Postgraduate Jobs in the UK excluding London

Postgraduate
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 739 646
Rank change year-on-year +188 -93 +124
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 26 32 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.043% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.16% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 55
10th Percentile £27,303 £31,065 £29,550
25th Percentile £39,063 £31,907 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +86.27% -4.38% -33.33%
75th Percentile £122,500 £48,039 £54,421
90th Percentile £142,000 £64,575 £65,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £47,560 £44,745
% change year-on-year +47.18% +6.29% -25.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Postgraduate falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,309 19,804 21,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.11% 26.56% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,672 12,268 8,007
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

Postgraduate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Postgraduate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Postgraduate in the UK excluding London

Postgraduate
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Postgraduate in the UK excluding London

Postgraduate
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Postgraduate in the UK excluding London

Postgraduate
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 Postgraduate 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
Midlands +90 10 - - 37
West Midlands +64 10 - - 19
South East +89 4 £72,500 +61.11% 70
North of England +51 4 £47,928 +15.49% 59
East of England +43 4 £32,500 -25.64% 34
Scotland +117 2 - - 6
South West +103 2 £138,000 +320.55% 33
North West +9 2 £25,856 -37.70% 31
Yorkshire +60 1 £70,000 - 16
North East +46 1 - - 13
Postgraduate
UK

Postgraduate
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 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) AutoCAD
2 2 (7.69%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (3.85%) Collibra
2 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
1 1 (3.85%) tcpdump
1 1 (3.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (7.69%) Couchbase
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) GDB
2 1 (3.85%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (3.85%) Liquibase
2 1 (3.85%) WinDbg
General
1 18 (69.23%) Finance
2 13 (50.00%) Local Government
3 8 (30.77%) Legal
4 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.85%) Advertising
7 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.85%) Retail
7 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Lecturer
2 6 (23.08%) Civil Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Development Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Risk Officer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Development Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Database Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Pricing Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Supply Chain Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) libvirt
1 1 (3.85%) MFC
1 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (3.85%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) NHS
2 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.69%) FMCG
2 2 (7.69%) Market Risk
2 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Life Science
3 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Computer Science
2 10 (38.46%) Data Science
3 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
3 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (23.08%) Due Diligence
4 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (23.08%) Mathematics
4 6 (23.08%) Project Delivery
4 6 (23.08%) Strategic Planning
5 5 (19.23%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 3 (11.54%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
7 3 (11.54%) Physics
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Project Management
8 2 (7.69%) Conflict Resolution
8 2 (7.69%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) C++
3 2 (7.69%) R
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) CodeQL
4 1 (3.85%) Fortran
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.85%) PHP
4 1 (3.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) MBA
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Novell Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (3.85%) PhD
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Ansible
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (7.69%) Informatica
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Ariba
2 1 (3.85%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.85%) SAP
2 1 (3.85%) Sparx