Degree Jobs in the South West

Academic Degree
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,352 1,341 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.57% 20.38% 15.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.30% 47.00% 40.56%
Number of salaries quoted 854 482 640
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £28,725
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,513 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £66,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,355 2,853 3,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 33.67% 43.36% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,186 1,264 1,651
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,932 £30,241
25th Percentile £40,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,143 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the South West

Degree
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +4 420 £55,000 +4.76% 219
Dorset -6 239 £45,000 -10.00% 63
Gloucestershire -3 218 £50,000 -9.09% 68
Devon -3 174 £40,000 -5.37% 77
Wiltshire -8 144 £55,000 +10.00% 80
Somerset -2 107 £51,500 +19.77% 96
Cornwall -2 35 £39,005 +18.20% 14
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 94 (6.95%) Confluence
2 35 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.74%) ArcGIS
5 9 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.59%) Apache
7 6 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.44%) Luigi
7 6 (0.44%) SAS
8 4 (0.30%) Site Server
9 3 (0.22%) IIS
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.22%) WildFly
10 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 146 (10.80%) Microsoft Office
2 97 (7.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.66%) Simulink
5 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.81%) Trello
7 9 (0.67%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.37%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.30%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.15%) Gliffy
11 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.15%) InDesign
11 2 (0.15%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 30 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.52%) SAP QM
4 4 (0.30%) Primavera
5 3 (0.22%) Maximo
6 2 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.074%) HiPortfolio
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 155 (11.46%) Azure
2 115 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
3 89 (6.58%) AWS
4 57 (4.22%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (2.66%) SaaS
7 30 (2.22%) GCP
8 24 (1.78%) GitHub
9 22 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.11%) npm
11 12 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (0.89%) IaaS
11 12 (0.89%) PaaS
12 11 (0.81%) Firebase
12 11 (0.81%) WhatsApp
13 8 (0.59%) Azure Functions
13 8 (0.59%) Serverless
14 7 (0.52%) OneDrive
14 7 (0.52%) Snowflake
15 6 (0.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.18%) WAN
2 34 (2.51%) Firewall
3 31 (2.29%) SD-WAN
4 29 (2.14%) 5G
4 29 (2.14%) DNS
5 26 (1.92%) Network Security
6 23 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.63%) Internet
8 19 (1.41%) LAN
9 18 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (1.11%) Ethernet
10 15 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
11 12 (0.89%) RS-232
12 11 (0.81%) DHCP
12 11 (0.81%) VLAN
12 11 (0.81%) Wireless
13 10 (0.74%) HTTP
13 10 (0.74%) VoIP
14 8 (0.59%) Bluetooth
14 8 (0.59%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 50 (3.70%) Power BI
3 38 (2.81%) Relational Database
4 35 (2.59%) Tableau
5 22 (1.63%) Big Data
6 18 (1.33%) MySQL
7 16 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
8 13 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.89%) Redis
9 12 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.67%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.59%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.52%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.44%) Bigtable
13 6 (0.44%) CouchDB
13 6 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
13 6 (0.44%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 150 (11.09%) Git
2 130 (9.62%) JIRA
3 102 (7.54%) Visual Studio
4 74 (5.47%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.36%) Sourcetree
6 34 (2.51%) LabVIEW
7 26 (1.92%) Rational DOORS
8 23 (1.70%) Jenkins
9 15 (1.11%) Selenium
10 14 (1.04%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.96%) Storybook
12 9 (0.67%) NetBeans
12 9 (0.67%) Subversion
13 8 (0.59%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
15 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
16 3 (0.22%) Eclipse
16 3 (0.22%) JUnit
16 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
17 2 (0.15%) Maven
General
1 467 (34.54%) Social Skills
2 269 (19.90%) Finance
3 252 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (13.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (10.50%) Law
6 141 (10.43%) Presentation Skills
7 122 (9.02%) Games
8 98 (7.25%) Banking
9 96 (7.10%) Manufacturing
10 89 (6.58%) Investment Banking
11 72 (5.33%) Marketing
12 67 (4.96%) Retail
13 65 (4.81%) Legal
14 58 (4.29%) Aerospace
15 54 (3.99%) Electronics
16 44 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
17 42 (3.11%) Public Sector
18 41 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
19 39 (2.88%) Military
20 33 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 256 (18.93%) Senior
2 209 (15.46%) Developer
3 125 (9.25%) Project Manager
4 119 (8.80%) Analyst
5 111 (8.21%) Lead
6 103 (7.62%) Software Engineer
7 74 (5.47%) Architect
7 74 (5.47%) Systems Engineer
8 71 (5.25%) 3D Developer
8 71 (5.25%) Games Developer
8 71 (5.25%) Unity 3D Developer
9 57 (4.22%) Senior Developer
10 54 (3.99%) Senior Manager
11 46 (3.40%) Graduate
12 43 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (3.11%) Consultant
13 42 (3.11%) Senior Software Engineer
13 42 (3.11%) Support Engineer
14 35 (2.59%) Business Analyst
15 33 (2.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (5.99%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 76 (5.62%) .NET
3 64 (4.73%) AngularJS
4 49 (3.62%) HTML
5 47 (3.48%) CSS
6 43 (3.18%) React
7 35 (2.59%) Node.js
8 23 (1.70%) .NET Framework
9 20 (1.48%) ASP.NET
10 16 (1.18%) REST
11 15 (1.11%) Sass
12 13 (0.96%) Spring
12 13 (0.96%) XML
13 12 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
13 12 (0.89%) Entity Framework
13 12 (0.89%) Gherkin
13 12 (0.89%) HTML5
13 12 (0.89%) PyTorch
14 11 (0.81%) .NET Core
14 11 (0.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
2 80 (5.92%) Virtual Reality
3 73 (5.40%) Algorithms
3 73 (5.40%) Management Information System
4 52 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 36 (2.66%) GNSS
5 36 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.07%) Cloud Native
8 25 (1.85%) FPGA
9 24 (1.78%) Robotics
10 23 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.26%) VHDL
12 16 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.04%) Derivative
13 14 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
14 13 (0.96%) Credit Risk
14 13 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 136 (10.06%) Windows
2 134 (9.91%) Linux
3 34 (2.51%) Unix
4 29 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 27 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.70%) Android
7 17 (1.26%) Mac OS
8 14 (1.04%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.74%) Debian
9 10 (0.74%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.30%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.15%) CentOS
16 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
2 330 (24.41%) Computer Science
3 244 (18.05%) Agile
4 239 (17.68%) Software Engineering
5 228 (16.86%) Project Management
6 159 (11.76%) DevOps
7 133 (9.84%) UML
8 130 (9.62%) Scrum
9 126 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (9.02%) Mentoring
11 111 (8.21%) Analytics
11 111 (8.21%) Decision-Making
12 110 (8.14%) ITIL
12 110 (8.14%) Mathematics
13 106 (7.84%) Validation
14 104 (7.69%) Test Automation
15 102 (7.54%) Project Delivery
16 98 (7.25%) Coaching
17 92 (6.80%) B2B
18 85 (6.29%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 170 (12.57%) Python
2 149 (11.02%) SQL
3 147 (10.87%) C#
4 96 (7.10%) JavaScript
5 85 (6.29%) C
6 83 (6.14%) Java
7 68 (5.03%) C++
8 66 (4.88%) MATLAB
9 43 (3.18%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 23 (1.70%) R
11 22 (1.63%) Bash
12 21 (1.55%) Perl
12 21 (1.55%) PHP
13 18 (1.33%) VB
14 16 (1.18%) Scala
15 12 (0.89%) Swift
16 10 (0.74%) Objective-C
16 10 (0.74%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 366 (27.07%) Security Cleared
2 232 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 161 (11.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 159 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (6.58%) Master's Degree
6 57 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.88%) HND
7 39 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
9 28 (2.07%) DBS Check
10 25 (1.85%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.70%) CISSP
12 21 (1.55%) PMP
13 20 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (1.48%) HNC
13 20 (1.48%) MCP
14 16 (1.18%) ISTQB
14 16 (1.18%) PhD
15 12 (0.89%) CIPD
15 12 (0.89%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.21%) QA
2 38 (2.81%) PMO
3 28 (2.07%) GMP
4 27 (2.00%) GDPR
5 24 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.78%) SLA
6 18 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 16 (1.18%) IEC 61508
7 16 (1.18%) NIST
8 15 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.96%) ISO 9001
10 12 (0.89%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.89%) ISO 13485
11 9 (0.67%) Def Stans
11 9 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.52%) TickIT
13 6 (0.44%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.44%) NCSC
13 6 (0.44%) RMADS
System Software
1 57 (4.22%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.74%) Firmware
3 34 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.92%) Docker
5 19 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 19 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.44%) vSphere
8 3 (0.22%) KVM
8 3 (0.22%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.074%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.074%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.81%) CASB
2 11 (0.81%) Terraform
3 9 (0.67%) SCCM
4 7 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.44%) Nagios
6 5 (0.37%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) Rancher
6 5 (0.37%) WSUS
7 4 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (0.22%) OfficeScan
8 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.15%) Grafana
9 2 (0.15%) SCOM
10 1 (0.074%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.074%) Nmap
10 1 (0.074%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 327 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 40 (2.96%) VMware
3 31 (2.29%) Cisco
4 30 (2.22%) Sparx
5 24 (1.78%) Google
6 22 (1.63%) Oracle
7 16 (1.18%) IBM
8 15 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.04%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.96%) Databricks
11 12 (0.89%) Apple
11 12 (0.89%) HP
11 12 (0.89%) SAP
12 11 (0.81%) Citrix
12 11 (0.81%) Veeam
12 11 (0.81%) Xilinx
13 9 (0.67%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.67%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.59%) Altera
14 8 (0.59%) Green Hills