Degree Jobs in the South West

Academic Degree
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 15 3 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Degree 637 1,826 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.47% 22.57% 13.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.31% 55.62% 41.45%
Number of salaries quoted 430 577 457
10th Percentile £30,413 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,188 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,173 3,283 2,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 45.94% 40.59% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,373 1,229
10th Percentile £29,440 £27,357 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,723
Median % change year-on-year - +0.56% -0.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,955 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.76% +1.74% -

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 -20 176 £51,874 +23.18% 238
Gloucestershire -10 166 £50,000 - 60
Devon -4 81 £38,750 +6.15% 67
Somerset 0 72 £55,000 +29.41% 81
Wiltshire -18 68 £55,000 +9.89% 70
Dorset +2 56 £67,500 +92.86% 62
Cornwall +8 7 £35,000 +45.83% 13
Avon -1 1 - - 95
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 30 (4.71%) Confluence
2 21 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.88%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.94%) Apache
5 4 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.63%) IIS
5 4 (0.63%) Luigi
5 4 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.47%) MS Exchange
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.16%) Jetty
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 42 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.98%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (2.35%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.57%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.94%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.94%) Trello
8 4 (0.63%) Windchill
9 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.16%) Mathcad
10 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (2.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.10%) SAP QM
3 4 (0.63%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.47%) Magento
4 3 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle iSupplier
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.16%) Primavera
6 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (19.15%) Azure
2 82 (12.87%) AWS
3 77 (12.09%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 35 (5.49%) GCP
6 25 (3.92%) Entra ID
7 20 (3.14%) WhatsApp
8 16 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (2.04%) OpenShift
10 12 (1.88%) Serverless
11 10 (1.57%) Nutanix
11 10 (1.57%) Rubrik
12 9 (1.41%) Power Automate
13 8 (1.26%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.10%) Azure Functions
15 6 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.94%) IaaS
15 6 (0.94%) SaaS
16 5 (0.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (10.20%) Firewall
2 41 (6.44%) WAN
3 32 (5.02%) SD-WAN
4 27 (4.24%) TCP/IP
5 26 (4.08%) DNS
6 24 (3.77%) Wireless
7 22 (3.45%) 5G
8 20 (3.14%) Software-Defined Radio
9 18 (2.83%) Network Security
10 16 (2.51%) Internet
10 16 (2.51%) VLAN
11 14 (2.20%) VPN
11 14 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (1.88%) DHCP
13 11 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (1.57%) IPv4
15 9 (1.41%) LAN
16 7 (1.10%) BGP
16 7 (1.10%) HTTP
16 7 (1.10%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.06%) Big Data
2 32 (5.02%) Power BI
3 17 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.51%) Relational Database
5 14 (2.20%) Tableau
6 12 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.26%) Apache Accumulo
8 8 (1.26%) GIS
9 6 (0.94%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.94%) MySQL
10 5 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.78%) Redis
11 4 (0.63%) Bigtable
11 4 (0.63%) CouchDB
11 4 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.63%) Metadata
11 4 (0.63%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.63%) RethinkDB
12 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 41 (6.44%) JIRA
2 34 (5.34%) Git
3 26 (4.08%) Visual Studio
4 17 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.20%) Rational DOORS
6 8 (1.26%) LabVIEW
7 6 (0.94%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.63%) AutoIt
8 4 (0.63%) CppUnit
8 4 (0.63%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.63%) JUnit
9 3 (0.47%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.47%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.31%) Babel
10 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.31%) webpack
11 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
General
1 190 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 136 (21.35%) Finance
3 78 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.95%) Aerospace
6 55 (8.63%) Military
7 53 (8.32%) Manufacturing
8 45 (7.06%) Legal
9 40 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (6.12%) Retail
11 35 (5.49%) Marketing
11 35 (5.49%) Telecoms
12 31 (4.87%) Electronics
13 28 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (2.98%) Games
14 19 (2.98%) Local Government
15 16 (2.51%) Law
16 10 (1.57%) Automotive
17 7 (1.10%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 103 (16.17%) Senior
2 67 (10.52%) Analyst
3 60 (9.42%) Developer
4 53 (8.32%) Project Manager
5 52 (8.16%) Lead
6 42 (6.59%) Architect
7 39 (6.12%) Graduate
8 34 (5.34%) Systems Engineer
9 32 (5.02%) Data Engineer
10 28 (4.40%) Software Engineer
11 27 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (4.08%) Data Scientist
13 23 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
14 22 (3.45%) Data Analyst
14 22 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.14%) Support Engineer
16 19 (2.98%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 19 (2.98%) IT Manager
16 19 (2.98%) Security Specialist
17 18 (2.83%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.16%) HTML
2 28 (4.40%) .NET
3 19 (2.98%) Pandas
4 18 (2.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 16 (2.51%) PyTorch
6 15 (2.35%) CSS
7 14 (2.20%) scikit-learn
8 12 (1.88%) RESTful
8 12 (1.88%) Web Services
9 10 (1.57%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.41%) ModSecurity
10 9 (1.41%) XML
11 8 (1.26%) Node.js
12 7 (1.10%) PySpark
13 6 (0.94%) React
13 6 (0.94%) REST
14 5 (0.78%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.78%) Express.js
14 5 (0.78%) JSON
14 5 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.68%) Cyberattack
2 55 (8.63%) Management Information System
3 51 (8.01%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (6.75%) Algorithms
5 29 (4.55%) NHS
6 21 (3.30%) PKI
7 19 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.83%) Virtual Reality
9 16 (2.51%) GNSS
10 15 (2.35%) Driving Licence
10 15 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
11 14 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.73%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.73%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.73%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.57%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.10%) Acoustics
15 7 (1.10%) Biopharmaceutical
15 7 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 98 (15.38%) Windows
2 76 (11.93%) Linux
3 29 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.14%) Unix
5 14 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (1.73%) Android
6 11 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (1.26%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.47%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.47%) Windows Mobile
10 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.47%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.16%) CentOS
11 1 (0.16%) Debian
11 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (27.16%) Computer Science
3 125 (19.62%) Software Engineering
4 114 (17.90%) Agile
5 91 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 89 (13.97%) DevOps
7 87 (13.66%) ITIL
8 77 (12.09%) Project Management
9 70 (10.99%) Mathematics
10 65 (10.20%) Mentoring
11 58 (9.11%) Machine Learning
12 57 (8.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 57 (8.95%) Scrum
12 57 (8.95%) Visualisation
13 56 (8.79%) Service Delivery
13 56 (8.79%) Validation
14 54 (8.48%) UML
15 53 (8.32%) Data Science
16 52 (8.16%) Project Delivery
17 50 (7.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 144 (22.61%) Python
2 59 (9.26%) Java
3 56 (8.79%) SQL
4 55 (8.63%) C#
5 53 (8.32%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.34%) PowerShell
7 33 (5.18%) Bash
7 33 (5.18%) R
8 32 (5.02%) C++
9 21 (3.30%) C
10 15 (2.35%) MATLAB
11 14 (2.20%) Embedded C
12 10 (1.57%) Perl
13 8 (1.26%) Embedded C++
14 7 (1.10%) Rust
15 5 (0.78%) Groovy
15 5 (0.78%) PHP
15 5 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 250 (39.25%) Security Cleared
2 132 (20.72%) SC Cleared
3 109 (17.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (10.68%) Master's Degree
5 66 (10.36%) DV Cleared
6 35 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (4.24%) CISSP
8 24 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (3.61%) HND
10 19 (2.98%) Numerate Degree
11 18 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (2.67%) CISM
13 15 (2.35%) HNC
14 14 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (2.20%) MCSE
15 12 (1.88%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.88%) CCNA
15 12 (1.88%) MCP
16 9 (1.41%) CRISC
16 9 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 24 (3.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 23 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 18 (2.83%) SLA
5 17 (2.67%) QA
6 14 (2.20%) PMO
7 11 (1.73%) GRC
7 11 (1.73%) NIST
8 10 (1.57%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.10%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.94%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.94%) ARP4754
11 5 (0.78%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.63%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.63%) MISRA
12 4 (0.63%) NCSC
12 4 (0.63%) RMADS
13 3 (0.47%) Def Stans
System Software
1 61 (9.58%) Docker
2 39 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.57%) Firmware
5 9 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.78%) vSphere
7 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.47%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.31%) KVM
10 1 (0.16%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 60 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.67%) FortiGate
3 13 (2.04%) Ansible
4 12 (1.88%) Puppet
5 11 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.73%) Terraform
6 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.47%) Nmap
8 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.31%) SCCM
8 2 (0.31%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.16%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 116 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.65%) SAP
3 29 (4.55%) VMware
4 23 (3.61%) Google
5 21 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.98%) Cisco
7 15 (2.35%) Dell
7 15 (2.35%) NEC
8 14 (2.20%) Sparx
9 11 (1.73%) Avaya
9 11 (1.73%) CheckPoint
9 11 (1.73%) Meraki
10 9 (1.41%) CA
11 8 (1.26%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.26%) IBM
12 7 (1.10%) Aruba
12 7 (1.10%) Databricks
13 6 (0.94%) Cadence
13 6 (0.94%) Oracle
14 5 (0.78%) Citrix