Degree Jobs in Wales

Academic Degree
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 3 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Degree 263 363 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.98% 21.59% 12.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.27% 56.37% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 104 128 121
10th Percentile £26,325 £28,850 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £45,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +11.11% +9.46%
75th Percentile £52,596 £60,987 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,100 £75,750 £60,000
UK median annual salary £52,101 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

Degree 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 advertised in Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 513 644 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 25.32% 38.31% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 193 241 229
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £34,351
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,658 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% -2.98% +11.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,800 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,389 £70,600 £71,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Wales

Degree
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in Wales.

Salary trend for Degree in Wales

Degree
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in Wales

Degree
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
South Wales -5 156 £45,000 -2.17% 73
North Wales -2 75 £34,000 -27.40% 18
Mid Wales +5 15 £35,000 -5.72% 8
West Wales -19 14 £32,500 -18.75% 9
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 30 (11.41%) Oracle Service Bus
1 30 (11.41%) WebLogic
2 9 (3.42%) SAS
3 5 (1.90%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.52%) Apache
4 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.52%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.76%) Confluence
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 50 (19.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (15.97%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (12.17%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.52%) AutoCAD
5 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.38%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 30 (11.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.76%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 23 (8.75%) Azure
2 11 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (3.42%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.28%) AWS
5 5 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.90%) Nutanix
6 4 (1.52%) Azure API Management
6 4 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.52%) iPaaS
6 4 (1.52%) PaaS
6 4 (1.52%) SaaS
6 4 (1.52%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.76%) Miro
7 2 (0.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.70%) Firewall
1 15 (5.70%) LAN
1 15 (5.70%) WAN
2 12 (4.56%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (3.42%) DHCP
3 9 (3.42%) DNS
3 9 (3.42%) MPLS
4 8 (3.04%) Network Security
4 8 (3.04%) VLAN
5 7 (2.66%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.90%) VPN
6 5 (1.90%) WLAN
7 4 (1.52%) Profibus
7 4 (1.52%) SAN
7 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.52%) VoIP
8 3 (1.14%) Bluetooth
8 3 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.14%) Internet
8 3 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.45%) Oracle Database
2 31 (11.79%) Oracle Database 11g
3 30 (11.41%) Oracle Database 10g
3 30 (11.41%) VLDB
4 20 (7.60%) SQL Server
5 19 (7.22%) RDBMS
5 19 (7.22%) Relational Database
6 14 (5.32%) MySQL
7 7 (2.66%) Oracle Database 12c
8 5 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.90%) Power BI
8 5 (1.90%) QlikView
9 4 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.14%) Tableau
11 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.76%) GIS
11 2 (0.76%) Looker
12 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.04%) Git
2 7 (2.66%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (1.52%) Selenium
4 3 (1.14%) Subversion
5 2 (0.76%) JIRA
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
General
1 127 (48.29%) Social Skills
2 83 (31.56%) Manufacturing
3 72 (27.38%) Influencing Skills
3 72 (27.38%) Presentation Skills
4 69 (26.24%) Law
5 66 (25.10%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (12.17%) Finance
7 24 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (7.22%) Local Government
9 16 (6.08%) Police
10 14 (5.32%) Retail
11 9 (3.42%) Public Sector
12 8 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (3.04%) Welsh Language
13 7 (2.66%) Electronics
14 6 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (2.28%) Games
14 6 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.52%) Banking
16 3 (1.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 72 (27.38%) Automation Engineer
2 70 (26.62%) Graduate
3 69 (26.24%) Analyst
4 68 (25.86%) Graduate IT Engineer
4 68 (25.86%) IT Engineer
4 68 (25.86%) IT Graduate
5 47 (17.87%) Senior
6 32 (12.17%) Support Analyst
7 31 (11.79%) Applications Support
7 31 (11.79%) Applications Support Analyst
8 30 (11.41%) Oracle Analyst
8 30 (11.41%) Oracle Support Analyst
8 30 (11.41%) SQL Analyst
8 30 (11.41%) SQL Support Analyst
9 21 (7.98%) Developer
10 15 (5.70%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (5.70%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.32%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.80%) Junior
13 9 (3.42%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.42%) .NET
2 8 (3.04%) JSON
2 8 (3.04%) RESTful
2 8 (3.04%) SOAP
2 8 (3.04%) XML
3 7 (2.66%) Web Services
4 5 (1.90%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.52%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.52%) Node.js
6 3 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.14%) COM
6 3 (1.14%) Express.js
6 3 (1.14%) Vue
6 3 (1.14%) WinForms
7 2 (0.76%) CSS
7 2 (0.76%) HTML
7 2 (0.76%) React
8 1 (0.38%) Laravel
8 1 (0.38%) REST
8 1 (0.38%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 69 (26.24%) FMCG
2 16 (6.08%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.04%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.28%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.52%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.52%) Housing Association
6 4 (1.52%) Photovoltaics
6 4 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.52%) Robotics
7 2 (0.76%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.76%) FPGA
7 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.76%) PCIe
7 2 (0.76%) VHDL
8 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.38%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (19.77%) Linux
2 35 (13.31%) Unix
3 30 (11.41%) Solaris
4 25 (9.51%) Windows
5 13 (4.94%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.52%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (1.52%) VxWorks
6 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.14%) CatOS
8 1 (0.38%) Debian
8 1 (0.38%) Fedora
8 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (41.44%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (31.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (26.24%) Lean Six Sigma
3 69 (26.24%) Six Sigma
4 68 (25.86%) Benchmarking
4 68 (25.86%) Lean Manufacturing
4 68 (25.86%) Order Management
5 55 (20.91%) Actionable Insight
6 48 (18.25%) Capacity Planning
7 40 (15.21%) Artificial Intelligence
7 40 (15.21%) Performance Tuning
8 39 (14.83%) Computer Science
9 38 (14.45%) Agile
10 35 (13.31%) Incident Management
11 33 (12.55%) ITSM
12 30 (11.41%) Capacity Management
12 30 (11.41%) Performance Monitoring
12 30 (11.41%) Release Management
13 26 (9.89%) Project Management
14 20 (7.60%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 69 (26.24%) SQL
2 37 (14.07%) PL/SQL
3 18 (6.84%) C#
4 13 (4.94%) Python
5 12 (4.56%) C
6 8 (3.04%) C++
6 8 (3.04%) Java
7 7 (2.66%) R
8 5 (1.90%) Groovy
9 4 (1.52%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.14%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.14%) VB
11 2 (0.76%) Bash
11 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (25.86%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
2 56 (21.29%) Security Cleared
3 50 (19.01%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.80%) CCNA
7 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.04%) HND
9 7 (2.66%) ACCA
9 7 (2.66%) CIMA
9 7 (2.66%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.28%) HNC
11 5 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (1.52%) A+ Certification
13 3 (1.14%) CCIE
13 3 (1.14%) CCNP
13 3 (1.14%) Check Point Certification
14 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.76%) PhD
14 2 (0.76%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.45%) SLA
2 11 (4.18%) IFRS
3 6 (2.28%) QA
4 4 (1.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.52%) CRD IV
4 4 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.52%) IFRS 9
4 4 (1.52%) ISO 13485
4 4 (1.52%) NEBOSH
5 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.76%) GDPR
6 2 (0.76%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) MISRA
System Software
1 30 (11.41%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.66%) Docker
4 4 (1.52%) Firmware
4 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (11.41%) Data Guard
1 30 (11.41%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (1.90%) Ansible
2 5 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.90%) SCCM
3 3 (1.14%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 43 (16.35%) Oracle
3 30 (11.41%) Remedy
3 30 (11.41%) Sun
4 9 (3.42%) VMware
5 8 (3.04%) Cisco
6 7 (2.66%) Hyperion
6 7 (2.66%) PeopleSoft
7 4 (1.52%) Acronis
7 4 (1.52%) Aruba
7 4 (1.52%) Autodesk
7 4 (1.52%) Datto
7 4 (1.52%) Mitel
7 4 (1.52%) QNX
7 4 (1.52%) SAP
7 4 (1.52%) Sophos
7 4 (1.52%) Veeam
8 3 (1.14%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.14%) Siemens
9 2 (0.76%) EMC