Degree Jobs in the West Midlands

Academic Degree
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Degree 923 647 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.98% 18.16% 24.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.91% 52.90% 67.23%
Number of salaries quoted 189 487 878
10th Percentile £28,226 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% +2.22%
75th Percentile £60,250 £58,750 £54,688
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

Degree 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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,681 1,223 2,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.92% 34.33% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 532 933 1,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £28,520
25th Percentile £42,376 £37,500 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Warwickshire +1 305 £53,750 +16.85% 71
Birmingham +1 215 £47,500 -5.00% 79
Staffordshire +5 101 £41,750 -12.11% 133
Coventry +3 85 £52,500 +9.26% 35
Worcestershire -1 50 £37,500 -14.29% 25
Solihull +25 28 £52,500 +10.53% 1
Sutton Coldfield - 23 £27,000 - 1
Wolverhampton -3 12 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Shropshire +5 9 £21,000 -47.50% 12
Wednesbury +4 9 - -
Walsall -3 7 - - 1
Brierley Hill - 6 £26,000 -
Herefordshire -6 5 - - 8
Dudley +1 4 - - 4
Halesowen +5 3 - - 4
Tipton 0 3 - - 2
Kingswinford - 3 - -
Bilston - 3 - -
Willenhall - 3 - -
West Bromwich - 3 - -
Stourbridge - 3 - - 2
Smethwick - 3 - - 1
Rowley Regis - 3 - -
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 29 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.87%) Apache
4 6 (0.65%) IIS
4 6 (0.65%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.43%) Confluence
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 271 (29.36%) Microsoft Office
2 255 (27.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.41%) Simulink
4 10 (1.08%) Stateflow
5 8 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.54%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.54%) Trello
7 4 (0.43%) Revit
7 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.33%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.33%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.11%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.65%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Shopify
4 2 (0.22%) Maximo
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (9.53%) Azure
2 50 (5.42%) Power Platform
3 34 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.25%) AWS
5 20 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
6 19 (2.06%) Google Workspace
6 19 (2.06%) SaaS
7 10 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 9 (0.98%) Power Automate
9 8 (0.87%) GCP
9 8 (0.87%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.33%) Azure API Management
11 3 (0.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.33%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.33%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.22%) Azure Storage
12 2 (0.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 2 (0.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 121 (13.11%) WLAN
2 110 (11.92%) Internet
2 110 (11.92%) Network Security
3 46 (4.98%) Firewall
4 32 (3.47%) DHCP
4 32 (3.47%) DNS
5 27 (2.93%) TCP/IP
6 25 (2.71%) VLAN
7 24 (2.60%) BGP
7 24 (2.60%) OSPF
8 15 (1.63%) Ethernet
8 15 (1.63%) WAN
9 12 (1.30%) Wireless
10 11 (1.19%) FlexRay
10 11 (1.19%) VPN
11 9 (0.98%) LAN
12 8 (0.87%) SAN
12 8 (0.87%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 33 (3.58%) Power BI
3 18 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.87%) MySQL
8 6 (0.65%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.33%) Tableau
11 2 (0.22%) Big Data
11 2 (0.22%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
11 2 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.22%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.22%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (1.73%) Visual Studio
2 11 (1.19%) Git
3 10 (1.08%) JIRA
4 4 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.33%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.22%) CANoe
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.11%) CMake
7 1 (0.11%) GitLab
7 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.11%) Postman
7 1 (0.11%) PowerBuilder
General
1 310 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 187 (20.26%) Military
3 151 (16.36%) Retail
4 101 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (10.73%) Presentation Skills
6 72 (7.80%) Finance
7 55 (5.96%) Manufacturing
8 48 (5.20%) Legal
9 46 (4.98%) Automotive
10 43 (4.66%) Marketing
11 26 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (2.38%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.84%) Agriculture
14 16 (1.73%) Law
14 16 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.73%) Police
15 14 (1.52%) Banking
16 13 (1.41%) Local Government
17 10 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 246 (26.65%) Graduate
2 121 (13.11%) IT Engineer
3 114 (12.35%) IT Support
4 106 (11.48%) Support Engineer
5 101 (10.94%) IT Support Engineer
6 82 (8.88%) Analyst
7 68 (7.37%) Senior
8 55 (5.96%) Developer
9 36 (3.90%) Security Engineer
10 33 (3.58%) Consultant
11 32 (3.47%) Project Manager
12 26 (2.82%) Architect
12 26 (2.82%) Security Analyst
13 25 (2.71%) Lead
14 24 (2.60%) Systems Engineer
15 23 (2.49%) Software Engineer
16 21 (2.28%) Junior
17 20 (2.17%) Business Analyst
17 20 (2.17%) Principal Engineer
18 17 (1.84%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (4.66%) .NET
2 27 (2.93%) HTML
3 17 (1.84%) JSON
4 14 (1.52%) CSS
5 12 (1.30%) .NET Framework
6 11 (1.19%) Entity Framework
7 9 (0.98%) XML
8 8 (0.87%) ASP.NET
9 6 (0.65%) Vue
9 6 (0.65%) Web Services
9 6 (0.65%) XSLT
10 5 (0.54%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 4 (0.43%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.43%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.43%) Blazor
11 4 (0.43%) HTML5
11 4 (0.43%) Laravel
11 4 (0.43%) MFC
11 4 (0.43%) NumPy
11 4 (0.43%) React
Miscellaneous
1 330 (35.75%) Onboarding
2 116 (12.57%) Driving Licence
3 53 (5.74%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.49%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.06%) Smartphone
6 12 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 12 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (0.98%) Credit Risk
7 9 (0.98%) FMCG
8 8 (0.87%) Virtual Team
9 7 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (0.65%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.65%) Wiki
11 5 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (0.43%) IoT
12 4 (0.43%) PKI
12 4 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 183 (19.83%) Windows
2 159 (17.23%) Linux
3 43 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 23 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 22 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (2.28%) Mac OS X
8 20 (2.17%) Ubuntu
9 17 (1.84%) Unix
10 6 (0.65%) Solaris
11 3 (0.33%) Android
12 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.22%) VMS
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (38.03%) Customer Service
2 329 (35.64%) Data Analysis
3 320 (34.67%) Problem-Solving
4 273 (29.58%) Computer Science
5 259 (28.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 254 (27.52%) Logistics
7 251 (27.19%) Process Improvement
8 230 (24.92%) Customer Experience
9 225 (24.38%) Performance Metrics
10 220 (23.84%) Contingency Planning
10 220 (23.84%) Creative Thinking
11 217 (23.51%) Mentoring
12 150 (16.25%) ITIL
13 124 (13.43%) Mathematics
14 110 (11.92%) Asset Management
15 102 (11.05%) Network Management
16 100 (10.83%) IT Asset Management
17 90 (9.75%) Project Management
18 89 (9.64%) Mechatronics
19 88 (9.53%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 119 (12.89%) SQL
2 49 (5.31%) Python
3 44 (4.77%) C++
4 43 (4.66%) PowerShell
5 37 (4.01%) C#
6 34 (3.68%) JavaScript
7 26 (2.82%) Java
8 16 (1.73%) MATLAB
9 14 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.41%) C
11 10 (1.08%) Bash
11 10 (1.08%) PHP
12 8 (0.87%) VBA
13 6 (0.65%) VB
14 5 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.43%) Perl
15 4 (0.43%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.33%) R
16 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 206 (22.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 142 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 127 (13.76%) MCSE
4 120 (13.00%) Cisco Certification
5 118 (12.78%) CCNA
6 114 (12.35%) CCNP
7 107 (11.59%) HNC
8 103 (11.16%) MCP
9 100 (10.83%) LPIC
10 48 (5.20%) CISSP
11 36 (3.90%) CISM
12 31 (3.36%) Security Cleared
13 30 (3.25%) Master's Degree
14 27 (2.93%) HND
15 20 (2.17%) CESG Certified Professional
16 15 (1.63%) CISA
17 13 (1.41%) SC Cleared
18 10 (1.08%) PMP
19 8 (0.87%) MCSA
19 8 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.31%) QA
2 45 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (3.68%) NIST
4 16 (1.73%) JSP 440
4 16 (1.73%) RMADS
5 13 (1.41%) ISO 26262
6 11 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.19%) GDPR
7 9 (0.98%) SLA
8 8 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.87%) PMO
9 6 (0.65%) GMP
10 5 (0.54%) ISO 14001
10 5 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.54%) NCSC
11 3 (0.33%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.22%) COBIT
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 55 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.95%) Hyper-V
4 9 (0.98%) vSphere
5 7 (0.76%) Docker
6 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) XenApp
8 2 (0.22%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 17 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.98%) SCCM
2 9 (0.98%) Terraform
3 7 (0.76%) SCOM
3 7 (0.76%) Stealthwatch
4 5 (0.54%) Ansible
5 4 (0.43%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.43%) Nessus
6 3 (0.33%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.22%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.22%) WSUS
8 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 241 (26.11%) Microsoft
2 132 (14.30%) Cisco
3 29 (3.14%) Google
4 28 (3.03%) VMware
5 26 (2.82%) Apple
5 26 (2.82%) Dell
6 22 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 19 (2.06%) Ubiquiti
8 16 (1.73%) SAP
9 14 (1.52%) Oracle
10 10 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.98%) Databricks
11 9 (0.98%) NEC
12 7 (0.76%) Adobe
12 7 (0.76%) Meraki
13 6 (0.65%) HP
14 5 (0.54%) Ariba
14 5 (0.54%) Juniper
15 4 (0.43%) Autodesk
15 4 (0.43%) NetApp