Degree Jobs in the Thames Valley

Academic Degree
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,459 1,512 1,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.80% 25.42% 21.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.62% 60.87% 67.03%
Number of salaries quoted 867 500 583
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,475 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,516 £34,206 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,250 £71,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £52,000 £51,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +0.97% +1.98% +1.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,577 2,484 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.51% 41.77% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 1,029 952
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,250 £28,525
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -5.71% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68,688 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £51,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% +5.00%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -1 611 £60,000 +9.09% 239
Buckinghamshire 0 508 £43,500 -3.33% 125
Oxfordshire 0 340 £47,500 +5.56% 185
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 45 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 45 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 14 (0.96%) Confluence
2 14 (0.96%) Oracle Service Bus
2 14 (0.96%) WebLogic
3 7 (0.48%) SAS
4 6 (0.41%) Kinematics
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.34%) CMS
6 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) Apache
7 2 (0.14%) WordPress
8 1 (0.069%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.069%) FileNet
8 1 (0.069%) IIS
8 1 (0.069%) JBoss
8 1 (0.069%) Moodle
8 1 (0.069%) nginx
8 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 149 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (7.88%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.95%) MS Visio
4 42 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.55%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.27%) Maya
8 4 (0.27%) MotionBuilder
8 4 (0.27%) Solid Edge
8 4 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.14%) Revit
10 2 (0.14%) Simulink
10 2 (0.14%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.069%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.069%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.14%) Primavera
7 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.069%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.069%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 130 (8.91%) Azure
1 130 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
2 71 (4.87%) Power Platform
3 38 (2.60%) AWS
4 35 (2.40%) SaaS
5 33 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (2.19%) Power Automate
7 25 (1.71%) Entra ID
7 25 (1.71%) PowerApps
8 16 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (1.03%) Azure Storage
9 15 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (0.89%) OneDrive
11 12 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (0.82%) OCI
12 11 (0.75%) ShareGate
13 9 (0.62%) GitHub
14 8 (0.55%) GCP
15 7 (0.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 96 (6.58%) Firewall
2 39 (2.67%) DNS
3 34 (2.33%) DHCP
4 30 (2.06%) 5G
4 30 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
5 27 (1.85%) Internet
5 27 (1.85%) Wireless
6 24 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
6 24 (1.64%) Network Security
7 23 (1.58%) Bluetooth
7 23 (1.58%) VPN
8 22 (1.51%) GSM
8 22 (1.51%) ISDN
8 22 (1.51%) LTE
8 22 (1.51%) PSTN
8 22 (1.51%) UMTS
9 21 (1.44%) SAN
10 20 (1.37%) WAN
11 14 (0.96%) Ethernet
11 14 (0.96%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (5.76%) NoSQL
2 78 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 59 (4.04%) Power BI
4 27 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 14 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (0.96%) Oracle Database 10g
6 14 (0.96%) Oracle Database 11g
6 14 (0.96%) VLDB
7 10 (0.69%) Big Data
7 10 (0.69%) Tableau
8 8 (0.55%) GIS
8 8 (0.55%) MySQL
9 7 (0.48%) MS Access
10 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 115 (7.88%) Git
2 57 (3.91%) Selenium
3 56 (3.84%) Cypress.io
4 23 (1.58%) SoapUI
5 22 (1.51%) LabVIEW
6 18 (1.23%) JIRA
7 17 (1.17%) GitLab
8 15 (1.03%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.34%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.27%) AdminStudio
12 4 (0.27%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.27%) MSI
12 4 (0.27%) Subversion
13 3 (0.21%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
14 2 (0.14%) ERwin
14 2 (0.14%) IntelliJ
General
1 446 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 336 (23.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 228 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (9.73%) Manufacturing
5 137 (9.39%) Finance
6 126 (8.64%) Electronics
7 74 (5.07%) Marketing
8 73 (5.00%) Legal
9 71 (4.87%) Telecoms
10 69 (4.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 37 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.40%) Retail
13 33 (2.26%) Law
14 26 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.58%) Public Sector
16 21 (1.44%) Automotive
17 17 (1.17%) Military
18 14 (0.96%) Brand Awareness
19 13 (0.89%) French Language
20 12 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 242 (16.59%) Senior
2 155 (10.62%) Developer
3 138 (9.46%) Analyst
4 119 (8.16%) Data Scientist
5 104 (7.13%) Junior
6 99 (6.79%) Software Engineer
7 95 (6.51%) Graduate
8 94 (6.44%) Architect
9 78 (5.35%) Electronics Engineer
10 75 (5.14%) Lead
11 70 (4.80%) Software Developer
12 64 (4.39%) Systems Engineer
13 62 (4.25%) Development Engineer
14 61 (4.18%) Graduate Development Engineer
14 61 (4.18%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
14 61 (4.18%) Junior Electronics Engineer
15 52 (3.56%) Hardware Engineer
16 49 (3.36%) IT Support
16 49 (3.36%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (10.62%) React
2 136 (9.32%) .NET
3 56 (3.84%) Jest
4 48 (3.29%) HTML
5 46 (3.15%) CSS
6 38 (2.60%) HTML5
7 35 (2.40%) CSS3
8 20 (1.37%) OpenMP
9 14 (0.96%) ARM Templates
9 14 (0.96%) OpenACC
10 12 (0.82%) React Native
10 12 (0.82%) WPF
10 12 (0.82%) XML
11 11 (0.75%) AngularJS
11 11 (0.75%) EDI
12 10 (0.69%) Node.js
12 10 (0.69%) Web Services
13 8 (0.55%) Spring
14 6 (0.41%) JSON
14 6 (0.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 208 (14.26%) Algorithms
2 110 (7.54%) Management Information System
3 76 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
4 57 (3.91%) Data Centre
5 44 (3.02%) Biopharmaceutical
6 40 (2.74%) Life Science
7 25 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 25 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 24 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (1.51%) Acoustics
9 22 (1.51%) CUDA
9 22 (1.51%) Satnav
10 19 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
10 19 (1.30%) Driving Licence
10 19 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.23%) IoT
12 17 (1.17%) Replication
12 17 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.10%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 170 (11.65%) Windows
2 122 (8.36%) Linux
3 53 (3.63%) Unix
3 53 (3.63%) Windows 10
4 49 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 45 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (2.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (1.51%) Windows 7
8 14 (0.96%) Solaris
9 12 (0.82%) Windows XP
10 10 (0.69%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.48%) VMS
12 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.069%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (34.75%) Computer Science
2 448 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
3 337 (23.10%) Agile
4 253 (17.34%) Cybersecurity
5 235 (16.11%) Mathematics
6 219 (15.01%) Mentoring
7 218 (14.94%) Coaching
8 202 (13.85%) Decision-Making
9 195 (13.37%) Artificial Intelligence
10 175 (11.99%) Data Analysis
11 174 (11.93%) Software Engineering
12 172 (11.79%) Data Science
13 144 (9.87%) Project Management
14 142 (9.73%) Red Team
15 133 (9.12%) Propensity Modelling
16 130 (8.91%) Physics
17 122 (8.36%) ITIL
18 113 (7.75%) Machine Learning
19 111 (7.61%) Analytics
20 105 (7.20%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 233 (15.97%) C#
2 211 (14.46%) Python
3 165 (11.31%) JavaScript
4 139 (9.53%) TypeScript
5 129 (8.84%) SQL
6 106 (7.27%) C++
7 105 (7.20%) C
8 81 (5.55%) Fortran
9 62 (4.25%) PowerShell
10 42 (2.88%) Java
11 38 (2.60%) PHP
12 22 (1.51%) MATLAB
13 19 (1.30%) Bash
14 18 (1.23%) VB
15 17 (1.17%) R
16 14 (0.96%) Bicep
16 14 (0.96%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.96%) VBScript
17 10 (0.69%) Perl
17 10 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 195 (13.37%) Computer Science Degree
2 185 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 165 (11.31%) Master's Degree
4 122 (8.36%) PhD
5 81 (5.55%) SC Cleared
6 41 (2.81%) CISSP
7 40 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.60%) DV Cleared
9 34 (2.33%) HNC
10 32 (2.19%) CCNA
11 27 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.78%) CCNP
13 25 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 20 (1.37%) MBA
15 19 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
16 17 (1.17%) HND
17 16 (1.10%) MCP
18 15 (1.03%) DBS Check
19 11 (0.75%) CIMA
19 11 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.14%) QA
2 56 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 38 (2.60%) SLA
4 35 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (2.33%) WCAG
6 26 (1.78%) ISO 9001
7 23 (1.58%) GDPR
8 20 (1.37%) NIST
9 16 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 15 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 12 (0.82%) ISO 13485
13 12 (0.82%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.75%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.69%) IEC 62304
16 9 (0.62%) ISO 14001
17 8 (0.55%) GRC
17 8 (0.55%) PMO
18 7 (0.48%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 154 (10.56%) Docker
2 95 (6.51%) Firmware
3 92 (6.31%) Active Directory
4 75 (5.14%) Embedded Firmware
5 72 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (1.71%) Hyper-V
7 17 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
8 14 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) HDFS
11 1 (0.069%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.36%) SCCM
3 35 (2.40%) WSUS
4 26 (1.78%) SCOM
5 24 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (0.96%) Data Guard
6 14 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
7 12 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (0.82%) NetBackup
7 12 (0.82%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.55%) Nessus
8 8 (0.55%) Terraform
9 7 (0.48%) Ansible
9 7 (0.48%) Stealthwatch
10 6 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.34%) CASB
11 5 (0.34%) Suricata
12 2 (0.14%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 309 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.20%) EMC
3 77 (5.28%) VMware
4 44 (3.02%) Oracle
5 37 (2.54%) Adobe
5 37 (2.54%) Cisco
6 35 (2.40%) Apple
7 32 (2.19%) HP
8 31 (2.12%) Veeam
9 27 (1.85%) Dell
10 20 (1.37%) SAP
11 19 (1.30%) Juniper
12 18 (1.23%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.17%) Citrix
13 17 (1.17%) Palo Alto
13 17 (1.17%) Sun
14 16 (1.10%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.96%) Remedy
16 13 (0.89%) Meraki
17 12 (0.82%) Extreme Networks