Postgraduate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 637 832 1004
Rank change year-on-year +195 +172 -300
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 104 245 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.20% 0.073%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 0.66% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 28 83 46
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,700 £19,558
25th Percentile £37,328 £37,085 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £55,467 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,875 - £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £39,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year +8.97% +18.18% -42.61%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Postgraduate 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 17,351 36,863 31,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.59% 29.74% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10,857 16,923 17,862
10th Percentile £31,125 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
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 £72,750
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%

Postgraduate
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Postgraduate in the UK

Postgraduate
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Postgraduate in the UK

Postgraduate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Postgraduate over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Postgraduate in the UK

Postgraduate
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postgraduate within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
UK excluding London +180 98 £42,500 +8.97% 34
England +222 97 £42,500 +0.62% 54
North of England +178 33 £39,232 +13.71% 9
North West +125 22 £39,232 +13.71% 6
Midlands +103 20 £42,500 +5.48% 4
West Midlands +121 19 £41,250 +5.77% 3
East of England +68 18 - - 3
Work from Home +213 16 £55,011 +30.24% 12
South West +81 15 £55,000 +63.20% 1
Yorkshire +101 11 - - 3
London +213 5 £55,011 +20.75% 25
South East +158 5 £47,943 +50.53% 13
Scotland +51 4 - - 4
Wales - 2 £47,500 -
East Midlands +34 1 £57,500 +38.28% 1
Northern Ireland +31 1 £30,000 -22.64% 1

Postgraduate
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 1 (0.96%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) SPSS
2 3 (2.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.81%) Power Platform
2 1 (0.96%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.96%) dbt
2 1 (0.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) Network Security
1 4 (3.85%) SNMP
2 3 (2.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) LAN
3 1 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) Tableau
2 5 (4.81%) Power BI
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.96%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.96%) Looker
3 1 (0.96%) MS Access
3 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.88%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) GitLab
3 1 (0.96%) Liquibase
General
1 77 (74.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (9.62%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.73%) Games
3 7 (6.73%) Marketing
3 7 (6.73%) Social Science
4 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Finance
7 1 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 75 (72.12%) Senior
2 8 (7.69%) Lead
3 4 (3.85%) Software Engineer
4 3 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 3 (2.88%) Business Manager
4 3 (2.88%) Computer Scientist
5 2 (1.92%) Analyst
5 2 (1.92%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (1.92%) IT Technical Specialist
5 2 (1.92%) Security Specialist
5 2 (1.92%) Systems Manager
5 2 (1.92%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (0.96%) Administrator
6 1 (0.96%) Data Analyst
6 1 (0.96%) DBA
6 1 (0.96%) Network Engineer
6 1 (0.96%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (0.96%) SQL DBA
6 1 (0.96%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (0.96%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) CSS
1 2 (1.92%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (71.15%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.73%) Mobile Games
3 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
1 3 (2.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (71.15%) Feasibility Study
1 74 (71.15%) Project Delivery
2 13 (12.50%) Visualisation
3 12 (11.54%) Computer Science
4 7 (6.73%) Competitor Analysis
4 7 (6.73%) Focus Group
4 7 (6.73%) Game Development
4 7 (6.73%) Mathematics
4 7 (6.73%) Product Management
4 7 (6.73%) Psychology
4 7 (6.73%) Qualitative Research
4 7 (6.73%) Quantitative Research
4 7 (6.73%) Software Testing
4 7 (6.73%) User Experience
5 6 (5.77%) Performance Analysis
5 6 (5.77%) Physics
6 5 (4.81%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (4.81%) Software Engineering
7 4 (3.85%) Decision-Making
7 4 (3.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.46%) Python
2 7 (6.73%) Bash
2 7 (6.73%) C
2 7 (6.73%) C++
2 7 (6.73%) SQL
3 4 (3.85%) Ada
3 4 (3.85%) C#
3 4 (3.85%) Embedded C
3 4 (3.85%) Embedded C++
3 4 (3.85%) Groovy
3 4 (3.85%) Perl
3 4 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.85%) Ruby
3 4 (3.85%) Rust
4 3 (2.88%) Fortran
5 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (25.00%) Degree
2 7 (6.73%) Master's Degree
2 7 (6.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) PhD
5 2 (1.92%) CISMP
6 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) MBA
6 1 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.85%) MISRA
2 1 (0.96%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) Ansible
1 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (3.85%) Parasoft
2 1 (0.96%) Adobe
2 1 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (0.96%) Google
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft