Graduate Jobs in the UK excluding London

Graduate
UK > UK excluding London

The median Graduate salary in the UK excluding London is £26,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 191 204
Rank change year-on-year -139 +13 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 274 1,067 1,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 1.50% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.59% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 181 514 313
10th Percentile £24,000 £22,295 £23,000
25th Percentile £24,750 £25,000 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £27,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £35,250 £33,250 £31,750
90th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £37,400
UK median annual salary £27,500 £28,500 £25,835
% change year-on-year -3.51% +10.31% -17.98%

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 35,390 67,294 53,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 94.80% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,871 47,619 30,421
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -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 11 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 11 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 -21 73 £35,000 +37.25% 76
Midlands -86 57 £26,250 +5.00% 39
South East -107 57 £25,500 -15.00% 100
North West -64 42 £30,000 +17.65% 44
West Midlands -60 37 £27,750 +15.63% 17
South West +41 29 £25,500 +2.00% 68
East of England +4 26 £25,000 -13.79% 37
Yorkshire +52 25 £45,000 +80.00% 18
Scotland +82 24 £45,000 +50.00% 27
East Midlands -6 19 £25,000 -3.85% 20
Wales -23 8 £22,500 -10.00% 3
North East +49 6 £25,000 -9.09% 14
Graduate
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 175 (63.87%) Degree
2 135 (49.27%) Social Skills
3 113 (41.24%) Artificial Intelligence
4 90 (32.85%) Agile
5 78 (28.47%) Finance
6 71 (25.91%) Customer Experience
7 68 (24.82%) Java
8 66 (24.09%) C#
8 66 (24.09%) Computer Science
9 65 (23.72%) Cybersecurity
10 57 (20.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 55 (20.07%) Python
12 53 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (17.15%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (17.15%) Analytics
14 46 (16.79%) Software Engineering
14 46 (16.79%) C++
14 46 (16.79%) Master's Degree
14 46 (16.79%) Data Centre
15 43 (15.69%) SQL
16 42 (15.33%) Data Analytics
17 41 (14.96%) Legal
18 39 (14.23%) PhD
19 38 (13.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 37 (13.50%) Banking
20 37 (13.50%) Learning Management System
21 36 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
21 36 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
22 34 (12.41%) .NET
22 34 (12.41%) Time Management

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 (0.73%) SAP Portal
2 1 (0.36%) Confluence
2 1 (0.36%) IIS
2 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.19%) Revit
4 2 (0.73%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.95%) Azure
2 28 (10.22%) Power Platform
3 3 (1.09%) SaaS
4 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (0.73%) AWS
4 2 (0.73%) Figma
5 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.36%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.36%) GitHub
5 1 (0.36%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (0.73%) 4G
2 2 (0.73%) 5G
2 2 (0.73%) DNS
2 2 (0.73%) VPN
2 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.36%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.68%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.85%) Power BI
3 25 (9.12%) MySQL
4 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.36%) Big Data
5 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.36%) FileMaker
5 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Git
2 2 (0.73%) JIRA
3 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.36%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.36%) ClearQuest
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Postman
3 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 135 (49.27%) Social Skills
2 78 (28.47%) Finance
3 41 (14.96%) Legal
4 38 (13.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (13.50%) Banking
6 36 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (11.68%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (5.84%) Law
9 11 (4.01%) Electronics
10 6 (2.19%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.82%) Retail
12 4 (1.46%) Military
12 4 (1.46%) Police
13 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Marketing
13 2 (0.73%) Online Betting
13 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.41%) .NET
2 33 (12.04%) CSS
3 30 (10.95%) ASP.NET
4 29 (10.58%) jQuery
5 7 (2.55%) Node.js
6 6 (2.19%) WinForms
7 4 (1.46%) GWT
7 4 (1.46%) HTML
7 4 (1.46%) J2EE
7 4 (1.46%) JPA
7 4 (1.46%) Middleware
7 4 (1.46%) Spring
7 4 (1.46%) Vaadin
8 3 (1.09%) React
9 2 (0.73%) Laravel
9 2 (0.73%) Sass
9 2 (0.73%) Vue
10 1 (0.36%) Backbone.js
10 1 (0.36%) Express.js
10 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.79%) Data Centre
2 37 (13.50%) Learning Management System
3 21 (7.66%) Mobile App
4 19 (6.93%) Algorithms
5 17 (6.20%) Hackathon
6 16 (5.84%) Credit Risk
7 8 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.09%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.09%) Solar Panel
12 2 (0.73%) BBC
12 2 (0.73%) CCTV
12 2 (0.73%) Life Science
12 2 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.19%) Linux
1 6 (2.19%) Windows
2 5 (1.82%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.46%) Rocky
4 2 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (41.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 90 (32.85%) Agile
3 71 (25.91%) Customer Experience
4 66 (24.09%) Computer Science
5 65 (23.72%) Cybersecurity
6 53 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (17.15%) Analytics
7 47 (17.15%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (16.79%) Software Engineering
9 42 (15.33%) Data Analytics
10 36 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (12.41%) Time Management
12 31 (11.31%) OO
13 30 (10.95%) Decision-Making
13 30 (10.95%) MVC
14 29 (10.58%) Project Delivery
15 26 (9.49%) Digital Strategy
15 26 (9.49%) Technology Transformation
16 25 (9.12%) Customer Service
17 21 (7.66%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.82%) Java
2 66 (24.09%) C#
3 55 (20.07%) Python
4 46 (16.79%) C++
5 43 (15.69%) SQL
6 31 (11.31%) PHP
7 25 (9.12%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.57%) Kotlin
9 13 (4.74%) C
10 2 (0.73%) Ada
10 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.73%) VB
11 1 (0.36%) Bash
11 1 (0.36%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.36%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.36%) MicroPython
11 1 (0.36%) Rust
11 1 (0.36%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 175 (63.87%) Degree
2 57 (20.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (16.79%) Master's Degree
4 39 (14.23%) PhD
5 10 (3.65%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.82%) A+ Certification
6 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.09%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.46%) QA
2 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.73%) GLP
3 2 (0.73%) Good Clinical Practice
4 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.36%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (9.49%) Alteryx
2 23 (8.39%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.57%) Google
4 17 (6.20%) IBM
5 8 (2.92%) Dell
6 4 (1.46%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.46%) Revolut
7 3 (1.09%) SAP
8 2 (0.73%) Adobe
8 2 (0.73%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle
9 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.36%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.36%) Splunk
9 1 (0.36%) Xilinx