Degree Jobs in the North of England

Academic Degree
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,990 2,673 2,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.25% 15.87% 12.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.77% 52.25% 43.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,441 867 1,055
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +19.32% -7.37%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,920 5,116 5,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.16% 30.37% 28.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,705 1,747 2,443
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £54,882 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +15.54% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North of England.

Salary trend for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West +4 1,198 £47,500 -13.64% 721
Yorkshire +3 580 £45,000 -10.00% 418
North East -10 212 £48,367 +1.64% 158
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 59 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.36%) Confluence
2 27 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.31%) CMS
4 22 (1.11%) SAS
5 19 (0.95%) IIS
6 16 (0.80%) Apache
7 13 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.35%) MS Project Server
9 7 (0.35%) WordPress
10 6 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.050%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.050%) Kentico
13 1 (0.050%) Moodle
13 1 (0.050%) Site Server
13 1 (0.050%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 169 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
6 16 (0.80%) Photoshop
7 15 (0.75%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.50%) InDesign
9 9 (0.45%) Adobe Captivate
10 6 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
10 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.25%) Solid Edge
11 5 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
12 4 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
12 4 (0.20%) Trello
13 3 (0.15%) SPSS
14 2 (0.10%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.10%) Stata
Business Applications
1 27 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.55%) SAP Business One
4 10 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.45%) SAP CX
5 9 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.40%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.30%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.20%) Maximo
8 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.15%) Primavera
9 3 (0.15%) SAP APO
9 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.15%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.15%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 261 (13.12%) Azure
2 188 (9.45%) AWS
3 142 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (3.87%) Power Platform
5 44 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
6 41 (2.06%) GCP
7 33 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (1.31%) GitHub
9 25 (1.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 23 (1.16%) Serverless
11 21 (1.06%) Power Automate
12 20 (1.01%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.01%) SaaS
13 18 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (0.55%) Entra ID
16 11 (0.55%) PowerApps
17 10 (0.50%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.97%) Firewall
2 50 (2.51%) WAN
3 45 (2.26%) LAN
4 44 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 43 (2.16%) DNS
6 42 (2.11%) Internet
7 41 (2.06%) Network Security
8 40 (2.01%) VPN
9 39 (1.96%) PPP
10 32 (1.61%) DHCP
11 27 (1.36%) VoIP
11 27 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (1.01%) VLAN
13 18 (0.90%) RS-232
14 17 (0.85%) Ethernet
15 15 (0.75%) Wireless
16 14 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
16 14 (0.70%) SD-WAN
17 13 (0.65%) Broadband
18 11 (0.55%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 77 (3.87%) MySQL
3 60 (3.02%) Power BI
4 45 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 35 (1.76%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.56%) Tableau
8 29 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.26%) Redis
10 24 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 23 (1.16%) RDBMS
12 19 (0.95%) MS Access
12 19 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 17 (0.85%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.80%) Big Data
15 11 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.40%) DynamoDB
17 7 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 110 (5.53%) Git
2 92 (4.62%) JIRA
3 19 (0.95%) Postman
4 16 (0.80%) TeamCity
5 14 (0.70%) Visual Studio
6 11 (0.55%) Subversion
7 10 (0.50%) Appium
7 10 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.35%) Gatling
10 6 (0.30%) Dreamweaver
10 6 (0.30%) LoadRunner
10 6 (0.30%) Selenium
11 5 (0.25%) HP UFT
11 5 (0.25%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.25%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.25%) JMeter
11 5 (0.25%) Mockito
11 5 (0.25%) MSTest
General
1 870 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 279 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
3 273 (13.72%) Finance
4 208 (10.45%) Manufacturing
5 113 (5.68%) Marketing
6 103 (5.18%) Retail
7 91 (4.57%) Legal
8 84 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
9 74 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (3.47%) Electronics
11 64 (3.22%) Games
12 62 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (2.91%) Public Sector
14 53 (2.66%) Law
15 43 (2.16%) Banking
16 39 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
17 38 (1.91%) Automotive
18 37 (1.86%) Aerospace
19 31 (1.56%) Telecoms
20 30 (1.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 289 (14.52%) Developer
2 285 (14.32%) Senior
3 191 (9.60%) Analyst
4 153 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 140 (7.04%) Project Manager
6 124 (6.23%) Lead
7 112 (5.63%) Graduate
8 111 (5.58%) Architect
9 72 (3.62%) IT Manager
10 55 (2.76%) Consultant
11 51 (2.56%) .NET Developer
12 50 (2.51%) Lead Developer
13 49 (2.46%) Junior
14 47 (2.36%) Software Developer
15 46 (2.31%) Senior Developer
16 44 (2.21%) Team Leader
17 40 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (1.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 36 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
19 35 (1.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (8.74%) .NET
2 102 (5.13%) HTML
3 81 (4.07%) CSS
4 73 (3.67%) Node.js
5 55 (2.76%) React
6 50 (2.51%) .NET Framework
7 46 (2.31%) JSON
8 45 (2.26%) AngularJS
8 45 (2.26%) ASP.NET
9 44 (2.21%) Web Services
10 40 (2.01%) RESTful
11 39 (1.96%) Vue
12 30 (1.51%) ASP.NET Web API
12 30 (1.51%) REST
13 29 (1.46%) .NET Core
14 26 (1.31%) Entity Framework
15 22 (1.11%) HTML5
16 20 (1.01%) Spring
17 19 (0.95%) ASP.NET MVC
17 19 (0.95%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 165 (8.29%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
3 65 (3.27%) Driving Licence
4 53 (2.66%) Data Centre
4 53 (2.66%) Operational Technology
5 50 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 33 (1.66%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 30 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
7 30 (1.51%) Social Media
8 27 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.21%) NHS
9 24 (1.21%) Product Ownership
10 22 (1.11%) Mobile App
11 21 (1.06%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.01%) Reinsurance
12 20 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
13 19 (0.95%) SCADA
14 18 (0.90%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 206 (10.35%) Windows
2 116 (5.83%) Linux
3 74 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 31 (1.56%) Unix
6 22 (1.11%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.95%) Windows Vista
8 17 (0.85%) Android
9 16 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
13 9 (0.45%) Windows Phone
14 8 (0.40%) Solaris
15 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.25%) VMS
16 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.050%) CentOS
17 1 (0.050%) ThreadX
17 1 (0.050%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (30.40%) Problem-Solving
2 601 (30.20%) Computer Science
3 384 (19.30%) Agile
4 320 (16.08%) Project Management
5 254 (12.76%) Software Engineering
6 228 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
7 189 (9.50%) Mentoring
8 188 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 172 (8.64%) DevOps
10 160 (8.04%) Customer Service
11 150 (7.54%) Analytics
12 141 (7.09%) ITIL
13 135 (6.78%) Project Delivery
14 134 (6.73%) Mathematics
15 124 (6.23%) ERP
16 116 (5.83%) Coaching
17 102 (5.13%) Business Intelligence
17 102 (5.13%) Risk Management
18 100 (5.03%) Decision-Making
19 99 (4.97%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 264 (13.27%) SQL
2 209 (10.50%) C#
3 169 (8.49%) JavaScript
4 141 (7.09%) Python
5 115 (5.78%) Java
6 74 (3.72%) C
7 58 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 55 (2.76%) PHP
9 38 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.36%) C++
11 24 (1.21%) Embedded C
12 23 (1.16%) R
12 23 (1.16%) VB
13 21 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.70%) VBScript
16 12 (0.60%) Ruby
17 11 (0.55%) MATLAB
17 11 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 369 (18.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 117 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 92 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 82 (4.12%) HNC
5 78 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
6 73 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 63 (3.17%) HND
8 61 (3.07%) SC Cleared
9 58 (2.91%) CCNA
10 51 (2.56%) CISSP
11 48 (2.41%) PMP
12 47 (2.36%) PMI Certification
13 43 (2.16%) CCNP
14 39 (1.96%) DBS Check
15 35 (1.76%) CISM
16 31 (1.56%) Azure Certification
16 31 (1.56%) PhD
17 28 (1.41%) MCP
18 24 (1.21%) AWS Certification
19 20 (1.01%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.82%) QA
2 57 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.96%) PMO
4 38 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.66%) GDPR
6 28 (1.41%) NIST
7 26 (1.31%) Data Quality
8 25 (1.26%) GMP
9 23 (1.16%) ISO 9001
10 22 (1.11%) SLA
11 21 (1.06%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.40%) CRD IV
13 8 (0.40%) IFRS
13 8 (0.40%) IFRS 9
13 8 (0.40%) NCSC
14 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.30%) IEC 62304
14 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 107 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 56 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (2.41%) Hyper-V
4 45 (2.26%) Docker
5 17 (0.85%) Firmware
6 14 (0.70%) Terminal Services
7 11 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.50%) vSphere
9 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.050%) KVM
10 1 (0.050%) Lustre
10 1 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.050%) Snort
10 1 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.050%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (2.31%) Terraform
2 33 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.65%) SCCM
5 11 (0.55%) Ansible
6 9 (0.45%) AirWatch
6 9 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.40%) Autotask
7 8 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
8 7 (0.35%) CASB
8 7 (0.35%) Grafana
8 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.25%) Nessus
10 5 (0.25%) SCOM
11 4 (0.20%) WSUS
12 3 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 396 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 77 (3.87%) VMware
3 69 (3.47%) Cisco
3 69 (3.47%) SAP
4 66 (3.32%) Adobe
5 55 (2.76%) Google
6 51 (2.56%) Oracle
7 42 (2.11%) Apple
8 29 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.06%) Meraki
10 20 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 18 (0.90%) HP
12 14 (0.70%) F5
12 14 (0.70%) IBM
13 13 (0.65%) Dell
13 13 (0.65%) Sage
14 11 (0.55%) Samsung
14 11 (0.55%) Virgin Media
15 10 (0.50%) Facebook
15 10 (0.50%) Veeam