Postgraduate Jobs in the South East

Postgraduate
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 397 388
Rank change year-on-year +89 -9 +104
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 4 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.042% 0.017% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.072% 0.051% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £42,500 £24,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £45,000 £26,250
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% +71.43% -56.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £47,500 £35,813
90th Percentile - - £37,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £49,000 £47,047
% change year-on-year +42.86% +4.15% -21.59%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Postgraduate 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 5,559 5,907 5,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 57.70% 33.68% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 3,633 2,495
10th Percentile £34,988 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,125 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £70,600 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,875 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%

Postgraduate
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Postgraduate in the South East

Postgraduate
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Postgraduate in the South East

Postgraduate
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 Postgraduate within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hampshire - 2 - - 12
Thames Valley +73 1 - - 32
Berkshire +38 1 - - 16
West Sussex - 1 £72,500 - 2
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) Local Government
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Civil Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Due Diligence
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Conceptual Models
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Experimental Design
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Fortran
1 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle