Graduate Jobs in the UK excluding London

Graduate
UK > UK excluding London

The median Graduate salary in the UK excluding London is £27,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 177 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 -118 +224
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 928 976 3,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.42% 2.03% 4.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 2.26% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 396 322 543
10th Percentile £22,400 £23,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £24,750 £24,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £25,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £33,250 £29,875 £35,000
90th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £42,400
UK median annual salary £27,500 £25,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +1.69%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Midlands +18 420 £25,000 +4.17% 25
West Midlands +108 310 £24,000 - 14
South East +23 265 £30,000 +20.00% 59
North of England -40 117 £25,000 +4.17% 40
East Midlands -62 110 £26,000 +8.33% 11
North West -20 71 £25,000 +4.17% 30
South West -35 46 £25,000 - 52
Yorkshire +29 36 £25,000 - 7
Scotland -105 35 £30,000 +20.00% 14
East of England -51 30 £27,500 -8.33% 20
North East -34 10 £35,750 +48.96% 3
Wales -7 6 £24,000 -11.11% 5
Channel Islands - 5 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 £35,000 - 1
Graduate
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 728 (78.45%) Degree
2 426 (45.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 376 (40.52%) Customer Service
4 362 (39.01%) Microsoft Office
5 346 (37.28%) Data Analysis
6 343 (36.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 340 (36.64%) Onboarding
8 338 (36.42%) Process Improvement
9 336 (36.21%) Creative Thinking
9 336 (36.21%) Logistics
10 335 (36.10%) Military
11 334 (35.99%) Contingency Planning
11 334 (35.99%) Performance Metrics
11 334 (35.99%) Customer Experience
12 211 (22.74%) Social Skills
13 160 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
14 128 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
15 103 (11.10%) Retail
16 99 (10.67%) Software Engineering
17 97 (10.45%) Computer Science
18 92 (9.91%) Self-Motivation
19 84 (9.05%) Mathematics
20 81 (8.73%) German Language
21 80 (8.62%) Finance
21 80 (8.62%) DBS Check
22 74 (7.97%) Driving Licence
23 68 (7.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
24 64 (6.90%) Customer Insight
25 59 (6.36%) C
26 58 (6.25%) C#

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 4 (0.43%) CMS
2 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 426 (45.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 362 (39.01%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (7.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.65%) Revit
5 4 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.43%) Simulink
6 3 (0.32%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.22%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.11%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (1.19%) Azure
2 10 (1.08%) AWS
3 9 (0.97%) SaaS
4 7 (0.75%) Power Platform
5 5 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (0.22%) Asana
8 2 (0.22%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.22%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.11%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.11%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.11%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.72%) Wireless
2 10 (1.08%) HTTP
3 4 (0.43%) WebEx
4 3 (0.32%) Internet
4 3 (0.32%) Modbus
5 2 (0.22%) LAN
5 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.11%) 3G
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) Broadband
6 1 (0.11%) DHCP
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.11%) Firewall
6 1 (0.11%) GPRS
6 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.11%) MQTT
6 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.75%) Power BI
3 5 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.32%) GIS
5 2 (0.22%) MS Access
5 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.11%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (1.51%) Git
2 9 (0.97%) JIRA
3 6 (0.65%) LabVIEW
4 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.54%) JMeter
4 5 (0.54%) Maven
4 5 (0.54%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.32%) CMake
5 3 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.32%) Subversion
5 3 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.32%) TestRail
6 2 (0.22%) Hudson
6 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.11%) GDB
General
1 335 (36.10%) Military
2 211 (22.74%) Social Skills
3 160 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.10%) Retail
5 81 (8.73%) German Language
6 80 (8.62%) Finance
7 50 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (5.28%) Manufacturing
9 44 (4.74%) Marketing
10 43 (4.63%) Electronics
11 29 (3.13%) Public Sector
12 28 (3.02%) Legal
13 24 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.72%) Advertising
15 10 (1.08%) General Ledger
15 10 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.97%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.86%) Banking
17 8 (0.86%) Games
18 7 (0.75%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.23%) .NET
2 23 (2.48%) AngularJS
2 23 (2.48%) HTML
3 19 (2.05%) ASP.NET
4 17 (1.83%) CSS
5 16 (1.72%) .NET Core
6 15 (1.62%) ASP.NET MVC
7 13 (1.40%) React
8 5 (0.54%) Node.js
8 5 (0.54%) OpenAPI
8 5 (0.54%) Swagger
9 4 (0.43%) OpenCL
9 4 (0.43%) Vulkan
10 3 (0.32%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.32%) HTML5
10 3 (0.32%) OpenGL
10 3 (0.32%) QML
10 3 (0.32%) Qt
10 3 (0.32%) VTK
10 3 (0.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 340 (36.64%) Onboarding
2 92 (9.91%) Self-Motivation
3 74 (7.97%) Driving Licence
4 26 (2.80%) Social Media
5 25 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 16 (1.72%) Photography
8 14 (1.51%) FPGA
9 11 (1.19%) Analogue Electronics
9 11 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.08%) VHDL
11 9 (0.97%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.75%) IoT
13 6 (0.65%) Blog
14 5 (0.54%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
16 3 (0.32%) Arduino
16 3 (0.32%) CUDA
16 3 (0.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.16%) Linux
2 10 (1.08%) Windows
3 5 (0.54%) CentOS
3 5 (0.54%) SUSE
3 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (40.52%) Customer Service
2 346 (37.28%) Data Analysis
3 343 (36.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 338 (36.42%) Process Improvement
5 336 (36.21%) Creative Thinking
5 336 (36.21%) Logistics
6 334 (35.99%) Contingency Planning
6 334 (35.99%) Customer Experience
6 334 (35.99%) Performance Metrics
7 128 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (10.67%) Software Engineering
9 97 (10.45%) Computer Science
10 84 (9.05%) Mathematics
11 64 (6.90%) Customer Insight
12 54 (5.82%) Physics
13 48 (5.17%) Agile
14 35 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence
15 25 (2.69%) Project Management
16 23 (2.48%) Software Testing
17 21 (2.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (6.36%) C
2 58 (6.25%) C#
3 57 (6.14%) Python
4 50 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 49 (5.28%) C++
6 40 (4.31%) Java
7 38 (4.09%) SQL
8 17 (1.83%) Embedded C
9 8 (0.86%) Bash
10 7 (0.75%) MATLAB
11 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.54%) Ada
12 5 (0.54%) Groovy
13 3 (0.32%) C-shell
13 3 (0.32%) Fortran
13 3 (0.32%) Haskell
14 2 (0.22%) PHP
14 2 (0.22%) Ruby
14 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.11%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 728 (78.45%) Degree
2 80 (8.62%) DBS Check
3 41 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (3.88%) Security Cleared
5 20 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.05%) ACCA
7 17 (1.83%) PhD
8 16 (1.72%) SC Cleared
9 10 (1.08%) CIMA
9 10 (1.08%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.11%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (0.75%) QA
2 2 (0.22%) ISO 9002
3 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.11%) IEC 61131
3 1 (0.11%) JTAG
3 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (3.13%) Firmware
2 9 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (5.82%) Microsoft
2 15 (1.62%) SAP
3 10 (1.08%) Google
4 8 (0.86%) Apple
5 7 (0.75%) Adobe
6 5 (0.54%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.43%) F5
7 4 (0.43%) Rockwell
8 3 (0.32%) EMC
8 3 (0.32%) Oracle
9 1 (0.11%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.11%) Facebook
9 1 (0.11%) Splunk
9 1 (0.11%) Sun
9 1 (0.11%) YouTube