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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,346 1,198 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.19% 15.18% 25.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.34% 58.21% 61.90%
Number of salaries quoted 182 619 521
10th Percentile £25,125 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,649 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,600 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -12.50% +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 2,389 2,058 2,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 57.13% 26.07% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 559 1,292 960
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -9.34% +9.09%

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 31 May 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 31 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
Warwickshire -1 598 £60,000 +61.07% 103
Birmingham +8 284 £43,500 -20.91% 145
Staffordshire +1 166 £39,500 -1.25% 157
Coventry +5 154 £72,250 +131.20% 70
Shropshire 0 33 £55,000 +2.33% 21
Solihull +4 25 £60,000 +20.00% 20
Worcestershire -9 19 £15,000 -70.00% 39
Wolverhampton -1 13 £64,000 +156.00% 13
Herefordshire +9 5 £40,367 -52.51% 3
Walsall +5 5 £44,000 +10.97% 2
Willenhall -2 4 - -
Sutton Coldfield -3 4 - -
Tipton +2 2 £47,500 +90.00% 3
West Bromwich -4 2 - -
Smethwick +1 1 - -
Bilston 0 1 - -
Rowley Regis 0 1 - -
Kingswinford - 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 21 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.45%) Confluence
4 3 (0.22%) nginx
5 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 68 (5.05%) Chatbot
2 32 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.52%) Revit
6 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.22%) Simulink
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.074%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Shopify
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.15%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.15%) Magento
6 1 (0.074%) iTrent
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 97 (7.21%) Azure
2 57 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (3.19%) AWS
4 24 (1.78%) Power Platform
5 15 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (0.82%) Entra ID
6 11 (0.82%) Google Workspace
7 9 (0.67%) GCP
8 8 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (0.52%) OneDrive
9 7 (0.52%) Serverless
10 6 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (0.45%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (0.45%) Amazon S3
10 6 (0.45%) AWS KMS
10 6 (0.45%) Power Automate
10 6 (0.45%) PowerApps
10 6 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.49%) LAN
1 47 (3.49%) WAN
2 44 (3.27%) Firewall
3 34 (2.53%) WLAN
4 30 (2.23%) VoIP
5 25 (1.86%) Internet
5 25 (1.86%) Network Security
6 24 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.63%) DHCP
7 22 (1.63%) DNS
8 14 (1.04%) Broadband
9 13 (0.97%) VLAN
9 13 (0.97%) VPN
10 12 (0.89%) BGP
10 12 (0.89%) OSPF
11 7 (0.52%) HTTP
12 6 (0.45%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.45%) Modbus
12 6 (0.45%) Profibus
13 5 (0.37%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (1.63%) Power BI
2 19 (1.41%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.52%) Big Data
3 7 (0.52%) MySQL
3 7 (0.52%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.52%) Relational Database
3 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 5 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.30%) Cloud Spanner
6 4 (0.30%) Tableau
7 3 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.22%) Metadata
7 3 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 32 (2.38%) JIRA
2 18 (1.34%) Selenium
3 9 (0.67%) Git
4 7 (0.52%) Vagrant
5 6 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.15%) ERwin
8 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.074%) Subversion
General
1 247 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 197 (14.64%) Manufacturing
3 158 (11.74%) Retail
4 140 (10.40%) Law
5 113 (8.40%) Automotive
6 110 (8.17%) Telecoms
7 97 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
8 59 (4.38%) Finance
8 59 (4.38%) Legal
9 54 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (2.08%) Dutch Language
11 28 (2.08%) Finnish Language
11 28 (2.08%) Norwegian Language
12 19 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.97%) Marketing
14 13 (0.97%) Public Sector
15 11 (0.82%) Electronics
15 11 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 552 (41.01%) Principal Engineer
2 402 (29.87%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 201 (14.93%) Senior
4 173 (12.85%) Trainer
5 146 (10.85%) Systems Engineer
6 131 (9.73%) Security Engineer
7 109 (8.10%) Analyst
8 98 (7.28%) Principal Security Engineer
9 84 (6.24%) Validation Engineer
10 66 (4.90%) Integration Engineer
10 66 (4.90%) IT Support
10 66 (4.90%) System Verification Engineer
10 66 (4.90%) Systems Integration Engineer
11 60 (4.46%) Security Analyst
12 59 (4.38%) Principal Security Analyst
12 59 (4.38%) Product Analyst
13 47 (3.49%) IT Manager
14 39 (2.90%) Product Engineer
14 39 (2.90%) Support Engineer
15 36 (2.67%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.63%) .NET
2 12 (0.89%) HTML
2 12 (0.89%) Loki
3 11 (0.82%) CSS
4 7 (0.52%) ASP.NET
4 7 (0.52%) jQuery
4 7 (0.52%) Middleware
4 7 (0.52%) React
4 7 (0.52%) Web Services
4 7 (0.52%) WinForms
5 6 (0.45%) Node.js
6 5 (0.37%) GWT
6 5 (0.37%) J2EE
6 5 (0.37%) JPA
6 5 (0.37%) Vaadin
7 4 (0.30%) Express.js
7 4 (0.30%) React Native
8 3 (0.22%) EDI
8 3 (0.22%) LDAP
8 3 (0.22%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.80%) Robotics
2 36 (2.67%) Driving Licence
3 31 (2.30%) Management Information System
4 30 (2.23%) CCTV
5 27 (2.01%) SCADA
6 19 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (1.34%) Operational Technology
8 11 (0.82%) Smartphone
9 10 (0.74%) Mobile App
10 9 (0.67%) Data Centre
11 8 (0.59%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.59%) NHS
12 7 (0.52%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.45%) EPoS
13 6 (0.45%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.45%) Replication
14 5 (0.37%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (0.37%) PKI
15 4 (0.30%) Cyberattack
15 4 (0.30%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 102 (7.58%) Windows
2 56 (4.16%) Linux
3 41 (3.05%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.11%) Ubuntu
6 13 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.82%) Mac OS X
7 11 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.45%) VMS
9 5 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.37%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (35.44%) Systems Engineering
2 271 (20.13%) Mathematics
3 235 (17.46%) Computer Science
4 221 (16.42%) Collaborative Working
5 208 (15.45%) Artificial Intelligence
5 208 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (14.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 196 (14.56%) Physics
7 195 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
8 149 (11.07%) Chemistry
9 145 (10.77%) Risk Management
10 137 (10.18%) Project Management
11 134 (9.96%) Machine Learning
12 126 (9.36%) Logistics
13 111 (8.25%) Generative AI
14 109 (8.10%) Information Security
15 108 (8.02%) Agile
16 107 (7.95%) LLM
17 105 (7.80%) Red Team
18 98 (7.28%) Cyber Resilience
Programming Languages
1 84 (6.24%) SQL
2 44 (3.27%) Python
3 42 (3.12%) C#
4 36 (2.67%) Java
5 28 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 24 (1.78%) C++
6 24 (1.78%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.11%) PHP
8 15 (1.11%) R
9 13 (0.97%) C
10 10 (0.74%) MATLAB
11 7 (0.52%) Dart
11 7 (0.52%) Ruby
11 7 (0.52%) Rust
12 6 (0.45%) Groovy
12 6 (0.45%) Ladder Logic
13 4 (0.30%) Bash
14 2 (0.15%) Perl
15 1 (0.074%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 607 (45.10%) BPSS Clearance
2 148 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 103 (7.65%) CISSP
4 99 (7.36%) CISM
5 98 (7.28%) CESG Certified Professional
6 84 (6.24%) ISTQB
7 73 (5.42%) Master's Degree
8 67 (4.98%) Chartered Engineer
9 59 (4.38%) PhD
10 51 (3.79%) Numerate Degree
11 43 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (2.82%) MCSE
13 31 (2.30%) Security Cleared
14 28 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (1.93%) CCNA
16 25 (1.86%) HND
17 24 (1.78%) CCNP
18 22 (1.63%) LPIC
18 22 (1.63%) MCP
19 17 (1.26%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.80%) NIST
2 101 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 98 (7.28%) JSP 440
3 98 (7.28%) RMADS
4 84 (6.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 11 (0.82%) SLA
6 9 (0.67%) QA
7 5 (0.37%) PMO
8 4 (0.30%) GDPR
9 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.22%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.22%) PMBOK
10 2 (0.15%) COBIT
10 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.074%) DO-254
11 1 (0.074%) P3O
System Software
1 66 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.59%) Docker
4 6 (0.45%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.22%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.22%) Firmware
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
5 3 (0.22%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.074%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (1.49%) Terraform
2 18 (1.34%) Grafana
2 18 (1.34%) Prometheus
3 15 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.30%) Ansible
5 4 (0.30%) Nessus
6 3 (0.22%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.22%) SCCM
7 2 (0.15%) SCOM
7 2 (0.15%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.15%) SCSM
8 1 (0.074%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.074%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.074%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.074%) Puppet
Vendors
1 131 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 128 (9.51%) Google
3 107 (7.95%) Databricks
4 105 (7.80%) Adobe
5 68 (5.05%) PayPal
6 65 (4.83%) Siemens
7 46 (3.42%) Cisco
8 18 (1.34%) Dell
9 17 (1.26%) Apple
10 11 (0.82%) Fortinet
10 11 (0.82%) Juniper
10 11 (0.82%) Ubiquiti
11 10 (0.74%) SAP
11 10 (0.74%) VMware
12 8 (0.59%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.52%) McAfee
14 6 (0.45%) Allen-Bradley
14 6 (0.45%) Rockwell
14 6 (0.45%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.37%) Alteryx