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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,723 17,071 21,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.71% 19.28% 16.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.97% 58.69% 60.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,035 7,153 9,125
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,019 £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 £74,235
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,285 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +9.09% -

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 24,480 29,085 36,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.30% 32.85% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 15,745 13,288 16,781
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,680 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,134
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

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 19 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 19 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 3,803 £67,500 -2.80% 3,035
South East -1 2,932 £51,350 -2.19% 1,662
North of England -1 1,991 £47,500 -9.52% 1,302
Midlands -2 1,734 £47,500 -5.00% 1,010
South West -3 1,334 £49,000 -2.00% 705
North West +3 1,199 £47,500 -13.64% 745
West Midlands +1 1,168 £50,000 -4.76% 634
East of England -3 862 £47,500 -5.00% 787
Yorkshire +3 580 £45,000 -10.00% 418
East Midlands -2 553 £40,000 -15.79% 375
North East -10 212 £48,367 +1.64% 158
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
1 374 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 350 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 217 (1.71%) Confluence
4 111 (0.87%) CMS
4 111 (0.87%) SAS
5 110 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 79 (0.62%) Apache
7 73 (0.57%) IIS
8 62 (0.49%) WordPress
9 38 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 34 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 31 (0.24%) Skype for Business
12 19 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 14 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
13 14 (0.11%) WebLogic
14 12 (0.094%) OpenStack
14 12 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.079%) nginx
16 9 (0.071%) Drupal
16 9 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,382 (10.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1,304 (10.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 568 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 178 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 163 (1.28%) Simulink
6 134 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 78 (0.61%) AutoCAD
7 78 (0.61%) Photoshop
8 62 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 57 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 49 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
11 38 (0.30%) InDesign
11 38 (0.30%) SPSS
12 31 (0.24%) Stateflow
13 27 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
13 27 (0.21%) Trello
14 26 (0.20%) Revit
15 21 (0.17%) Adobe XD
16 18 (0.14%) OrCAD
17 17 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 180 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 46 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 42 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 33 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 30 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
7 28 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 24 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.13%) Primavera
10 17 (0.13%) SAP CO
10 17 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 16 (0.13%) Endur
11 16 (0.13%) Shopify
12 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 15 (0.12%) SAP Business One
12 15 (0.12%) SAP CX
13 14 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
14 9 (0.071%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,689 (13.28%) Azure
2 1,193 (9.38%) AWS
3 1,093 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
4 745 (5.86%) Power Platform
5 376 (2.96%) SaaS
6 333 (2.62%) GCP
7 227 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
8 226 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
9 173 (1.36%) PowerApps
10 154 (1.21%) Power Automate
11 149 (1.17%) Entra ID
12 147 (1.16%) GitHub
13 139 (1.09%) Serverless
14 119 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
15 100 (0.79%) IaaS
15 100 (0.79%) PaaS
16 89 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
17 83 (0.65%) WhatsApp
18 80 (0.63%) Amazon S3
19 77 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 455 (3.58%) Firewall
2 350 (2.75%) WAN
3 288 (2.26%) Wireless
4 252 (1.98%) DNS
5 217 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 214 (1.68%) LAN
7 206 (1.62%) Network Security
8 198 (1.56%) Internet
9 178 (1.40%) SD-WAN
10 172 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
11 166 (1.30%) DHCP
12 148 (1.16%) VPN
13 117 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
14 102 (0.80%) WebEx
15 96 (0.75%) VoIP
16 90 (0.71%) 5G
17 85 (0.67%) SAN
18 84 (0.66%) Ethernet
19 71 (0.56%) VLAN
20 66 (0.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 751 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 627 (4.93%) Power BI
3 472 (3.71%) Tableau
4 247 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 243 (1.91%) MySQL
6 229 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 225 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
8 179 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
9 178 (1.40%) Big Data
10 140 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 127 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 113 (0.89%) Redis
13 93 (0.73%) Data Mining
14 83 (0.65%) Data Lake
15 76 (0.60%) MongoDB
16 74 (0.58%) GIS
16 74 (0.58%) Hadoop
17 69 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
18 65 (0.51%) Oracle Database
19 63 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 897 (7.05%) Git
2 506 (3.98%) JIRA
3 241 (1.89%) Visual Studio
4 137 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 112 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 100 (0.79%) Selenium
7 91 (0.72%) GitLab
8 82 (0.64%) Sourcetree
9 75 (0.59%) Subversion
10 70 (0.55%) LabVIEW
11 65 (0.51%) TeamCity
12 63 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 49 (0.39%) Moq
14 48 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
15 46 (0.36%) NUnit
16 39 (0.31%) Postman
17 37 (0.29%) CMake
18 32 (0.25%) Burp Suite
19 30 (0.24%) Metasploit
20 29 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5,339 (41.96%) Social Skills
2 2,643 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2,373 (18.65%) Finance
4 1,209 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 964 (7.58%) Retail
6 932 (7.33%) Marketing
7 900 (7.07%) Manufacturing
8 727 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
9 648 (5.09%) Legal
10 618 (4.86%) Electronics
11 466 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
12 452 (3.55%) Law
13 431 (3.39%) Public Sector
14 403 (3.17%) Telecoms
15 368 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
16 340 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
17 324 (2.55%) Military
18 322 (2.53%) Games
19 309 (2.43%) Banking
20 290 (2.28%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,977 (15.54%) Senior
2 1,611 (12.66%) Analyst
3 1,515 (11.91%) Developer
4 1,008 (7.92%) Graduate
5 878 (6.90%) Lead
6 799 (6.28%) Software Engineer
7 685 (5.38%) Architect
8 682 (5.36%) Project Manager
9 421 (3.31%) Consultant
10 377 (2.96%) Junior
10 377 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
11 350 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
12 341 (2.68%) Software Developer
13 331 (2.60%) Senior Developer
14 328 (2.58%) Support Engineer
15 316 (2.48%) Data Scientist
16 309 (2.43%) IT Support
17 286 (2.25%) Data Analyst
18 265 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
19 243 (1.91%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 902 (7.09%) .NET
2 616 (4.84%) HTML
3 550 (4.32%) CSS
4 491 (3.86%) React
5 319 (2.51%) AngularJS
6 234 (1.84%) ASP.NET
7 215 (1.69%) Node.js
8 206 (1.62%) .NET Framework
9 203 (1.60%) Web Services
10 188 (1.48%) RESTful
11 186 (1.46%) HTML5
12 172 (1.35%) .NET Core
13 152 (1.19%) REST
14 142 (1.12%) XML
15 125 (0.98%) JSON
16 115 (0.90%) Kafka
17 114 (0.90%) Vue
18 112 (0.88%) Entity Framework
19 111 (0.87%) jQuery
20 106 (0.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 861 (6.77%) Management Information System
2 798 (6.27%) Self-Motivation
3 704 (5.53%) Algorithms
4 502 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 467 (3.67%) Driving Licence
6 323 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 304 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 210 (1.65%) Life Science
9 209 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 197 (1.55%) Social Media
11 185 (1.45%) IoT
12 151 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 143 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 140 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
15 136 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 129 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
17 128 (1.01%) FPGA
18 121 (0.95%) Client/Server
18 121 (0.95%) Public Cloud
19 120 (0.94%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,396 (10.97%) Windows
2 887 (6.97%) Linux
3 385 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 368 (2.89%) Windows 10
5 237 (1.86%) Android
6 192 (1.51%) Unix
7 118 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 116 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 105 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
10 101 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 78 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
12 72 (0.57%) Windows 7
13 61 (0.48%) Ubuntu
14 43 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
15 39 (0.31%) Solaris
16 37 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 35 (0.28%) Kali Linux
18 27 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
19 26 (0.20%) CentOS
19 26 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,858 (30.32%) Computer Science
2 3,773 (29.65%) Problem-Solving
3 2,378 (18.69%) Agile
4 1,790 (14.07%) Project Management
5 1,591 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1,480 (11.63%) Mathematics
7 1,193 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,185 (9.31%) Mentoring
9 1,172 (9.21%) Analytics
10 1,077 (8.46%) Data Analysis
11 1,066 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
12 1,057 (8.31%) Customer Service
13 1,013 (7.96%) Decision-Making
14 961 (7.55%) DevOps
15 875 (6.88%) ITIL
16 873 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence
17 833 (6.55%) Business Intelligence
18 813 (6.39%) Project Delivery
19 759 (5.97%) Data Science
20 734 (5.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,963 (15.43%) SQL
2 1,854 (14.57%) Python
3 1,322 (10.39%) C#
4 1,073 (8.43%) JavaScript
5 676 (5.31%) Java
6 593 (4.66%) C
7 545 (4.28%) C++
8 365 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 364 (2.86%) TypeScript
10 231 (1.82%) MATLAB
11 229 (1.80%) R
12 225 (1.77%) PHP
13 189 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 159 (1.25%) Bash
15 105 (0.83%) Embedded C
16 100 (0.79%) Fortran
17 99 (0.78%) VB
18 73 (0.57%) Go
19 72 (0.57%) Perl
20 71 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,206 (17.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,371 (10.78%) Master's Degree
3 1,130 (8.88%) Security Cleared
4 647 (5.09%) DBS Check
5 646 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 441 (3.47%) PhD
7 371 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 290 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 283 (2.22%) CISSP
10 259 (2.04%) HNC
11 254 (2.00%) HND
12 252 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 220 (1.73%) PMI Certification
14 199 (1.56%) CCNA
15 182 (1.43%) DV Cleared
15 182 (1.43%) PMP
16 179 (1.41%) CISM
17 160 (1.26%) Azure Certification
18 152 (1.19%) MBA
19 135 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 632 (4.97%) QA
2 262 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 237 (1.86%) GDPR
4 219 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 195 (1.53%) SLA
6 189 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 176 (1.38%) PMO
8 130 (1.02%) NIST
9 104 (0.82%) ISO 9001
10 101 (0.79%) GMP
11 78 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 68 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 49 (0.39%) WCAG
14 42 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 42 (0.33%) NEBOSH
15 40 (0.31%) ISO 13485
16 39 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
16 39 (0.31%) ISO 26262
17 37 (0.29%) NCSC
18 35 (0.28%) GRC
System Software
1 738 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 473 (3.72%) Docker
3 295 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 282 (2.22%) Firmware
5 159 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 148 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
7 140 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 104 (0.82%) XenApp
9 90 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
10 88 (0.69%) XenDesktop
11 73 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
12 62 (0.49%) vSphere
13 39 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 18 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 15 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
17 11 (0.086%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.063%) KVM
19 5 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 4 (0.031%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 390 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 224 (1.76%) Terraform
3 213 (1.67%) SCCM
4 138 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 101 (0.79%) Ansible
6 96 (0.75%) AirWatch
7 51 (0.40%) WSUS
8 49 (0.39%) SCOM
9 41 (0.32%) CASB
10 37 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 33 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 31 (0.24%) Functional Safety
13 27 (0.21%) vCenter Server
14 26 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 24 (0.19%) Puppet
15 24 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
16 21 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
17 20 (0.16%) Grafana
18 17 (0.13%) ZABBIX
19 16 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,640 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 404 (3.18%) Cisco
3 395 (3.10%) VMware
4 344 (2.70%) Google
5 336 (2.64%) SAP
6 281 (2.21%) Oracle
7 267 (2.10%) Adobe
8 262 (2.06%) Databricks
9 215 (1.69%) Apple
10 194 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 188 (1.48%) EMC
12 168 (1.32%) Citrix
13 117 (0.92%) HP
14 110 (0.86%) ServiceNow
15 97 (0.76%) Dell
16 95 (0.75%) Meraki
17 93 (0.73%) IBM
18 73 (0.57%) NEC
18 73 (0.57%) Veeam
19 70 (0.55%) Juniper