Degree Jobs in the South West

Academic Degree
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Degree 983 1,348 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 27.71% 13.76% 20.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.82% 40.42% 47.25%
Number of salaries quoted 523 859 482
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £27,550
25th Percentile £45,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £70,513
90th Percentile £61,250 £73,750 £82,500
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,761 3,335 2,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 49.65% 34.05% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 956 2,180 1,256
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,955 £30,932
25th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +0.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £70,700
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,786 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -9.34% +9.09%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in the South West

Degree
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bristol +8 356 £52,600 -4.36% 230
Gloucestershire +16 184 £52,600 +7.90% 185
Dorset +6 161 £47,683 +5.96% 54
Devon 0 97 £51,729 +29.32% 70
Somerset 0 95 £47,683 -7.41% 84
Wiltshire +9 76 £51,058 -7.17% 42
Cornwall -9 11 £36,625 -6.10% 11
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (2.03%) Jupyter
2 7 (0.71%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.61%) Apache
3 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.31%) CMS
4 3 (0.31%) Confluence
4 3 (0.31%) SAS
5 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.20%) IIS
5 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 114 (11.60%) Simulink
2 43 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 26 (2.64%) Mathcad
4 26 (2.64%) Mathematica
5 20 (2.03%) Chatbot
6 19 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.10%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 37 (3.76%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (4.98%) Azure
2 37 (3.76%) AWS
3 30 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (1.32%) Entra ID
5 12 (1.22%) Power Platform
6 10 (1.02%) GitHub
6 10 (1.02%) Serverless
7 9 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (0.92%) GCP
8 7 (0.71%) SaaS
9 5 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.41%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.20%) Algolia
11 2 (0.20%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.20%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.20%) IaaS
11 2 (0.20%) MailChimp
11 2 (0.20%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.20%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.15%) Broadband
2 27 (2.75%) WAN
3 25 (2.54%) 5G
4 20 (2.03%) SD-WAN
5 14 (1.42%) Firewall
5 14 (1.42%) Network Security
6 12 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.71%) LAN
8 7 (0.71%) VPN
9 6 (0.61%) VLAN
10 5 (0.51%) Bluetooth
10 5 (0.51%) GSM
10 5 (0.51%) LTE
10 5 (0.51%) UMTS
10 5 (0.51%) Wireless
11 4 (0.41%) BGP
11 4 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.41%) OSPF
12 3 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.49%) Big Data
2 16 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.22%) Power BI
4 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.41%) FileMaker
5 4 (0.41%) MS Access
6 2 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.20%) GIS
6 2 (0.20%) QGIS
6 2 (0.20%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.10%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.10%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.10%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.10%) Metadata
7 1 (0.10%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (5.29%) JIRA
2 31 (3.15%) Visual Studio
3 27 (2.75%) Rational DOORS
4 12 (1.22%) Git
5 6 (0.61%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.61%) Eclipse RCP
6 4 (0.41%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.20%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.10%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
9 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.10%) Subversion
General
1 163 (16.58%) Social Skills
2 126 (12.82%) Finance
3 122 (12.41%) Presentation Skills
4 109 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (7.22%) Electronics
7 59 (6.00%) Aerospace
8 39 (3.97%) Manufacturing
9 35 (3.56%) Banking
10 28 (2.85%) Retail
11 27 (2.75%) Avionics
12 25 (2.54%) Marketing
13 17 (1.73%) Military
14 16 (1.63%) Automotive
14 16 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.42%) Public Sector
16 13 (1.32%) Aeronautics
16 13 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.02%) Games
17 10 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 342 (34.79%) Systems Engineer
2 309 (31.43%) Senior
3 140 (14.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 105 (10.68%) Principal Engineer
5 48 (4.88%) Lead
6 47 (4.78%) Data Scientist
7 43 (4.37%) Analyst
8 37 (3.76%) Junior
9 35 (3.56%) Support Engineer
10 33 (3.36%) Engineering Manager
11 26 (2.64%) Electronics Engineer
11 26 (2.64%) Project Manager
12 24 (2.44%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 24 (2.44%) Software Engineer
13 22 (2.24%) Senior Data Scientist
14 21 (2.14%) Technical Support
14 21 (2.14%) Technical Support Engineer
15 20 (2.03%) Junior Systems Engineer
15 20 (2.03%) Trainer
16 19 (1.93%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.83%) HTML
2 13 (1.32%) .NET
3 12 (1.22%) CSS
3 12 (1.22%) Software Packaging
4 6 (0.61%) JSP
4 6 (0.61%) Middleware
4 6 (0.61%) RESTful
5 5 (0.51%) PyTorch
5 5 (0.51%) TensorFlow
6 4 (0.41%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.41%) HTML5
6 4 (0.41%) pytest
7 3 (0.31%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.31%) EDI
7 3 (0.31%) Hugging Face
7 3 (0.31%) React
8 2 (0.20%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.20%) Flask
8 2 (0.20%) Kafka
8 2 (0.20%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.88%) Algorithms
2 40 (4.07%) Cyberattack
3 37 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.03%) Self-Driving Car
6 19 (1.93%) Satnav
7 13 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 13 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.12%) Optoelectronics
9 10 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (1.02%) e-Learning
9 10 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.71%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.61%) GNSS
11 6 (0.61%) Product Ownership
11 6 (0.61%) SCADA
12 5 (0.51%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.43%) Linux
2 50 (5.09%) Windows
3 10 (1.02%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.41%) Unix
7 1 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) SafeRTOS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (43.44%) Systems Engineering
2 319 (32.45%) Mathematics
3 204 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (19.43%) SysML
5 178 (18.11%) Software Engineering
6 163 (16.58%) Computer Science
7 157 (15.97%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 141 (14.34%) Agile
9 131 (13.33%) Validation
10 120 (12.21%) Physics
11 118 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
12 112 (11.39%) Mentoring
13 108 (10.99%) UML
13 108 (10.99%) Verification and Validation
14 91 (9.26%) Digital Twin
15 88 (8.95%) Line Management
16 80 (8.14%) Artificial Intelligence
16 80 (8.14%) Project Management
17 78 (7.93%) MODAF
18 76 (7.73%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 215 (21.87%) MATLAB
2 90 (9.16%) Python
3 45 (4.58%) SQL
4 44 (4.48%) C
5 36 (3.66%) Java
6 35 (3.56%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.34%) C#
8 19 (1.93%) C++
9 13 (1.32%) Rust
10 11 (1.12%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.81%) R
12 6 (0.61%) Bash
12 6 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.51%) VB
14 4 (0.41%) Ada
14 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.31%) Clojure
15 3 (0.31%) PHP
15 3 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 333 (33.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 133 (13.53%) HND
3 126 (12.82%) HNC
4 125 (12.72%) Master's Degree
5 110 (11.19%) Chartered Engineer
6 92 (9.36%) Security Cleared
7 67 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (6.10%) DV Cleared
9 38 (3.87%) PhD
10 34 (3.46%) SC Cleared
11 20 (2.03%) Numerate Degree
12 17 (1.73%) CISSP
13 12 (1.22%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
16 7 (0.71%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.61%) CISM
18 5 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
19 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.80%) IEC 61508
2 95 (9.66%) Def Stans
3 21 (2.14%) ARP4754
3 21 (2.14%) DO-254
4 14 (1.42%) QA
5 12 (1.22%) PMO
6 8 (0.81%) SLA
7 7 (0.71%) GLP
7 7 (0.71%) GMP
8 6 (0.61%) NEBOSH
9 5 (0.51%) GDPR
10 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.31%) COBIT
11 3 (0.31%) IEC 61131
11 3 (0.31%) NIST
12 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (2.34%) Docker
2 18 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.42%) Firmware
4 13 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.51%) Ansible
4 3 (0.31%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (0.20%) Nmap
5 2 (0.20%) Puppet
6 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.10%) SCCM
6 1 (0.10%) Terraform
6 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.14%) Salesforce
3 20 (2.03%) IBM
3 20 (2.03%) PayPal
4 13 (1.32%) ANSYS
5 11 (1.12%) Cisco
5 11 (1.12%) Google
5 11 (1.12%) SAP
5 11 (1.12%) VMware
6 6 (0.61%) Sun
7 4 (0.41%) Databricks
7 4 (0.41%) Intel
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle
7 4 (0.41%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.31%) Citrix
8 3 (0.31%) EMC
8 3 (0.31%) Facebook
8 3 (0.31%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.31%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.31%) YouTube