Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Academic Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 9,735 13,003 11,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.83% 21.20% 16.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.18% 58.44% 52.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,103 4,060 5,238
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,399 22,250 22,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.56% 36.28% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,216 8,233 10,363
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,039 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +0.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK excluding London 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
South East -2 2,870 £51,500 +0.98% 1,467
North of England -1 1,975 £47,500 -5.00% 1,279
Midlands -3 1,613 £46,188 -7.62% 989
South West -3 1,333 £48,375 +1.84% 751
North West +3 1,187 £47,757 -9.04% 748
West Midlands -4 1,075 £50,000 -4.76% 602
East of England -3 858 £47,500 -5.00% 788
Scotland -25 701 £45,543 -8.91% 362
Yorkshire +4 573 £45,000 -10.00% 393
East Midlands -6 527 £40,000 -15.79% 385
Wales -6 261 £44,886 +0.12% 146
North East -10 215 £48,000 +1.05% 164
Northern Ireland +7 104 £43,000 -1.71% 83
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 6
Channel Islands -2 5 - - 5
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 250 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 219 (2.25%) Confluence
3 207 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 70 (0.72%) SAS
5 67 (0.69%) CMS
6 52 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 49 (0.50%) WordPress
8 45 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
8 45 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 41 (0.42%) Apache
10 38 (0.39%) IIS
11 31 (0.32%) FileNet
12 17 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 17 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 16 (0.16%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.072%) MS Project Server
14 7 (0.072%) nginx
14 7 (0.072%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,066 (10.95%) Microsoft Office
2 927 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 372 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 168 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 163 (1.67%) Simulink
6 158 (1.62%) MS Visio
7 71 (0.73%) AutoCAD
8 49 (0.50%) Photoshop
9 44 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 44 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 44 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 38 (0.39%) UserZoom
11 31 (0.32%) Chatbot
11 31 (0.32%) InDesign
11 31 (0.32%) Stateflow
12 20 (0.21%) Trello
13 18 (0.18%) OrCAD
14 17 (0.17%) Sketch
14 17 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 111 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 49 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 39 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 33 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 21 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
8 18 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 17 (0.17%) Primavera
10 16 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 16 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
10 16 (0.16%) Shopify
11 14 (0.14%) SAP Business One
12 13 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 11 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
14 10 (0.10%) SAP QM
15 9 (0.092%) SAP CX
16 8 (0.082%) Dynamics GP
17 7 (0.072%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,127 (11.58%) Azure
2 765 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
3 618 (6.35%) AWS
4 474 (4.87%) Power Platform
5 264 (2.71%) SaaS
6 181 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
7 180 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 132 (1.36%) GCP
9 129 (1.33%) GitHub
10 117 (1.20%) Entra ID
11 96 (0.99%) Serverless
12 92 (0.95%) Figma
13 90 (0.92%) Amazon S3
14 87 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 82 (0.84%) Power Automate
16 81 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
17 75 (0.77%) SurveyMonkey
18 63 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
19 60 (0.62%) OneDrive
20 55 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 393 (4.04%) Firewall
2 244 (2.51%) WAN
3 211 (2.17%) Wireless
4 199 (2.04%) LAN
5 189 (1.94%) DNS
6 172 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 157 (1.61%) Network Security
8 153 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
9 152 (1.56%) Internet
10 139 (1.43%) DHCP
11 124 (1.27%) VPN
12 87 (0.89%) 5G
12 87 (0.89%) Ethernet
13 85 (0.87%) VoIP
14 77 (0.79%) SAN
15 73 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 66 (0.68%) VLAN
17 54 (0.55%) HTTP
18 51 (0.52%) Bluetooth
19 49 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 537 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 408 (4.19%) Power BI
3 205 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 198 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 194 (1.99%) MySQL
6 174 (1.79%) Tableau
7 157 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 96 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 92 (0.95%) Big Data
10 83 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 75 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 73 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 68 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
14 64 (0.66%) RDBMS
15 57 (0.59%) GIS
16 50 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
17 48 (0.49%) MongoDB
18 45 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
18 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
18 45 (0.46%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 610 (6.27%) Git
2 448 (4.60%) JIRA
3 205 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 148 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 106 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 96 (0.99%) Selenium
7 85 (0.87%) LabVIEW
8 77 (0.79%) Subversion
9 74 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 64 (0.66%) Sourcetree
11 46 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
12 39 (0.40%) JUnit
13 37 (0.38%) GitLab
14 34 (0.35%) Mockito
15 31 (0.32%) CMake
15 31 (0.32%) Jasmine
15 31 (0.32%) TeamCity
16 30 (0.31%) Postman
17 25 (0.26%) SoapUI
18 20 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,832 (39.36%) Social Skills
2 1,736 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
3 1,639 (16.84%) Finance
4 1,197 (12.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 951 (9.77%) Manufacturing
6 700 (7.19%) Marketing
7 616 (6.33%) Electronics
8 587 (6.03%) Law
9 532 (5.46%) Retail
10 522 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
11 460 (4.73%) Legal
12 409 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
13 338 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
14 328 (3.37%) Telecoms
15 281 (2.89%) Public Sector
16 274 (2.81%) Games
17 247 (2.54%) Military
18 240 (2.47%) Automotive
19 228 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
20 227 (2.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,290 (13.25%) Senior
2 1,196 (12.29%) Developer
3 1,145 (11.76%) Analyst
4 830 (8.53%) Graduate
5 756 (7.77%) Software Engineer
6 667 (6.85%) Lead
7 578 (5.94%) Project Manager
8 388 (3.99%) Architect
9 356 (3.66%) Junior
10 325 (3.34%) Software Developer
11 316 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
12 295 (3.03%) Consultant
13 248 (2.55%) Senior Developer
13 248 (2.55%) Support Engineer
14 205 (2.11%) IT Engineer
15 198 (2.03%) Embedded Engineer
16 193 (1.98%) IT Manager
17 192 (1.97%) Data Scientist
18 191 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
19 185 (1.90%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 659 (6.77%) .NET
2 457 (4.69%) HTML
3 446 (4.58%) React
4 391 (4.02%) CSS
5 335 (3.44%) AngularJS
6 213 (2.19%) Node.js
7 159 (1.63%) HTML5
8 153 (1.57%) RESTful
9 148 (1.52%) ASP.NET
10 144 (1.48%) .NET Core
11 138 (1.42%) .NET Framework
12 111 (1.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 107 (1.10%) JSON
14 103 (1.06%) Web Services
15 102 (1.05%) Spring
16 100 (1.03%) Vue
16 100 (1.03%) XML
17 85 (0.87%) REST
18 80 (0.82%) CSS3
19 76 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 641 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 561 (5.76%) Algorithms
3 549 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
4 371 (3.81%) Driving Licence
5 266 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 263 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 228 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 156 (1.60%) IoT
9 142 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 132 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
11 124 (1.27%) FPGA
12 118 (1.21%) Cloud Native
13 116 (1.19%) Mobile App
14 115 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
14 115 (1.18%) FMCG
15 109 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
16 107 (1.10%) Robotics
17 101 (1.04%) Social Media
18 98 (1.01%) Life Science
19 86 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,053 (10.82%) Windows
2 769 (7.90%) Linux
3 332 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 216 (2.22%) Unix
5 187 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 132 (1.36%) Android
7 104 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 95 (0.98%) Mac OS
9 88 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 72 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 72 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 54 (0.55%) Solaris
12 49 (0.50%) Windows 7
13 46 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
14 42 (0.43%) Ubuntu
15 31 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 23 (0.24%) Mac OS X
16 23 (0.24%) VMS
17 21 (0.22%) CentOS
18 20 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,869 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
2 2,756 (28.31%) Computer Science
3 1,922 (19.74%) Agile
4 1,404 (14.42%) Software Engineering
5 1,390 (14.28%) Project Management
6 1,059 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,045 (10.73%) Mathematics
8 917 (9.42%) Mentoring
9 832 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
10 829 (8.52%) Customer Service
11 812 (8.34%) DevOps
12 781 (8.02%) Decision-Making
13 701 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence
14 695 (7.14%) Analytics
15 650 (6.68%) Data Analysis
16 648 (6.66%) ITIL
17 603 (6.19%) Project Delivery
18 600 (6.16%) Coaching
19 535 (5.50%) Roadmaps
20 527 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,194 (12.27%) SQL
2 1,117 (11.47%) Python
3 1,016 (10.44%) C#
4 806 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 648 (6.66%) C
6 499 (5.13%) Java
7 483 (4.96%) C++
8 326 (3.35%) TypeScript
9 241 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 227 (2.33%) MATLAB
11 208 (2.14%) PHP
12 154 (1.58%) R
13 152 (1.56%) Embedded C
14 122 (1.25%) Bash
15 107 (1.10%) VB
16 97 (1.00%) Fortran
17 90 (0.92%) T-SQL
18 67 (0.69%) PL/SQL
19 62 (0.64%) Perl
20 57 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,501 (15.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,057 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 858 (8.81%) Master's Degree
4 646 (6.64%) SC Cleared
5 370 (3.80%) PhD
6 270 (2.77%) DBS Check
7 261 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 249 (2.56%) HND
9 243 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
10 239 (2.46%) HNC
11 233 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 186 (1.91%) CCNA
13 174 (1.79%) CISSP
14 147 (1.51%) DV Cleared
15 145 (1.49%) PMI Certification
16 122 (1.25%) PMP
17 110 (1.13%) CCNP
18 105 (1.08%) CISM
19 99 (1.02%) MCP
20 94 (0.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (4.66%) QA
2 189 (1.94%) SLA
3 164 (1.68%) GDPR
4 158 (1.62%) Data Quality
5 156 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 152 (1.56%) PMO
8 101 (1.04%) ISO 9001
9 93 (0.96%) NIST
10 71 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 68 (0.70%) GMP
12 66 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
13 48 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 45 (0.46%) ISO 13485
14 45 (0.46%) WCAG
15 39 (0.40%) ISO 26262
15 39 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 38 (0.39%) NEBOSH
17 29 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 28 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 518 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 377 (3.87%) Docker
3 331 (3.40%) Firmware
4 255 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 168 (1.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 142 (1.46%) Hyper-V
7 50 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
9 43 (0.44%) vSphere
10 42 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
11 25 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.24%) Terminal Services
13 15 (0.15%) XenApp
14 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 10 (0.10%) OpenSSH
16 7 (0.072%) KVM
17 5 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.051%) pfSense
18 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
19 3 (0.031%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 342 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 142 (1.46%) Terraform
3 105 (1.08%) SCCM
4 96 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 72 (0.74%) Ansible
6 47 (0.48%) SCOM
7 46 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 46 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 46 (0.47%) WSUS
8 30 (0.31%) CASB
9 28 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 25 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 25 (0.26%) vCenter Server
11 20 (0.21%) Puppet
12 19 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
13 18 (0.18%) Stealthwatch
14 16 (0.16%) Autotask
15 15 (0.15%) EnCase
15 15 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1,978 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 336 (3.45%) VMware
3 312 (3.20%) SAP
4 256 (2.63%) Oracle
5 251 (2.58%) Cisco
6 213 (2.19%) Google
7 189 (1.94%) EMC
8 171 (1.76%) Adobe
9 153 (1.57%) Apple
10 124 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 90 (0.92%) HP
12 88 (0.90%) Dell
13 80 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 77 (0.79%) IBM
15 76 (0.78%) Meraki
16 70 (0.72%) Qualtrics
17 67 (0.69%) Veeam
18 66 (0.68%) Sage
19 62 (0.64%) Citrix
20 60 (0.62%) Databricks