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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 10,136 12,200 13,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.30% 21.58% 17.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.86% 57.16% 55.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,126 3,995 5,402
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,850 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +8.60% -2.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% -

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 19,931 21,344 24,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.15% 37.76% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 12,288 7,988 10,550
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,785 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,397
UK median annual salary £53,818 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.30% +9.09% -

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 2 June 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 2 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 -1 3,022 £51,350 -2.19% 1,258
North of England -2 2,002 £47,500 -9.52% 1,165
Midlands -1 1,826 £46,844 -6.31% 901
South West -3 1,352 £50,000 - 659
North West 0 1,219 £47,500 -13.64% 686
West Midlands 0 1,206 £50,000 -4.76% 555
East of England -3 859 £47,500 -13.64% 648
Scotland -30 680 £44,100 -11.80% 393
East Midlands -3 607 £42,500 -10.53% 346
Yorkshire -1 571 £45,000 -10.00% 343
Wales -4 265 £44,886 -0.25% 128
North East -9 212 £47,500 -0.36% 153
Northern Ireland +5 109 £43,000 +1.18% 63
Isle of Man +5 24 £52,500 -27.59% 5
Channel Islands 0 6 £67,500 +8.00% 2
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
1 240 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 207 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 200 (1.97%) Confluence
4 67 (0.66%) CMS
5 54 (0.53%) SAS
6 48 (0.47%) WordPress
7 46 (0.45%) IIS
8 44 (0.43%) Oracle Service Bus
8 44 (0.43%) WebLogic
9 41 (0.40%) Apache
10 37 (0.37%) Apache Spark
11 30 (0.30%) FileNet
12 24 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 19 (0.19%) ArcGIS
14 18 (0.18%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.069%) MS Project Server
15 7 (0.069%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.059%) Exchange Server 2000
16 6 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
16 6 (0.059%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,200 (11.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1,065 (10.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 391 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 181 (1.79%) Simulink
5 163 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
6 150 (1.48%) MS Visio
7 75 (0.74%) AutoCAD
8 50 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 45 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
10 44 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 36 (0.36%) UserZoom
12 31 (0.31%) InDesign
12 31 (0.31%) Stateflow
13 19 (0.19%) OrCAD
13 19 (0.19%) Trello
14 17 (0.17%) Sketch
14 17 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
15 15 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 113 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 47 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 40 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 30 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 23 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 16 (0.16%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.16%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.16%) Shopify
9 15 (0.15%) Primavera
9 15 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 12 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 12 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
12 9 (0.089%) SAP CX
13 8 (0.079%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.079%) Maximo
14 7 (0.069%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,154 (11.39%) Azure
2 771 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
3 660 (6.51%) AWS
4 504 (4.97%) Power Platform
5 268 (2.64%) SaaS
6 191 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
7 174 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (1.42%) GCP
9 129 (1.27%) GitHub
10 115 (1.13%) Entra ID
11 98 (0.97%) Serverless
12 95 (0.94%) PowerApps
13 91 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
14 90 (0.89%) Amazon S3
15 89 (0.88%) Figma
16 84 (0.83%) Power Automate
17 73 (0.72%) SurveyMonkey
18 64 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
19 62 (0.61%) OneDrive
20 56 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 404 (3.99%) Firewall
2 248 (2.45%) WAN
3 207 (2.04%) Wireless
4 195 (1.92%) DNS
4 195 (1.92%) LAN
5 182 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 171 (1.69%) Network Security
7 157 (1.55%) Internet
8 153 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
9 151 (1.49%) DHCP
10 132 (1.30%) VPN
11 86 (0.85%) 5G
11 86 (0.85%) Ethernet
12 85 (0.84%) SD-WAN
13 81 (0.80%) SAN
13 81 (0.80%) VoIP
14 75 (0.74%) VLAN
15 56 (0.55%) HTTP
16 51 (0.50%) Bluetooth
17 49 (0.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 527 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 439 (4.33%) Power BI
3 239 (2.36%) NoSQL
4 201 (1.98%) Relational Database
5 189 (1.86%) MySQL
6 171 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 155 (1.53%) Tableau
8 124 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
9 98 (0.97%) Big Data
10 89 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 86 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 84 (0.83%) Oracle Database
13 75 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 70 (0.69%) Redis
15 63 (0.62%) RDBMS
16 60 (0.59%) GIS
17 55 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
18 46 (0.45%) MongoDB
19 44 (0.43%) Oracle Database 11g
19 44 (0.43%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 609 (6.01%) Git
2 424 (4.18%) JIRA
3 198 (1.95%) Visual Studio
4 144 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 88 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 88 (0.87%) Selenium
6 85 (0.84%) LabVIEW
7 74 (0.73%) Subversion
8 68 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 64 (0.63%) Sourcetree
10 50 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
11 44 (0.43%) GitLab
12 41 (0.40%) JUnit
13 34 (0.34%) Mockito
14 31 (0.31%) TeamCity
15 30 (0.30%) Jasmine
15 30 (0.30%) Postman
16 29 (0.29%) CMake
17 24 (0.24%) SoapUI
18 23 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4,016 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 1,744 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
3 1,666 (16.44%) Finance
4 1,246 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 976 (9.63%) Manufacturing
6 709 (6.99%) Marketing
7 646 (6.37%) Electronics
8 587 (5.79%) Law
9 584 (5.76%) Retail
10 528 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
11 520 (5.13%) Legal
12 404 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
13 349 (3.44%) Military
14 345 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
15 318 (3.14%) Telecoms
16 301 (2.97%) Public Sector
17 270 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 260 (2.57%) Games
19 246 (2.43%) Automotive
20 230 (2.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,395 (13.76%) Senior
2 1,173 (11.57%) Analyst
2 1,173 (11.57%) Developer
3 894 (8.82%) Graduate
4 812 (8.01%) Software Engineer
5 705 (6.96%) Lead
6 580 (5.72%) Project Manager
7 489 (4.82%) Architect
8 358 (3.53%) Junior
9 336 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
10 317 (3.13%) Software Developer
11 309 (3.05%) Consultant
12 256 (2.53%) Support Engineer
13 243 (2.40%) Senior Developer
14 219 (2.16%) Embedded Engineer
15 214 (2.11%) Business Analyst
16 201 (1.98%) IT Engineer
17 197 (1.94%) Data Scientist
18 194 (1.91%) IT Manager
19 188 (1.85%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 667 (6.58%) .NET
2 446 (4.40%) HTML
3 412 (4.06%) React
4 380 (3.75%) CSS
5 328 (3.24%) AngularJS
6 210 (2.07%) Node.js
7 158 (1.56%) RESTful
8 152 (1.50%) ASP.NET
9 150 (1.48%) .NET Core
10 148 (1.46%) HTML5
11 142 (1.40%) .NET Framework
12 139 (1.37%) Web Services
13 106 (1.05%) JSON
14 105 (1.04%) REST
15 101 (1.00%) Spring
15 101 (1.00%) Vue
16 94 (0.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 88 (0.87%) XML
18 78 (0.77%) CSS3
18 78 (0.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 648 (6.39%) Management Information System
2 564 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 563 (5.55%) Self-Motivation
4 374 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 341 (3.36%) Driving Licence
6 289 (2.85%) Data Centre
7 229 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 165 (1.63%) IoT
9 141 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 134 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
11 130 (1.28%) FPGA
12 126 (1.24%) Life Science
13 118 (1.16%) FMCG
13 118 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 117 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 117 (1.15%) Cloud Native
15 114 (1.12%) Robotics
16 99 (0.98%) Social Media
17 91 (0.90%) Virtual Reality
18 86 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,088 (10.73%) Windows
2 822 (8.11%) Linux
3 350 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 218 (2.15%) Unix
5 198 (1.95%) Windows 10
6 143 (1.41%) Android
7 111 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 97 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 97 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 78 (0.77%) Apple iOS
10 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 61 (0.60%) Solaris
12 58 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
13 56 (0.55%) Ubuntu
14 51 (0.50%) Windows 7
15 39 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 28 (0.28%) CentOS
17 24 (0.24%) Mac OS X
18 23 (0.23%) VMS
18 23 (0.23%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,026 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
2 2,887 (28.48%) Computer Science
3 1,947 (19.21%) Agile
4 1,464 (14.44%) Software Engineering
5 1,421 (14.02%) Project Management
6 1,203 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,070 (10.56%) Mathematics
8 1,042 (10.28%) Mentoring
9 960 (9.47%) Customer Service
10 868 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
11 840 (8.29%) DevOps
12 791 (7.80%) Data Analysis
13 786 (7.75%) Decision-Making
14 760 (7.50%) Coaching
15 740 (7.30%) Analytics
16 717 (7.07%) ITIL
17 693 (6.84%) Artificial Intelligence
18 629 (6.21%) Project Delivery
19 549 (5.42%) Business Intelligence
20 544 (5.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,246 (12.29%) SQL
2 1,156 (11.40%) Python
3 1,012 (9.98%) C#
4 807 (7.96%) JavaScript
5 669 (6.60%) C
6 533 (5.26%) C++
7 531 (5.24%) Java
8 309 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 245 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 228 (2.25%) MATLAB
11 190 (1.87%) PHP
12 157 (1.55%) Embedded C
13 143 (1.41%) R
14 127 (1.25%) Bash
15 115 (1.13%) Fortran
16 105 (1.04%) VB
17 84 (0.83%) T-SQL
18 69 (0.68%) PL/SQL
19 63 (0.62%) Perl
20 54 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,594 (15.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,110 (10.95%) Security Cleared
3 857 (8.46%) Master's Degree
4 658 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 384 (3.79%) PhD
6 283 (2.79%) DBS Check
7 257 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
8 251 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 247 (2.44%) HNC
10 244 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 243 (2.40%) HND
12 200 (1.97%) CCNA
13 176 (1.74%) CISSP
14 168 (1.66%) DV Cleared
15 151 (1.49%) PMI Certification
16 130 (1.28%) PMP
17 126 (1.24%) CCNP
18 107 (1.06%) CISM
19 106 (1.05%) Azure Certification
20 105 (1.04%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 548 (5.41%) QA
2 197 (1.94%) SLA
3 167 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 166 (1.64%) GDPR
5 157 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 156 (1.54%) PMO
7 152 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 103 (1.02%) ISO 9001
9 102 (1.01%) GMP
10 98 (0.97%) NIST
11 65 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
12 61 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 50 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 46 (0.45%) ISO 13485
15 39 (0.38%) ISO 26262
15 39 (0.38%) WCAG
16 35 (0.35%) NEBOSH
17 31 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
18 29 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
19 26 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 530 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 354 (3.49%) Docker
3 352 (3.47%) Firmware
4 272 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 177 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
6 153 (1.51%) Hyper-V
7 55 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 50 (0.49%) vSphere
9 47 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 44 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
11 33 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.23%) Terminal Services
13 22 (0.22%) XenApp
14 13 (0.13%) OpenSSH
15 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
16 7 (0.069%) KVM
16 7 (0.069%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.049%) pfSense
17 5 (0.049%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 329 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 155 (1.53%) Terraform
3 113 (1.11%) SCCM
4 98 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 82 (0.81%) Ansible
6 55 (0.54%) WSUS
7 52 (0.51%) SCOM
8 44 (0.43%) Data Guard
8 44 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
9 30 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
10 29 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 29 (0.29%) Functional Safety
11 28 (0.28%) vCenter Server
12 27 (0.27%) CASB
13 26 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.21%) Puppet
15 19 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
16 16 (0.16%) Autotask
17 15 (0.15%) EnCase
18 13 (0.13%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 2,075 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 354 (3.49%) VMware
3 304 (3.00%) SAP
4 266 (2.62%) Oracle
5 265 (2.61%) Cisco
6 211 (2.08%) Google
7 189 (1.86%) EMC
8 179 (1.77%) Adobe
9 164 (1.62%) Apple
10 116 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 95 (0.94%) HP
12 88 (0.87%) Meraki
13 81 (0.80%) Dell
14 79 (0.78%) ServiceNow
15 76 (0.75%) IBM
16 72 (0.71%) Databricks
17 69 (0.68%) Citrix
17 69 (0.68%) Veeam
18 68 (0.67%) Qualtrics
19 66 (0.65%) Xilinx