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 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 8 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 9,856 12,715 12,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.91% 21.32% 16.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.73% 58.31% 53.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,121 4,052 5,247
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,442 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £64,108 £65,000 £61,588
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,093 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.19% +5.45% -

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 19,428 21,804 22,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.42% 36.57% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,209 8,120 10,332
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,418 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 14 May 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 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
South East -1 2,911 £52,000 +0.97% 1,289
North of England -1 1,984 £47,500 -8.65% 1,251
Midlands -2 1,687 £47,500 -5.00% 942
South West -4 1,337 £48,750 +1.56% 690
North West +4 1,199 £47,757 -13.17% 742
West Midlands -1 1,134 £50,000 -4.76% 583
East of England -3 856 £47,500 -5.00% 716
Scotland -29 691 £45,543 -8.91% 352
Yorkshire +5 574 £45,000 -10.00% 374
East Midlands -3 541 £41,250 -13.16% 358
Wales -6 261 £44,886 -0.25% 146
North East -10 211 £48,367 +1.82% 152
Northern Ireland +9 108 £45,000 - 67
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 3
Channel Islands -1 6 £67,500 +8.00% 5
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
1 254 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 213 (2.16%) Confluence
3 199 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 70 (0.71%) SAS
5 65 (0.66%) CMS
6 51 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 49 (0.50%) WordPress
8 48 (0.49%) Apache
9 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
9 44 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 43 (0.44%) IIS
11 30 (0.30%) FileNet
12 22 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 17 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 17 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.071%) MS Project Server
14 7 (0.071%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.061%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,104 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
2 972 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 375 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 164 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 163 (1.65%) Simulink
6 156 (1.58%) MS Visio
7 71 (0.72%) AutoCAD
8 49 (0.50%) Photoshop
9 44 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 44 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 44 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 38 (0.39%) UserZoom
11 31 (0.31%) InDesign
11 31 (0.31%) Stateflow
12 20 (0.20%) Trello
13 18 (0.18%) OrCAD
14 17 (0.17%) Sketch
14 17 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
16 14 (0.14%) InVision
Business Applications
1 111 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 48 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 40 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 32 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 24 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 24 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 20 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 17 (0.17%) Primavera
9 16 (0.16%) SAP CO
9 16 (0.16%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
9 16 (0.16%) Shopify
10 14 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 12 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 10 (0.10%) SAP QM
13 9 (0.091%) SAP CX
14 8 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.071%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,138 (11.55%) Azure
2 772 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
3 629 (6.38%) AWS
4 479 (4.86%) Power Platform
5 261 (2.65%) SaaS
6 182 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 178 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (1.39%) GCP
9 128 (1.30%) GitHub
10 115 (1.17%) Entra ID
11 95 (0.96%) Serverless
12 92 (0.93%) Figma
13 88 (0.89%) Amazon S3
13 88 (0.89%) PowerApps
14 85 (0.86%) Power Automate
15 84 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
16 75 (0.76%) SurveyMonkey
17 62 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
18 61 (0.62%) OneDrive
19 54 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 388 (3.94%) Firewall
2 240 (2.44%) WAN
3 209 (2.12%) Wireless
4 190 (1.93%) DNS
4 190 (1.93%) LAN
5 173 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 160 (1.62%) Network Security
7 154 (1.56%) Internet
8 148 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
9 140 (1.42%) DHCP
10 128 (1.30%) VPN
11 88 (0.89%) 5G
11 88 (0.89%) Ethernet
12 81 (0.82%) VoIP
13 77 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 73 (0.74%) SAN
15 66 (0.67%) VLAN
16 53 (0.54%) HTTP
17 51 (0.52%) Bluetooth
18 49 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 521 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 417 (4.23%) Power BI
3 212 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 197 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 189 (1.92%) MySQL
6 174 (1.77%) Tableau
7 162 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 102 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
9 96 (0.97%) Big Data
10 85 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 80 (0.81%) Oracle Database
12 77 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 68 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
14 63 (0.64%) RDBMS
15 56 (0.57%) GIS
16 53 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
17 51 (0.52%) Redis
18 44 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
18 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
18 44 (0.45%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 607 (6.16%) Git
2 439 (4.45%) JIRA
3 204 (2.07%) Visual Studio
4 148 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 101 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 92 (0.93%) Selenium
7 84 (0.85%) LabVIEW
8 75 (0.76%) Subversion
9 72 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 64 (0.65%) Sourcetree
11 47 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
12 39 (0.40%) GitLab
12 39 (0.40%) JUnit
13 34 (0.34%) Mockito
14 31 (0.31%) Jasmine
14 31 (0.31%) TeamCity
15 30 (0.30%) CMake
15 30 (0.30%) Postman
16 24 (0.24%) SoapUI
17 20 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,931 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 1,731 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1,651 (16.75%) Finance
4 1,248 (12.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 975 (9.89%) Manufacturing
6 704 (7.14%) Marketing
7 617 (6.26%) Electronics
8 581 (5.89%) Law
9 556 (5.64%) Retail
10 534 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
11 473 (4.80%) Legal
12 401 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
13 340 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
14 319 (3.24%) Telecoms
15 289 (2.93%) Public Sector
16 285 (2.89%) Military
17 268 (2.72%) Games
18 261 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 243 (2.47%) Automotive
20 228 (2.31%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,351 (13.71%) Senior
2 1,179 (11.96%) Developer
3 1,161 (11.78%) Analyst
4 843 (8.55%) Graduate
5 763 (7.74%) Software Engineer
6 688 (6.98%) Lead
7 573 (5.81%) Project Manager
8 458 (4.65%) Architect
9 354 (3.59%) Junior
10 322 (3.27%) Systems Engineer
11 315 (3.20%) Software Developer
12 295 (2.99%) Consultant
13 248 (2.52%) Support Engineer
14 245 (2.49%) Senior Developer
15 202 (2.05%) IT Engineer
16 199 (2.02%) Embedded Engineer
17 197 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
18 194 (1.97%) IT Manager
19 192 (1.95%) Data Scientist
20 186 (1.89%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 656 (6.66%) .NET
2 441 (4.47%) HTML
3 428 (4.34%) React
4 374 (3.79%) CSS
5 323 (3.28%) AngularJS
6 207 (2.10%) Node.js
7 150 (1.52%) RESTful
8 148 (1.50%) HTML5
9 143 (1.45%) ASP.NET
10 141 (1.43%) .NET Core
11 140 (1.42%) .NET Framework
12 117 (1.19%) Web Services
13 106 (1.08%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 105 (1.07%) JSON
15 103 (1.05%) Spring
16 100 (1.01%) Vue
17 90 (0.91%) REST
18 88 (0.89%) XML
19 79 (0.80%) CSS3
20 77 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 633 (6.42%) Management Information System
2 560 (5.68%) Algorithms
3 548 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 347 (3.52%) Driving Licence
5 306 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 274 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 226 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 158 (1.60%) IoT
9 142 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 132 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
11 127 (1.29%) FPGA
12 118 (1.20%) Cloud Native
13 116 (1.18%) FMCG
13 116 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 113 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
15 107 (1.09%) Robotics
16 104 (1.06%) Life Science
16 104 (1.06%) Virtual Reality
17 96 (0.97%) Social Media
18 85 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,059 (10.74%) Windows
2 777 (7.88%) Linux
3 329 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 217 (2.20%) Unix
5 187 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 132 (1.34%) Android
7 102 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 96 (0.97%) Mac OS
9 90 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 72 (0.73%) Apple iOS
11 71 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 59 (0.60%) Solaris
13 50 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
14 49 (0.50%) Windows 7
15 44 (0.45%) Ubuntu
16 32 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 24 (0.24%) CentOS
18 23 (0.23%) Mac OS X
18 23 (0.23%) VMS
19 20 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,941 (29.84%) Problem-Solving
2 2,784 (28.25%) Computer Science
3 1,928 (19.56%) Agile
4 1,407 (14.28%) Software Engineering
5 1,397 (14.17%) Project Management
6 1,110 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,062 (10.78%) Mathematics
8 1,019 (10.34%) Mentoring
9 888 (9.01%) Customer Service
10 847 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
11 818 (8.30%) DevOps
12 784 (7.95%) Decision-Making
13 712 (7.22%) Analytics
14 706 (7.16%) Data Analysis
15 703 (7.13%) Coaching
16 681 (6.91%) Artificial Intelligence
17 677 (6.87%) ITIL
18 606 (6.15%) Project Delivery
19 530 (5.38%) Business Intelligence
20 529 (5.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,195 (12.12%) SQL
2 1,123 (11.39%) Python
3 1,012 (10.27%) C#
4 795 (8.07%) JavaScript
5 648 (6.57%) C
6 511 (5.18%) Java
7 494 (5.01%) C++
8 320 (3.25%) TypeScript
9 235 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 223 (2.26%) MATLAB
11 193 (1.96%) PHP
12 157 (1.59%) R
13 153 (1.55%) Embedded C
14 117 (1.19%) Bash
15 99 (1.00%) Fortran
16 95 (0.96%) VB
17 91 (0.92%) T-SQL
18 67 (0.68%) PL/SQL
19 63 (0.64%) Perl
20 56 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,521 (15.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,059 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 841 (8.53%) Master's Degree
4 639 (6.48%) SC Cleared
5 375 (3.80%) PhD
6 273 (2.77%) DBS Check
7 255 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 249 (2.53%) HND
9 245 (2.49%) HNC
10 243 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
11 234 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 187 (1.90%) CCNA
13 176 (1.79%) CISSP
14 149 (1.51%) DV Cleared
15 147 (1.49%) PMI Certification
16 125 (1.27%) PMP
17 114 (1.16%) CCNP
18 107 (1.09%) CISM
19 103 (1.05%) MCP
20 98 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 501 (5.08%) QA
2 188 (1.91%) SLA
3 164 (1.66%) GDPR
4 161 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 159 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 154 (1.56%) PMO
7 102 (1.03%) ISO 9001
8 96 (0.97%) GMP
9 94 (0.95%) NIST
10 69 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 65 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 51 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 46 (0.47%) ISO 13485
14 43 (0.44%) WCAG
15 40 (0.41%) ISO 26262
16 37 (0.38%) NEBOSH
17 34 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
18 29 (0.29%) IFRS
19 28 (0.28%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 509 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 370 (3.75%) Docker
3 332 (3.37%) Firmware
4 257 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 169 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
6 144 (1.46%) Hyper-V
7 50 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
8 45 (0.46%) vSphere
9 42 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
10 26 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (0.23%) Terminal Services
12 17 (0.17%) XenApp
13 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 10 (0.10%) OpenSSH
15 7 (0.071%) KVM
16 5 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.051%) pfSense
17 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
18 2 (0.020%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 336 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 141 (1.43%) Terraform
3 101 (1.02%) SCCM
4 95 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 77 (0.78%) Ansible
6 46 (0.47%) SCOM
6 46 (0.47%) WSUS
7 45 (0.46%) Data Guard
7 45 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
8 29 (0.29%) Functional Safety
9 28 (0.28%) CASB
10 26 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 25 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (0.25%) vCenter Server
12 21 (0.21%) Puppet
12 21 (0.21%) Stealthwatch
13 20 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (0.16%) Autotask
15 15 (0.15%) EnCase
16 14 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1,989 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 336 (3.41%) VMware
3 308 (3.13%) SAP
4 261 (2.65%) Oracle
5 248 (2.52%) Cisco
6 213 (2.16%) Google
7 188 (1.91%) EMC
8 172 (1.75%) Adobe
9 157 (1.59%) Apple
10 123 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 89 (0.90%) Dell
11 89 (0.90%) HP
12 79 (0.80%) Meraki
13 78 (0.79%) ServiceNow
14 76 (0.77%) IBM
15 70 (0.71%) Qualtrics
16 66 (0.67%) Databricks
16 66 (0.67%) Veeam
17 64 (0.65%) Citrix
18 63 (0.64%) Sage