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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,371 1,067 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.71% 14.74% 25.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.30% 56.13% 63.06%
Number of salaries quoted 197 609 507
10th Percentile £27,200 £25,000 £30,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £78,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,600 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.19% -8.70% +4.55%

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 2,525 1,901 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.55% 26.26% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 572 1,277 969
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,475 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 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
Warwickshire 0 672 £60,000 +62.16% 106
Birmingham +8 297 £43,000 -21.82% 148
Coventry +9 152 £63,500 +88.15% 78
Staffordshire -2 73 £39,500 -1.25% 239
Solihull +13 32 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Worcestershire -2 23 £15,000 -70.00% 36
Wolverhampton +1 19 £64,000 +156.00% 10
Shropshire -3 17 £37,500 -28.57% 18
Walsall +6 16 £55,000 +38.72% 5
Sutton Coldfield +1 8 - - 1
Herefordshire +11 7 £45,000 -47.06% 5
Dudley -3 5 £35,000 +40.00% 3
West Bromwich -4 3 - -
Willenhall -4 3 - -
Tipton +2 2 - - 2
Bilston 0 2 - -
Rowley Regis 0 2 - -
Smethwick 0 2 - -
Kingswinford - 2 - -
Halesowen +7 1 - - 1
Brierley Hill +4 1 - -
Wednesbury +3 1 - - 1
Stourbridge - 1 - - 1
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 23 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.15%) Apache
3 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.073%) Confluence
4 1 (0.073%) SAS
Applications
1 94 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.48%) Chatbot
4 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.58%) Revit
6 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.36%) Simulink
8 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (0.66%) Shopify
3 7 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.15%) Magento
7 1 (0.073%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.073%) iTrent
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.073%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (7.00%) Azure
2 54 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (2.84%) AWS
4 36 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 16 (1.17%) Google Workspace
6 12 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (0.80%) Power Automate
8 10 (0.73%) Entra ID
9 9 (0.66%) PowerApps
10 8 (0.58%) SaaS
11 7 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.51%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.44%) GCP
12 6 (0.44%) Serverless
13 4 (0.29%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.29%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (0.29%) Google App Engine
13 4 (0.29%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 88 (6.42%) WLAN
2 76 (5.54%) Internet
2 76 (5.54%) Network Security
3 43 (3.14%) Firewall
4 42 (3.06%) LAN
4 42 (3.06%) WAN
5 30 (2.19%) VoIP
6 27 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 25 (1.82%) DHCP
8 20 (1.46%) DNS
9 18 (1.31%) VLAN
10 17 (1.24%) BGP
10 17 (1.24%) OSPF
11 12 (0.88%) VPN
12 4 (0.29%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.22%) IPsec
14 2 (0.15%) Intranet
14 2 (0.15%) Modbus
14 2 (0.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.26%) Power BI
2 17 (1.24%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.02%) Relational Database
4 9 (0.66%) Big Data
5 8 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.44%) MySQL
8 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.36%) Tableau
9 4 (0.29%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.29%) Cloud Spanner
9 4 (0.29%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.22%) Metadata
10 3 (0.22%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.15%) DB2
11 2 (0.15%) Looker
11 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (2.26%) JIRA
2 18 (1.31%) Selenium
3 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.29%) Git
5 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.15%) ERwin
5 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.073%) Babel
6 1 (0.073%) JMeter
6 1 (0.073%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.073%) Mocha
6 1 (0.073%) Subversion
6 1 (0.073%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.073%) webpack
General
1 234 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 191 (13.93%) Law
3 121 (8.83%) Automotive
4 115 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (7.95%) Telecoms
6 96 (7.00%) Manufacturing
7 73 (5.32%) Finance
8 57 (4.16%) Retail
9 40 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (2.04%) Legal
11 24 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.17%) Marketing
12 16 (1.17%) Police
13 13 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.95%) Public Sector
14 12 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.73%) Advertising
15 10 (0.73%) Electronics
16 6 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.36%) Banking
Job Titles
1 634 (46.24%) Principal Engineer
2 484 (35.30%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 176 (12.84%) Senior
4 140 (10.21%) Systems Engineer
5 132 (9.63%) Security Engineer
6 117 (8.53%) Validation Engineer
7 114 (8.32%) IT Support
8 107 (7.80%) Analyst
9 99 (7.22%) Integration Engineer
9 99 (7.22%) System Verification Engineer
9 99 (7.22%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 98 (7.15%) Principal Security Engineer
11 91 (6.64%) IT Engineer
12 81 (5.91%) Support Engineer
13 75 (5.47%) Graduate
14 73 (5.32%) IT Support Engineer
15 61 (4.45%) Security Analyst
16 59 (4.30%) Principal Security Analyst
16 59 (4.30%) Product Analyst
17 46 (3.36%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.75%) .NET
2 12 (0.88%) Loki
3 10 (0.73%) CSS
4 8 (0.58%) ASP.NET
5 7 (0.51%) Middleware
5 7 (0.51%) React
5 7 (0.51%) Web Services
5 7 (0.51%) WinForms
6 6 (0.44%) jQuery
7 5 (0.36%) GWT
7 5 (0.36%) HTML
7 5 (0.36%) J2EE
7 5 (0.36%) JPA
7 5 (0.36%) Vaadin
8 4 (0.29%) Express.js
8 4 (0.29%) Node.js
8 4 (0.29%) React Native
8 4 (0.29%) RESTful
9 3 (0.22%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.98%) Driving Licence
2 37 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 30 (2.19%) CCTV
4 23 (1.68%) SCADA
5 19 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 16 (1.17%) Smartphone
7 12 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 12 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (0.66%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (0.51%) NHS
10 7 (0.51%) PKI
11 6 (0.44%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.44%) EPoS
12 5 (0.36%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.36%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.29%) Cyberattack
13 4 (0.29%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 145 (10.58%) Windows
2 104 (7.59%) Linux
3 46 (3.36%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.17%) Mac OS X
7 16 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.36%) Rocky
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.073%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (41.21%) Systems Engineering
2 271 (19.77%) Computer Science
3 267 (19.47%) Collaborative Working
4 256 (18.67%) Mathematics
5 245 (17.87%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 226 (16.48%) Logistics
7 205 (14.95%) Physics
8 197 (14.37%) Cybersecurity
9 155 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
10 150 (10.94%) Risk Management
11 149 (10.87%) Project Management
12 140 (10.21%) Chemistry
13 128 (9.34%) Data Analysis
14 125 (9.12%) Validation
15 117 (8.53%) Mentoring
16 116 (8.46%) SysML
17 115 (8.39%) Systems Thinking
18 113 (8.24%) Information Security
19 106 (7.73%) ITIL
20 101 (7.37%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 82 (5.98%) SQL
2 36 (2.63%) Python
3 34 (2.48%) Java
4 31 (2.26%) C#
5 28 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 24 (1.75%) C++
7 17 (1.24%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.09%) R
9 13 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.58%) C
11 7 (0.51%) PHP
12 5 (0.36%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.29%) Bash
14 2 (0.15%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.073%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.073%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 617 (45.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 180 (13.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 117 (8.53%) ISTQB
4 104 (7.59%) CISSP
5 100 (7.29%) CISM
6 99 (7.22%) Chartered Engineer
7 98 (7.15%) CESG Certified Professional
8 96 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 93 (6.78%) MCSE
10 78 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
11 77 (5.62%) CCNA
12 75 (5.47%) CCNP
13 72 (5.25%) LPIC
13 72 (5.25%) MCP
14 46 (3.36%) Master's Degree
15 34 (2.48%) HND
16 32 (2.33%) PhD
17 25 (1.82%) Security Cleared
18 22 (1.60%) HNC
19 21 (1.53%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 106 (7.73%) NIST
3 103 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (7.15%) JSP 440
4 98 (7.15%) RMADS
5 12 (0.88%) QA
6 10 (0.73%) SLA
7 8 (0.58%) PMO
8 5 (0.36%) GDPR
9 4 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.29%) NEBOSH
10 3 (0.22%) NCSC
10 3 (0.22%) PMBOK
11 2 (0.15%) COBIT
11 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.073%) DO-254
12 1 (0.073%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.073%) P3O
System Software
1 66 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.51%) Firmware
4 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.22%) Docker
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.02%) Terraform
3 12 (0.88%) Grafana
3 12 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.22%) Ansible
5 3 (0.22%) SCCM
6 2 (0.15%) Nessus
6 2 (0.15%) SCOM
6 2 (0.15%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.15%) SCSM
7 1 (0.073%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.073%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.073%) Puppet
7 1 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 188 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 100 (7.29%) Cisco
3 50 (3.65%) Siemens
4 34 (2.48%) PayPal
5 24 (1.75%) Google
6 22 (1.60%) Dell
7 21 (1.53%) Apple
8 16 (1.17%) Fortinet
8 16 (1.17%) Ubiquiti
9 11 (0.80%) VMware
10 10 (0.73%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.66%) Juniper
11 9 (0.66%) SAP
12 6 (0.44%) McAfee
13 5 (0.36%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.36%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.29%) IBM
14 4 (0.29%) Oracle
14 4 (0.29%) Zoho
15 3 (0.22%) Facebook