Degree Jobs in Scotland

Academic Degree
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -25 +7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Degree 706 747 703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.51% 15.87% 12.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.62% 55.01% 47.21%
Number of salaries quoted 315 226 261
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,543 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +11.11% +1.49%
75th Percentile £61,875 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,385 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,084 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,247 1,358 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.56% 28.84% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 557 412 508
10th Percentile £26,700 £29,000 £25,888
25th Percentile £34,000 £39,283 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +21.96% -
75th Percentile £62,880 £69,649 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,715 £81,625
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in Scotland.

Salary trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Glasgow -46 334 £42,500 -22.73% 82
Edinburgh +12 173 £60,000 +9.59% 99
Aberdeen -2 65 £35,000 -22.22% 50
Dundee 0 33 £47,500 +6.61% 3
Fife -1 18 £42,500 -15.00% 9
Lanarkshire -2 11 £42,500 +6.57% 34
Renfrewshire +4 10 £36,083 - 2
Midlothian +5 7 £42,500 +6.90% 23
Stirling 0 7 £50,000 +5.02% 6
North Lanarkshire -3 6 £33,750 - 5
Aberdeenshire -6 5 £28,500 +15.15% 24
West Lothian -10 5 £38,750 +19.23% 11
South Lanarkshire - 5 - - 7
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 - - 2
Perthshire +2 3 £30,000 -
Argyll and Bute - 2 £37,214 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £65,000 - 8
East Ayrshire - 1 £25,000 - 1
East Lothian - 1 - - 1
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 39 (5.52%) Confluence
2 29 (4.11%) FileNet
3 18 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.57%) OpenEdge
6 4 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (4.53%) UserZoom
4 16 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (1.70%) Simulink
7 9 (1.27%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.57%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.42%) InVision
9 3 (0.42%) Sketch
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.14%) EViews
10 1 (0.14%) Revit
10 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.84%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (0.57%) Primavera
2 4 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (11.19%) Figma
2 75 (10.62%) Azure
2 75 (10.62%) SurveyMonkey
3 54 (7.65%) AWS
4 37 (5.24%) SaaS
5 36 (5.10%) GitHub
6 32 (4.53%) Amazon S3
7 26 (3.68%) Power Platform
8 23 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (2.27%) Entra ID
12 13 (1.84%) Serverless
13 11 (1.56%) GCP
14 8 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.99%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (0.99%) Datadog
15 7 (0.99%) IaaS
16 4 (0.57%) ChatGPT
16 4 (0.57%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.37%) Wireless
2 14 (1.98%) Firewall
3 13 (1.84%) LAN
3 13 (1.84%) Network Security
3 13 (1.84%) WAN
4 10 (1.42%) DHCP
4 10 (1.42%) DNS
5 8 (1.13%) HTTP
5 8 (1.13%) MQTT
5 8 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (0.85%) VLAN
6 6 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.71%) SMS
8 4 (0.57%) Internet
8 4 (0.57%) VPN
9 2 (0.28%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.14%) MPLS
10 1 (0.14%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 29 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (4.11%) NoSQL
3 26 (3.68%) Power BI
4 19 (2.69%) Big Data
5 14 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (1.84%) Apache Hive
6 13 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.84%) MySQL
7 12 (1.70%) DB2
8 10 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.85%) OLAP
11 4 (0.57%) MS Access
11 4 (0.57%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.42%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.28%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 70 (9.92%) Jenkins
2 66 (9.35%) JIRA
3 31 (4.39%) Git
4 30 (4.25%) Jasmine
5 29 (4.11%) JUnit
5 29 (4.11%) Mockito
6 15 (2.12%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.99%) MSTest
7 7 (0.99%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.71%) Maven
10 4 (0.57%) GitLab
10 4 (0.57%) Selenium
11 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.14%) Postman
11 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
General
1 351 (49.72%) Social Skills
2 291 (41.22%) Finance
2 291 (41.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 207 (29.32%) Law
4 177 (25.07%) Marketing
5 102 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (7.22%) Manufacturing
7 44 (6.23%) Public Sector
8 42 (5.95%) Banking
9 38 (5.38%) Legal
10 37 (5.24%) Electronics
11 33 (4.67%) Social Science
12 26 (3.68%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.83%) Retail
14 17 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.12%) Military
15 15 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.98%) Private Banking
17 11 (1.56%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (12.75%) Software Engineer
2 88 (12.46%) Analyst
3 81 (11.47%) Developer
4 72 (10.20%) Senior
5 71 (10.06%) Lead
6 58 (8.22%) Graduate
7 48 (6.80%) Embedded Engineer
8 45 (6.37%) User Experience Researcher
9 32 (4.53%) Junior
10 25 (3.54%) Project Manager
11 24 (3.40%) Full Stack Developer
11 24 (3.40%) Junior Embedded Engineer
12 23 (3.26%) Java Engineer
12 23 (3.26%) Java Software Engineer
12 23 (3.26%) Software Developer
13 22 (3.12%) Support Analyst
14 20 (2.83%) Consultant
14 20 (2.83%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
14 20 (2.83%) Firmware Engineer
15 19 (2.69%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 65 (9.21%) React
3 55 (7.79%) Spring
4 41 (5.81%) Kafka
5 37 (5.24%) HTML
6 36 (5.10%) CSS
7 30 (4.25%) J2EE
8 29 (4.11%) GraphQL
8 29 (4.11%) Hibernate
8 29 (4.11%) Spring Integration
9 18 (2.55%) Node.js
10 16 (2.27%) .NET
11 13 (1.84%) Django
12 12 (1.70%) RESTful
13 9 (1.27%) Vue
14 8 (1.13%) Express.js
14 8 (1.13%) Flask
14 8 (1.13%) JPA
15 7 (0.99%) ASP.NET
15 7 (0.99%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.66%) Algorithms
2 45 (6.37%) Market Risk
3 43 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 35 (4.96%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
8 14 (1.98%) IoT
9 12 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.70%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.56%) Life Science
11 8 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.13%) Arduino
11 8 (1.13%) Raspberry Pi
12 7 (0.99%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.21%) Windows
2 59 (8.36%) Linux
3 31 (4.39%) Unix
3 31 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.41%) Mac OS X
5 10 (1.42%) Android
6 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.57%) CentOS
6 4 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (35.13%) Computer Science
2 234 (33.14%) Agile
3 183 (25.92%) Software Engineering
4 155 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (16.86%) User Experience
6 114 (16.15%) Actionable Insight
7 110 (15.58%) Project Management
8 104 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (14.45%) Mentoring
10 97 (13.74%) SDLC
11 95 (13.46%) Decision-Making
12 94 (13.31%) DevOps
13 91 (12.89%) UX Research
14 86 (12.18%) Roadmaps
15 85 (12.04%) Artificial Intelligence
15 85 (12.04%) Service Design
16 83 (11.76%) Analytics
17 82 (11.61%) User Research
18 78 (11.05%) Product Management
19 77 (10.91%) Psychology
Programming Languages
1 103 (14.59%) SQL
2 94 (13.31%) C
3 89 (12.61%) Java
4 66 (9.35%) Python
5 50 (7.08%) C++
6 49 (6.94%) Embedded C
7 43 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 38 (5.38%) R
9 37 (5.24%) C#
10 18 (2.55%) TypeScript
11 17 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.84%) MATLAB
13 12 (1.70%) Rust
14 10 (1.42%) PHP
15 8 (1.13%) Go
15 8 (1.13%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.99%) Bash
16 7 (0.99%) Haskell
17 5 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 129 (18.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 117 (16.57%) Master's Degree
3 73 (10.34%) PhD
4 31 (4.39%) Security Cleared
5 26 (3.68%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.97%) CISSP
7 20 (2.83%) CISM
8 15 (2.12%) GCIA
8 15 (2.12%) GCIH
9 14 (1.98%) GREM
10 12 (1.70%) CISA
11 9 (1.27%) PMP
12 8 (1.13%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.13%) HNC
13 7 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.71%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.71%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.82%) Actionable Recommendations
2 28 (3.97%) QA
3 17 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.84%) PMO
5 12 (1.70%) ITGC
6 7 (0.99%) ISO 14001
6 7 (0.99%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.85%) GMP
8 5 (0.71%) NEBOSH
8 5 (0.71%) NIST
9 4 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.57%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.57%) DICOM
9 4 (0.57%) GDPR
9 4 (0.57%) HL7
9 4 (0.57%) ISO 13485
10 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.42%) WCAG
11 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (8.64%) Firmware
2 24 (3.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 22 (3.12%) Active Directory
4 19 (2.69%) Docker
5 10 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) pfSense
8 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 49 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.99%) Ansible
4 4 (0.57%) Terraform
5 3 (0.42%) Autotask
5 3 (0.42%) vRealize
5 3 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (0.28%) CASB
6 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.28%) Puppet
7 1 (0.14%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 110 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 64 (9.07%) Qualtrics
3 48 (6.80%) Oracle
4 28 (3.97%) SAP
5 26 (3.68%) Dell
6 17 (2.41%) VMware
7 16 (2.27%) Sage
8 12 (1.70%) Google
9 8 (1.13%) Cisco
9 8 (1.13%) NVIDIA
9 8 (1.13%) Splunk
10 5 (0.71%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.57%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.57%) Apple
11 4 (0.57%) Citrix
11 4 (0.57%) IBM
11 4 (0.57%) Xero
12 3 (0.42%) Facebook
12 3 (0.42%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.42%) OpenAI