Graduate Jobs

Graduate
UK

The median Graduate salary in the UK is £28,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 208 258
Rank change year-on-year -107 +50 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 454 1,328 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.43% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.51% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 197 587 498
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £29,500 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +7.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £34,324
90th Percentile £45,000 £42,800 £40,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £28,160 £28,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year -1.19% +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 45,395 87,903 100,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 94.66% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 26,615 64,309 62,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,645 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -8.93% -
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 3 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 3 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 -98 402 £28,160 -2.90% 524
UK excluding London -37 392 £28,160 -1.19% 321
Work from Home +105 146 £25,500 -15.00% 163
Midlands +10 142 £25,000 -10.71% 34
West Midlands -7 108 £25,000 -12.28% 12
North of England +54 105 £35,000 +32.08% 82
South East -82 59 £25,750 -14.17% 86
North West -9 48 £30,000 +11.11% 39
London -115 40 £31,250 -13.19% 264
Yorkshire +76 36 £45,000 +76.47% 23
East Midlands +36 33 £25,000 -5.66% 22
East of England +35 32 £25,000 -23.08% 38
Scotland +82 25 £45,000 +50.00% 18
South West +31 23 £28,160 +2.40% 54
North East +55 21 £25,000 -19.35% 21
Wales -24 6 £22,500 -16.67% 4

Graduate Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 365 (80.40%) Degree
2 188 (41.41%) Customer Experience
3 173 (38.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 160 (35.24%) Social Skills
5 159 (35.02%) Customer Service
6 148 (32.60%) Process Improvement
7 144 (31.72%) Microsoft Excel
8 142 (31.28%) Microsoft Office
9 139 (30.62%) Data Analysis
10 136 (29.96%) Logistics
10 136 (29.96%) Performance Metrics
10 136 (29.96%) Contingency Planning
10 136 (29.96%) Creative Thinking
11 113 (24.89%) Artificial Intelligence
12 103 (22.69%) Finance
13 100 (22.03%) Agile
14 99 (21.81%) Computer Science
15 94 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
16 75 (16.52%) Computer Science Degree
17 74 (16.30%) C#
18 73 (16.08%) Java
19 71 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
20 59 (13.00%) Master's Degree
21 57 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
22 56 (12.33%) C++
22 56 (12.33%) Python
23 52 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
23 52 (11.45%) Legal
24 51 (11.23%) Analytics
25 49 (10.79%) SQL

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 (0.44%) 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 (31.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (31.28%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.32%) Revit
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (9.03%) Azure
2 31 (6.83%) Power Platform
3 7 (1.54%) AWS
4 5 (1.10%) SaaS
5 3 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.44%) Figma
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.22%) GitHub
7 1 (0.22%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (0.44%) 4G
2 2 (0.44%) 5G
2 2 (0.44%) DNS
2 2 (0.44%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.44%) VPN
2 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
3 1 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 33 (7.27%) MySQL
3 29 (6.39%) Power BI
4 2 (0.44%) Big Data
4 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.22%) Metadata
5 1 (0.22%) Redis
5 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Git
2 5 (1.10%) 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
1 160 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 103 (22.69%) Finance
3 71 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.45%) Legal
5 42 (9.25%) Organisational Skills
6 40 (8.81%) Banking
7 36 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.74%) Marketing
9 15 (3.30%) Law
10 14 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.64%) Electronics
12 7 (1.54%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.32%) Retail
14 5 (1.10%) German Language
15 4 (0.88%) Games
16 3 (0.66%) iGaming
16 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.13%) CSS
2 41 (9.03%) .NET
3 37 (8.15%) ASP.NET
4 36 (7.93%) jQuery
5 10 (2.20%) HTML
5 10 (2.20%) Node.js
6 6 (1.32%) WinForms
7 5 (1.10%) Spring
8 3 (0.66%) HTML5
8 3 (0.66%) JSON
8 3 (0.66%) Pixi.js
8 3 (0.66%) React
8 3 (0.66%) Vue
9 2 (0.44%) GWT
9 2 (0.44%) JPA
9 2 (0.44%) Laravel
9 2 (0.44%) Middleware
9 2 (0.44%) REST
9 2 (0.44%) Sass
9 2 (0.44%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.15%) Learning Management System
2 30 (6.61%) Data Centre
3 23 (5.07%) Algorithms
4 19 (4.19%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.74%) Hackathon
6 16 (3.52%) Credit Risk
7 13 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.88%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.66%) BBC
12 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.66%) Life Science
12 3 (0.66%) Mobile Games
12 3 (0.66%) Solar Panel
12 3 (0.66%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.20%) Linux
2 6 (1.32%) Windows
3 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.44%) Rocky
4 2 (0.44%) Unix
4 2 (0.44%) VMS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (41.41%) Customer Experience
2 173 (38.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 159 (35.02%) Customer Service
4 148 (32.60%) Process Improvement
5 139 (30.62%) Data Analysis
6 136 (29.96%) Contingency Planning
6 136 (29.96%) Creative Thinking
6 136 (29.96%) Logistics
6 136 (29.96%) Performance Metrics
7 113 (24.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 100 (22.03%) Agile
9 99 (21.81%) Computer Science
10 94 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
12 52 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
13 51 (11.23%) Analytics
14 49 (10.79%) Software Engineering
15 48 (10.57%) Decision-Making
16 44 (9.69%) Data Analytics
17 42 (9.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (16.30%) C#
2 73 (16.08%) Java
3 56 (12.33%) C++
3 56 (12.33%) Python
4 49 (10.79%) SQL
5 39 (8.59%) PHP
6 31 (6.83%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.19%) C
8 18 (3.96%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.66%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.44%) Ada
10 2 (0.44%) Bash
10 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.44%) VB
11 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.22%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.22%) R
11 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 365 (80.40%) Degree
2 75 (16.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (13.00%) Master's Degree
4 40 (8.81%) PhD
5 11 (2.42%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.66%) A+ Certification
6 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.66%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.20%) QA
2 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.44%) GLP
3 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (0.44%) SLA
4 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.22%) Docker
1 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.44%) Nagios
3 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (6.17%) Alteryx
2 26 (5.73%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.96%) Google
4 17 (3.74%) IBM
5 5 (1.10%) Dell
5 5 (1.10%) SAP
6 4 (0.88%) Adobe
6 4 (0.88%) Revolut
7 2 (0.44%) Marketo
7 2 (0.44%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle
7 2 (0.44%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.44%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.22%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.22%) Splunk