Postgraduate Jobs

Postgraduate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 783 819
Rank change year-on-year +122 +36 +223
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 45 115 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% 0.42% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12 74 82
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,388 £30,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £38,089 £35,333
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,543 £47,560 £43,619
Median % change year-on-year +29.40% +9.04% -17.70%
75th Percentile £76,500 £56,619 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,025 £81,891 £72,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,086 £38,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year +37.88% -1.28% -22.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Postgraduate 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 26,900 27,489 32,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.16% 27.71% 32.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,537 17,297 14,888
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -8.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,276
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.49% +2.55%

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 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Postgraduate in the UK

Postgraduate
Top 12 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 11 May 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 +110 41 £70,000 +42.86% 109
UK excluding London +157 24 £53,086 +37.88% 85
London +87 20 £82,500 +58.65% 40
Midlands +69 13 £73,000 +92.11% 9
West Midlands +66 13 £73,000 +92.11% 3
Work from Home +138 10 £53,086 +14.11% 31
South East +101 4 £28,500 -50.43% 30
Scotland +122 3 £53,086 +47.46% 8
North of England +51 2 £47,928 +15.49% 11
East of England +29 2 £32,500 -25.64% 13
Yorkshire +64 1 £70,000 - 5
North West -5 1 £25,856 -37.70% 5

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 2 (4.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Adobe Captivate
1 2 (4.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (4.44%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (4.44%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (4.44%) Final Cut Pro
1 2 (4.44%) InDesign
1 2 (4.44%) LaTeX
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.78%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) AWS
3 2 (4.44%) Asana
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
1 1 (2.22%) tcpdump
1 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (4.44%) Couchbase
1 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
1 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Git
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) GDB
2 1 (2.22%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.22%) Liquibase
2 1 (2.22%) WinDbg
General
1 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Humanities
3 8 (17.78%) Local Government
4 4 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Advertising
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Legal
6 2 (4.44%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Front Office
7 1 (2.22%) Games
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Lecturer
2 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Data Scientist
5 2 (4.44%) IT Assistant
5 2 (4.44%) IT Director
5 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Recruitment Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Risk Officer
5 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Administrator
6 1 (2.22%) Database Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Development Specialist
6 1 (2.22%) Python Developer
6 1 (2.22%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.22%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.22%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Django
1 2 (4.44%) EDI
2 1 (2.22%) Flask
2 1 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (2.22%) libvirt
2 1 (2.22%) MFC
2 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.22%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.44%) Credit Risk
2 2 (4.44%) Educational Technology
2 2 (4.44%) Learning Management System
2 2 (4.44%) Market Risk
2 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.22%) Clustering
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) NHS
3 1 (2.22%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 11 (24.44%) Mathematics
4 10 (22.22%) Data Science
4 10 (22.22%) Psychology
5 9 (20.00%) ITIL
6 8 (17.78%) Physics
7 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (15.56%) Strategic Planning
8 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (11.11%) Agile
10 4 (8.89%) Biology
10 4 (8.89%) Chemistry
10 4 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (8.89%) Decision-Making
10 4 (8.89%) Project Management
11 3 (6.67%) Change Management
11 3 (6.67%) DevOps
11 3 (6.67%) Model Validation
11 3 (6.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (8.89%) C++
3 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.22%) C
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) CodeQL
4 1 (2.22%) Fortran
4 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.22%) PHP
4 1 (2.22%) R
4 1 (2.22%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) VB
4 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (57.78%) Degree
2 7 (15.56%) AWS Certification
2 7 (15.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (11.11%) PhD
4 2 (4.44%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Novell Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Ansible
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Adobe
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.44%) Xerox