.00%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.60%) C++
9 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.60%) MATLAB
11 6 (1.20%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.20%) C
12 5 (1.00%) R
12 5 (1.00%) Ruby
12 5 (1.00%) Rust
13 4 (0.80%) Bash
13 4 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.80%) Perl
13 4 (0.80%) PHP
14 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 113 (22.60%) Computer Science Degree
2 46 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 29 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.20%) DBS Check
5 16 (3.20%) TOGAF Certification
6 15 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.60%) Chartered Engineer
7 13 (2.60%) CISM
7 13 (2.60%) CISSP
8 11 (2.20%) HND
9 10 (2.00%) CISA
9 10 (2.00%) CRISC
9 10 (2.00%) PhD
10 9 (1.80%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.20%) HNC
11 6 (1.20%) MCSE
12 5 (1.00%) APMP
12 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.60%) NIST
3 16 (3.20%) SLA
4 13 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.40%) QA
6 10 (2.00%) GRC
6 10 (2.00%) ISO 22301
7 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.00%) PMO
8 3 (0.60%) GDPR
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.20%) COBIT
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.20%) vSphere
4 9 (1.80%) Docker
4 9 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.40%) Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) NFS
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) Snort
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (2.80%) Nessus
2 13 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.40%) Ansible
4 6 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.20%) Terraform
5 4 (0.80%) SCCM
6 3 (0.60%) CASB
6 3 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Identity Management
7 2 (0.40%) SCOM
8 1 (0.20%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.20%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.00%) VMware
3 30 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 20 (4.00%) NEC
5 14 (2.80%) arcserve
5 14 (2.80%) Google
5 14 (2.80%) Sophos
6 10 (2.00%) CA
7 7 (1.40%) Adobe
8 6 (1.20%) Oracle
8 6 (1.20%) PayPal
9 5 (1.00%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.80%) Apple
10 4 (0.80%) Databricks
10 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.80%) Verint
11 3 (0.60%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.60%) Civica
11 3 (0.60%) Northgate
12 2 (0.40%) Veeam