Postgraduate Jobs in the West Midlands

Postgraduate
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 247 237
Rank change year-on-year +62 -10 +50
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 12 6 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.081% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 0.31% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 15
10th Percentile - - £35,500
25th Percentile £69,500 - £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £38,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +92.11% -2.56% -18.94%
75th Percentile £76,500 - £41,000
90th Percentile - - £41,900
England median annual salary £72,500 £49,000 £46,583
% change year-on-year +47.96% +5.19% -15.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,390 1,957 2,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 55.49% 26.56% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 554 1,282 963
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% +12.30%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.55% -8.83% +9.09%

Postgraduate
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Postgraduate in the West Midlands

Postgraduate
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Postgraduate in the West Midlands

Postgraduate
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 Postgraduate within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham +46 10 £73,000 +92.11% 2
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GDB
1 1 (8.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (8.33%) WinDbg
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
1 8 (66.67%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Advertising
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Lecturer
2 1 (8.33%) IT Assistant
2 1 (8.33%) IT Director
2 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) libvirt
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 8 (66.67%) Data Science
3 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Change Management
4 1 (8.33%) Cryptography
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) Information Management
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security
4 1 (8.33%) LLM
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) C++
1 1 (8.33%) CodeQL
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) PHP
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Xen