Degree Jobs 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 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 3 12 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Degree 398 313 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.76% 10.08% 11.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 64.82% 49.53% 54.42%
Number of salaries quoted 91 203 193
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £25,313 £31,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £45,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.06% -12.62% +8.42%
75th Percentile £45,301 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £75,000 £72,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,101 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.89% -10.00% +11.11%

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 614 632 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 44.36% 20.36% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 208 358 392
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,000 £32,914
25th Percentile £25,313 £35,103 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,500 £55,022
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% -8.22% +10.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £70,600
90th Percentile £73,791 £82,500 £89,875
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in West Yorkshire

Degree
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Degree in West Yorkshire

Degree
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 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
Leeds +14 134 £28,500 -36.67% 120
Bradford +11 42 £44,700 +21.36% 7
Halifax +11 27 £25,625 -50.27% 1
Wetherby - 22 - -
Castleford +4 20 - - 2
Brighouse +2 18 - -
Batley +2 18 - - 1
Elland +1 18 - -
Dewsbury 0 18 - - 1
Cleckheaton - 17 - -
Bingley - 16 - -
Wakefield -2 11 - - 13
Pontefract -2 7 - -
Huddersfield -1 6 - - 5
Liversedge - 5 - -
Knottingley -3 4 - -
Ossett -3 2 - -
Otley - 2 - -
Mirfield - 2 - -
Ilkley - 2 - -
Heckmondwike - 2 - -
Pudsey - 1 - -
Degree
Yorkshire

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 12 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 59 (14.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (6.03%) Azure
2 7 (1.76%) Serverless
3 5 (1.26%) AWS
3 5 (1.26%) Entra ID
3 5 (1.26%) GCP
4 4 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (1.01%) Azure Functions
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.01%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (0.75%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (0.50%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.50%) SaaS
7 1 (0.25%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.25%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.02%) Wireless
2 10 (2.51%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (1.26%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.01%) DHCP
4 4 (1.01%) DNS
4 4 (1.01%) Network Security
4 4 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.01%) VLAN
4 4 (1.01%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) BGP
5 2 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.50%) Firewall
5 2 (0.50%) IPsec
5 2 (0.50%) LAN
5 2 (0.50%) OSPF
5 2 (0.50%) PSTN
5 2 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.50%) VoIP
5 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.77%) Big Data
2 11 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.26%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.01%) Power BI
4 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.75%) MySQL
6 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.01%) JIRA
2 5 (1.26%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
General
1 167 (41.96%) Manufacturing
2 121 (30.40%) Retail
3 66 (16.58%) Finance
4 57 (14.32%) Social Skills
5 51 (12.81%) Banking
6 49 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (9.30%) Marketing
8 36 (9.05%) Electronics
8 36 (9.05%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (8.04%) Dutch Language
9 32 (8.04%) Finnish Language
9 32 (8.04%) Norwegian Language
10 10 (2.51%) Law
11 8 (2.01%) Catalan Language
12 6 (1.51%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.75%) Legal
14 3 (0.75%) Local Government
14 3 (0.75%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 179 (44.97%) Trainer
2 50 (12.56%) IT Manager
3 35 (8.79%) Analyst
4 21 (5.28%) Help Desk Manager
4 21 (5.28%) Technical Manager
5 15 (3.77%) Products Support Manager
6 13 (3.27%) Data Analyst
7 9 (2.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (2.26%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (2.26%) Product Manager
7 9 (2.26%) Support Manager
8 8 (2.01%) Support Analyst
9 7 (1.76%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 7 (1.76%) Developer
9 7 (1.76%) IT Analyst
9 7 (1.76%) IT Support
9 7 (1.76%) IT Support Analyst
9 7 (1.76%) Lecturer
9 7 (1.76%) Support Engineer
10 6 (1.51%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.03%) Software Packaging
2 8 (2.01%) HTML
3 3 (0.75%) .NET
3 3 (0.75%) Plotly
3 3 (0.75%) React
4 2 (0.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.50%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.50%) Node.js
4 2 (0.50%) Vue
5 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.25%) CSS
5 1 (0.25%) jQuery
5 1 (0.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 120 (30.15%) Robotics
2 10 (2.51%) FMCG
2 10 (2.51%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.51%) Algorithms
3 6 (1.51%) Mainframe
4 5 (1.26%) Molecular Biology
5 3 (0.75%) Clustering
5 3 (0.75%) NHS
6 2 (0.50%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.50%) PKI
6 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.25%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.25%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.52%) Windows
2 12 (3.02%) Windows 10
2 12 (3.02%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.51%) Linux
3 10 (2.51%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (56.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 144 (36.18%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (33.67%) Machine Learning
4 121 (30.40%) LLM
5 120 (30.15%) Generative AI
5 120 (30.15%) Red Team
6 101 (25.38%) Mathematics
7 96 (24.12%) Data Privacy
8 87 (21.86%) Computer Science
9 59 (14.82%) Conversational UI
10 54 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (12.56%) Customer-Centricity
12 42 (10.55%) Physics
13 40 (10.05%) Chemistry
14 36 (9.05%) Line Management
15 34 (8.54%) Fintech
16 31 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
17 29 (7.29%) Software Engineering
18 27 (6.78%) Analytics
19 26 (6.53%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 47 (11.81%) SQL
2 30 (7.54%) Python
3 12 (3.02%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.76%) C#
5 10 (2.51%) Java
5 10 (2.51%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.26%) C++
6 9 (2.26%) PHP
7 8 (2.01%) C
7 8 (2.01%) Dart
7 8 (2.01%) MATLAB
7 8 (2.01%) R
7 8 (2.01%) Ruby
7 8 (2.01%) Rust
8 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 68 (17.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 57 (14.32%) Master's Degree
3 51 (12.81%) PhD
4 14 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.51%) CCNP
6 10 (2.51%) MCSA
7 5 (1.26%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.75%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CCNA
9 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.50%) MCITP
9 2 (0.50%) MCSE
10 1 (0.25%) OSCP
10 1 (0.25%) PgMP
10 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.51%) EMIR
1 6 (1.51%) MiFID
1 6 (1.51%) NEBOSH
2 3 (0.75%) NIST
3 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.50%) QA
4 1 (0.25%) PMO
4 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.25%) Nessus
3 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 127 (31.91%) Databricks
2 120 (30.15%) Adobe
2 120 (30.15%) Google
3 59 (14.82%) PayPal
4 13 (3.27%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.02%) Cisco
6 2 (0.50%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.50%) CheckPoint
6 2 (0.50%) SAP
6 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.25%) AlienVault
7 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.25%) Planview