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 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 8 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 9,908 12,630 12,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.84% 21.42% 17.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.77% 58.24% 53.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,127 4,020 5,258
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,735 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,626 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +6.38% -1.05%
75th Percentile £64,148 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,285 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +7.73% -

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 19,516 21,687 22,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.25% 36.78% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,220 8,051 10,349
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 18 May 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 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
South East -1 2,930 £51,350 -2.19% 1,577
North of England -1 1,990 £47,500 -9.52% 1,270
Midlands -2 1,714 £47,500 -5.00% 997
South West -3 1,334 £48,875 -0.79% 696
North West +4 1,198 £47,500 -13.64% 714
West Midlands 0 1,152 £50,000 -4.76% 624
East of England -3 862 £47,500 -8.65% 776
Scotland -29 690 £45,543 -8.91% 363
Yorkshire +3 580 £45,000 -10.00% 417
East Midlands -1 549 £40,000 -15.79% 372
Wales -5 261 £44,886 +1.25% 153
North East -10 212 £48,367 +1.64% 158
Northern Ireland +7 108 £43,000 +1.18% 56
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 6
Channel Islands -1 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
1 251 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 210 (2.12%) Confluence
3 200 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 67 (0.68%) SAS
5 66 (0.67%) CMS
6 49 (0.49%) WordPress
7 48 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 47 (0.47%) Apache
9 45 (0.45%) IIS
10 44 (0.44%) Oracle Service Bus
10 44 (0.44%) WebLogic
11 30 (0.30%) FileNet
12 24 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 17 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 17 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.071%) MS Project Server
14 7 (0.071%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.061%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 6 (0.061%) nginx
15 6 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,128 (11.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1,000 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 377 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 168 (1.70%) Simulink
5 166 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
6 157 (1.58%) MS Visio
7 71 (0.72%) AutoCAD
8 49 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 44 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 44 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 44 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
10 38 (0.38%) UserZoom
11 31 (0.31%) InDesign
11 31 (0.31%) Stateflow
12 20 (0.20%) Trello
13 18 (0.18%) OrCAD
14 17 (0.17%) Sketch
14 17 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
16 14 (0.14%) InVision
Business Applications
1 112 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 47 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 40 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 31 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 23 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 20 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 17 (0.17%) Primavera
10 16 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 16 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
10 16 (0.16%) Shopify
11 15 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
12 14 (0.14%) SAP Business One
13 12 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
14 9 (0.091%) SAP CX
14 9 (0.091%) SAP QM
15 8 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
16 6 (0.061%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,148 (11.59%) Azure
2 770 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
3 641 (6.47%) AWS
4 484 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 262 (2.64%) SaaS
6 182 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
7 179 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (1.39%) GCP
9 129 (1.30%) GitHub
10 115 (1.16%) Entra ID
11 95 (0.96%) Serverless
12 92 (0.93%) Figma
13 89 (0.90%) PowerApps
14 88 (0.89%) Amazon S3
15 85 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
15 85 (0.86%) Power Automate
16 75 (0.76%) SurveyMonkey
17 62 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
17 62 (0.63%) OneDrive
18 54 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 392 (3.96%) Firewall
2 241 (2.43%) WAN
3 210 (2.12%) Wireless
4 190 (1.92%) DNS
5 189 (1.91%) LAN
6 177 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 162 (1.64%) Network Security
8 157 (1.58%) Internet
9 151 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
10 142 (1.43%) DHCP
11 128 (1.29%) VPN
12 88 (0.89%) Ethernet
13 87 (0.88%) 5G
14 79 (0.80%) SD-WAN
14 79 (0.80%) VoIP
15 74 (0.75%) SAN
16 69 (0.70%) VLAN
17 53 (0.53%) HTTP
18 51 (0.51%) Bluetooth
19 49 (0.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 525 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 422 (4.26%) Power BI
3 215 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 197 (1.99%) Relational Database
5 188 (1.90%) MySQL
6 172 (1.74%) Tableau
7 167 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 106 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 96 (0.97%) Big Data
10 88 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 82 (0.83%) Oracle Database
12 81 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 68 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
14 63 (0.64%) RDBMS
15 57 (0.58%) GIS
16 55 (0.56%) Redis
17 53 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
18 44 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
18 44 (0.44%) Oracle Database 11g
18 44 (0.44%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 606 (6.12%) Git
2 436 (4.40%) JIRA
3 203 (2.05%) Visual Studio
4 148 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 97 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 89 (0.90%) Selenium
7 84 (0.85%) LabVIEW
8 76 (0.77%) Subversion
9 69 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 64 (0.65%) Sourcetree
11 47 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
12 41 (0.41%) GitLab
13 39 (0.39%) JUnit
14 34 (0.34%) Mockito
15 31 (0.31%) Jasmine
15 31 (0.31%) TeamCity
16 30 (0.30%) Postman
17 29 (0.29%) CMake
18 23 (0.23%) SoapUI
19 20 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,949 (39.86%) Social Skills
2 1,731 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
3 1,659 (16.74%) Finance
4 1,248 (12.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 971 (9.80%) Manufacturing
6 709 (7.16%) Marketing
7 621 (6.27%) Electronics
8 581 (5.86%) Law
9 555 (5.60%) Retail
10 533 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
11 469 (4.73%) Legal
12 401 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
13 339 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
14 318 (3.21%) Telecoms
15 305 (3.08%) Military
16 288 (2.91%) Public Sector
17 265 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
18 264 (2.66%) Games
19 242 (2.44%) Automotive
20 225 (2.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,357 (13.70%) Senior
2 1,175 (11.86%) Developer
3 1,157 (11.68%) Analyst
4 864 (8.72%) Graduate
5 769 (7.76%) Software Engineer
6 688 (6.94%) Lead
7 570 (5.75%) Project Manager
8 465 (4.69%) Architect
9 357 (3.60%) Junior
10 322 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
11 316 (3.19%) Software Developer
12 297 (3.00%) Consultant
13 250 (2.52%) Support Engineer
14 243 (2.45%) Senior Developer
15 202 (2.04%) IT Engineer
16 200 (2.02%) Embedded Engineer
17 196 (1.98%) IT Manager
18 195 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
19 192 (1.94%) Data Scientist
20 186 (1.88%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 651 (6.57%) .NET
2 441 (4.45%) HTML
3 421 (4.25%) React
4 375 (3.78%) CSS
5 323 (3.26%) AngularJS
6 209 (2.11%) Node.js
7 151 (1.52%) RESTful
8 146 (1.47%) HTML5
9 142 (1.43%) .NET Core
9 142 (1.43%) ASP.NET
10 140 (1.41%) .NET Framework
11 123 (1.24%) Web Services
12 106 (1.07%) JSON
13 104 (1.05%) Spring
14 102 (1.03%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 100 (1.01%) Vue
16 93 (0.94%) REST
17 88 (0.89%) XML
18 78 (0.79%) Kafka
19 77 (0.78%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 633 (6.39%) Management Information System
2 559 (5.64%) Algorithms
3 549 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
4 347 (3.50%) Driving Licence
5 328 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 275 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 226 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 160 (1.61%) IoT
9 142 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 133 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
11 126 (1.27%) FPGA
12 118 (1.19%) Cloud Native
13 116 (1.17%) FMCG
13 116 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 113 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
15 109 (1.10%) Robotics
16 108 (1.09%) Life Science
17 99 (1.00%) Virtual Reality
18 97 (0.98%) Social Media
19 86 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,066 (10.76%) Windows
2 788 (7.95%) Linux
3 337 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 216 (2.18%) Unix
5 188 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 132 (1.33%) Android
7 104 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 96 (0.97%) Mac OS
9 92 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 74 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
11 72 (0.73%) Apple iOS
12 61 (0.62%) Solaris
13 52 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
14 47 (0.47%) Windows 7
15 46 (0.46%) Ubuntu
16 34 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 26 (0.26%) CentOS
18 24 (0.24%) Mac OS X
19 23 (0.23%) VMS
20 20 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,955 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
2 2,809 (28.35%) Computer Science
3 1,933 (19.51%) Agile
4 1,410 (14.23%) Software Engineering
5 1,402 (14.15%) Project Management
6 1,135 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,064 (10.74%) Mathematics
8 1,027 (10.37%) Mentoring
9 911 (9.19%) Customer Service
10 850 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
11 828 (8.36%) DevOps
12 786 (7.93%) Decision-Making
13 733 (7.40%) Data Analysis
14 726 (7.33%) Analytics
15 705 (7.12%) Coaching
16 685 (6.91%) Artificial Intelligence
17 677 (6.83%) ITIL
18 611 (6.17%) Project Delivery
19 535 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
20 533 (5.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,208 (12.19%) SQL
2 1,134 (11.45%) Python
3 1,002 (10.11%) C#
4 791 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 651 (6.57%) C
6 519 (5.24%) Java
7 505 (5.10%) C++
8 313 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 237 (2.39%) PowerShell
10 224 (2.26%) MATLAB
11 190 (1.92%) PHP
12 155 (1.56%) R
13 153 (1.54%) Embedded C
14 119 (1.20%) Bash
15 100 (1.01%) Fortran
16 96 (0.97%) VB
17 91 (0.92%) T-SQL
18 67 (0.68%) PL/SQL
19 64 (0.65%) Perl
20 56 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,541 (15.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,068 (10.78%) Security Cleared
3 839 (8.47%) Master's Degree
4 642 (6.48%) SC Cleared
5 374 (3.77%) PhD
6 279 (2.82%) DBS Check
7 250 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 246 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
9 244 (2.46%) HND
10 242 (2.44%) HNC
11 238 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 190 (1.92%) CCNA
13 176 (1.78%) CISSP
14 153 (1.54%) DV Cleared
15 149 (1.50%) PMI Certification
16 126 (1.27%) PMP
17 118 (1.19%) CCNP
18 107 (1.08%) CISM
19 104 (1.05%) MCP
20 99 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 504 (5.09%) QA
2 187 (1.89%) SLA
3 165 (1.67%) GDPR
4 163 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 160 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 157 (1.58%) PMO
7 152 (1.53%) Accessibility
8 102 (1.03%) ISO 9001
9 97 (0.98%) GMP
10 96 (0.97%) NIST
11 69 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
12 65 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
13 52 (0.52%) PCI DSS
14 46 (0.46%) ISO 13485
15 41 (0.41%) WCAG
16 39 (0.39%) ISO 26262
17 37 (0.37%) NEBOSH
18 30 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
19 28 (0.28%) Automotive SPICE
20 27 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 511 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 365 (3.68%) Docker
3 337 (3.40%) Firmware
4 256 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 172 (1.74%) Embedded Firmware
6 144 (1.45%) Hyper-V
7 51 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (0.46%) vSphere
9 45 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
10 44 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
11 27 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.23%) Terminal Services
13 17 (0.17%) XenApp
14 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 11 (0.11%) OpenSSH
16 7 (0.071%) KVM
17 5 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.050%) pfSense
18 4 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
19 2 (0.020%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 332 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 145 (1.46%) Terraform
3 104 (1.05%) SCCM
4 97 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 79 (0.80%) Ansible
6 48 (0.48%) WSUS
7 47 (0.47%) SCOM
8 45 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 45 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
9 29 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 28 (0.28%) CASB
11 26 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 26 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 25 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 24 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
14 21 (0.21%) Puppet
15 20 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
16 16 (0.16%) Autotask
17 15 (0.15%) EnCase
18 14 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2,011 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 335 (3.38%) VMware
3 304 (3.07%) SAP
4 263 (2.65%) Oracle
5 252 (2.54%) Cisco
6 217 (2.19%) Google
7 189 (1.91%) EMC
8 175 (1.77%) Adobe
9 158 (1.59%) Apple
10 124 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 89 (0.90%) Dell
11 89 (0.90%) HP
12 82 (0.83%) Meraki
13 77 (0.78%) IBM
13 77 (0.78%) ServiceNow
14 70 (0.71%) Databricks
14 70 (0.71%) Qualtrics
15 66 (0.67%) Veeam
16 64 (0.65%) Citrix
16 64 (0.65%) Sage