Graduate Jobs in the UK excluding London

Graduate
UK > UK excluding London

The median Graduate salary in the UK excluding London is £27,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 198 230
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 1,042 1,090 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.48% 1.77% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.99% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 513 311 450
10th Percentile £22,280 £23,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £24,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £25,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +2.63%
75th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £37,500
90th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £46,025
UK median annual salary £28,500 £27,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.70% +7.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,712 54,809 67,929
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,259 31,113 42,994
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 2 May 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 2 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 +37 357 £30,000 +5.26% 50
Midlands +50 206 £25,000 +4.17% 46
North of England +3 169 £25,250 +5.21% 66
West Midlands +98 143 £24,000 - 29
North West -13 117 £25,500 +6.25% 43
South West -53 98 £25,000 - 58
Wales +42 78 £25,000 -18.38% 5
East of England -56 65 £29,000 -10.77% 27
Scotland -81 64 £30,000 +20.00% 22
East Midlands -33 63 £26,000 +8.33% 17
Yorkshire +76 41 £25,000 +4.17% 16
North East -28 11 £27,500 +14.58% 10
Channel Islands - 5 - -
Graduate
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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.

1 830 (79.65%) Degree
2 369 (35.41%) Social Skills
3 283 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
4 205 (19.67%) Manufacturing
5 184 (17.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 171 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 168 (16.12%) Microsoft Excel
8 164 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
9 147 (14.11%) Self-Motivation
10 138 (13.24%) Customer Service
10 138 (13.24%) Computer Science
11 136 (13.05%) Driving Licence
12 125 (12.00%) Electronics
13 120 (11.52%) Firmware
14 114 (10.94%) Data Analysis
15 113 (10.84%) Retail
16 111 (10.65%) Mathematics
17 109 (10.46%) Microsoft Office
18 100 (9.60%) Software Engineering
19 96 (9.21%) Onboarding
20 90 (8.64%) Logistics
20 90 (8.64%) Performance Metrics
21 89 (8.54%) Military
21 89 (8.54%) Finance
21 89 (8.54%) Creative Thinking
22 88 (8.45%) Process Improvement
23 87 (8.35%) Contingency Planning
23 87 (8.35%) Customer Experience
24 84 (8.06%) Embedded Firmware
25 81 (7.77%) German Language

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 6 (0.58%) CMS
2 3 (0.29%) WordPress
3 2 (0.19%) Drupal
Applications
1 168 (16.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (10.46%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (6.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.38%) Simulink
5 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.19%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.096%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.096%) Blender
7 1 (0.096%) InDesign
7 1 (0.096%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (1.44%) Power Platform
2 14 (1.34%) AWS
3 12 (1.15%) Azure
4 7 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (0.67%) SaaS
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 3 (0.29%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.19%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.19%) CloudFront
6 2 (0.19%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.096%) Asana
7 1 (0.096%) GitHub
7 1 (0.096%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.096%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.69%) Wireless
2 12 (1.15%) HTTP
3 5 (0.48%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.48%) PPP
4 4 (0.38%) 5G
4 4 (0.38%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.38%) WAN
4 4 (0.38%) WebEx
5 3 (0.29%) Internet
5 3 (0.29%) Modbus
5 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.096%) 3G
6 1 (0.096%) 4G
6 1 (0.096%) Broadband
6 1 (0.096%) GPRS
6 1 (0.096%) MPLS
6 1 (0.096%) MQTT
6 1 (0.096%) RS-485
6 1 (0.096%) SDH
6 1 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.54%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.44%) Power BI
3 8 (0.77%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.38%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.29%) Tableau
6 2 (0.19%) MS Access
7 1 (0.096%) GIS
7 1 (0.096%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.096%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Git
2 8 (0.77%) LabVIEW
3 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.58%) JIRA
5 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.29%) CMake
6 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.29%) NetBeans
6 3 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.29%) TestRail
7 2 (0.19%) GDB
7 2 (0.19%) Hudson
7 2 (0.19%) Subversion
8 1 (0.096%) TeamCity
General
1 369 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 205 (19.67%) Manufacturing
3 184 (17.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 164 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (12.00%) Electronics
6 113 (10.84%) Retail
7 89 (8.54%) Finance
7 89 (8.54%) Military
8 81 (7.77%) German Language
9 78 (7.49%) Law
10 77 (7.39%) Presentation Skills
11 69 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (3.65%) Legal
13 36 (3.45%) Marketing
14 33 (3.17%) Public Sector
15 30 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (2.69%) Aviation
17 17 (1.63%) Advertising
18 12 (1.15%) Aerospace
19 10 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.45%) .NET
2 19 (1.82%) HTML
3 17 (1.63%) AngularJS
3 17 (1.63%) React
4 16 (1.54%) .NET Core
4 16 (1.54%) CSS
5 15 (1.44%) ASP.NET
6 13 (1.25%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (0.86%) WPF
8 6 (0.58%) .NET Framework
8 6 (0.58%) Node.js
9 5 (0.48%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (0.48%) OpenCL
9 5 (0.48%) Vulkan
10 4 (0.38%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.38%) Vue
11 3 (0.29%) HTML5
11 3 (0.29%) Laravel
11 3 (0.29%) Qt
11 3 (0.29%) VTK
Miscellaneous
1 147 (14.11%) Self-Motivation
2 136 (13.05%) Driving Licence
3 96 (9.21%) Onboarding
4 68 (6.53%) FMCG
5 33 (3.17%) Algorithms
6 22 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (2.11%) FPGA
7 20 (1.92%) Social Media
8 16 (1.54%) Photography
9 13 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.15%) Analogue Electronics
10 12 (1.15%) Client/Server
11 10 (0.96%) IoT
11 10 (0.96%) Robotics
11 10 (0.96%) VHDL
12 7 (0.67%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.58%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.48%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (0.48%) GNSS
14 5 (0.48%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.50%) Linux
2 12 (1.15%) Windows
3 7 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.58%) Android
5 4 (0.38%) CentOS
5 4 (0.38%) SUSE
5 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.096%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.096%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
2 171 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 138 (13.24%) Computer Science
3 138 (13.24%) Customer Service
4 114 (10.94%) Data Analysis
5 111 (10.65%) Mathematics
6 100 (9.60%) Software Engineering
7 90 (8.64%) Logistics
7 90 (8.64%) Performance Metrics
8 89 (8.54%) Creative Thinking
9 88 (8.45%) Process Improvement
10 87 (8.35%) Contingency Planning
10 87 (8.35%) Customer Experience
11 81 (7.77%) Schematic Capture
12 71 (6.81%) Project Planning
13 68 (6.53%) Benchmarking
13 68 (6.53%) Lean Manufacturing
13 68 (6.53%) Lean Six Sigma
13 68 (6.53%) Order Management
13 68 (6.53%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 65 (6.24%) C
2 63 (6.05%) Python
3 56 (5.37%) C#
4 49 (4.70%) JavaScript
5 42 (4.03%) SQL
6 36 (3.45%) Java
7 27 (2.59%) Embedded C
8 26 (2.50%) C++
9 13 (1.25%) MATLAB
10 7 (0.67%) Bash
11 6 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.48%) PHP
12 5 (0.48%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.29%) Ada
13 3 (0.29%) C-shell
13 3 (0.29%) Fortran
13 3 (0.29%) Haskell
14 1 (0.096%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.096%) Perl
14 1 (0.096%) Rust
Qualifications
1 830 (79.65%) Degree
2 80 (7.68%) DBS Check
3 68 (6.53%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 65 (6.24%) Master's Degree
5 64 (6.14%) Security Cleared
6 46 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.78%) PhD
8 16 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.34%) SC Cleared
10 13 (1.25%) ACCA
11 8 (0.77%) HND
12 7 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.38%) CIMA
13 4 (0.38%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.38%) HNC
14 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.19%) ICAEW
15 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.096%) Postgraduate
16 1 (0.096%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.77%) QA
2 4 (0.38%) GRC
2 4 (0.38%) IFRS
2 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.096%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.096%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.096%) JTAG
4 1 (0.096%) PMO
4 1 (0.096%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (11.52%) Firmware
2 84 (8.06%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Docker
4 1 (0.096%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.096%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 72 (6.91%) EMC
2 56 (5.37%) Microsoft
3 15 (1.44%) Google
4 14 (1.34%) SAP
5 9 (0.86%) Dell
6 8 (0.77%) Adobe
6 8 (0.77%) Apple
7 5 (0.48%) Oracle
8 4 (0.38%) Peregrine
8 4 (0.38%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.38%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.19%) ANSYS
10 2 (0.19%) F5
10 2 (0.19%) Facebook
10 2 (0.19%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.19%) Twitter
11 1 (0.096%) Splunk
11 1 (0.096%) Sun
11 1 (0.096%) Xamarin