Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Academic Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 9,687 13,208 11,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.83% 21.37% 16.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.03% 58.49% 52.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,053 4,058 5,170
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,084 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,361 22,582 22,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.64% 36.54% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 12,186 8,272 10,253
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,181 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,150
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
South East -2 2,849 £51,350 +2.70% 1,237
North of England 0 1,971 £47,500 -5.00% 1,073
Midlands -2 1,601 £46,000 -8.00% 807
South West -3 1,315 £48,000 +1.05% 645
North West +4 1,185 £47,500 -9.52% 621
West Midlands -3 1,064 £50,000 -4.76% 499
East of England -3 856 £47,500 -4.54% 676
Scotland -26 707 £45,543 -9.76% 339
Yorkshire +4 576 £46,250 -5.61% 320
East Midlands -5 526 £40,000 -15.79% 306
Wales -6 264 £44,886 +0.12% 119
North East -9 210 £49,500 +4.76% 155
Northern Ireland +8 104 £45,000 +5.88% 85
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 5
Channel Islands -2 5 - - 3
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
1 252 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 219 (2.26%) Confluence
3 216 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 71 (0.73%) SAS
5 67 (0.69%) CMS
6 52 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 49 (0.51%) WordPress
8 45 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
8 45 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 40 (0.41%) Apache
9 40 (0.41%) IIS
10 32 (0.33%) FileNet
11 17 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 17 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 16 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.072%) MS Project Server
13 7 (0.072%) nginx
13 7 (0.072%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2000
14 6 (0.062%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,063 (10.97%) Microsoft Office
2 915 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 364 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 167 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 159 (1.64%) Simulink
6 155 (1.60%) MS Visio
7 72 (0.74%) AutoCAD
8 49 (0.51%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 44 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
11 43 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
12 38 (0.39%) UserZoom
13 31 (0.32%) Chatbot
13 31 (0.32%) InDesign
13 31 (0.32%) Stateflow
14 20 (0.21%) Trello
15 17 (0.18%) OrCAD
15 17 (0.18%) Sketch
15 17 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
16 15 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 112 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 48 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 38 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 32 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 22 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
8 18 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 16 (0.17%) Primavera
9 16 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 16 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 16 (0.17%) Shopify
10 13 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 12 (0.12%) SAP QM
12 11 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
13 9 (0.093%) SAP CX
14 8 (0.083%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.072%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,124 (11.60%) Azure
2 768 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
3 609 (6.29%) AWS
4 460 (4.75%) Power Platform
5 267 (2.76%) SaaS
6 182 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
7 177 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
8 132 (1.36%) GitHub
9 127 (1.31%) GCP
10 119 (1.23%) Entra ID
11 93 (0.96%) Figma
11 93 (0.96%) Serverless
12 90 (0.93%) Amazon S3
13 82 (0.85%) PowerApps
14 81 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
15 76 (0.78%) Power Automate
16 75 (0.77%) SurveyMonkey
17 62 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
18 59 (0.61%) OneDrive
19 57 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 391 (4.04%) Firewall
2 248 (2.56%) WAN
3 210 (2.17%) Wireless
4 208 (2.15%) LAN
5 186 (1.92%) DNS
6 171 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 156 (1.61%) Network Security
8 154 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
9 147 (1.52%) Internet
10 137 (1.41%) DHCP
11 123 (1.27%) VPN
12 88 (0.91%) VoIP
13 86 (0.89%) Ethernet
14 85 (0.88%) 5G
15 77 (0.79%) SAN
16 68 (0.70%) SD-WAN
17 67 (0.69%) VLAN
18 54 (0.56%) HTTP
19 51 (0.53%) Bluetooth
20 47 (0.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 549 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 392 (4.05%) Power BI
3 202 (2.09%) NoSQL
4 197 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 194 (2.00%) MySQL
6 170 (1.75%) Tableau
7 153 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
8 94 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
9 89 (0.92%) Big Data
10 83 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 76 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 73 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 71 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
14 62 (0.64%) RDBMS
15 58 (0.60%) GIS
16 54 (0.56%) MongoDB
17 49 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
18 46 (0.47%) Oracle Database 11g
19 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 10g
19 45 (0.46%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 601 (6.20%) Git
2 448 (4.62%) JIRA
3 200 (2.06%) Visual Studio
4 146 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 104 (1.07%) Bitbucket
6 96 (0.99%) Selenium
7 85 (0.88%) LabVIEW
8 77 (0.79%) Subversion
9 73 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 64 (0.66%) Sourcetree
11 45 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
12 38 (0.39%) JUnit
13 36 (0.37%) GitLab
14 34 (0.35%) Mockito
15 31 (0.32%) CMake
15 31 (0.32%) Jasmine
15 31 (0.32%) TeamCity
16 30 (0.31%) Postman
17 25 (0.26%) SoapUI
18 20 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,803 (39.26%) Social Skills
2 1,722 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1,623 (16.75%) Finance
4 1,183 (12.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 950 (9.81%) Manufacturing
6 700 (7.23%) Marketing
7 607 (6.27%) Electronics
8 568 (5.86%) Law
9 526 (5.43%) Retail
10 514 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
11 461 (4.76%) Legal
12 410 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
13 336 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
14 326 (3.37%) Telecoms
15 286 (2.95%) Public Sector
16 273 (2.82%) Games
17 248 (2.56%) Military
18 241 (2.49%) Automotive
19 224 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
20 219 (2.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,289 (13.31%) Senior
2 1,199 (12.38%) Developer
3 1,134 (11.71%) Analyst
4 835 (8.62%) Graduate
5 748 (7.72%) Software Engineer
6 659 (6.80%) Lead
7 583 (6.02%) Project Manager
8 372 (3.84%) Architect
9 357 (3.69%) Junior
10 332 (3.43%) Software Developer
11 311 (3.21%) Systems Engineer
12 293 (3.02%) Consultant
13 254 (2.62%) Support Engineer
14 250 (2.58%) Senior Developer
15 209 (2.16%) IT Engineer
16 195 (2.01%) Embedded Engineer
17 193 (1.99%) IT Manager
18 190 (1.96%) Data Scientist
19 187 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
20 185 (1.91%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 653 (6.74%) .NET
2 465 (4.80%) HTML
3 460 (4.75%) React
4 400 (4.13%) CSS
5 349 (3.60%) AngularJS
6 223 (2.30%) Node.js
7 170 (1.75%) HTML5
8 154 (1.59%) RESTful
9 149 (1.54%) ASP.NET
10 143 (1.48%) .NET Core
11 132 (1.36%) .NET Framework
12 111 (1.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 109 (1.13%) XML
14 107 (1.10%) JSON
15 104 (1.07%) Vue
16 102 (1.05%) Spring
17 101 (1.04%) Web Services
18 85 (0.88%) REST
19 79 (0.82%) CSS3
20 75 (0.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 647 (6.68%) Management Information System
2 561 (5.79%) Algorithms
3 548 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 370 (3.82%) Driving Licence
5 268 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 257 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 222 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 154 (1.59%) IoT
9 142 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 133 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
11 120 (1.24%) Cloud Native
12 119 (1.23%) FPGA
13 114 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 114 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 112 (1.16%) FMCG
15 109 (1.13%) Virtual Reality
16 107 (1.10%) Robotics
17 100 (1.03%) Social Media
18 95 (0.98%) Life Science
19 87 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,056 (10.90%) Windows
2 755 (7.79%) Linux
3 334 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 219 (2.26%) Unix
5 189 (1.95%) Windows 10
6 130 (1.34%) Android
7 106 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 96 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 88 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 76 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 73 (0.75%) Apple iOS
12 54 (0.56%) Solaris
13 49 (0.51%) Windows 7
14 43 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
15 38 (0.39%) Ubuntu
16 29 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 27 (0.28%) Mac OS X
18 23 (0.24%) VMS
19 21 (0.22%) Windows XP
20 20 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,841 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2,736 (28.24%) Computer Science
3 1,912 (19.74%) Agile
4 1,391 (14.36%) Software Engineering
5 1,378 (14.23%) Project Management
6 1,052 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,041 (10.75%) Mathematics
8 914 (9.44%) Mentoring
9 827 (8.54%) Customer Service
10 826 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
11 816 (8.42%) DevOps
12 772 (7.97%) Decision-Making
13 694 (7.16%) Artificial Intelligence
14 681 (7.03%) Analytics
15 647 (6.68%) ITIL
16 639 (6.60%) Data Analysis
17 605 (6.25%) Project Delivery
18 595 (6.14%) Coaching
19 534 (5.51%) Roadmaps
20 513 (5.30%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,203 (12.42%) SQL
2 1,124 (11.60%) Python
3 1,007 (10.40%) C#
4 818 (8.44%) JavaScript
5 636 (6.57%) C
6 493 (5.09%) Java
7 463 (4.78%) C++
8 325 (3.36%) TypeScript
9 247 (2.55%) PowerShell
10 225 (2.32%) MATLAB
11 220 (2.27%) PHP
12 151 (1.56%) Embedded C
12 151 (1.56%) R
13 128 (1.32%) Bash
14 114 (1.18%) VB
15 97 (1.00%) Fortran
16 89 (0.92%) T-SQL
17 67 (0.69%) PL/SQL
18 59 (0.61%) Perl
19 57 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,495 (15.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,050 (10.84%) Security Cleared
3 863 (8.91%) Master's Degree
4 645 (6.66%) SC Cleared
5 368 (3.80%) PhD
6 268 (2.77%) DBS Check
7 261 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 250 (2.58%) HND
9 243 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
10 239 (2.47%) HNC
11 230 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 188 (1.94%) CCNA
13 172 (1.78%) CISSP
14 149 (1.54%) PMI Certification
15 143 (1.48%) DV Cleared
16 125 (1.29%) PMP
17 105 (1.08%) CCNP
18 104 (1.07%) CISM
19 99 (1.02%) MCP
20 94 (0.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 458 (4.73%) QA
2 190 (1.96%) SLA
3 165 (1.70%) GDPR
4 160 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 155 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 152 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 147 (1.52%) PMO
8 102 (1.05%) ISO 9001
9 90 (0.93%) NIST
10 76 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 67 (0.69%) GMP
12 66 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
13 48 (0.50%) PCI DSS
14 45 (0.46%) ISO 13485
15 44 (0.45%) WCAG
16 39 (0.40%) ISO 26262
16 39 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 39 (0.40%) NEBOSH
17 30 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 28 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 528 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 379 (3.91%) Docker
3 324 (3.34%) Firmware
4 257 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 165 (1.70%) Embedded Firmware
6 142 (1.47%) Hyper-V
7 49 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
9 44 (0.45%) vSphere
10 41 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
11 25 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.24%) Terminal Services
13 15 (0.15%) XenApp
14 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 10 (0.10%) OpenSSH
16 7 (0.072%) KVM
17 5 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.052%) pfSense
18 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
19 3 (0.031%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 346 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 142 (1.47%) Terraform
3 106 (1.09%) SCCM
4 99 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 72 (0.74%) Ansible
6 48 (0.50%) SCOM
7 47 (0.49%) WSUS
8 46 (0.47%) Data Guard
8 46 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
9 32 (0.33%) CASB
10 28 (0.29%) Functional Safety
11 25 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 25 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 19 (0.20%) Puppet
13 16 (0.17%) Autotask
13 16 (0.17%) Nessus
14 15 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
14 15 (0.15%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 1,978 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 339 (3.50%) VMware
3 314 (3.24%) SAP
4 253 (2.61%) Oracle
5 251 (2.59%) Cisco
6 213 (2.20%) Google
7 188 (1.94%) EMC
8 168 (1.73%) Adobe
9 148 (1.53%) Apple
10 124 (1.28%) Salesforce
11 92 (0.95%) Dell
12 87 (0.90%) HP
13 80 (0.83%) ServiceNow
14 78 (0.81%) IBM
15 73 (0.75%) Meraki
16 70 (0.72%) Qualtrics
17 66 (0.68%) Sage
17 66 (0.68%) Veeam
18 62 (0.64%) Citrix
19 56 (0.58%) Databricks