Degree Jobs in the South East

Academic Degree
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,334 2,497 5,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.46% 21.55% 25.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 48.48% 53.94% 68.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,458 1,135 1,837
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,825 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +7.65% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,814 4,629 8,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.90% 39.95% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,888 2,312 3,312
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £29,388
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the South East.

Salary trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the South East

Degree
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Thames Valley 0 1,047 £55,000 +0.92% 228
Berkshire +3 570 £60,000 +9.09% 101
Surrey +2 460 £50,000 -13.04% 60
Hampshire -8 423 £48,500 +2.11% 109
Oxfordshire -2 243 £50,000 -4.76% 78
Buckinghamshire -3 234 £45,000 -19.64% 49
Kent -14 133 £49,000 +15.29% 64
East Sussex -1 121 £60,000 +27.66% 21
West Sussex -1 95 £62,000 +3.33% 34
Middlesex -8 15 £62,500 -40.48% 2
Sussex - 12 £60,000 - 2
Isle of Wight +3 5 £42,500 -21.15%
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 74 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.90%) CMS
4 20 (0.86%) Confluence
5 14 (0.60%) Apache
6 13 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.47%) SAS
8 8 (0.34%) Kinematics
9 7 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.30%) WordPress
10 6 (0.26%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.26%) nginx
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.21%) ColdFusion
11 5 (0.21%) IIS
12 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
13 3 (0.13%) JBoss
13 3 (0.13%) Joomla!
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Service Bus
13 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 265 (11.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 213 (9.13%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (5.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (4.41%) Simulink
5 42 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 31 (1.33%) MS Visio
7 19 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.60%) OrCAD
9 13 (0.56%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.56%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.30%) InVision
10 7 (0.30%) Sketch
11 6 (0.26%) Stateflow
12 5 (0.21%) SketchUp
13 4 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
15 2 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
15 2 (0.086%) SPSS
16 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
16 1 (0.043%) Revit
Business Applications
1 27 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.69%) NEC Housing
4 14 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 11 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
6 6 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.21%) Odoo
7 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
9 3 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.13%) Primavera
9 3 (0.13%) Shopify
9 3 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.086%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
11 1 (0.043%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 302 (12.94%) Azure
2 192 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
3 169 (7.24%) AWS
4 129 (5.53%) Power Platform
5 73 (3.13%) SaaS
6 63 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (1.84%) PowerApps
8 35 (1.50%) Entra ID
9 33 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.41%) GCP
10 29 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
11 25 (1.07%) Serverless
12 24 (1.03%) Power Automate
13 23 (0.99%) GitHub
14 22 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (0.90%) IaaS
16 20 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 19 (0.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 124 (5.31%) Firewall
2 61 (2.61%) Internet
3 56 (2.40%) Wireless
4 40 (1.71%) Network Security
5 38 (1.63%) DNS
6 35 (1.50%) VPN
7 34 (1.46%) WAN
8 33 (1.41%) DHCP
9 32 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (1.11%) TCP/IP
11 25 (1.07%) 5G
12 24 (1.03%) SAN
13 23 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
14 22 (0.94%) LAN
15 21 (0.90%) HTTP
16 20 (0.86%) VLAN
17 19 (0.81%) Broadband
17 19 (0.81%) SD-WAN
18 17 (0.73%) Ethernet
19 15 (0.64%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 130 (5.57%) NoSQL
3 114 (4.88%) Power BI
4 43 (1.84%) Big Data
5 40 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 38 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (1.16%) MySQL
9 21 (0.90%) GIS
10 20 (0.86%) MongoDB
11 19 (0.81%) Tableau
12 16 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.64%) Hadoop
14 10 (0.43%) Data Mining
14 10 (0.43%) Power Query
15 9 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.34%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.34%) MS Access
16 8 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 202 (8.65%) Git
2 74 (3.17%) JIRA
3 61 (2.61%) Selenium
4 53 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 46 (1.97%) Visual Studio
6 44 (1.89%) GitLab
7 33 (1.41%) Subversion
8 32 (1.37%) Vagrant
9 25 (1.07%) SoapUI
10 21 (0.90%) Jenkins
11 17 (0.73%) CMake
12 13 (0.56%) AdminStudio
12 13 (0.56%) InstallShield
12 13 (0.56%) LabVIEW
12 13 (0.56%) MSI
12 13 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
13 12 (0.51%) TestRail
14 11 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
16 8 (0.34%) Maven
General
1 966 (41.39%) Social Skills
2 408 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
3 388 (16.62%) Finance
4 181 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 159 (6.81%) Marketing
6 158 (6.77%) Electronics
6 158 (6.77%) Retail
7 124 (5.31%) Manufacturing
8 121 (5.18%) Presentation Skills
9 120 (5.14%) Legal
10 99 (4.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 92 (3.94%) Telecoms
12 86 (3.68%) Public Sector
13 81 (3.47%) German Language
14 58 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
15 56 (2.40%) Military
16 44 (1.89%) Law
17 40 (1.71%) Aerospace
17 40 (1.71%) Automotive
18 27 (1.16%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 352 (15.08%) Senior
2 302 (12.94%) Developer
3 269 (11.53%) Software Engineer
4 204 (8.74%) Graduate
5 180 (7.71%) Analyst
6 161 (6.90%) Architect
7 145 (6.21%) Software Developer
8 132 (5.66%) Lead
9 110 (4.71%) Project Manager
10 93 (3.98%) Support Engineer
11 89 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
12 64 (2.74%) Embedded Engineer
13 63 (2.70%) Consultant
14 57 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
15 55 (2.36%) Senior Developer
16 54 (2.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 54 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
17 52 (2.23%) IT Support
18 48 (2.06%) Junior
19 45 (1.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (9.43%) .NET
2 167 (7.16%) React
3 150 (6.43%) HTML
4 132 (5.66%) CSS
5 76 (3.26%) AngularJS
6 71 (3.04%) HTML5
7 54 (2.31%) CSS3
8 48 (2.06%) Jest
9 47 (2.01%) .NET Core
10 40 (1.71%) Middleware
11 38 (1.63%) Web Services
12 37 (1.59%) .NET Framework
12 37 (1.59%) RESTful
13 36 (1.54%) Qt
14 35 (1.50%) ASP.NET
14 35 (1.50%) XML
15 29 (1.24%) WPF
16 24 (1.03%) Node.js
17 23 (0.99%) jQuery
17 23 (0.99%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 218 (9.34%) Self-Motivation
2 180 (7.71%) Management Information System
3 167 (7.16%) Algorithms
4 121 (5.18%) Driving Licence
5 98 (4.20%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.31%) IoT
7 51 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 48 (2.06%) Life Science
9 47 (2.01%) Product Ownership
10 42 (1.80%) NHS
11 38 (1.63%) FPGA
12 37 (1.59%) Onboarding
13 35 (1.50%) PKI
14 33 (1.41%) Social Media
15 32 (1.37%) Biopharmaceutical
15 32 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
16 31 (1.33%) Robotics
17 28 (1.20%) Clustering
17 28 (1.20%) Virtual Team
18 26 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 301 (12.90%) Windows
2 281 (12.04%) Linux
3 92 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 80 (3.43%) Windows 10
5 52 (2.23%) Ubuntu
5 52 (2.23%) Unix
6 48 (2.06%) Android
7 45 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 42 (1.80%) Embedded Linux
9 40 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 37 (1.59%) CentOS
11 35 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
12 34 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
13 26 (1.11%) Windows 7
14 13 (0.56%) Apple iOS
15 11 (0.47%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.30%) VMS
17 5 (0.21%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (32.56%) Computer Science
2 642 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
3 534 (22.88%) Agile
4 437 (18.72%) Software Engineering
5 356 (15.25%) Project Management
6 334 (14.31%) Artificial Intelligence
7 264 (11.31%) Mathematics
8 217 (9.30%) DevOps
9 216 (9.25%) Physics
10 211 (9.04%) Machine Learning
11 200 (8.57%) Mentoring
12 185 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 172 (7.37%) Analytics
13 172 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
14 168 (7.20%) ITIL
15 154 (6.60%) Collaborative Working
16 148 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
16 148 (6.34%) Decision-Making
17 145 (6.21%) Project Delivery
18 135 (5.78%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 450 (19.28%) Python
2 352 (15.08%) C#
3 321 (13.75%) SQL
4 316 (13.54%) JavaScript
5 301 (12.90%) C++
6 228 (9.77%) C
7 180 (7.71%) Java
8 128 (5.48%) TypeScript
9 105 (4.50%) PowerShell
10 95 (4.07%) Fortran
11 76 (3.26%) Bash
12 66 (2.83%) MATLAB
13 59 (2.53%) PHP
14 53 (2.27%) VB
15 32 (1.37%) Kotlin
16 26 (1.11%) R
17 18 (0.77%) Embedded C
18 17 (0.73%) ActionScript
18 17 (0.73%) Perl
19 16 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 434 (18.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 396 (16.97%) Security Cleared
3 252 (10.80%) Master's Degree
4 193 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 122 (5.23%) DBS Check
6 120 (5.14%) PhD
7 115 (4.93%) DV Cleared
8 50 (2.14%) HNC
9 48 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 47 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.97%) CISSP
12 44 (1.89%) HND
13 40 (1.71%) MBA
14 39 (1.67%) CCNA
15 38 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 28 (1.20%) PMI Certification
17 27 (1.16%) CCNP
18 26 (1.11%) AWS Certification
18 26 (1.11%) Azure Certification
19 24 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.10%) QA
2 82 (3.51%) SLA
3 64 (2.74%) GDPR
4 51 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 31 (1.33%) Good Clinical Practice
6 31 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.29%) PMO
8 27 (1.16%) WCAG
9 22 (0.94%) NIST
10 18 (0.77%) ISO 13485
10 18 (0.77%) ISO 9001
11 17 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.60%) GRC
14 13 (0.56%) HIPAA
15 12 (0.51%) IEC 62304
16 11 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
17 10 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 10 (0.43%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 163 (6.98%) Docker
2 162 (6.94%) Active Directory
3 88 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (2.91%) Firmware
5 22 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
5 22 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.86%) vSphere
7 19 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.73%) OpenSSH
8 17 (0.73%) XenApp
9 13 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.17%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.13%) Ceph
12 3 (0.13%) GPFS
12 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 159 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 56 (2.40%) Ansible
3 55 (2.36%) Terraform
4 51 (2.19%) SCCM
5 35 (1.50%) WSUS
6 32 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (1.03%) SCOM
8 21 (0.90%) vCenter Server
9 20 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (0.73%) IBM BigFix
10 17 (0.73%) PowerCLI
11 14 (0.60%) Puppet
12 12 (0.51%) Stealthwatch
13 11 (0.47%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.26%) Functional Safety
14 6 (0.26%) Grafana
14 6 (0.26%) Nessus
14 6 (0.26%) Podman
15 5 (0.21%) Suricata
Vendors
1 557 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.11%) VMware
3 92 (3.94%) SAP
4 78 (3.34%) Xilinx
5 57 (2.44%) Adobe
6 56 (2.40%) Oracle
7 52 (2.23%) Cisco
8 43 (1.84%) Apple
9 37 (1.59%) EMC
10 34 (1.46%) Google
11 29 (1.24%) Citrix
11 29 (1.24%) HP
12 28 (1.20%) Veeam
13 27 (1.16%) NEC
14 23 (0.99%) Dell
14 23 (0.99%) IBM
14 23 (0.99%) Meraki
15 22 (0.94%) ServiceNow
16 18 (0.77%) Sage
17 17 (0.73%) Salesforce