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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,667 17,267 21,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.75% 19.22% 16.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.82% 58.83% 60.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8,056 7,200 9,035
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,875 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,624 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +4.77% -

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 24,443 29,349 35,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.46% 32.67% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,785 13,406 16,670
10th Percentile £28,453 £31,322 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

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 11 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 11 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 3,791 £67,500 -0.80% 2,538
South East -1 2,917 £51,500 +0.98% 1,291
North of England 0 1,995 £47,500 -7.89% 1,227
Midlands -2 1,681 £47,500 -5.00% 957
South West -4 1,342 £48,750 +2.63% 706
North West +3 1,202 £48,000 -12.73% 711
West Midlands -1 1,129 £50,000 -4.76% 596
East of England -3 865 £47,500 -5.00% 733
Yorkshire +4 577 £45,000 -10.00% 379
East Midlands -4 540 £40,000 -15.79% 360
North East -9 216 £48,367 +1.82% 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
1 381 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 359 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 223 (1.76%) Confluence
4 112 (0.88%) SAS
5 110 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 105 (0.83%) CMS
7 74 (0.58%) Apache
8 71 (0.56%) IIS
9 63 (0.50%) WordPress
10 35 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 31 (0.24%) 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 (0.095%) OpenStack
14 12 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
15 11 (0.087%) nginx
16 9 (0.071%) Drupal
16 9 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,342 (10.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1,252 (9.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 565 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 177 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 158 (1.25%) Simulink
6 134 (1.06%) MS Visio
7 78 (0.62%) AutoCAD
8 76 (0.60%) Photoshop
9 62 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 57 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
12 38 (0.30%) InDesign
13 37 (0.29%) SPSS
14 32 (0.25%) Chatbot
15 31 (0.24%) Stateflow
16 27 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
16 27 (0.21%) Trello
17 26 (0.21%) Revit
18 20 (0.16%) Adobe XD
19 18 (0.14%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 180 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 43 (0.34%) NEC Housing
4 42 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 35 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 32 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 26 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
7 26 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
8 17 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 17 (0.13%) Endur
8 17 (0.13%) Primavera
8 17 (0.13%) SAP CO
8 17 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 17 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
9 16 (0.13%) SAP Business One
9 16 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 16 (0.13%) Shopify
10 14 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
11 10 (0.079%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,681 (13.27%) Azure
2 1,166 (9.21%) AWS
3 1,099 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
4 737 (5.82%) Power Platform
5 379 (2.99%) SaaS
6 337 (2.66%) GCP
7 230 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 223 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 173 (1.37%) PowerApps
10 156 (1.23%) Entra ID
11 153 (1.21%) Power Automate
12 146 (1.15%) GitHub
13 138 (1.09%) Serverless
14 115 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
15 102 (0.81%) IaaS
15 102 (0.81%) PaaS
16 90 (0.71%) WhatsApp
17 89 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
18 78 (0.62%) Amazon S3
19 77 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 456 (3.60%) Firewall
2 353 (2.79%) WAN
3 292 (2.31%) Wireless
4 255 (2.01%) DNS
5 216 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 215 (1.70%) LAN
7 201 (1.59%) Network Security
8 194 (1.53%) Internet
9 179 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 173 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 167 (1.32%) DHCP
12 149 (1.18%) VPN
13 122 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
14 107 (0.84%) WebEx
15 99 (0.78%) VoIP
16 91 (0.72%) 5G
17 86 (0.68%) SAN
18 82 (0.65%) Ethernet
19 68 (0.54%) VLAN
20 67 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 749 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 616 (4.86%) Power BI
3 451 (3.56%) Tableau
4 249 (1.97%) Relational Database
5 247 (1.95%) MySQL
6 221 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 214 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 177 (1.40%) Big Data
9 174 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
10 134 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 124 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 105 (0.83%) Redis
13 95 (0.75%) Data Mining
14 84 (0.66%) Data Lake
15 77 (0.61%) Hadoop
15 77 (0.61%) MongoDB
16 73 (0.58%) GIS
17 69 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
19 62 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 881 (6.96%) Git
2 512 (4.04%) JIRA
3 244 (1.93%) Visual Studio
4 133 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 121 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 102 (0.81%) Selenium
7 83 (0.66%) GitLab
8 80 (0.63%) Sourcetree
9 74 (0.58%) Subversion
10 70 (0.55%) LabVIEW
11 66 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 61 (0.48%) TeamCity
13 48 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
14 45 (0.36%) Moq
15 42 (0.33%) 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 5,284 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 2,631 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2,363 (18.65%) Finance
4 1,200 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 934 (7.37%) Retail
6 925 (7.30%) Marketing
7 898 (7.09%) Manufacturing
8 706 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
9 651 (5.14%) Legal
10 609 (4.81%) Electronics
11 471 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
12 448 (3.54%) Law
13 431 (3.40%) Public Sector
14 410 (3.24%) Telecoms
15 350 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
16 342 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
17 332 (2.62%) Games
18 300 (2.37%) Banking
19 290 (2.29%) Automotive
20 284 (2.24%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,940 (15.32%) Senior
2 1,595 (12.59%) Analyst
3 1,526 (12.05%) Developer
4 978 (7.72%) Graduate
5 880 (6.95%) Lead
6 785 (6.20%) Software Engineer
7 691 (5.46%) Project Manager
8 679 (5.36%) Architect
9 421 (3.32%) Consultant
10 380 (3.00%) Junior
11 363 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
12 348 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
13 342 (2.70%) Software Developer
14 329 (2.60%) Senior Developer
15 327 (2.58%) Support Engineer
16 313 (2.47%) IT Support
17 311 (2.46%) Data Scientist
18 271 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
19 269 (2.12%) Data Analyst
20 241 (1.90%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 905 (7.14%) .NET
2 613 (4.84%) HTML
3 546 (4.31%) CSS
4 498 (3.93%) React
5 322 (2.54%) AngularJS
6 233 (1.84%) ASP.NET
7 215 (1.70%) Node.js
8 202 (1.59%) .NET Framework
9 193 (1.52%) Web Services
10 190 (1.50%) RESTful
11 188 (1.48%) HTML5
12 172 (1.36%) .NET Core
13 146 (1.15%) REST
14 141 (1.11%) XML
15 128 (1.01%) JSON
16 119 (0.94%) Kafka
17 114 (0.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 114 (0.90%) Vue
18 108 (0.85%) Entity Framework
19 106 (0.84%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 862 (6.81%) Management Information System
2 797 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
3 695 (5.49%) Algorithms
4 478 (3.77%) Driving Licence
5 456 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 322 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 305 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 206 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 197 (1.56%) Social Media
10 194 (1.53%) Life Science
11 184 (1.45%) IoT
12 151 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 147 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
14 143 (1.13%) Mobile App
15 130 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 128 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
16 128 (1.01%) FPGA
17 121 (0.96%) Client/Server
18 120 (0.95%) Robotics
19 117 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,394 (11.00%) Windows
2 875 (6.91%) Linux
3 383 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 373 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 243 (1.92%) Android
6 191 (1.51%) Unix
7 118 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 115 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 103 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 103 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 75 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 74 (0.58%) Windows 7
12 60 (0.47%) Ubuntu
13 40 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
14 36 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 36 (0.28%) Solaris
15 35 (0.28%) Kali Linux
16 25 (0.20%) Debian
16 25 (0.20%) VMS
16 25 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,817 (30.13%) Computer Science
2 3,751 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
3 2,362 (18.65%) Agile
4 1,791 (14.14%) Project Management
5 1,575 (12.43%) Software Engineering
6 1,452 (11.46%) Mathematics
7 1,170 (9.24%) Mentoring
8 1,144 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 1,132 (8.94%) Analytics
10 1,072 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
11 1,012 (7.99%) Customer Service
12 1,010 (7.97%) Data Analysis
13 996 (7.86%) Decision-Making
14 941 (7.43%) DevOps
15 895 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence
16 871 (6.88%) ITIL
17 820 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
18 803 (6.34%) Project Delivery
19 735 (5.80%) Data Science
20 728 (5.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,921 (15.17%) SQL
2 1,815 (14.33%) Python
3 1,330 (10.50%) C#
4 1,072 (8.46%) JavaScript
5 663 (5.23%) Java
6 589 (4.65%) C
7 533 (4.21%) C++
8 372 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 370 (2.92%) PowerShell
10 229 (1.81%) MATLAB
11 228 (1.80%) PHP
12 227 (1.79%) R
13 186 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 155 (1.22%) Bash
15 103 (0.81%) Embedded C
16 99 (0.78%) Fortran
17 98 (0.77%) VB
18 72 (0.57%) Go
19 71 (0.56%) Perl
20 65 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,186 (17.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,382 (10.91%) Master's Degree
3 1,127 (8.90%) Security Cleared
4 650 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 620 (4.89%) DBS Check
6 437 (3.45%) PhD
7 370 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 285 (2.25%) CISSP
9 283 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
10 263 (2.08%) HNC
11 262 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 260 (2.05%) HND
13 214 (1.69%) PMI Certification
14 194 (1.53%) CCNA
15 182 (1.44%) CISM
16 178 (1.41%) DV Cleared
17 177 (1.40%) PMP
18 165 (1.30%) Azure Certification
19 153 (1.21%) MBA
20 137 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 613 (4.84%) QA
2 259 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 235 (1.86%) GDPR
4 223 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (1.55%) SLA
6 193 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 175 (1.38%) PMO
8 131 (1.03%) NIST
9 104 (0.82%) ISO 9001
10 93 (0.73%) GMP
11 79 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 68 (0.54%) PCI DSS
13 52 (0.41%) WCAG
14 42 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 42 (0.33%) NEBOSH
15 40 (0.32%) ISO 26262
16 39 (0.31%) ISO 13485
17 38 (0.30%) NCSC
17 38 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 37 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 751 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 479 (3.78%) Docker
3 301 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 278 (2.19%) Firmware
5 157 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 151 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 142 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 108 (0.85%) XenApp
9 94 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
10 92 (0.73%) XenDesktop
11 68 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
12 61 (0.48%) vSphere
13 38 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 19 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
16 15 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
17 10 (0.079%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.063%) KVM
19 5 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 4 (0.032%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 393 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 216 (1.71%) SCCM
2 216 (1.71%) Terraform
3 139 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 100 (0.79%) AirWatch
5 99 (0.78%) Ansible
6 50 (0.39%) WSUS
7 49 (0.39%) SCOM
8 40 (0.32%) CASB
9 37 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 32 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 31 (0.24%) Functional Safety
12 26 (0.21%) vCenter Server
13 25 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 23 (0.18%) Puppet
15 21 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
15 21 (0.17%) Stealthwatch
16 19 (0.15%) Grafana
17 17 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
17 17 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,627 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 404 (3.19%) Cisco
3 402 (3.17%) VMware
4 346 (2.73%) SAP
5 340 (2.68%) Google
6 279 (2.20%) Oracle
7 259 (2.04%) Adobe
8 233 (1.84%) Databricks
9 213 (1.68%) Apple
10 191 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 189 (1.49%) EMC
12 173 (1.37%) Citrix
13 120 (0.95%) HP
14 117 (0.92%) ServiceNow
15 97 (0.77%) Dell
16 92 (0.73%) IBM
16 92 (0.73%) Meraki
17 74 (0.58%) Veeam
18 70 (0.55%) Juniper
19 68 (0.54%) NEC