Graduate Jobs in the South West

Graduate
England > South West

The median Graduate salary in the South West is £25,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 140 194
Rank change year-on-year -56 +54 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 91 126 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.97% 1.89% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 2.12% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56 59 68
10th Percentile £22,000 £23,750 £22,750
25th Percentile £24,000 - £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £25,000 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.28% +7.04%
75th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £32,125
90th Percentile £33,125 £33,750 £36,275
England median annual salary £28,250 £26,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year +8.65% -16.13% +6.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 9,017 5,951 7,863
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.06% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,618 3,693 5,100
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,363
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Graduate
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Graduate in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Graduate in the South West

Graduate
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Graduate in the South West.

Salary trend for Graduate in the South West

Graduate
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Graduate in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Graduate in the South West

Graduate
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bristol -41 29 £30,000 +20.00% 25
Devon +5 17 £24,000 -7.69% 9
Dorset -20 17 £25,000 -20.00% 3
Gloucestershire -18 14 £26,750 +7.00% 2
Somerset -4 8 £25,000 -20.31% 9
Wiltshire -21 6 £23,000 -23.33% 6
Graduate
England

Graduate Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Graduate job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Graduate in the job title.

1 52 (57.14%) Degree
2 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (20.88%) Security Cleared
4 11 (12.09%) Finance
4 11 (12.09%) Agile
4 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (12.09%) Master's Degree
5 10 (10.99%) Driving Licence
6 9 (9.89%) Legal
6 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
6 9 (9.89%) Physics
6 9 (9.89%) Computer Science
7 8 (8.79%) Mathematics
7 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
7 8 (8.79%) Software Testing
7 8 (8.79%) Electronics
7 8 (8.79%) SQL
7 8 (8.79%) Java
7 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (7.69%) Data Science
8 7 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (6.59%) Experiential Learning
9 6 (6.59%) Aerospace
9 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
9 6 (6.59%) LabVIEW
9 6 (6.59%) MATLAB
9 6 (6.59%) Robotics
10 5 (5.49%) Time Management
10 5 (5.49%) Python

Graduate Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Simulink
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.10%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.10%) Blender
3 1 (1.10%) InDesign
3 1 (1.10%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.10%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.10%) AWS
2 1 (1.10%) Azure
2 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.10%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (2.20%) 5G
2 2 (2.20%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.20%) WAN
3 1 (1.10%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Power BI
2 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) LabVIEW
2 3 (3.30%) Eclipse
2 3 (3.30%) Git
2 3 (3.30%) NetBeans
2 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.10%) Subversion
General
1 11 (12.09%) Finance
1 11 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Legal
3 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Electronics
4 6 (6.59%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.30%) Aeronautics
6 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.10%) Advertising
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
1 2 (2.20%) Node.js
1 2 (2.20%) Spring
2 1 (1.10%) Django
2 1 (1.10%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.10%) HTML
2 1 (1.10%) Middleware
2 1 (1.10%) RESTful
2 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Driving Licence
2 7 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.59%) Robotics
4 3 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.30%) FPGA
4 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.20%) GNSS
6 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.10%) CPLD
6 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.10%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Solar Panel
6 1 (1.10%) Verilog
6 1 (1.10%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Linux
1 2 (2.20%) Unix
1 2 (2.20%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (12.09%) Agile
3 9 (9.89%) Computer Science
3 9 (9.89%) Physics
3 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
4 8 (8.79%) Mathematics
4 8 (8.79%) Software Testing
5 7 (7.69%) Data Science
6 6 (6.59%) Experiential Learning
7 5 (5.49%) Analytics
7 5 (5.49%) Data Analytics
7 5 (5.49%) SDLC
7 5 (5.49%) Time Management
8 4 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (4.40%) Fintech
8 4 (4.40%) Machine Learning
9 3 (3.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (3.30%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (3.30%) Information Assurance
9 3 (3.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.79%) Java
1 8 (8.79%) SQL
2 6 (6.59%) MATLAB
3 5 (5.49%) Python
4 2 (2.20%) C++
4 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.10%) C
5 1 (1.10%) C#
5 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (57.14%) Degree
2 19 (20.88%) Security Cleared
3 11 (12.09%) Master's Degree
4 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.20%) HND
8 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Firmware
2 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.40%) Rockwell
2 3 (3.30%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle
4 1 (1.10%) Adobe
4 1 (1.10%) F5
4 1 (1.10%) Google
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.10%) Peregrine
4 1 (1.10%) SAP
4 1 (1.10%) Splunk