Graduate Jobs in the UK excluding London

Graduate
UK > UK excluding London

The median Graduate salary in the UK excluding London is £27,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 219 122
Rank change year-on-year +38 -97 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 1,187 898 2,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 1.62% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.82% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 564 291 483
10th Percentile £22,400 £23,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £24,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £25,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +2.63%
75th Percentile £33,750 £31,750 £37,500
90th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £45,500
UK median annual salary £29,000 £25,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year +16.00% -20.63% +7.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,349 49,280 72,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 88.83% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 52,720 29,285 42,723
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Graduate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Graduate in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Graduate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
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 Graduate within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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 +71 393 £30,000 +20.00% 91
Midlands +38 336 £25,000 +4.17% 56
West Midlands +109 240 £24,000 - 34
North of England +14 158 £25,500 +6.25% 64
North West +16 111 £25,500 +6.25% 42
East Midlands -50 96 £26,000 +8.33% 22
South West -29 94 £25,000 - 57
Wales +41 78 £25,000 -13.99% 18
East of England -42 62 £27,750 -14.62% 21
Scotland -98 57 £30,000 +20.00% 22
Yorkshire +55 40 £25,000 +4.17% 18
North East -39 7 £27,500 +14.58% 5
Channel Islands - 5 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 £35,000 - 3
Graduate
UK

Graduate Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Graduate in the job title.

1 930 (78.35%) Degree
2 358 (30.16%) Social Skills
3 300 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 295 (24.85%) Microsoft Excel
5 261 (21.99%) Customer Service
6 254 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (20.39%) Data Analysis
8 232 (19.55%) Microsoft Office
9 221 (18.62%) Onboarding
10 216 (18.20%) Logistics
10 216 (18.20%) Process Improvement
10 216 (18.20%) Performance Metrics
11 215 (18.11%) Creative Thinking
12 213 (17.94%) Contingency Planning
12 213 (17.94%) Customer Experience
12 213 (17.94%) Military
13 211 (17.78%) Manufacturing
14 183 (15.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 167 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
16 146 (12.30%) Computer Science
17 143 (12.05%) Self-Motivation
18 131 (11.04%) Electronics
19 124 (10.45%) Software Engineering
19 124 (10.45%) Mathematics
20 122 (10.28%) Firmware
21 111 (9.35%) Retail
22 99 (8.34%) Driving Licence
23 86 (7.25%) Embedded Firmware
24 83 (6.99%) Schematic Capture
25 81 (6.82%) German Language

Graduate Skill Set
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 6 (0.51%) CMS
2 3 (0.25%) WordPress
3 2 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 295 (24.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 232 (19.55%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (5.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.51%) Revit
5 4 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.34%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.34%) Simulink
6 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.17%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.084%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.084%) Blender
8 1 (0.084%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.084%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (1.43%) AWS
1 17 (1.43%) Azure
2 14 (1.18%) Power Platform
3 9 (0.76%) SaaS
4 7 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 3 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (0.25%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.17%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (0.17%) CloudFront
6 2 (0.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.084%) Asana
7 1 (0.084%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.084%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.084%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.19%) Wireless
2 10 (0.84%) HTTP
3 5 (0.42%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.34%) WebEx
5 3 (0.25%) Internet
5 3 (0.25%) Modbus
5 3 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.17%) LAN
6 2 (0.17%) PPP
7 1 (0.084%) 3G
7 1 (0.084%) Broadband
7 1 (0.084%) DHCP
7 1 (0.084%) DNS
7 1 (0.084%) Firewall
7 1 (0.084%) GPRS
7 1 (0.084%) MPLS
7 1 (0.084%) SDH
7 1 (0.084%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.084%) VLAN
7 1 (0.084%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.43%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.18%) Power BI
3 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.25%) GIS
5 3 (0.25%) Tableau
6 2 (0.17%) MS Access
7 1 (0.084%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.084%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.084%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.084%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (1.10%) Git
2 7 (0.59%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.51%) JIRA
3 6 (0.51%) LabVIEW
4 4 (0.34%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.34%) Subversion
5 3 (0.25%) CMake
5 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.25%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.25%) TestRail
6 2 (0.17%) GDB
6 2 (0.17%) Hudson
7 1 (0.084%) TeamCity
General
1 358 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 213 (17.94%) Military
3 211 (17.78%) Manufacturing
4 183 (15.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 167 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (11.04%) Electronics
7 111 (9.35%) Retail
8 81 (6.82%) German Language
9 80 (6.74%) Law
10 75 (6.32%) Finance
11 73 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
12 69 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (3.54%) Marketing
14 37 (3.12%) Legal
15 32 (2.70%) Public Sector
16 30 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (2.36%) Aviation
18 16 (1.35%) Advertising
19 11 (0.93%) Aerospace
19 11 (0.93%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.62%) .NET
2 22 (1.85%) AngularJS
2 22 (1.85%) HTML
3 19 (1.60%) ASP.NET
4 18 (1.52%) CSS
5 17 (1.43%) .NET Core
6 16 (1.35%) React
7 14 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
8 9 (0.76%) WPF
9 7 (0.59%) Node.js
10 6 (0.51%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.42%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (0.42%) OpenCL
11 5 (0.42%) Vue
11 5 (0.42%) Vulkan
12 4 (0.34%) Entity Framework
13 3 (0.25%) HTML5
13 3 (0.25%) Laravel
13 3 (0.25%) QML
13 3 (0.25%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 221 (18.62%) Onboarding
2 143 (12.05%) Self-Motivation
3 99 (8.34%) Driving Licence
4 68 (5.73%) FMCG
5 35 (2.95%) Algorithms
6 26 (2.19%) FPGA
7 25 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 25 (2.11%) Social Media
8 16 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.35%) Photography
9 14 (1.18%) Analogue Electronics
10 13 (1.10%) VHDL
11 12 (1.01%) Client/Server
11 12 (1.01%) Robotics
12 10 (0.84%) IoT
13 9 (0.76%) Blog
14 8 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.59%) Security Posture
16 6 (0.51%) Data Structures
17 5 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.53%) Linux
2 8 (0.67%) Windows
3 7 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.51%) Android
5 5 (0.42%) CentOS
5 5 (0.42%) SUSE
5 5 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.084%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.084%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 261 (21.99%) Customer Service
3 254 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
4 242 (20.39%) Data Analysis
5 216 (18.20%) Logistics
5 216 (18.20%) Performance Metrics
5 216 (18.20%) Process Improvement
6 215 (18.11%) Creative Thinking
7 213 (17.94%) Contingency Planning
7 213 (17.94%) Customer Experience
8 146 (12.30%) Computer Science
9 124 (10.45%) Mathematics
9 124 (10.45%) Software Engineering
10 83 (6.99%) Schematic Capture
11 77 (6.49%) Physics
12 71 (5.98%) Project Planning
13 68 (5.73%) Benchmarking
13 68 (5.73%) Lean Manufacturing
13 68 (5.73%) Lean Six Sigma
13 68 (5.73%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 71 (5.98%) C
1 71 (5.98%) Python
2 69 (5.81%) C#
3 56 (4.72%) JavaScript
4 46 (3.88%) Java
5 40 (3.37%) SQL
6 37 (3.12%) C++
7 25 (2.11%) Embedded C
8 10 (0.84%) MATLAB
9 7 (0.59%) Bash
10 6 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.42%) PHP
11 5 (0.42%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.34%) Ada
13 3 (0.25%) C-shell
13 3 (0.25%) Fortran
13 3 (0.25%) Haskell
14 1 (0.084%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.084%) Perl
14 1 (0.084%) Rust
Qualifications
1 930 (78.35%) Degree
2 80 (6.74%) DBS Check
3 68 (5.73%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 66 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 53 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.53%) PhD
8 19 (1.60%) SC Cleared
9 16 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.10%) ACCA
11 8 (0.67%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.34%) CIMA
13 4 (0.34%) HNC
13 4 (0.34%) HND
13 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.17%) ICAEW
14 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.084%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.084%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.76%) QA
2 4 (0.34%) GRC
2 4 (0.34%) IFRS
2 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.084%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.084%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.084%) ISO 9002
4 1 (0.084%) JTAG
4 1 (0.084%) PMO
4 1 (0.084%) SLA
System Software
1 122 (10.28%) Firmware
2 86 (7.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.17%) Docker
4 1 (0.084%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.084%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 72 (6.07%) EMC
2 60 (5.05%) Microsoft
3 16 (1.35%) Google
3 16 (1.35%) SAP
4 8 (0.67%) Adobe
4 8 (0.67%) Apple
5 6 (0.51%) Oracle
6 5 (0.42%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.34%) F5
7 4 (0.34%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.34%) Rockwell
8 3 (0.25%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.17%) Facebook
9 2 (0.17%) Splunk
9 2 (0.17%) Twitter
10 1 (0.084%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.084%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.084%) Sigfox
10 1 (0.084%) Sun
10 1 (0.084%) Xamarin