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 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 14,239 13,033 20,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.59% 14.44% 18.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.38% 51.27% 58.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,121 8,338 8,297
10th Percentile £35,802 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,439 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.00% +5.26%

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 23,978 25,422 35,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.45% 28.16% 32.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10,514 16,546 15,731
10th Percentile £32,825 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,374
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

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 24 March 2025.

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 24 March 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
England +7 12,545 £54,793 +4.37% 6,225
UK excluding London +7 11,331 £50,055 +1.12% 3,912
North of England +9 4,100 £50,055 +4.25% 805
North West +9 3,101 £50,055 +0.11% 445
London +3 2,484 £75,000 +7.14% 3,059
Work from Home +5 2,433 £50,000 -9.09% 3,531
Midlands +7 2,028 £47,683 +5.96% 537
South East +2 1,985 £55,000 +4.76% 1,269
West Midlands +7 1,230 £50,500 +6.32% 327
South West +8 1,034 £52,600 +7.90% 391
Scotland +30 1,028 £51,645 +13.40% 236
Yorkshire +11 854 £45,000 -5.26% 243
East of England +4 835 £58,000 +22.11% 617
East Midlands +8 793 £47,683 +12.20% 191
Wales +8 234 £55,000 +22.53% 124
North East +8 149 £55,000 +10.00% 123
Northern Ireland +12 86 £36,149 -30.15% 68
Isle of Man +5 4 £43,000 -18.10%
Channel Islands 0 2 £70,000 - 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
1 312 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 172 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 77 (0.54%) CMS
5 72 (0.51%) Confluence
6 68 (0.48%) Apache
7 60 (0.42%) SAS
8 47 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 36 (0.25%) WordPress
10 32 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 31 (0.22%) Umbraco
12 24 (0.17%) IIS
13 10 (0.070%) IBM Domino
14 6 (0.042%) nginx
15 5 (0.035%) Luigi
15 5 (0.035%) WinCC
16 4 (0.028%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.028%) Cloud Foundry
16 4 (0.028%) Kinematics
16 4 (0.028%) OpenStack
Applications
1 971 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 793 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 766 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 522 (3.67%) Simulink
5 293 (2.06%) Mathcad
6 198 (1.39%) Abaqus
7 161 (1.13%) Chatbot
8 121 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
9 112 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
10 70 (0.49%) MS Visio
11 60 (0.42%) AutoCAD
12 57 (0.40%) Photoshop
13 47 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
14 41 (0.29%) Mathematica
15 40 (0.28%) Windchill
16 29 (0.20%) Trello
17 17 (0.12%) Maya
17 17 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
18 15 (0.11%) Revit
19 12 (0.084%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 408 (2.87%) Teamcenter
2 58 (0.41%) Shopify
3 44 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 43 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 33 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 20 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 10 (0.070%) Endur
7 10 (0.070%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.070%) TrackWise
8 8 (0.056%) Dynamics AX
8 8 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.049%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.049%) Infor M3
9 7 (0.049%) Magento
10 6 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.042%) SAP Business One
10 6 (0.042%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,002 (7.04%) Azure
2 664 (4.66%) AWS
3 444 (3.12%) Power Platform
4 429 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
5 252 (1.77%) SaaS
6 248 (1.74%) GCP
7 132 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (0.91%) Entra ID
9 118 (0.83%) GitHub
10 106 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
11 100 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
12 96 (0.67%) PowerApps
13 93 (0.65%) Serverless
14 77 (0.54%) PaaS
15 59 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 59 (0.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 54 (0.38%) Power Automate
17 53 (0.37%) Snowflake
18 47 (0.33%) IaaS
19 46 (0.32%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 303 (2.13%) Network Security
2 269 (1.89%) Firewall
3 252 (1.77%) Internet
4 189 (1.33%) WLAN
5 151 (1.06%) DNS
6 139 (0.98%) WAN
7 131 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 119 (0.84%) LAN
9 101 (0.71%) DHCP
10 94 (0.66%) VLAN
11 86 (0.60%) VoIP
12 81 (0.57%) Wireless
13 79 (0.55%) Broadband
14 68 (0.48%) SAN
15 65 (0.46%) VPN
16 63 (0.44%) HTTP
17 56 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
18 53 (0.37%) BGP
19 47 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
19 47 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 352 (2.47%) Power BI
3 187 (1.31%) Tableau
4 184 (1.29%) Big Data
5 135 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 129 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 128 (0.90%) MySQL
8 115 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 95 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 93 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 56 (0.39%) MongoDB
12 39 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (0.25%) Hadoop
14 33 (0.23%) Data Mining
14 33 (0.23%) Metadata
15 32 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 31 (0.22%) BigQuery
17 28 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
18 27 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
18 27 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 381 (2.68%) JIRA
2 375 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
3 344 (2.42%) Git
4 179 (1.26%) LabVIEW
5 93 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 71 (0.50%) Selenium
7 70 (0.49%) Visual Studio
8 43 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 42 (0.29%) Eclipse
10 35 (0.25%) Eclipse RCP
11 31 (0.22%) Dreamweaver
12 30 (0.21%) GitLab
13 23 (0.16%) Subversion
14 22 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
15 21 (0.15%) Bitbucket
16 19 (0.13%) SpecFlow
16 19 (0.13%) webpack
17 18 (0.13%) Gradle
18 17 (0.12%) JMeter
19 16 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4,295 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 2,327 (16.34%) Finance
3 2,079 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 1,236 (8.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,171 (8.22%) Manufacturing
6 1,162 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
7 871 (6.12%) Aerospace
8 807 (5.67%) Banking
9 767 (5.39%) Marketing
10 660 (4.64%) Law
11 647 (4.54%) Automotive
12 643 (4.52%) Electronics
13 483 (3.39%) German Language
14 465 (3.27%) Financial Institution
14 465 (3.27%) French Language
15 418 (2.94%) Legal
16 364 (2.56%) Telecoms
17 356 (2.50%) Retail
18 273 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
19 193 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3,941 (27.68%) Senior
2 1,733 (12.17%) Principal Engineer
3 1,678 (11.78%) Systems Engineer
4 1,422 (9.99%) Analyst
5 1,012 (7.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 852 (5.98%) Engineering Manager
7 717 (5.04%) Lead
8 682 (4.79%) Developer
9 589 (4.14%) Software Engineer
10 581 (4.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 564 (3.96%) Senior Manager
12 555 (3.90%) Project Manager
13 545 (3.83%) Senior Electrical Engineer
14 544 (3.82%) Support Engineer
15 449 (3.15%) Credit Analyst
16 439 (3.08%) Research Analyst
17 367 (2.58%) Graduate
18 356 (2.50%) Architect
19 333 (2.34%) Integration Engineer
19 333 (2.34%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (3.28%) HTML
2 393 (2.76%) .NET
3 336 (2.36%) CSS
4 255 (1.79%) React
5 121 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 109 (0.77%) REST
7 107 (0.75%) Node.js
8 106 (0.74%) ASP.NET
9 102 (0.72%) HTML5
10 98 (0.69%) .NET Framework
11 95 (0.67%) Pandas
12 93 (0.65%) jQuery
12 93 (0.65%) Kafka
12 93 (0.65%) RESTful
13 92 (0.65%) NumPy
14 74 (0.52%) PyTorch
15 73 (0.51%) Middleware
16 70 (0.49%) TensorFlow
17 68 (0.48%) JSON
18 67 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 887 (6.23%) Management Information System
2 494 (3.47%) Credit Risk
2 494 (3.47%) Fixed Income
3 389 (2.73%) SCADA
4 328 (2.30%) Algorithms
5 276 (1.94%) Driving Licence
5 276 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 199 (1.40%) Product Ownership
7 172 (1.21%) Social Media
8 126 (0.88%) Virtual Team
9 124 (0.87%) FMCG
10 119 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 99 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
12 98 (0.69%) Life Science
13 92 (0.65%) Data Centre
14 88 (0.62%) Mobile App
14 88 (0.62%) Robotics
15 85 (0.60%) IoT
16 84 (0.59%) Cloud Native
17 77 (0.54%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 893 (6.27%) Windows
2 696 (4.89%) Linux
3 202 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 153 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 75 (0.53%) Android
6 74 (0.52%) Unix
7 67 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 57 (0.40%) Windows Vista
9 55 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 51 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 48 (0.34%) Ubuntu
12 40 (0.28%) Mac OS X
13 31 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 27 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 18 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 14 (0.098%) AIX
17 13 (0.091%) Debian
18 11 (0.077%) Robot Operating System
18 11 (0.077%) VxWorks
19 10 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,288 (23.09%) Systems Engineering
2 2,747 (19.29%) Computer Science
3 2,671 (18.76%) Mathematics
4 2,354 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
5 1,921 (13.49%) Agile
6 1,628 (11.43%) Physics
7 1,561 (10.96%) Project Management
8 1,488 (10.45%) Software Engineering
9 1,449 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,316 (9.24%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 1,223 (8.59%) Risk Management
12 1,219 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
13 1,116 (7.84%) Analytics
14 1,058 (7.43%) Validation
15 1,042 (7.32%) Mentoring
16 1,035 (7.27%) Decision-Making
17 1,006 (7.07%) SysML
18 953 (6.69%) Coaching
19 876 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence
20 798 (5.60%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,499 (10.53%) Python
2 1,276 (8.96%) SQL
3 1,233 (8.66%) MATLAB
4 783 (5.50%) C#
5 712 (5.00%) Java
6 632 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 477 (3.35%) C++
8 293 (2.06%) C
9 269 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 229 (1.61%) TypeScript
11 128 (0.90%) Rust
12 121 (0.85%) Bash
13 112 (0.79%) PHP
14 105 (0.74%) R
15 101 (0.71%) Ada
16 76 (0.53%) Scala
17 74 (0.52%) VB
18 59 (0.41%) Kotlin
19 47 (0.33%) PL/SQL
20 43 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3,586 (25.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 2,053 (14.42%) Master's Degree
3 1,497 (10.51%) Chartered Engineer
4 1,461 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1,134 (7.96%) HND
6 947 (6.65%) HNC
7 498 (3.50%) Numerate Degree
8 439 (3.08%) CFA
9 422 (2.96%) CISSP
10 368 (2.58%) CISM
11 358 (2.51%) Security Cleared
12 327 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 312 (2.19%) PhD
14 309 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
15 242 (1.70%) MBA
16 234 (1.64%) CCNA
17 225 (1.58%) CCNP
18 209 (1.47%) SC Cleared
19 204 (1.43%) MCSE
20 194 (1.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 555 (3.90%) IEC 61508
2 524 (3.68%) Def Stans
3 499 (3.50%) QA
4 355 (2.49%) NIST
5 323 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 212 (1.49%) ISO 9001
7 200 (1.40%) Data Quality
8 195 (1.37%) Accessibility
9 185 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 179 (1.26%) GDPR
11 170 (1.19%) JSP 440
11 170 (1.19%) RMADS
12 161 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 109 (0.77%) GRC
13 109 (0.77%) NEBOSH
14 91 (0.64%) SLA
15 79 (0.55%) PMO
16 75 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 12207
17 68 (0.48%) GMP
18 58 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 357 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 289 (2.03%) Docker
3 113 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 81 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 78 (0.55%) Firmware
6 54 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
7 50 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (0.27%) vSphere
9 36 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.077%) VMware NSX
13 10 (0.070%) HDFS
14 7 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.021%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.021%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.021%) Postfix
15 3 (0.021%) Samba
15 3 (0.021%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.014%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 281 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 145 (1.02%) Terraform
3 109 (0.77%) Ansible
4 84 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 63 (0.44%) SCCM
6 60 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 59 (0.41%) Grafana
8 27 (0.19%) Functional Safety
9 22 (0.15%) Puppet
10 21 (0.15%) WSUS
11 15 (0.11%) Nessus
11 15 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.063%) QRadar
13 8 (0.056%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.056%) CASB
14 7 (0.049%) CSIRT
14 7 (0.049%) Nagios
15 6 (0.042%) AirWatch
15 6 (0.042%) BMC PATROL
15 6 (0.042%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1,736 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 460 (3.23%) Bloomberg
3 363 (2.55%) Cisco
4 299 (2.10%) Google
5 241 (1.69%) IBM
6 230 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 209 (1.47%) SAP
8 201 (1.41%) ANSYS
9 196 (1.38%) Micro Focus
10 194 (1.36%) Oracle
11 176 (1.24%) VMware
12 142 (1.00%) PayPal
13 111 (0.78%) Siemens
14 101 (0.71%) Databricks
15 98 (0.69%) ServiceNow
16 89 (0.63%) Citrix
17 72 (0.51%) Apple
18 71 (0.50%) Adobe
19 66 (0.46%) Alteryx
20 61 (0.43%) Dell