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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,537 2,917 3,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 27.00% 17.34% 25.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.85% 50.38% 63.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,006 1,847 1,342
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £51,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.62% +0.98% +0.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,625 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £52,600 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -12.50% +9.09%

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 5,302 5,790 5,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 56.43% 34.43% 39.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,445 3,640 2,557
10th Percentile £34,988 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025. 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 0 922 £56,673 +7.85% 628
Isle of Wight -1 486 £65,000 +52.94% 22
Hampshire +8 457 £50,000 +3.09% 348
Buckinghamshire +2 440 £50,000 +14.94% 156
Berkshire +1 335 £66,655 +11.09% 327
Surrey +4 237 £55,790 +13.86% 225
Kent +12 162 £47,683 -13.30% 80
Oxfordshire -1 147 £53,750 +13.16% 210
Middlesex +21 111 £60,000 +15.94% 38
West Sussex +3 85 £62,500 +4.17% 58
East Sussex +4 77 £45,000 -10.00% 35
Sussex -1 2 £66,500 +10.83% 62
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 52 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.43%) Apache
4 10 (0.39%) CMS
4 10 (0.39%) WordPress
5 9 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.20%) Confluence
7 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.079%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.039%) GemFire
Applications
1 133 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (2.60%) Simulink
3 54 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (1.50%) Chatbot
5 22 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.039%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.039%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.039%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.039%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.039%) Pipeline Pilot
10 1 (0.039%) Revit
10 1 (0.039%) Sketch
10 1 (0.039%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (1.38%) Teamcenter
2 10 (0.39%) TrackWise
3 5 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.20%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.079%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.039%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.039%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.039%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.039%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.039%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.039%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 191 (7.53%) Azure
2 120 (4.73%) AWS
3 72 (2.84%) Power Platform
4 66 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (2.21%) GCP
6 40 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.50%) PowerApps
8 29 (1.14%) PaaS
8 29 (1.14%) Snowflake
9 28 (1.10%) SaaS
10 27 (1.06%) Power Automate
11 21 (0.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 19 (0.75%) Entra ID
13 15 (0.59%) GitHub
14 10 (0.39%) Veeva
15 9 (0.35%) Serverless
15 9 (0.35%) Smartsheet
16 8 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (0.32%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (0.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 243 (9.58%) Wireless
2 229 (9.03%) LTE
3 228 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
4 226 (8.91%) 5G
4 226 (8.91%) Bluetooth
5 217 (8.55%) GSM
5 217 (8.55%) UMTS
6 98 (3.86%) Broadband
7 61 (2.40%) TCP/IP
8 44 (1.73%) VPN
9 29 (1.14%) Firewall
10 25 (0.99%) Internet
10 25 (0.99%) Wireshark
11 23 (0.91%) LAN
11 23 (0.91%) WAN
12 22 (0.87%) Network Security
13 20 (0.79%) DNS
13 20 (0.79%) NAS
13 20 (0.79%) SAN
14 19 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (2.80%) Power BI
2 55 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 54 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 47 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (1.46%) Tableau
6 34 (1.34%) Big Data
7 32 (1.26%) Metadata
8 23 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 17 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (0.43%) MongoDB
10 11 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.35%) OLTP
12 8 (0.32%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (0.16%) MySQL
16 3 (0.12%) Apache Hive
16 3 (0.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 143 (5.64%) Rational DOORS
2 68 (2.68%) Git
3 39 (1.54%) JIRA
4 38 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 34 (1.34%) Robot Framework
6 19 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.63%) Selenium
8 14 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 9 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.28%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.20%) Eclipse RCP
11 5 (0.20%) rollup.js
11 5 (0.20%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.20%) Subversion
12 4 (0.16%) CMake
12 4 (0.16%) TestRail
13 3 (0.12%) JUnit
13 3 (0.12%) MLflow
13 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 620 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 407 (16.04%) Electronics
3 295 (11.63%) Manufacturing
4 253 (9.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 244 (9.62%) Law
6 180 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
6 180 (7.09%) Finance
7 148 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
8 122 (4.81%) Retail
9 117 (4.61%) Marketing
10 82 (3.23%) Aerospace
11 74 (2.92%) Telecoms
12 66 (2.60%) Legal
13 58 (2.29%) Military
14 32 (1.26%) Dutch Language
14 32 (1.26%) Finnish Language
14 32 (1.26%) Norwegian Language
15 29 (1.14%) Automotive
16 28 (1.10%) Advertising
17 27 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 650 (25.62%) Senior
2 359 (14.15%) Test Engineer
3 348 (13.72%) Systems Engineer
4 268 (10.56%) Lead
5 242 (9.54%) Electronics Engineer
6 217 (8.55%) Electronics Test Engineer
7 189 (7.45%) Software Engineer
8 172 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
9 135 (5.32%) Trainer
10 127 (5.01%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 122 (4.81%) Architect
12 100 (3.94%) Engineering Manager
13 97 (3.82%) Developer
14 93 (3.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 81 (3.19%) Analyst
16 72 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
17 67 (2.64%) Principal Software Engineer
17 67 (2.64%) Senior Electrical Engineer
18 64 (2.52%) Electrical Engineer
18 64 (2.52%) Safety Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.40%) HTML
1 61 (2.40%) Middleware
2 59 (2.33%) React
3 56 (2.21%) .NET
4 41 (1.62%) CSS
5 31 (1.22%) Node.js
5 31 (1.22%) SOAP
6 30 (1.18%) REST
7 24 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
8 20 (0.79%) Jest
9 18 (0.71%) Kafka
10 16 (0.63%) HTML5
11 15 (0.59%) XML
12 13 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.51%) YAML
13 12 (0.47%) RESTful
13 12 (0.47%) WPF
14 9 (0.35%) CSS3
14 9 (0.35%) Web Services
15 8 (0.32%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 267 (10.52%) Driving Licence
2 139 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 110 (4.34%) Robotics
4 49 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 46 (1.81%) SCADA
7 45 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
8 42 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 33 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.18%) Security Posture
11 27 (1.06%) Product Ownership
12 26 (1.02%) NHS
13 25 (0.99%) Data Centre
14 21 (0.83%) Onboarding
14 21 (0.83%) Social Media
15 19 (0.75%) Acoustics
15 19 (0.75%) FMCG
16 17 (0.67%) Cloud Native
16 17 (0.67%) IoT
16 17 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 207 (8.16%) Windows
2 139 (5.48%) Linux
3 33 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.79%) Android
5 16 (0.63%) Unix
6 15 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.20%) Debian
13 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.079%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.039%) CentOS
16 1 (0.039%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.039%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.039%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (27.63%) Computer Science
2 653 (25.74%) Mentoring
3 496 (19.55%) Systems Engineering
4 487 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
5 475 (18.72%) Agile
6 431 (16.99%) Coaching
7 376 (14.82%) Validation
8 338 (13.32%) Verification and Validation
9 336 (13.24%) Customer Requirements
10 326 (12.85%) UML
11 299 (11.79%) Mathematics
12 264 (10.41%) Physics
13 262 (10.33%) Software Engineering
14 247 (9.74%) Artificial Intelligence
15 237 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
16 229 (9.03%) Project Management
17 220 (8.67%) Test Strategy
18 207 (8.16%) Analytics
19 201 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
20 192 (7.57%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 235 (9.26%) MATLAB
2 231 (9.11%) Python
3 136 (5.36%) SQL
4 105 (4.14%) C#
5 104 (4.10%) PowerShell
6 101 (3.98%) JavaScript
7 89 (3.51%) C++
8 81 (3.19%) Ada
9 68 (2.68%) Java
10 62 (2.44%) C
11 61 (2.40%) Bash
12 55 (2.17%) TypeScript
13 22 (0.87%) Apex Code
14 18 (0.71%) Ada 95
14 18 (0.71%) PHP
15 17 (0.67%) Fortran
15 17 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.63%) Rust
17 11 (0.43%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 750 (29.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 312 (12.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 285 (11.23%) Chartered Engineer
4 273 (10.76%) HND
5 260 (10.25%) Master's Degree
6 85 (3.35%) PhD
7 78 (3.07%) Security Cleared
8 57 (2.25%) SC Cleared
9 53 (2.09%) Numerate Degree
10 37 (1.46%) CISSP
11 27 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 27 (1.06%) MBA
12 26 (1.02%) DBS Check
12 26 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
14 17 (0.67%) Azure Certification
14 17 (0.67%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.51%) PMP
16 12 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
17 11 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.28%) QA
2 122 (4.81%) IEC 61508
3 120 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 97 (3.82%) Def Stans
5 94 (3.71%) Data Quality
6 75 (2.96%) Accessibility
7 57 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 43 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 35 (1.38%) ARP4754
9 35 (1.38%) DO-254
10 29 (1.14%) GDPR
10 29 (1.14%) NIST
11 14 (0.55%) GMP
11 14 (0.55%) NCSC
12 13 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.35%) SLA
15 6 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) PMO
15 6 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 45 (1.77%) Docker
3 39 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.39%) vSphere
6 7 (0.28%) Firmware
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.20%) HDFS
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.10%) Ansible
3 23 (0.91%) Terraform
4 16 (0.63%) Puppet
5 10 (0.39%) QRadar
6 6 (0.24%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (0.12%) Grafana
7 3 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.12%) SCCM
7 3 (0.12%) WSUS
7 3 (0.12%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.079%) EnCase
8 2 (0.079%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.079%) FTK
8 2 (0.079%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.079%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.079%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 300 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 118 (4.65%) Google
3 105 (4.14%) Databricks
4 104 (4.10%) Adobe
5 83 (3.27%) IBM
6 48 (1.89%) VMware
7 38 (1.50%) PayPal
8 34 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.34%) SAP
9 28 (1.10%) EMC
9 28 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 27 (1.06%) Cisco
11 26 (1.02%) Siemens
12 21 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 19 (0.75%) Unisys
14 17 (0.67%) Meraki
15 16 (0.63%) Oracle
16 14 (0.55%) Dell
17 13 (0.51%) Splunk
18 11 (0.43%) Sun