Academic Degree
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,451 14,872 32,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.78% 18.43% 18.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 52.39% 54.64% 67.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,591 7,185 10,945
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £29,256
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,500 £38,657
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,734 £47,000
% change year-on-year -1.45% +7.94% +4.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Degree 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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23,768 27,219 48,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.30% 33.73% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,396 13,767 20,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,425 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%

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 26 July 2024.

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 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
England -3 11,257 £52,500 -12.50% 3,214
UK excluding London -6 8,785 £50,000 -1.45% 2,857
Work from Home +3 3,521 £55,000 -8.33% 1,406
London +2 3,226 £70,000 - 889
South East -1 2,334 £52,500 -2.46% 757
Midlands -1 1,926 £45,000 -10.00% 509
North of England -4 1,835 £47,500 -8.65% 617
West Midlands 0 1,225 £50,000 -4.76% 303
South West -2 1,134 £50,000 -0.28% 416
North West -5 1,030 £48,013 -12.70% 406
East of England -2 745 £50,000 -9.09% 318
East Midlands -1 693 £42,500 -10.53% 202
Yorkshire -2 631 £46,431 -7.14% 149
Scotland -26 522 £49,608 -0.46% 144
North East -11 174 £41,500 -12.95% 72
Wales -3 169 £45,000 +2.20% 93
Northern Ireland +4 100 £40,000 -20.00% 140
Isle of Man +2 24 £52,500 -27.59% 1
Channel Islands 0 6 £67,500 +8.00%

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
1 347 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 228 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 164 (1.32%) Confluence
4 119 (0.96%) CMS
5 96 (0.77%) Apache
6 76 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 71 (0.57%) IIS
8 54 (0.43%) SAS
9 37 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 37 (0.30%) WordPress
10 36 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 29 (0.23%) FileNet
12 27 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
12 27 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 25 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 18 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 11 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
15 11 (0.088%) Skype for Business
15 11 (0.088%) WebSphere
16 10 (0.080%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,610 (12.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1,462 (11.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 538 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 179 (1.44%) Simulink
5 173 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
6 135 (1.08%) MS Visio
7 71 (0.57%) AutoCAD
8 60 (0.48%) Photoshop
9 50 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 45 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
11 33 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
12 29 (0.23%) SPSS
13 27 (0.22%) OrCAD
14 25 (0.20%) Trello
15 24 (0.19%) InDesign
16 20 (0.16%) Adobe XD
16 20 (0.16%) Revit
17 18 (0.14%) Sketch
18 16 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
19 15 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 139 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 47 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 37 (0.30%) SDL Web 8
5 34 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 32 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 27 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 25 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 23 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
10 22 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 21 (0.17%) Primavera
12 16 (0.13%) SAP CO
12 16 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 16 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 16 (0.13%) Shopify
13 15 (0.12%) Endur
14 14 (0.11%) Ripple
15 13 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
16 12 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
16 12 (0.096%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,536 (12.34%) Azure
2 1,046 (8.40%) AWS
3 844 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
4 733 (5.89%) Power Platform
5 355 (2.85%) SaaS
6 269 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
7 262 (2.10%) GCP
8 203 (1.63%) PowerApps
9 201 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
10 172 (1.38%) GitHub
11 159 (1.28%) Entra ID
12 158 (1.27%) Power Automate
13 152 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
14 142 (1.14%) Serverless
15 111 (0.89%) Amazon S3
16 99 (0.80%) PaaS
17 97 (0.78%) IaaS
18 86 (0.69%) Figma
19 74 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
20 71 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 418 (3.36%) Firewall
2 291 (2.34%) WAN
3 276 (2.22%) Internet
4 261 (2.10%) Network Security
5 229 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 225 (1.81%) LAN
7 214 (1.72%) DNS
8 180 (1.45%) Wireless
9 163 (1.31%) VPN
10 162 (1.30%) DHCP
11 153 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 112 (0.90%) SD-WAN
13 98 (0.79%) WLAN
14 85 (0.68%) SAN
15 84 (0.67%) VLAN
16 82 (0.66%) VoIP
17 79 (0.63%) Ethernet
18 78 (0.63%) HTTP
19 76 (0.61%) 5G
20 64 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 694 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 601 (4.83%) Power BI
3 406 (3.26%) Tableau
4 275 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 243 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 221 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
7 204 (1.64%) MySQL
8 195 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
9 184 (1.48%) Big Data
10 120 (0.96%) Oracle Database
10 120 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 115 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 85 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
13 84 (0.67%) Redis
14 80 (0.64%) GIS
15 76 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 74 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
17 67 (0.54%) MongoDB
18 66 (0.53%) Data Lake
19 64 (0.51%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 815 (6.55%) Git
2 406 (3.26%) JIRA
3 189 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 153 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 115 (0.92%) GitLab
6 108 (0.87%) Selenium
7 76 (0.61%) LabVIEW
8 75 (0.60%) Cypress.io
9 61 (0.49%) Moq
10 56 (0.45%) TeamCity
11 53 (0.43%) NUnit
12 50 (0.40%) Bitbucket
13 49 (0.39%) Subversion
14 46 (0.37%) Sourcetree
15 45 (0.36%) JUnit
16 42 (0.34%) Postman
17 38 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
18 36 (0.29%) Jasmine
19 33 (0.27%) Mockito
20 32 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 5,634 (45.25%) Social Skills
2 2,642 (21.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2,434 (19.55%) Finance
4 1,223 (9.82%) Retail
5 1,106 (8.88%) Marketing
6 1,082 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 864 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
8 758 (6.09%) Legal
8 758 (6.09%) Manufacturing
9 648 (5.20%) Law
10 533 (4.28%) Electronics
11 524 (4.21%) Public Sector
12 465 (3.73%) Military
13 424 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
14 411 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 368 (2.96%) Banking
16 329 (2.64%) Telecoms
17 327 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
18 322 (2.59%) German Language
19 242 (1.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,014 (16.18%) Senior
2 1,594 (12.80%) Analyst
3 1,361 (10.93%) Developer
4 958 (7.69%) Graduate
5 791 (6.35%) Software Engineer
6 776 (6.23%) Project Manager
7 745 (5.98%) Lead
8 684 (5.49%) Architect
9 547 (4.39%) Consultant
10 366 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
11 329 (2.64%) Support Engineer
12 323 (2.59%) Software Developer
13 310 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
14 294 (2.36%) Senior Developer
15 263 (2.11%) Data Analyst
16 260 (2.09%) Business Analyst
17 252 (2.02%) Senior Manager
18 230 (1.85%) IT Manager
19 228 (1.83%) IT Support
20 219 (1.76%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 858 (6.89%) .NET
2 708 (5.69%) HTML
3 604 (4.85%) CSS
4 466 (3.74%) React
5 314 (2.52%) AngularJS
6 268 (2.15%) Web Services
7 250 (2.01%) ASP.NET
8 212 (1.70%) .NET Framework
9 207 (1.66%) RESTful
10 187 (1.50%) HTML5
11 173 (1.39%) Node.js
12 171 (1.37%) XML
13 170 (1.37%) REST
14 151 (1.21%) JSON
15 147 (1.18%) .NET Core
16 139 (1.12%) jQuery
17 135 (1.08%) Kafka
18 120 (0.96%) Spring
19 110 (0.88%) TensorFlow
20 106 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 992 (7.97%) Onboarding
2 862 (6.92%) Management Information System
3 722 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
4 532 (4.27%) Driving Licence
5 471 (3.78%) Algorithms
6 318 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 268 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 210 (1.69%) IoT
9 196 (1.57%) Life Science
10 162 (1.30%) Social Media
11 160 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 157 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 120 (0.96%) Cloud Native
14 118 (0.95%) Virtual Team
15 113 (0.91%) Mobile App
16 110 (0.88%) Robotics
17 105 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
18 101 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
18 101 (0.81%) FPGA
18 101 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,285 (10.32%) Windows
2 941 (7.56%) Linux
3 364 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 244 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 237 (1.90%) Unix
6 153 (1.23%) Android
7 110 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 108 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 92 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 88 (0.71%) Ubuntu
11 81 (0.65%) Apple iOS
12 74 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
13 69 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
14 55 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 55 (0.44%) Solaris
15 46 (0.37%) Windows 7
16 44 (0.35%) CentOS
17 29 (0.23%) VMS
18 27 (0.22%) Windows Vista
19 21 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,886 (31.21%) Problem-Solving
2 3,660 (29.40%) Computer Science
3 2,230 (17.91%) Agile
4 1,918 (15.40%) Project Management
5 1,562 (12.55%) Software Engineering
6 1,467 (11.78%) Mathematics
7 1,384 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,323 (10.63%) Customer Service
9 1,314 (10.55%) Mentoring
10 1,278 (10.26%) Data Analysis
11 1,209 (9.71%) Analytics
12 884 (7.10%) ITIL
13 883 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence
14 852 (6.84%) Decision-Making
15 844 (6.78%) DevOps
16 830 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
17 806 (6.47%) Process Improvement
18 775 (6.22%) Business Intelligence
19 736 (5.91%) Machine Learning
20 692 (5.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,988 (15.97%) SQL
2 1,821 (14.63%) Python
3 1,198 (9.62%) C#
4 1,067 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 708 (5.69%) C++
6 680 (5.46%) Java
7 557 (4.47%) C
8 355 (2.85%) PowerShell
9 316 (2.54%) TypeScript
10 236 (1.90%) MATLAB
11 213 (1.71%) R
12 200 (1.61%) PHP
13 178 (1.43%) Bash
14 162 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 109 (0.88%) VB
16 106 (0.85%) VBA
17 104 (0.84%) Fortran
18 96 (0.77%) Embedded C
19 89 (0.71%) PL/SQL
20 81 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,156 (17.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,308 (10.51%) Master's Degree
3 1,096 (8.80%) Security Cleared
4 637 (5.12%) DBS Check
5 595 (4.78%) SC Cleared
6 553 (4.44%) HNC
7 466 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 444 (3.57%) PhD
9 336 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
10 290 (2.33%) CISSP
11 244 (1.96%) CCNA
12 238 (1.91%) HND
13 204 (1.64%) DV Cleared
14 196 (1.57%) CISM
15 195 (1.57%) CCNP
16 188 (1.51%) PMI Certification
17 170 (1.37%) MCP
18 159 (1.28%) PMP
19 158 (1.27%) Azure Certification
20 137 (1.10%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 853 (6.85%) QA
2 232 (1.86%) Accessibility
2 232 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 222 (1.78%) SLA
4 221 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 217 (1.74%) GDPR
6 167 (1.34%) PMO
7 134 (1.08%) NIST
8 124 (1.00%) GMP
9 103 (0.83%) NEBOSH
10 90 (0.72%) ISO 9001
11 70 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 67 (0.54%) PCI DSS
13 55 (0.44%) WCAG
14 54 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
15 36 (0.29%) GRC
16 30 (0.24%) GLP
16 30 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 29 (0.23%) ISO 26262
18 27 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 586 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 381 (3.06%) Docker
3 291 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 238 (1.91%) Firmware
5 147 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 92 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
7 84 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 56 (0.45%) vSphere
9 42 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 34 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 28 (0.22%) XenApp
12 27 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
13 19 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 17 (0.14%) OpenSSH
15 15 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 12 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
17 9 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
18 8 (0.064%) KVM
18 8 (0.064%) Lustre
19 5 (0.040%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 380 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 232 (1.86%) Terraform
3 125 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 125 (1.00%) SCCM
4 111 (0.89%) Ansible
5 56 (0.45%) WSUS
6 45 (0.36%) SCOM
7 39 (0.31%) CASB
8 38 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 36 (0.29%) Stealthwatch
10 29 (0.23%) Data Guard
10 29 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 26 (0.21%) Grafana
11 26 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
12 25 (0.20%) Puppet
13 23 (0.18%) vCenter Server
14 21 (0.17%) IBM BigFix
14 21 (0.17%) Prometheus
15 18 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.14%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 2,574 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 382 (3.07%) VMware
3 363 (2.92%) Oracle
4 358 (2.88%) SAP
5 350 (2.81%) Cisco
6 299 (2.40%) Google
7 285 (2.29%) Databricks
8 252 (2.02%) Adobe
9 202 (1.62%) Apple
10 188 (1.51%) NEC
11 171 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 103 (0.83%) HP
13 98 (0.79%) Dell
13 98 (0.79%) ServiceNow
14 93 (0.75%) Meraki
15 92 (0.74%) Xilinx
16 90 (0.72%) EMC
17 80 (0.64%) IBM
18 79 (0.63%) Veeam
19 77 (0.62%) Citrix