Graduate Jobs

Graduate
UK

The median Graduate salary in the UK is £29,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 208 259
Rank change year-on-year -101 +51 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 449 1,320 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.43% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.51% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 194 579 500
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40,938 £35,250 £34,324
90th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £28,500 £28,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year - +14.00% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 45,348 87,399 101,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 94.67% 91.99%
Number of salaries quoted 26,623 63,956 63,474
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,950 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% -8.42% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,433 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Graduate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Graduate in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Graduate in the UK

Graduate
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Graduate in the UK

Graduate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Graduate over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Graduate in the UK

Graduate
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the UK over the 6 months to 1 April 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 -113 398 £29,000 - 492
UK excluding London -32 386 £28,500 - 304
Work from Home +82 142 £25,500 -15.00% 147
Midlands +5 141 £25,000 -10.71% 32
West Midlands -3 107 £26,250 -7.89% 10
North of England +62 104 £38,500 +45.28% 72
South East -86 59 £25,750 -14.17% 90
North West +1 48 £30,000 +11.11% 33
London -111 42 £32,500 -7.14% 252
Yorkshire +60 36 £45,000 +76.47% 23
East Midlands +34 33 £25,000 -5.66% 22
East of England +30 28 £25,000 -23.08% 36
Scotland +82 25 £45,000 +50.00% 19
South West +31 23 £28,160 +2.40% 45
North East +50 20 £25,000 -19.35% 17
Wales -19 6 £22,500 -16.67% 4

Graduate Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 April 2025, 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 featuring Graduate in the job title.

1 360 (80.18%) Degree
2 185 (41.20%) Customer Experience
3 171 (38.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 159 (35.41%) Customer Service
5 154 (34.30%) Social Skills
6 148 (32.96%) Process Improvement
7 144 (32.07%) Microsoft Excel
8 142 (31.63%) Microsoft Office
9 139 (30.96%) Data Analysis
10 136 (30.29%) Logistics
10 136 (30.29%) Performance Metrics
10 136 (30.29%) Contingency Planning
10 136 (30.29%) Creative Thinking
11 113 (25.17%) Artificial Intelligence
12 103 (22.94%) Finance
13 96 (21.38%) Agile
14 95 (21.16%) Computer Science
15 92 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
16 71 (15.81%) Computer Science Degree
17 70 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
17 70 (15.59%) C#
18 69 (15.37%) Java
19 57 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
20 56 (12.47%) Master's Degree
20 56 (12.47%) Python
21 53 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
22 52 (11.58%) C++
22 52 (11.58%) Legal
22 52 (11.58%) Analytics
23 49 (10.91%) Software Engineering

Graduate Skill Set
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 2 (0.45%) SAP Portal
2 1 (0.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.22%) IIS
2 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 144 (32.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (31.63%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.34%) Revit
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (8.24%) Azure
2 31 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 7 (1.56%) AWS
4 5 (1.11%) SaaS
5 3 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.45%) Figma
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.22%) GitHub
7 1 (0.22%) Sage Pay
7 1 (0.22%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (0.45%) 4G
2 2 (0.45%) 5G
2 2 (0.45%) DNS
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.45%) VPN
2 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
3 1 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.46%) MySQL
2 29 (6.46%) Power BI
3 2 (0.45%) Big Data
3 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.22%) Metadata
4 1 (0.22%) Redis
4 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Git
2 5 (1.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.22%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.22%) ClearQuest
3 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 154 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 103 (22.94%) Finance
3 70 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.58%) Legal
5 42 (9.35%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (9.13%) Banking
7 37 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.79%) Marketing
9 15 (3.34%) Law
10 14 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.67%) Electronics
12 7 (1.56%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.34%) Retail
14 5 (1.11%) German Language
15 4 (0.89%) Games
16 3 (0.67%) iGaming
16 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.45%) Online Betting
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.35%) CSS
2 37 (8.24%) .NET
3 33 (7.35%) ASP.NET
4 32 (7.13%) jQuery
5 10 (2.23%) HTML
5 10 (2.23%) Node.js
6 6 (1.34%) WinForms
7 5 (1.11%) Spring
8 3 (0.67%) HTML5
8 3 (0.67%) JSON
8 3 (0.67%) Pixi.js
8 3 (0.67%) React
8 3 (0.67%) Vue
9 2 (0.45%) GWT
9 2 (0.45%) JPA
9 2 (0.45%) Laravel
9 2 (0.45%) Middleware
9 2 (0.45%) REST
9 2 (0.45%) Sass
9 2 (0.45%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.24%) Learning Management System
2 30 (6.68%) Data Centre
3 23 (5.12%) Algorithms
4 19 (4.23%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.79%) Hackathon
6 16 (3.56%) Credit Risk
7 13 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.11%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.67%) BBC
12 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.67%) Life Science
12 3 (0.67%) Mobile Games
12 3 (0.67%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.23%) Linux
2 6 (1.34%) Windows
3 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.45%) Rocky
4 2 (0.45%) Unix
4 2 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (41.20%) Customer Experience
2 171 (38.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 159 (35.41%) Customer Service
4 148 (32.96%) Process Improvement
5 139 (30.96%) Data Analysis
6 136 (30.29%) Contingency Planning
6 136 (30.29%) Creative Thinking
6 136 (30.29%) Logistics
6 136 (30.29%) Performance Metrics
7 113 (25.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 96 (21.38%) Agile
9 95 (21.16%) Computer Science
10 92 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
12 53 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
13 52 (11.58%) Analytics
14 49 (10.91%) Software Engineering
15 48 (10.69%) Decision-Making
16 45 (10.02%) Data Analytics
17 42 (9.35%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (15.59%) C#
2 69 (15.37%) Java
3 56 (12.47%) Python
4 52 (11.58%) C++
5 47 (10.47%) SQL
6 35 (7.80%) PHP
7 31 (6.90%) JavaScript
8 19 (4.23%) C
9 18 (4.01%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.67%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.45%) Ada
11 2 (0.45%) Bash
11 2 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.45%) VB
12 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.22%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.22%) R
12 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 360 (80.18%) Degree
2 71 (15.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (12.47%) Master's Degree
4 40 (8.91%) PhD
5 11 (2.45%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.67%) A+ Certification
6 3 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.67%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.23%) QA
2 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.45%) GLP
3 2 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (0.45%) SLA
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.45%) Nagios
3 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (6.24%) Alteryx
2 26 (5.79%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.01%) Google
4 17 (3.79%) IBM
5 5 (1.11%) Dell
5 5 (1.11%) SAP
6 4 (0.89%) Adobe
6 4 (0.89%) Revolut
7 2 (0.45%) Marketo
7 2 (0.45%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle
7 2 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.22%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.22%) Splunk