Degree Job Trends 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 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,102 1,849 2,710
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 7.01% 21.52% 16.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.13% 51.29% 51.03%
Number of salaries quoted 781 568 1,758
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,897 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.19% +4.76% -12.50%

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 3,326 3,605 5,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.15% 41.95% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,946 1,622 3,434
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £51,020
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.90% -2.82%
75th Percentile £75,900 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Degree job vacancy trend in the South East

Degree
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 2026. 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 -10 454 £55,000 -8.33% 172
Hampshire -11 236 £57,500 +17.35% 104
Berkshire -9 209 £50,000 -25.93% 86
Surrey -14 146 £52,500 -4.55% 62
Kent +2 145 £40,000 -15.79% 23
Oxfordshire -5 133 £56,500 -5.83% 42
Buckinghamshire -21 112 £51,359 +17.03% 47
Isle of Wight -2 44 £87,200 +24.57% 2
West Sussex -23 37 £67,500 +3.85% 15
East Sussex -28 35 £47,500 +5.56% 14
Sussex -8 3 £59,500 -20.67% 5
Middlesex -5 2 - - 12
Degree
England

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.91%) CMS
4 7 (0.64%) Confluence
4 7 (0.64%) IIS
4 7 (0.64%) WordPress
5 6 (0.54%) Apache
5 6 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.27%) Artix
6 3 (0.27%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.091%) Camunda
Applications
1 134 (12.16%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (3.99%) Simulink
4 24 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.64%) CATIA
7 6 (0.54%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.36%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.18%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.18%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.091%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.091%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (0.54%) SAP GTS
2 5 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Primavera
3 3 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.18%) Shopify
5 1 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.091%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 145 (13.16%) Azure
2 140 (12.70%) AWS
3 118 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (4.99%) GCP
5 49 (4.45%) Power Platform
6 37 (3.36%) SaaS
7 31 (2.81%) Entra ID
8 26 (2.36%) PowerApps
9 18 (1.63%) GitHub
10 16 (1.45%) PaaS
10 16 (1.45%) Serverless
11 13 (1.18%) IaaS
11 13 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 12 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (0.82%) Azure Functions
15 9 (0.82%) Power Automate
16 6 (0.54%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.54%) Firewall
2 41 (3.72%) TCP/IP
3 39 (3.54%) VPN
4 29 (2.63%) Internet
5 25 (2.27%) DNS
6 22 (2.00%) VoIP
6 22 (2.00%) WAN
7 21 (1.91%) DHCP
7 21 (1.91%) LAN
8 18 (1.63%) Wireless
9 17 (1.54%) VLAN
9 17 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (1.09%) MQTT
11 11 (1.00%) Network Security
11 11 (1.00%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.91%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.73%) DECT
13 8 (0.73%) PBX
14 7 (0.64%) LTE
15 6 (0.54%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.26%) SQL Server
2 39 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.99%) Power BI
4 28 (2.54%) MySQL
5 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 15 (1.36%) Redis
7 14 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.18%) OLTP
9 10 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (0.91%) Metadata
9 10 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.45%) GIS
12 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.36%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.18%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.18%) SAP BW
14 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 83 (7.53%) Git
2 69 (6.26%) Rational DOORS
3 36 (3.27%) JIRA
4 34 (3.09%) GitLab
5 23 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.73%) LabVIEW
7 6 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.54%) Selenium
8 5 (0.45%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.45%) Eclipse RCP
9 4 (0.36%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.36%) Postman
10 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.27%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.27%) VectorCAST
11 2 (0.18%) JUnit
11 2 (0.18%) Mocha
11 2 (0.18%) MSTest
11 2 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 491 (44.56%) Social Skills
2 204 (18.51%) Finance
3 193 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (12.61%) Electronics
5 132 (11.98%) Aerospace
6 76 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 63 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (5.72%) Marketing
8 59 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
8 59 (5.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 45 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (3.45%) Legal
11 37 (3.36%) Public Sector
12 31 (2.81%) Military
13 30 (2.72%) Law
14 29 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 24 (2.18%) Retail
16 22 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.27%) Automotive
17 14 (1.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 196 (17.79%) Senior
2 184 (16.70%) Software Engineer
3 141 (12.79%) Systems Engineer
4 102 (9.26%) Developer
5 99 (8.98%) Analyst
6 80 (7.26%) Lead
7 64 (5.81%) Principal Engineer
8 57 (5.17%) C# Software Engineer
9 52 (4.72%) Support Engineer
10 49 (4.45%) C++ Software Engineer
11 47 (4.26%) Python Engineer
12 46 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
13 44 (3.99%) IT Support
14 43 (3.90%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 41 (3.72%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 40 (3.63%) Graduate
17 38 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
18 37 (3.36%) Support Analyst
19 35 (3.18%) Sales Executive
20 34 (3.09%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (7.99%) .NET
2 63 (5.72%) HTML
3 48 (4.36%) CSS
4 32 (2.90%) XML
5 30 (2.72%) jQuery
6 27 (2.45%) React
7 25 (2.27%) Node.js
8 23 (2.09%) SOAP
9 19 (1.72%) Kafka
10 17 (1.54%) JSON
10 17 (1.54%) Vue
11 13 (1.18%) Middleware
11 13 (1.18%) REST
12 12 (1.09%) RESTful
13 9 (0.82%) AngularJS
14 8 (0.73%) ARM Templates
14 8 (0.73%) Django
14 8 (0.73%) Playwright
15 7 (0.64%) .NET Core
15 7 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 62 (5.63%) Management Information System
2 52 (4.72%) Driving Licence
3 47 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 43 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 35 (3.18%) Life Science
7 27 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
9 23 (2.09%) Web Conferencing
10 21 (1.91%) FPGA
11 20 (1.81%) Analogue Electronics
12 19 (1.72%) Client/Server
13 18 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
13 18 (1.63%) Robotics
14 16 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
14 16 (1.45%) Pharmacovigilance
15 15 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 113 (10.25%) Windows
2 89 (8.08%) Linux
3 43 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.54%) Android
4 6 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.54%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.45%) Debian
5 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.091%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (30.40%) Computer Science
2 262 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
3 235 (21.32%) Software Engineering
4 227 (20.60%) Agile
5 171 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 159 (14.43%) Decision-Making
7 130 (11.80%) Systems Engineering
8 120 (10.89%) CI/CD
9 119 (10.80%) AI
10 108 (9.80%) Mathematics
11 98 (8.89%) DevOps
12 95 (8.62%) Physics
13 92 (8.35%) Customer Service
14 90 (8.17%) Mentoring
15 82 (7.44%) Validation
16 81 (7.35%) ITIL
17 76 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
17 76 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
18 72 (6.53%) Coaching
19 71 (6.44%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 224 (20.33%) Python
2 142 (12.89%) C++
3 133 (12.07%) C#
4 128 (11.62%) SQL
5 89 (8.08%) JavaScript
6 73 (6.62%) C
7 69 (6.26%) MATLAB
8 57 (5.17%) Java
9 43 (3.90%) TypeScript
10 34 (3.09%) PowerShell
11 31 (2.81%) PHP
12 25 (2.27%) Rust
13 22 (2.00%) Bash
14 14 (1.27%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.27%) Ruby
15 13 (1.18%) Go
15 13 (1.18%) VBA
16 9 (0.82%) Bicep
17 7 (0.64%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 228 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 159 (14.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 142 (12.89%) Security Cleared
4 126 (11.43%) Master's Degree
5 115 (10.44%) SC Cleared
6 63 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (5.17%) HND
8 50 (4.54%) HNC
9 40 (3.63%) PhD
10 29 (2.63%) A+ Certification
11 28 (2.54%) DV Cleared
12 27 (2.45%) PMI Certification
13 26 (2.36%) PMP
14 25 (2.27%) Chartered Engineer
15 20 (1.81%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.45%) Azure Certification
17 15 (1.36%) CISSP
18 13 (1.18%) AWS Certification
18 13 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
19 12 (1.09%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (10.07%) Accessibility
2 97 (8.80%) QA
3 41 (3.72%) GDPR
4 32 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.90%) SLA
5 30 (2.72%) Good Clinical Practice
6 20 (1.81%) GxP
7 19 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 17 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (1.45%) NIST
10 15 (1.36%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.09%) Def Stans
12 11 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (1.00%) Data Quality
12 11 (1.00%) GMP
13 9 (0.82%) PMO
14 8 (0.73%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.64%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 7 (0.64%) GLP
15 7 (0.64%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 80 (7.26%) Docker
2 61 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.81%) Hyper-V
4 28 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.81%) Firmware
6 11 (1.00%) KVM
7 6 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 6 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.27%) Terraform
3 28 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.36%) Ansible
5 11 (1.00%) Grafana
6 9 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.73%) Functional Safety
7 8 (0.73%) SCCM
8 4 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.36%) Podman
9 3 (0.27%) Argo
10 2 (0.18%) Kibana
10 2 (0.18%) QRadar
10 2 (0.18%) WSUS
11 1 (0.091%) OpenView
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.091%) Packer
11 1 (0.091%) Puppet
11 1 (0.091%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 208 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 40 (3.63%) Oracle
3 38 (3.45%) Google
4 36 (3.27%) ServiceNow
5 35 (3.18%) Siemens
6 32 (2.90%) IBM
7 29 (2.63%) VMware
8 18 (1.63%) Cisco
9 13 (1.18%) Mentor Graphics
9 13 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.18%) Xilinx
10 10 (0.91%) Facebook
10 10 (0.91%) Instagram
10 10 (0.91%) SAP
11 9 (0.82%) Citrix
11 9 (0.82%) EMC
11 9 (0.82%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.73%) Qualys
13 6 (0.54%) Meraki
13 6 (0.54%) Red Hat