Degree Jobs in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,500 17,642 21,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.67% 19.15% 15.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.44% 58.81% 60.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8,036 7,267 9,110
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,300 29,996 35,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.51% 32.56% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15,772 13,618 16,810
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in England

Degree
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Degree in England

Degree
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
London +2 3,780 £67,500 -0.87% 3,092
South East -2 2,870 £51,500 +0.98% 1,458
North of England -1 1,975 £47,500 -5.00% 1,267
Midlands -3 1,613 £46,188 -7.62% 983
South West -3 1,333 £48,375 +1.84% 737
North West +3 1,187 £47,757 -9.04% 742
West Midlands -4 1,075 £50,000 -4.76% 599
East of England -3 858 £47,500 -5.00% 777
Yorkshire +4 573 £45,000 -10.00% 388
East Midlands -6 527 £40,000 -15.79% 382
North East -10 215 £48,000 +1.05% 162
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 380 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 373 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 228 (1.82%) Confluence
4 112 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 112 (0.90%) SAS
5 106 (0.85%) CMS
6 64 (0.51%) Apache
6 64 (0.51%) WordPress
7 61 (0.49%) IIS
8 32 (0.26%) Skype for Business
9 29 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 27 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 15 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
12 15 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 12 (0.096%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.088%) nginx
15 9 (0.072%) Drupal
16 8 (0.064%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,302 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1,205 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 562 (4.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 181 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 152 (1.22%) Simulink
6 134 (1.07%) MS Visio
7 79 (0.63%) AutoCAD
8 76 (0.61%) Photoshop
9 62 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 57 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
12 38 (0.30%) InDesign
13 36 (0.29%) SPSS
14 31 (0.25%) Chatbot
14 31 (0.25%) Stateflow
15 27 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
15 27 (0.22%) Trello
16 26 (0.21%) Revit
17 20 (0.16%) Adobe XD
18 18 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 185 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 41 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.28%) NEC Housing
4 35 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 32 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 29 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 26 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
8 17 (0.14%) Endur
8 17 (0.14%) Primavera
8 17 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 17 (0.14%) SAP FI
8 17 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 16 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 16 (0.13%) SAP Business One
9 16 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 16 (0.13%) Shopify
10 14 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
11 13 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.080%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,659 (13.27%) Azure
2 1,146 (9.17%) AWS
3 1,095 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
4 732 (5.86%) Power Platform
5 380 (3.04%) SaaS
6 332 (2.66%) GCP
7 230 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 224 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 170 (1.36%) PowerApps
10 154 (1.23%) Entra ID
11 149 (1.19%) GitHub
11 149 (1.19%) Power Automate
12 141 (1.13%) Serverless
13 115 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
14 100 (0.80%) IaaS
15 98 (0.78%) PaaS
16 91 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
17 86 (0.69%) WhatsApp
18 80 (0.64%) Amazon S3
19 75 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 456 (3.65%) Firewall
2 364 (2.91%) WAN
3 296 (2.37%) Wireless
4 251 (2.01%) DNS
5 225 (1.80%) LAN
6 214 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 197 (1.58%) Network Security
8 191 (1.53%) Internet
9 180 (1.44%) SD-WAN
10 175 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
11 163 (1.30%) DHCP
12 144 (1.15%) VPN
13 129 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
14 112 (0.90%) WebEx
15 102 (0.82%) VoIP
16 92 (0.74%) 5G
17 88 (0.70%) SAN
18 81 (0.65%) Ethernet
19 68 (0.54%) Broadband
20 67 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 757 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 609 (4.87%) Power BI
3 423 (3.38%) Tableau
4 248 (1.98%) MySQL
5 246 (1.97%) Relational Database
6 218 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 208 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
8 169 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
9 168 (1.34%) Big Data
10 133 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 122 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 99 (0.79%) Redis
13 92 (0.74%) Data Mining
14 85 (0.68%) MongoDB
15 80 (0.64%) Data Lake
16 78 (0.62%) Hadoop
17 73 (0.58%) GIS
18 69 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
19 64 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
20 59 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 859 (6.87%) Git
2 515 (4.12%) JIRA
3 243 (1.94%) Visual Studio
4 136 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 124 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 104 (0.83%) Selenium
7 81 (0.65%) GitLab
8 80 (0.64%) Sourcetree
9 76 (0.61%) Subversion
10 70 (0.56%) LabVIEW
11 68 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 60 (0.48%) TeamCity
13 47 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
14 43 (0.34%) Moq
15 42 (0.34%) NUnit
16 39 (0.31%) Postman
17 38 (0.30%) CMake
18 33 (0.26%) Burp Suite
19 31 (0.25%) Metasploit
20 29 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5,173 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 2,604 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 2,337 (18.70%) Finance
4 1,138 (9.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 931 (7.45%) Marketing
6 904 (7.23%) Retail
7 876 (7.01%) Manufacturing
8 682 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
9 645 (5.16%) Legal
10 601 (4.81%) Electronics
11 475 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
12 444 (3.55%) Law
13 420 (3.36%) Telecoms
14 416 (3.33%) Public Sector
15 338 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
16 334 (2.67%) Games
17 328 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
18 303 (2.42%) Banking
19 290 (2.32%) Automotive
20 286 (2.29%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,874 (14.99%) Senior
2 1,567 (12.54%) Analyst
3 1,545 (12.36%) Developer
4 961 (7.69%) Graduate
5 853 (6.82%) Lead
6 782 (6.26%) Software Engineer
7 697 (5.58%) Project Manager
8 608 (4.86%) Architect
9 424 (3.39%) Consultant
10 379 (3.03%) Junior
11 351 (2.81%) Software Developer
12 349 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
13 343 (2.74%) Systems Engineer
14 331 (2.65%) Support Engineer
15 328 (2.62%) Senior Developer
16 321 (2.57%) IT Support
17 302 (2.42%) Data Scientist
18 251 (2.01%) Data Analyst
19 245 (1.96%) Senior Manager
20 241 (1.93%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 905 (7.24%) .NET
2 624 (4.99%) HTML
3 558 (4.46%) CSS
4 511 (4.09%) React
5 332 (2.66%) AngularJS
6 237 (1.90%) ASP.NET
7 225 (1.80%) Node.js
8 198 (1.58%) .NET Framework
8 198 (1.58%) HTML5
9 191 (1.53%) RESTful
10 180 (1.44%) Web Services
11 172 (1.38%) .NET Core
12 151 (1.21%) XML
13 142 (1.14%) REST
14 127 (1.02%) JSON
15 120 (0.96%) Kafka
16 116 (0.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 114 (0.91%) Vue
18 106 (0.85%) Entity Framework
19 103 (0.82%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 864 (6.91%) Management Information System
2 797 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
3 688 (5.50%) Algorithms
4 499 (3.99%) Driving Licence
5 405 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 314 (2.51%) Data Centre
7 304 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 205 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 201 (1.61%) Social Media
10 187 (1.50%) Life Science
11 181 (1.45%) IoT
12 158 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
13 151 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 143 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 130 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 128 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
17 125 (1.00%) FPGA
18 121 (0.97%) Client/Server
18 121 (0.97%) Robotics
19 120 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1,391 (11.13%) Windows
2 857 (6.86%) Linux
3 389 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 379 (3.03%) Windows 10
5 247 (1.98%) Android
6 185 (1.48%) Unix
7 118 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 116 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 102 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 102 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 77 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
11 74 (0.59%) Windows 7
12 56 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 36 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
14 35 (0.28%) Kali Linux
15 34 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 28 (0.22%) Solaris
17 26 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
18 24 (0.19%) Debian
18 24 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,794 (30.35%) Computer Science
2 3,661 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2,358 (18.86%) Agile
4 1,781 (14.25%) Project Management
5 1,572 (12.58%) Software Engineering
6 1,413 (11.30%) Mathematics
7 1,105 (8.84%) Analytics
8 1,101 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 1,080 (8.64%) Mentoring
10 1,065 (8.52%) Cybersecurity
11 990 (7.92%) Decision-Making
12 959 (7.67%) Customer Service
13 944 (7.55%) DevOps
14 942 (7.54%) Data Analysis
15 886 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence
16 853 (6.82%) ITIL
17 810 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
18 801 (6.41%) Project Delivery
19 730 (5.84%) Roadmaps
20 716 (5.73%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,895 (15.16%) SQL
2 1,786 (14.29%) Python
3 1,330 (10.64%) C#
4 1,084 (8.67%) JavaScript
5 657 (5.26%) Java
6 587 (4.70%) C
7 521 (4.17%) C++
8 378 (3.02%) TypeScript
9 374 (2.99%) PowerShell
10 243 (1.94%) PHP
11 226 (1.81%) MATLAB
12 219 (1.75%) R
13 186 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 164 (1.31%) Bash
15 109 (0.87%) VB
16 101 (0.81%) Embedded C
17 97 (0.78%) Fortran
18 72 (0.58%) Go
19 70 (0.56%) Perl
20 64 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,184 (17.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,399 (11.19%) Master's Degree
3 1,120 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 655 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 598 (4.78%) DBS Check
6 429 (3.43%) PhD
7 366 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 288 (2.30%) CISSP
9 285 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
10 265 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 259 (2.07%) HND
12 255 (2.04%) HNC
13 211 (1.69%) PMI Certification
14 196 (1.57%) CCNA
15 186 (1.49%) CISM
16 178 (1.42%) DV Cleared
17 174 (1.39%) PMP
18 162 (1.30%) Azure Certification
19 155 (1.24%) MBA
20 131 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 588 (4.70%) QA
2 254 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 235 (1.88%) GDPR
4 218 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 198 (1.58%) SLA
6 186 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 171 (1.37%) PMO
8 129 (1.03%) NIST
9 103 (0.82%) ISO 9001
10 79 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 75 (0.60%) GMP
12 65 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 54 (0.43%) WCAG
14 44 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 42 (0.34%) NEBOSH
16 39 (0.31%) ISO 13485
16 39 (0.31%) ISO 26262
16 39 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 39 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 38 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 763 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 489 (3.91%) Docker
3 299 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 271 (2.17%) Firmware
5 157 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
6 154 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 141 (1.13%) Hyper-V
8 112 (0.90%) XenApp
9 100 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
10 96 (0.77%) XenDesktop
11 67 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
12 58 (0.46%) vSphere
13 38 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 18 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 16 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
17 10 (0.080%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.064%) KVM
19 5 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 4 (0.032%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 399 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 223 (1.78%) SCCM
3 220 (1.76%) Terraform
4 140 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 105 (0.84%) AirWatch
6 95 (0.76%) Ansible
7 49 (0.39%) WSUS
8 48 (0.38%) SCOM
9 40 (0.32%) CASB
10 38 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 30 (0.24%) Functional Safety
13 25 (0.20%) vCenter Server
14 23 (0.18%) Progress Chef
15 22 (0.18%) Puppet
16 20 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
17 18 (0.14%) Grafana
17 18 (0.14%) Stealthwatch
18 17 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
19 16 (0.13%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2,609 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 411 (3.29%) Cisco
3 402 (3.22%) VMware
4 346 (2.77%) SAP
5 343 (2.74%) Google
6 267 (2.14%) Oracle
7 259 (2.07%) Adobe
8 208 (1.66%) Apple
9 207 (1.66%) Databricks
10 189 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 188 (1.50%) EMC
12 176 (1.41%) Citrix
13 123 (0.98%) ServiceNow
14 121 (0.97%) HP
15 91 (0.73%) Dell
15 91 (0.73%) IBM
16 88 (0.70%) Meraki
17 71 (0.57%) Veeam
18 67 (0.54%) Juniper
19 66 (0.53%) Sage