Graduate Jobs in the UK excluding London

Graduate
UK > UK excluding London

The median Graduate salary in the UK excluding London is £25,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 182 214
Rank change year-on-year -176 +32 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 235 1,123 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 1.51% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.59% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 159 536 298
10th Percentile £24,000 £22,400 £23,000
25th Percentile £24,750 £25,000 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,500 £27,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £31,000 £33,750 £31,750
90th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £37,500
UK median annual salary £26,250 £28,750 £25,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -20.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Graduate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Graduate in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
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 Graduate 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
South East -127 62 £25,500 -15.00% 215
Midlands -86 55 £27,500 +10.00% 92
North of England -54 47 £29,000 +13.73% 179
West Midlands -81 35 £27,750 +15.63% 49
North West -71 32 £30,000 +17.65% 103
East of England +15 28 £25,000 -10.71% 81
South West +42 25 £25,500 -1.92% 120
East Midlands -18 19 £26,250 +0.96% 38
Scotland +74 13 £29,000 -3.33% 34
Yorkshire +29 9 £31,000 +24.00% 56
North East +46 6 £25,000 -9.09% 20
Wales -22 5 £22,500 -10.00% 20
Graduate
UK

Graduate Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Graduate job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Graduate in the job title.

1 137 (58.30%) Social Skills
2 136 (57.87%) Degree
3 79 (33.62%) Artificial Intelligence
4 68 (28.94%) Computer Science
5 61 (25.96%) Agile
6 57 (24.26%) Java
6 57 (24.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (23.40%) Finance
8 54 (22.98%) C#
9 52 (22.13%) Cybersecurity
9 52 (22.13%) Customer Experience
10 46 (19.57%) Data Centre
11 45 (19.15%) C++
12 38 (16.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (15.32%) CSS
14 35 (14.89%) OO
14 35 (14.89%) PHP
14 35 (14.89%) .NET
14 35 (14.89%) MVC
15 34 (14.47%) ASP.NET
15 34 (14.47%) Azure
15 34 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (14.04%) jQuery
16 33 (14.04%) Time Management
16 33 (14.04%) SQL Server
16 33 (14.04%) Organisational Skills
17 31 (13.19%) SQL
18 30 (12.77%) MySQL
19 28 (11.91%) Business Intelligence

Graduate Skill Set
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 2 (0.85%) SAP Portal
1 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) IIS
2 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.55%) Revit
3 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.47%) Azure
2 23 (9.79%) Power Platform
3 3 (1.28%) AWS
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.43%) SaaS
5 1 (0.43%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.43%) 4G
2 1 (0.43%) 5G
2 1 (0.43%) DNS
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) VPN
2 1 (0.43%) Wideband
2 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.77%) MySQL
3 22 (9.36%) Power BI
4 3 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.85%) Redis
6 1 (0.43%) Big Data
6 1 (0.43%) FileMaker
6 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Git
2 3 (1.28%) JIRA
3 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.43%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.43%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) Postman
4 1 (0.43%) Subversion
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (58.30%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.40%) Finance
3 38 (16.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (14.04%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.81%) Law
7 11 (4.68%) Electronics
8 9 (3.83%) Legal
9 8 (3.40%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.55%) Marketing
12 5 (2.13%) Banking
12 5 (2.13%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.13%) Retail
13 4 (1.70%) Police
14 2 (0.85%) Advertising
14 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Military
14 2 (0.85%) Online Betting
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.32%) CSS
2 35 (14.89%) .NET
3 34 (14.47%) ASP.NET
4 33 (14.04%) jQuery
5 8 (3.40%) Node.js
6 7 (2.98%) WinForms
7 4 (1.70%) GWT
7 4 (1.70%) HTML
7 4 (1.70%) J2EE
7 4 (1.70%) JPA
7 4 (1.70%) Middleware
7 4 (1.70%) Spring
7 4 (1.70%) Vaadin
8 3 (1.28%) React
9 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.43%) Fastify
9 1 (0.43%) Laravel
9 1 (0.43%) MERN Stack
9 1 (0.43%) Next.js
9 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.98%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (2.98%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.55%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.13%) Learning Management System
5 5 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.28%) Hackathon
6 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.28%) Solar Panel
7 2 (0.85%) BBC
7 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.85%) IoT
7 2 (0.85%) Life Science
7 2 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.40%) Linux
2 6 (2.55%) Windows
3 5 (2.13%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.70%) Rocky
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (33.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 68 (28.94%) Computer Science
3 61 (25.96%) Agile
4 55 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (22.13%) Customer Experience
5 52 (22.13%) Cybersecurity
6 35 (14.89%) MVC
6 35 (14.89%) OO
7 34 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (14.04%) Time Management
9 28 (11.91%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (11.91%) Software Engineering
10 25 (10.64%) Analytics
11 24 (10.21%) Data Analytics
11 24 (10.21%) OOP
12 23 (9.79%) Project Delivery
13 20 (8.51%) Digital Strategy
13 20 (8.51%) Technology Transformation
14 19 (8.09%) Mathematics
15 14 (5.96%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 57 (24.26%) Java
2 54 (22.98%) C#
3 45 (19.15%) C++
4 35 (14.89%) PHP
5 31 (13.19%) SQL
6 28 (11.91%) Python
7 12 (5.11%) C
8 11 (4.68%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.85%) Ada
10 2 (0.85%) Bash
10 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.43%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.43%) MicroPython
11 1 (0.43%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 136 (57.87%) Degree
2 57 (24.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (5.96%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.40%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.98%) PhD
6 5 (2.13%) A+ Certification
6 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.28%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.85%) GLP
2 2 (0.85%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) QA
3 1 (0.43%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (8.51%) Alteryx
2 14 (5.96%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.83%) Dell
4 4 (1.70%) Google
4 4 (1.70%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.70%) Revolut
4 4 (1.70%) SAP
5 3 (1.28%) IBM
6 1 (0.43%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.43%) Cribl.io
6 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.43%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle
6 1 (0.43%) Sage
6 1 (0.43%) Siemens
6 1 (0.43%) Splunk
6 1 (0.43%) Xilinx