Academic Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 8,022 23,927 18,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.03% 19.09% 14.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.12% 64.36% 59.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,156 9,337 9,526
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,371 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,125 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +6.67% -5.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,393 37,176 32,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.59% 29.66% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,886 17,163 17,940
10th Percentile £31,229 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.04%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree.

Salary trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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
England -2 7,203 £60,000 +9.09% 8,414
UK excluding London -4 4,767 £52,000 +8.33% 5,587
Work from Home +3 2,897 £60,000 +7.14% 4,004
London +1 2,862 £75,000 +11.11% 3,431
South East -3 1,467 £55,000 +10.00% 1,544
North of England 0 990 £52,084 +9.65% 1,220
Midlands -4 786 £48,628 +3.46% 876
South West -12 633 £50,000 +17.65% 652
West Midlands -4 549 £47,500 +1.06% 593
North West -4 497 £51,117 +7.61% 744
Yorkshire +2 423 £54,125 +8.25% 346
East of England -2 358 £52,500 - 815
Scotland -14 337 £50,000 - 390
East Midlands -5 236 £55,000 +15.79% 279
Wales -16 138 £43,190 -1.07% 137
Northern Ireland -8 77 £45,000 +5.88% 126
North East -1 70 £50,000 +25.00% 155
Isle of Man 0 2 £72,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 255 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 161 (2.01%) SAS
3 154 (1.92%) MS Exchange
4 105 (1.31%) Confluence
5 86 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 54 (0.67%) IIS
7 51 (0.64%) Apache
8 43 (0.54%) CMS
9 40 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
10 26 (0.32%) WordPress
11 23 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 13 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 11 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 10 (0.12%) Luigi
17 9 (0.11%) Anypoint
17 9 (0.11%) WebLogic
18 8 (0.100%) nginx
18 8 (0.100%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 579 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 455 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 144 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 124 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 94 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.72%) SOLIDWORKS
7 50 (0.62%) AutoCAD
8 49 (0.61%) Simulink
9 33 (0.41%) Chatbot
10 19 (0.24%) Photoshop
11 18 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 17 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
13 14 (0.17%) OrCAD
13 14 (0.17%) Sketch
13 14 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
13 14 (0.17%) SPSS
14 12 (0.15%) Trello
15 9 (0.11%) Autodesk Inventor
15 9 (0.11%) CATIA
15 9 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 92 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
3 38 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 33 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 30 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
6 29 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
7 27 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 23 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 19 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 17 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
11 16 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 9 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
12 9 (0.11%) ProductWriter
13 8 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
13 8 (0.100%) Oracle General Ledger
14 7 (0.087%) Oracle Financials
14 7 (0.087%) SAP Business One
14 7 (0.087%) SAP QM
14 7 (0.087%) Teamcenter
15 6 (0.075%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 1,530 (19.07%) Azure
2 958 (11.94%) AWS
3 702 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
4 501 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 340 (4.24%) GCP
6 301 (3.75%) SaaS
7 246 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 184 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 148 (1.84%) GitHub
10 128 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 123 (1.53%) PowerApps
12 121 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
13 115 (1.43%) IaaS
14 114 (1.42%) PaaS
15 108 (1.35%) Serverless
16 100 (1.25%) WhatsApp
17 80 (1.00%) Power Automate
18 60 (0.75%) Figma
19 59 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
20 57 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 379 (4.72%) Firewall
2 296 (3.69%) WAN
3 264 (3.29%) DNS
4 226 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 226 (2.82%) Wireless
5 220 (2.74%) DHCP
6 187 (2.33%) SD-WAN
7 176 (2.19%) VPN
8 152 (1.89%) Network Security
9 144 (1.80%) LAN
10 122 (1.52%) Internet
11 119 (1.48%) WebEx
12 112 (1.40%) Cisco IOS
13 90 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
14 83 (1.03%) VoIP
15 80 (1.00%) 5G
16 64 (0.80%) SAN
17 62 (0.77%) HTTP
18 55 (0.69%) VLAN
19 48 (0.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 416 (5.19%) Power BI
3 203 (2.53%) MySQL
4 194 (2.42%) Tableau
5 174 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 152 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 147 (1.83%) Big Data
8 137 (1.71%) NoSQL
9 121 (1.51%) Data Lake
10 115 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
11 107 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 97 (1.21%) Metadata
13 88 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 83 (1.03%) Base SAS
15 68 (0.85%) Looker
16 63 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
17 62 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
18 59 (0.74%) MongoDB
19 53 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
19 53 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 409 (5.10%) Git
2 245 (3.05%) JIRA
3 151 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 83 (1.03%) Visual Studio
5 80 (1.00%) Selenium
6 53 (0.66%) Maven
7 48 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 45 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.56%) GitLab
9 31 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
10 30 (0.37%) IntelliJ
11 29 (0.36%) SoapUI
12 26 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
13 22 (0.27%) Subversion
14 20 (0.25%) MSI
15 19 (0.24%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.22%) InstallShield
17 17 (0.21%) CMake
18 16 (0.20%) AdminStudio
18 16 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 3,089 (38.51%) Social Skills
2 1,849 (23.05%) Finance
3 1,433 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 716 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 494 (6.16%) Marketing
6 465 (5.80%) Manufacturing
7 398 (4.96%) Legal
8 381 (4.75%) Telecoms
9 379 (4.72%) Public Sector
10 376 (4.69%) Retail
11 290 (3.62%) Electronics
12 287 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
13 286 (3.57%) Banking
14 212 (2.64%) Law
15 199 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
16 168 (2.09%) Automotive
17 161 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 149 (1.86%) Aerospace
19 125 (1.56%) Front Office
20 118 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,399 (17.44%) Senior
2 1,223 (15.25%) Analyst
3 1,171 (14.60%) Developer
4 518 (6.46%) Lead
5 478 (5.96%) Architect
6 406 (5.06%) Project Manager
7 362 (4.51%) Software Engineer
8 319 (3.98%) Graduate
9 280 (3.49%) Consultant
10 271 (3.38%) Senior Manager
11 260 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
12 238 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 223 (2.78%) Senior Developer
14 215 (2.68%) Junior
15 212 (2.64%) Software Developer
16 199 (2.48%) Business Analyst
17 187 (2.33%) Java Developer
18 185 (2.31%) IT Support
18 185 (2.31%) Support Engineer
19 169 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (6.07%) .NET
2 479 (5.97%) HTML
3 421 (5.25%) CSS
4 381 (4.75%) React
5 267 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 193 (2.41%) RESTful
7 181 (2.26%) XML
8 173 (2.16%) Node.js
9 153 (1.91%) ASP.NET
10 135 (1.68%) Web Services
11 113 (1.41%) .NET Framework
12 107 (1.33%) REST
13 104 (1.30%) HTML5
14 101 (1.26%) JSON
15 96 (1.20%) Vue
16 87 (1.08%) SOAP
17 86 (1.07%) Kafka
18 83 (1.03%) Express.js
19 79 (0.98%) Spring
20 72 (0.90%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 667 (8.31%) Management Information System
2 417 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
3 275 (3.43%) Algorithms
4 253 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 252 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
6 213 (2.66%) Virtual Team
7 207 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 173 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 133 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
10 121 (1.51%) Driving Licence
11 110 (1.37%) Life Science
12 103 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 102 (1.27%) Mobile App
14 94 (1.17%) Wiki
15 85 (1.06%) Cyberattack
16 82 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 78 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
18 77 (0.96%) Hedge funds
19 75 (0.93%) PKI
20 74 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,002 (12.49%) Windows
2 577 (7.19%) Linux
3 346 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 284 (3.54%) Windows 10
5 263 (3.28%) Android
6 139 (1.73%) Unix
7 87 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 77 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 72 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 70 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 63 (0.79%) Apple iOS
12 37 (0.46%) Windows 7
13 19 (0.24%) Mac OS X
14 17 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 15 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 14 (0.17%) Windows 8
16 14 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
17 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
17 12 (0.15%) VMS
18 11 (0.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,744 (34.21%) Computer Science
2 2,239 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
3 1,702 (21.22%) Agile
4 1,157 (14.42%) Project Management
5 942 (11.74%) Software Engineering
6 879 (10.96%) DevOps
7 846 (10.55%) Mathematics
8 806 (10.05%) Analytics
9 731 (9.11%) Mentoring
10 721 (8.99%) ITIL
11 622 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
12 580 (7.23%) Project Delivery
13 564 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
13 564 (7.03%) Decision-Making
14 528 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence
15 467 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 465 (5.80%) Scrum
17 459 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
18 457 (5.70%) Actionable Insight
19 447 (5.57%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,274 (15.88%) Python
2 1,256 (15.66%) SQL
3 786 (9.80%) JavaScript
4 769 (9.59%) C#
5 614 (7.65%) Java
6 458 (5.71%) C++
7 413 (5.15%) PowerShell
8 290 (3.62%) C
9 252 (3.14%) TypeScript
10 214 (2.67%) Bash
11 189 (2.36%) R
12 148 (1.84%) PHP
13 107 (1.33%) MATLAB
14 104 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 83 (1.03%) SAS Macro
16 77 (0.96%) Go
17 72 (0.90%) VB
18 52 (0.65%) PL/SQL
19 51 (0.64%) Perl
20 50 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,728 (21.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 977 (12.18%) Master's Degree
3 903 (11.26%) Security Cleared
4 515 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 257 (3.20%) CISSP
6 240 (2.99%) PhD
7 229 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
8 221 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 186 (2.32%) Azure Certification
10 184 (2.29%) CISM
11 174 (2.17%) DV Cleared
12 165 (2.06%) HNC
13 143 (1.78%) DBS Check
14 127 (1.58%) CRISC
15 123 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
16 119 (1.48%) CISA
16 119 (1.48%) HND
17 115 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
18 106 (1.32%) CCNA
19 101 (1.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 400 (4.99%) QA
2 267 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 177 (2.21%) NIST
4 139 (1.73%) GDPR
5 137 (1.71%) SLA
6 130 (1.62%) Data Quality
7 103 (1.28%) GRC
8 92 (1.15%) PMO
9 86 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
10 84 (1.05%) CDISC
11 74 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 71 (0.89%) Accessibility
13 67 (0.84%) ISO 22301
14 57 (0.71%) PCI DSS
15 33 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 31 (0.39%) IFRS
17 28 (0.35%) COBIT
17 28 (0.35%) NCSC
17 28 (0.35%) WCAG
18 27 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 659 (8.21%) Active Directory
2 424 (5.29%) Docker
3 243 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 132 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
5 131 (1.63%) Firmware
6 109 (1.36%) Microsoft App-V
7 98 (1.22%) XenApp
8 93 (1.16%) XenDesktop
9 89 (1.11%) Hyper-V
10 69 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
11 54 (0.67%) vSphere
12 41 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
13 30 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
14 22 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
15 15 (0.19%) BitLocker
16 12 (0.15%) Terminal Services
17 11 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
18 10 (0.12%) KVM
19 9 (0.11%) VMware NSX
20 4 (0.050%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 387 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 237 (2.95%) SCCM
3 202 (2.52%) Terraform
4 162 (2.02%) Ansible
5 154 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 83 (1.03%) AirWatch
7 81 (1.01%) Puppet
8 48 (0.60%) WSUS
9 40 (0.50%) SCOM
10 36 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 32 (0.40%) Grafana
12 31 (0.39%) FortiGate
13 28 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 25 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
15 24 (0.30%) HP UCMDB
16 23 (0.29%) Nessus
17 20 (0.25%) Prometheus
18 18 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
19 17 (0.21%) Kibana
19 17 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,503 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 381 (4.75%) VMware
3 358 (4.46%) Cisco
4 290 (3.62%) Oracle
5 260 (3.24%) SAP
6 226 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 215 (2.68%) Google
8 157 (1.96%) Citrix
9 150 (1.87%) NEC
10 136 (1.70%) ServiceNow
11 77 (0.96%) Dell
12 72 (0.90%) Adobe
13 69 (0.86%) HP
14 67 (0.84%) CA
14 67 (0.84%) Databricks
15 52 (0.65%) Remedy
16 51 (0.64%) Apple
17 48 (0.60%) SolarWinds
18 43 (0.54%) Juniper
18 43 (0.54%) Splunk