Degree Jobs in South Yorkshire

Academic Degree
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 69 146 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 17.29% 10.54% 18.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 62.73% 51.41% 50.36%
Number of salaries quoted 19 121 65
10th Percentile - £27,000 £22,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,623 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £74,375 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,250 £65,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,101 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.89% -10.00% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 110 284 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 27.57% 20.51% 36.89%
Number of salaries quoted 52 220 161
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +18.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,125 £60,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Sheffield +11 57 £60,500 +27.37% 59
Rotherham +7 4 - - 4
Doncaster -5 4 £26,500 -55.83% 9
Barnsley +12 1 - - 4
Degree
Yorkshire

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (1.45%) Confluence
1 1 (1.45%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (34.78%) Chatbot
2 7 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (10.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.45%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.45%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.14%) Azure
2 2 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) Network Security
1 10 (14.49%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (8.70%) DNS
2 6 (8.70%) DWDM
2 6 (8.70%) Firewall
2 6 (8.70%) LAN
2 6 (8.70%) Multicast
2 6 (8.70%) VPN
2 6 (8.70%) WAN
3 5 (7.25%) SAN
4 4 (5.80%) BGP
4 4 (5.80%) EIGRP
4 4 (5.80%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) DB2
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 27 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.35%) Legal
5 3 (4.35%) Marketing
6 2 (2.90%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Local Government
6 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.45%) Aviation
7 1 (1.45%) Electronics
7 1 (1.45%) Games
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Trainer
2 14 (20.29%) Analyst
3 10 (14.49%) Network Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Compliance Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Gen AI Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Developer
7 3 (4.35%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (2.90%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
8 2 (2.90%) Head of IT
8 2 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) REST
2 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.90%) gRPC
2 2 (2.90%) React
2 2 (2.90%) Vue
3 1 (1.45%) CSS
3 1 (1.45%) DirectX
3 1 (1.45%) HTML
3 1 (1.45%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Replication
1 6 (8.70%) Robotics
2 5 (7.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.90%) FMCG
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.45%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (1.45%) IoT
4 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.45%) Molecular Biology
4 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Windows
2 6 (8.70%) Windows 10
2 6 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) Artificial Intelligence
2 27 (39.13%) Computer Science
3 24 (34.78%) Conversational UI
4 15 (21.74%) Mathematics
4 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.49%) Migration
5 10 (14.49%) Statistics
6 9 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 8 (11.59%) Chemistry
7 8 (11.59%) Data Science
8 7 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (10.14%) Project Management
9 6 (8.70%) DevOps
9 6 (8.70%) Mentoring
9 6 (8.70%) Product Management
9 6 (8.70%) Runbook
9 6 (8.70%) Task Automation
9 6 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.19%) Python
2 7 (10.14%) SQL
3 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.90%) C++
4 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.45%) C
5 1 (1.45%) C#
5 1 (1.45%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (34.78%) Master's Degree
1 24 (34.78%) PhD
2 13 (18.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.70%) CCNA
3 6 (8.70%) CCNP
3 6 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (8.70%) JNCIA
3 6 (8.70%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.45%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.45%) PMP
4 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) EMIR
1 4 (5.80%) MiFID
2 3 (4.35%) NEBOSH
3 2 (2.90%) QA
4 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.80%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.80%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.45%) Firmware
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Ansible
2 6 (8.70%) Terraform
3 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (34.78%) PayPal
2 15 (21.74%) Cisco
3 13 (18.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.70%) Arista
4 6 (8.70%) IBM
5 4 (5.80%) VMware
6 3 (4.35%) ANSYS
7 1 (1.45%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.45%) SAP