Academic Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 13,937 19,991 24,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.91% 16.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.20% 57.89% 59.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,779 8,101 10,135
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,095 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,285 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,223 34,531 41,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.86% 32.67% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,285 15,378 18,982
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,556 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +5.11% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £74,235
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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
England -4 12,377 £52,500 -8.70% 6,843
UK excluding London -5 9,645 £48,500 -3.00% 4,866
Work from Home +5 4,190 £55,000 -8.33% 2,532
London +4 3,755 £67,500 - 2,341
South East -2 2,856 £51,425 +2.85% 1,252
North of England 0 1,969 £47,500 -4.15% 1,087
Midlands -4 1,564 £45,001 -10.00% 793
South West -3 1,302 £48,000 +1.05% 650
North West +4 1,177 £47,500 -9.52% 618
West Midlands -3 1,033 £50,000 -4.76% 490
East of England -3 860 £47,500 -1.60% 668
Scotland -25 707 £45,543 -8.91% 376
Yorkshire +5 581 £45,000 -7.22% 337
East Midlands -5 520 £40,000 -15.79% 301
Wales -6 264 £44,886 +0.12% 129
North East -10 211 £49,750 +5.85% 153
Northern Ireland +9 104 £45,000 +5.88% 87
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 6
Channel Islands -2 5 - - 3

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 423 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 421 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 271 (1.94%) Confluence
4 144 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 131 (0.94%) SAS
6 114 (0.82%) CMS
7 69 (0.50%) WordPress
8 63 (0.45%) IIS
9 60 (0.43%) Apache
10 45 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
10 45 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.23%) FileNet
12 31 (0.22%) Skype for Business
13 27 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
14 19 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 18 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 17 (0.12%) OpenStack
17 12 (0.086%) nginx
17 12 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
18 10 (0.072%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,392 (9.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1,332 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 586 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 202 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 181 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 159 (1.14%) Simulink
7 89 (0.64%) AutoCAD
8 77 (0.55%) Photoshop
9 64 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 59 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 40 (0.29%) SPSS
13 38 (0.27%) InDesign
13 38 (0.27%) UserZoom
14 34 (0.24%) Chatbot
15 32 (0.23%) Revit
15 32 (0.23%) Trello
16 31 (0.22%) Stateflow
17 27 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
18 24 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 197 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 62 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 40 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 36 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 33 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 29 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
8 26 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
9 25 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 23 (0.17%) Primavera
11 18 (0.13%) SAP CO
11 18 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 18 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 17 (0.12%) Endur
12 17 (0.12%) SAP Business One
13 16 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
13 16 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
13 16 (0.11%) SAP CX
13 16 (0.11%) Shopify
14 12 (0.086%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,853 (13.30%) Azure
2 1,222 (8.77%) AWS
3 1,186 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
4 785 (5.63%) Power Platform
5 453 (3.25%) SaaS
6 355 (2.55%) GCP
7 256 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 254 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 195 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 194 (1.39%) GitHub
11 173 (1.24%) PowerApps
12 169 (1.21%) Serverless
13 154 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
14 151 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 123 (0.88%) Figma
16 122 (0.88%) IaaS
17 121 (0.87%) Amazon S3
18 116 (0.83%) PaaS
19 102 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
20 99 (0.71%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 517 (3.71%) Firewall
2 432 (3.10%) WAN
3 379 (2.72%) Wireless
4 277 (1.99%) DNS
5 275 (1.97%) LAN
6 255 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 222 (1.59%) Network Security
8 209 (1.50%) Internet
9 199 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 196 (1.41%) SD-WAN
11 187 (1.34%) DHCP
12 167 (1.20%) VPN
13 152 (1.09%) Cisco IOS
14 126 (0.90%) WebEx
15 111 (0.80%) VoIP
16 108 (0.77%) SAN
17 95 (0.68%) 5G
18 90 (0.65%) Ethernet
19 85 (0.61%) VLAN
20 64 (0.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 887 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 648 (4.65%) Power BI
3 393 (2.82%) Tableau
4 285 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 284 (2.04%) MySQL
6 258 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 239 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 194 (1.39%) Big Data
9 179 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
10 159 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 142 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 102 (0.73%) Data Mining
13 101 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
14 98 (0.70%) MongoDB
15 97 (0.70%) Redis
16 90 (0.65%) Hadoop
17 88 (0.63%) Data Lake
18 83 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
18 83 (0.60%) Oracle Database
19 79 (0.57%) GIS
Development Applications
1 866 (6.21%) Git
2 602 (4.32%) JIRA
3 260 (1.87%) Visual Studio
4 222 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 131 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 120 (0.86%) Selenium
7 86 (0.62%) LabVIEW
8 84 (0.60%) GitLab
9 81 (0.58%) Sourcetree
10 80 (0.57%) Subversion
11 78 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 61 (0.44%) TeamCity
13 46 (0.33%) JUnit
14 44 (0.32%) Moq
14 44 (0.32%) Postman
14 44 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
15 42 (0.30%) NUnit
16 38 (0.27%) CMake
16 38 (0.27%) Mockito
17 36 (0.26%) Jasmine
General
1 5,837 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 2,800 (20.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2,752 (19.75%) Finance
4 1,459 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,182 (8.48%) Marketing
6 1,080 (7.75%) Manufacturing
7 929 (6.67%) Retail
8 772 (5.54%) Presentation Skills
9 739 (5.30%) Law
10 735 (5.27%) Legal
11 660 (4.74%) Electronics
12 490 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
13 486 (3.49%) Telecoms
14 483 (3.47%) Public Sector
15 433 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
16 348 (2.50%) Games
17 347 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 342 (2.45%) Banking
19 307 (2.20%) Automotive
20 291 (2.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 2,031 (14.57%) Senior
2 1,722 (12.36%) Developer
3 1,699 (12.19%) Analyst
4 1,151 (8.26%) Graduate
5 949 (6.81%) Lead
6 905 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 751 (5.39%) Project Manager
8 679 (4.87%) Architect
9 488 (3.50%) Consultant
10 432 (3.10%) Junior
11 396 (2.84%) Software Developer
12 371 (2.66%) Senior Developer
13 363 (2.60%) Support Engineer
14 359 (2.58%) IT Support
15 350 (2.51%) Systems Engineer
16 349 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
17 294 (2.11%) Data Scientist
17 294 (2.11%) IT Engineer
18 279 (2.00%) IT Manager
19 258 (1.85%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 967 (6.94%) .NET
2 716 (5.14%) HTML
3 633 (4.54%) CSS
4 611 (4.38%) React
5 448 (3.21%) AngularJS
6 279 (2.00%) Node.js
7 259 (1.86%) ASP.NET
8 224 (1.61%) RESTful
9 222 (1.59%) HTML5
10 204 (1.46%) .NET Framework
11 196 (1.41%) Web Services
12 186 (1.33%) .NET Core
13 172 (1.23%) Kafka
13 172 (1.23%) XML
14 165 (1.18%) REST
15 153 (1.10%) Spring
16 149 (1.07%) JSON
17 137 (0.98%) Vue
18 122 (0.88%) SOAP
19 116 (0.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 969 (6.95%) Management Information System
2 846 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
3 723 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 545 (3.91%) Driving Licence
5 438 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 350 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 349 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 235 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 220 (1.58%) Social Media
10 208 (1.49%) IoT
11 184 (1.32%) Life Science
12 181 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
13 175 (1.26%) FMCG
14 170 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 157 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 150 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 145 (1.04%) Cloud Native
18 142 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
19 134 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
20 128 (0.92%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,548 (11.11%) Windows
2 978 (7.02%) Linux
3 457 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 410 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 275 (1.97%) Android
6 248 (1.78%) Unix
7 133 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 125 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 113 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 109 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 91 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 75 (0.54%) Windows 7
13 55 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 46 (0.33%) Solaris
15 43 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
16 34 (0.24%) Kali Linux
17 33 (0.24%) Mac OS X
18 32 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 28 (0.20%) Debian
19 28 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,241 (30.43%) Computer Science
2 4,022 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2,717 (19.49%) Agile
4 2,017 (14.47%) Project Management
5 1,837 (13.18%) Software Engineering
6 1,440 (10.33%) Mathematics
7 1,345 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,270 (9.11%) Mentoring
9 1,188 (8.52%) Analytics
10 1,156 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
11 1,110 (7.96%) DevOps
12 1,095 (7.86%) Decision-Making
13 1,046 (7.51%) Artificial Intelligence
14 1,023 (7.34%) Customer Service
15 959 (6.88%) ITIL
16 957 (6.87%) Data Analysis
17 883 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
18 871 (6.25%) Roadmaps
19 853 (6.12%) Project Delivery
20 785 (5.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,137 (15.33%) SQL
2 1,888 (13.55%) Python
3 1,429 (10.25%) C#
4 1,198 (8.60%) JavaScript
5 766 (5.50%) Java
6 696 (4.99%) C
7 575 (4.13%) C++
8 423 (3.04%) TypeScript
9 411 (2.95%) PowerShell
10 275 (1.97%) PHP
11 270 (1.94%) R
12 233 (1.67%) MATLAB
13 220 (1.58%) T-SQL
14 200 (1.44%) Bash
15 152 (1.09%) Embedded C
16 123 (0.88%) VB
17 107 (0.77%) PL/SQL
18 95 (0.68%) Fortran
19 83 (0.60%) Go
20 78 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,466 (17.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,599 (11.47%) Master's Degree
3 1,226 (8.80%) Security Cleared
4 758 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 578 (4.15%) DBS Check
6 513 (3.68%) PhD
7 395 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 321 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
9 315 (2.26%) CISSP
10 279 (2.00%) HND
11 276 (1.98%) HNC
12 273 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 224 (1.61%) CCNA
14 220 (1.58%) PMI Certification
15 214 (1.54%) CISM
16 188 (1.35%) PMP
17 183 (1.31%) DV Cleared
18 177 (1.27%) Azure Certification
19 174 (1.25%) MBA
20 137 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 694 (4.98%) QA
2 264 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 252 (1.81%) GDPR
4 247 (1.77%) SLA
5 232 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 205 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 191 (1.37%) PMO
8 136 (0.98%) NIST
9 110 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 95 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 80 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
12 77 (0.55%) GMP
13 67 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 64 (0.46%) WCAG
15 48 (0.34%) NEBOSH
16 47 (0.34%) ISO 13485
16 47 (0.34%) NCSC
17 40 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 39 (0.28%) ISO 26262
18 39 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 858 (6.16%) Active Directory
2 549 (3.94%) Docker
3 338 (2.43%) Firmware
4 328 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 175 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
6 170 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 160 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 126 (0.90%) XenApp
9 113 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
10 109 (0.78%) XenDesktop
11 75 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
12 59 (0.42%) vSphere
13 46 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
14 40 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
15 24 (0.17%) Terminal Services
16 21 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
17 10 (0.072%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.057%) KVM
19 5 (0.036%) HDFS
19 5 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 476 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 245 (1.76%) SCCM
3 238 (1.71%) Terraform
4 159 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 118 (0.85%) AirWatch
6 116 (0.83%) Ansible
7 51 (0.37%) WSUS
8 47 (0.34%) SCOM
9 46 (0.33%) Data Guard
9 46 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 42 (0.30%) CASB
11 38 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 32 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
13 30 (0.22%) Functional Safety
14 28 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 26 (0.19%) vCenter Server
16 23 (0.17%) Puppet
17 21 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
18 20 (0.14%) Grafana
19 18 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2,917 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 466 (3.34%) VMware
3 455 (3.26%) Cisco
4 409 (2.93%) SAP
5 404 (2.90%) Google
6 360 (2.58%) Oracle
7 265 (1.90%) Adobe
8 216 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 214 (1.54%) Apple
10 197 (1.41%) Citrix
11 190 (1.36%) EMC
12 164 (1.18%) Databricks
13 142 (1.02%) Dell
14 133 (0.95%) ServiceNow
15 122 (0.88%) IBM
16 119 (0.85%) HP
17 92 (0.66%) Meraki
18 87 (0.62%) Sage
19 79 (0.57%) Veeam
20 71 (0.51%) Qualtrics