Degree Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Academic Degree
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 5 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +32
Permanent jobs citing Degree 359 254 251
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 18.99% 17.59% 11.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.54% 61.80% 56.66%
Number of salaries quoted 96 69 148
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £26,301
25th Percentile £29,250 £25,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,075 £45,000 £54,625
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -17.62% -0.68%
75th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £71,083
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,845 £73,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £34,500 £50,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -31.00% -2.97% +3.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 565 411 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 29.89% 28.46% 20.70%
Number of salaries quoted 226 105 261
10th Percentile - £25,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -17.39% -1.06%
75th Percentile £66,098 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,125 £76,500 £78,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £50,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -35.00% -2.97% -1.85%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Degree job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Degree
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Degree in West Yorkshire

Degree
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. 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
Leeds -2 183 £40,537 -9.92% 39
Bradford +8 50 £48,750 -11.36% 23
Wakefield +6 26 £70,000 - 20
Huddersfield +5 17 - - 2
Todmorden - 15 - -
Brighouse +5 3 £30,500 - 1
Halifax +2 2 - -
Castleford -1 1 £55,000 - 1
Degree
Yorkshire

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.56%) CMS
2 2 (0.56%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 116 (32.31%) Chatbot
2 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.84%) Autodesk Inventor
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.84%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.56%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Sage 200
1 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (25.91%) Cloud Computing
2 43 (11.98%) Azure
3 36 (10.03%) AWS
4 27 (7.52%) Serverless
5 9 (2.51%) SaaS
6 8 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.23%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.95%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.84%) GitHub
8 3 (0.84%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.84%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.56%) Figma
9 2 (0.56%) GCP
9 2 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 93 (25.91%) Internet
2 5 (1.39%) Firewall
2 5 (1.39%) Network Security
3 4 (1.11%) DHCP
3 4 (1.11%) DNS
3 4 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.11%) VPN
4 3 (0.84%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.95%) Power BI
2 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.56%) Metadata
4 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.28%) Big Data
5 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (6.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Git
General
1 174 (48.47%) Social Skills
2 106 (29.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 93 (25.91%) Banking
4 57 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.47%) Finance
6 15 (4.18%) Retail
7 14 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.39%) Legal
10 4 (1.11%) Law
10 4 (1.11%) Marketing
10 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.84%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.84%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.56%) Back Office
12 2 (0.56%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (32.31%) Trainer
2 90 (25.07%) Lecturer
3 32 (8.91%) Architect
4 28 (7.80%) Developer
5 23 (6.41%) Analyst
6 21 (5.85%) JIRA Developer
7 19 (5.29%) Business Analyst
8 15 (4.18%) Graduate
8 15 (4.18%) Research Scientist
9 14 (3.90%) Applications Architect
9 14 (3.90%) Trainee
9 14 (3.90%) Trainee Analyst
9 14 (3.90%) Trainee Business Analyst
10 11 (3.06%) Biologist
10 11 (3.06%) Software Architect
11 8 (2.23%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (2.23%) Logistics Engineer
11 8 (2.23%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.23%) Software Engineer
11 8 (2.23%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.84%) .NET
1 3 (0.84%) AngularJS
1 3 (0.84%) Micronaut
1 3 (0.84%) React
2 2 (0.56%) .NET Core
2 2 (0.56%) Next.js
2 2 (0.56%) OpenAPI
2 2 (0.56%) Swagger
3 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.28%) CSS
3 1 (0.28%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.28%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.28%) HTML
3 1 (0.28%) Kafka
3 1 (0.28%) REST
3 1 (0.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 94 (26.18%) IoT
2 27 (7.52%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (5.85%) Molecular Biology
4 13 (3.62%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.95%) Blog
8 5 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.11%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.84%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.56%) CMDB
11 2 (0.56%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.28%) PMI
12 1 (0.28%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.79%) Linux
2 5 (1.39%) Windows
3 4 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (61.28%) AI
2 116 (32.31%) Conversational UI
3 102 (28.41%) Cybersecurity
4 96 (26.74%) Web Development
5 95 (26.46%) User Experience
6 94 (26.18%) Machine Learning
7 80 (22.28%) Computer Science
8 62 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (12.26%) Chemistry
10 40 (11.14%) Change Management
11 36 (10.03%) Mentoring
11 36 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 35 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (9.47%) Project Management
14 33 (9.19%) ITIL
15 28 (7.80%) Migration
16 27 (7.52%) Data Modelling
17 26 (7.24%) Enterprise Architecture
17 26 (7.24%) ITSM
18 25 (6.96%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 52 (14.48%) JavaScript
2 36 (10.03%) Java
3 35 (9.75%) Python
4 31 (8.64%) C#
5 27 (7.52%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.41%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.01%) SQL
8 10 (2.79%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.23%) C
9 8 (2.23%) C++
10 3 (0.84%) Delphi
11 2 (0.56%) Bash
11 2 (0.56%) Perl
11 2 (0.56%) Ruby
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 175 (48.75%) Master's Degree
2 172 (47.91%) PhD
3 93 (25.91%) Postgraduate
4 48 (13.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (7.80%) AWS Certification
6 26 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (6.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (6.69%) Azure Certification
7 24 (6.69%) TOGAF Certification
8 21 (5.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 11 (3.06%) SC Cleared
9 11 (3.06%) Security Cleared
10 8 (2.23%) PMP
11 7 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.84%) CISSP
13 3 (0.84%) HND
14 2 (0.56%) A+ Certification
14 2 (0.56%) CISA
14 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.11%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.11%) GDPR
2 3 (0.84%) EU AI Act
2 3 (0.84%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.56%) QA
4 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.28%) NCSC
4 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.56%) SCCM
2 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 116 (32.31%) PayPal
2 43 (11.98%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.85%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.11%) Adobe
4 4 (1.11%) SAP
4 4 (1.11%) VMware
5 3 (0.84%) Autodesk
5 3 (0.84%) Sage
5 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.56%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.56%) Nexthink
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle
7 1 (0.28%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.28%) Genesys
7 1 (0.28%) Google
7 1 (0.28%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.28%) Verint
91 Degree jobs in West Yorkshire