Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Academic Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Degree 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 1 9 3
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,776 10,062 12,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.44% 13.49% 21.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.96% 50.81% 57.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,801 6,137 4,009
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £46,000 £34,187 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £48,750 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.94% -3.47% +8.60%
75th Percentile £60,283 £64,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,600 £52,084 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.99% -13.19% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,309 19,804 21,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.11% 26.56% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,672 12,268 8,007
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +10 4,133 £50,055 +5.38% 4,670
North West +8 2,949 £50,055 +5.38% 2,245
South East +2 2,763 £60,000 +16.85% 6,551
Midlands +5 2,493 £47,683 +0.39% 3,923
West Midlands +2 1,338 £51,447 +2.89% 2,112
East of England +4 1,237 £55,000 +15.79% 3,224
East Midlands +6 1,147 £47,683 +12.20% 1,555
South West +8 982 £52,600 +5.20% 2,502
Yorkshire +11 972 £40,101 -10.89% 1,808
Scotland +35 914 £52,500 +19.05% 1,030
North East +5 215 £55,000 +14.58% 630
Wales -3 211 £60,000 +33.67% 607
Northern Ireland +8 56 £57,500 +27.78% 315
Isle of Man -2 3 £34,500 -34.29% 3
Channel Islands -4 3 £78,750 +16.67% 38
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 213 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 87 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (0.36%) CMS
4 42 (0.33%) Confluence
5 36 (0.28%) Apache
6 27 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 25 (0.20%) IBM Domino
8 24 (0.19%) WordPress
9 23 (0.18%) SAS
9 23 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 22 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 14 (0.11%) IIS
12 7 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.031%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.023%) GemFire
14 3 (0.023%) SharePoint Server
15 2 (0.016%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.016%) nginx
15 2 (0.016%) Sitecore CMS
15 2 (0.016%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 709 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
2 662 (5.18%) Simulink
3 636 (4.98%) Chatbot
4 416 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 268 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 111 (0.87%) Mathcad
7 109 (0.85%) Abaqus
8 64 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
9 38 (0.30%) AutoCAD
10 33 (0.26%) MS Visio
11 26 (0.20%) Mathematica
12 22 (0.17%) Trello
13 12 (0.094%) SOLIDWORKS
14 10 (0.078%) Revit
15 7 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 6 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
17 5 (0.039%) Autodesk Inventor
17 5 (0.039%) Photoshop
18 4 (0.031%) GNU Octave
18 4 (0.031%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 424 (3.32%) Teamcenter
2 65 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 45 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 28 (0.22%) Shopify
5 13 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 12 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
7 11 (0.086%) Magento
8 10 (0.078%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.078%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.078%) TrackWise
9 9 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
9 9 (0.070%) Infor M3
10 8 (0.063%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.047%) SAP Business One
12 5 (0.039%) Pegasus Opera
13 4 (0.031%) NEC Housing
13 4 (0.031%) ResourceLink
14 3 (0.023%) Dynamics AX
14 3 (0.023%) Markit EDM
14 3 (0.023%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 672 (5.26%) Azure
2 368 (2.88%) AWS
3 267 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
4 246 (1.93%) Power Platform
5 168 (1.31%) GCP
6 137 (1.07%) Entra ID
7 104 (0.81%) Serverless
8 97 (0.76%) SaaS
9 86 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
10 72 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (0.41%) PowerApps
12 51 (0.40%) GitHub
13 46 (0.36%) Power Automate
14 39 (0.31%) PaaS
15 38 (0.30%) Snowflake
16 34 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
17 30 (0.23%) Dynamics 365
18 23 (0.18%) Google Analytics
18 23 (0.18%) Google Workspace
19 22 (0.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 771 (6.03%) Wireless
2 757 (5.93%) Wi-Fi
3 753 (5.89%) 5G
4 736 (5.76%) Bluetooth
5 733 (5.74%) LTE
6 724 (5.67%) GSM
7 721 (5.64%) UMTS
8 311 (2.43%) Broadband
9 151 (1.18%) TCP/IP
10 122 (0.95%) Firewall
11 119 (0.93%) WAN
12 111 (0.87%) VPN
13 101 (0.79%) Network Security
14 98 (0.77%) LAN
15 84 (0.66%) VoIP
16 74 (0.58%) DNS
17 62 (0.49%) Internet
18 60 (0.47%) DHCP
19 46 (0.36%) VLAN
20 44 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 222 (1.74%) Power BI
3 146 (1.14%) Big Data
4 82 (0.64%) Data Lake
4 82 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (0.63%) Tableau
6 64 (0.50%) MySQL
7 62 (0.49%) Relational Database
8 47 (0.37%) NoSQL
9 36 (0.28%) Metadata
10 35 (0.27%) MongoDB
11 29 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (0.16%) Hadoop
13 18 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.11%) RDBMS
16 13 (0.10%) GIS
16 13 (0.10%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 428 (3.35%) Rational DOORS
2 273 (2.14%) JIRA
3 143 (1.12%) Git
4 76 (0.59%) LabVIEW
5 63 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 62 (0.49%) Robot Framework
7 52 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 28 (0.22%) Eclipse
8 28 (0.22%) Jenkins
9 25 (0.20%) Eclipse RCP
9 25 (0.20%) Selenium
10 22 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 14 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 11 (0.086%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.070%) Subversion
15 8 (0.063%) Burp Suite
15 8 (0.063%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.063%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.063%) TeamCity
General
1 3,114 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 1,707 (13.36%) Manufacturing
3 1,504 (11.77%) Electronics
4 1,322 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1,068 (8.36%) Finance
6 1,000 (7.83%) Presentation Skills
7 926 (7.25%) Retail
8 773 (6.05%) Aerospace
9 674 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 614 (4.81%) Automotive
11 556 (4.35%) Marketing
12 526 (4.12%) Law
13 435 (3.40%) Telecoms
14 258 (2.02%) Legal
15 251 (1.96%) Avionics
16 214 (1.68%) Banking
17 192 (1.50%) Dutch Language
17 192 (1.50%) Finnish Language
17 192 (1.50%) Norwegian Language
18 187 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,881 (22.55%) Senior
2 2,849 (22.30%) Systems Engineer
3 1,440 (11.27%) Principal Engineer
4 1,347 (10.54%) Trainer
5 997 (7.80%) Test Engineer
6 950 (7.44%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 882 (6.90%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 855 (6.69%) Electronics Engineer
9 725 (5.67%) Electronics Test Engineer
10 643 (5.03%) Lead
11 623 (4.88%) Analyst
12 407 (3.19%) Software Engineer
13 406 (3.18%) Support Engineer
14 385 (3.01%) Developer
15 341 (2.67%) Engineering Manager
16 282 (2.21%) Security Engineer
17 278 (2.18%) Architect
18 244 (1.91%) Senior Electrical Engineer
19 235 (1.84%) Junior
20 225 (1.76%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (2.43%) HTML
2 180 (1.41%) .NET
3 159 (1.24%) CSS
4 131 (1.03%) Middleware
5 86 (0.67%) React
6 64 (0.50%) jQuery
7 60 (0.47%) Software Packaging
8 59 (0.46%) ASP.NET
8 59 (0.46%) Node.js
9 53 (0.41%) REST
10 42 (0.33%) HTML5
11 40 (0.31%) AngularJS
12 38 (0.30%) RESTful
13 37 (0.29%) TensorFlow
14 36 (0.28%) PyTorch
15 34 (0.27%) SOAP
16 33 (0.26%) .NET Core
17 32 (0.25%) Kafka
18 29 (0.23%) .NET Framework
19 25 (0.20%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 867 (6.79%) Driving Licence
2 752 (5.89%) Robotics
3 612 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 209 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
5 159 (1.24%) Product Ownership
6 152 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 140 (1.10%) SCADA
8 136 (1.06%) FMCG
9 133 (1.04%) Social Media
10 116 (0.91%) NHS
11 78 (0.61%) Data Centre
12 72 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
13 68 (0.53%) Virtual Team
14 61 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
15 53 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
15 53 (0.41%) Onboarding
16 52 (0.41%) Security Posture
17 48 (0.38%) Cyberattack
18 47 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
19 44 (0.34%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 662 (5.18%) Windows
2 401 (3.14%) Linux
3 102 (0.80%) Windows 10
4 99 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 72 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 70 (0.55%) Windows Vista
7 43 (0.34%) Android
8 31 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 29 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 27 (0.21%) Unix
12 26 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 24 (0.19%) Mac OS X
14 23 (0.18%) Ubuntu
15 15 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (0.055%) CentOS
17 6 (0.047%) Rocky
17 6 (0.047%) VMS
18 5 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
18 5 (0.039%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,793 (29.69%) Systems Engineering
2 2,375 (18.59%) Mathematics
3 2,363 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2,116 (16.56%) Computer Science
5 1,913 (14.97%) Mentoring
6 1,774 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,769 (13.85%) Validation
8 1,702 (13.32%) Agile
9 1,527 (11.95%) Verification and Validation
10 1,499 (11.73%) Coaching
11 1,478 (11.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 1,417 (11.09%) SysML
13 1,409 (11.03%) Physics
14 1,324 (10.36%) Software Engineering
15 1,137 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
16 1,119 (8.76%) Customer Requirements
17 1,051 (8.23%) Project Management
18 1,042 (8.16%) Machine Learning
19 1,000 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
20 995 (7.79%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1,549 (12.12%) MATLAB
2 877 (6.86%) Python
3 736 (5.76%) SQL
4 525 (4.11%) C#
5 435 (3.40%) JavaScript
6 409 (3.20%) Java
7 367 (2.87%) C++
8 228 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 223 (1.75%) C
10 199 (1.56%) TypeScript
11 150 (1.17%) Ada
12 122 (0.95%) Bash
12 122 (0.95%) PHP
13 118 (0.92%) Rust
14 86 (0.67%) R
15 51 (0.40%) Ruby
16 48 (0.38%) Dart
17 46 (0.36%) Ada 95
18 27 (0.21%) VB
19 25 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4,609 (36.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 1,984 (15.53%) HND
3 1,410 (11.04%) Master's Degree
4 1,057 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1,042 (8.16%) HNC
6 1,004 (7.86%) Chartered Engineer
7 622 (4.87%) PhD
8 281 (2.20%) CISSP
8 281 (2.20%) Security Cleared
9 216 (1.69%) DBS Check
10 199 (1.56%) CISM
11 192 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
12 164 (1.28%) SC Cleared
13 160 (1.25%) MBA
14 147 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
15 128 (1.00%) ISTQB
16 124 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
17 102 (0.80%) DV Cleared
18 90 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
19 82 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 577 (4.52%) IEC 61508
2 429 (3.36%) Def Stans
3 402 (3.15%) QA
4 231 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 211 (1.65%) NIST
6 198 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 192 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 191 (1.49%) Data Quality
9 179 (1.40%) DO-254
10 156 (1.22%) ARP4754
11 147 (1.15%) JSP 440
11 147 (1.15%) RMADS
12 115 (0.90%) ISO 9001
13 110 (0.86%) Accessibility
14 100 (0.78%) GDPR
15 68 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 66 (0.52%) NEBOSH
17 58 (0.45%) SLA
18 34 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
19 27 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 332 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 96 (0.75%) Docker
3 81 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.45%) Firmware
5 37 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 28 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
8 18 (0.14%) vSphere
9 11 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.055%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.039%) Dovecot
11 5 (0.039%) HDFS
11 5 (0.039%) Postfix
12 4 (0.031%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.023%) NFS
14 2 (0.016%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.016%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.016%) GPFS
14 2 (0.016%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 113 (0.88%) Kubernetes
2 63 (0.49%) Terraform
3 52 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (0.37%) Ansible
5 39 (0.31%) Grafana
6 31 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.13%) Puppet
7 16 (0.13%) QRadar
8 14 (0.11%) Nessus
9 13 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (0.10%) SCCM
10 9 (0.070%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.055%) SmoothWall
12 6 (0.047%) ArcSight ESM
12 6 (0.047%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.047%) SCOM
12 6 (0.047%) SCOrch
12 6 (0.047%) WSUS
13 5 (0.039%) AirWatch
14 4 (0.031%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,193 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 825 (6.46%) Google
3 757 (5.93%) Databricks
4 743 (5.82%) Adobe
5 636 (4.98%) PayPal
6 235 (1.84%) IBM
7 208 (1.63%) ANSYS
8 166 (1.30%) SAP
9 159 (1.24%) Cisco
10 148 (1.16%) Siemens
11 115 (0.90%) Oracle
12 104 (0.81%) VMware
13 90 (0.70%) Salesforce
14 77 (0.60%) YouTube
15 71 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 67 (0.52%) Sparx
17 65 (0.51%) Sun
18 62 (0.49%) Dell
19 56 (0.44%) EMC
20 51 (0.40%) Alteryx