Degree Jobs in the Thames Valley

Academic Degree
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,518 1,400 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.07% 24.84% 22.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.92% 58.92% 68.17%
Number of salaries quoted 866 460 585
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,493 £34,990 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £51,020 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.82% +5.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,621 2,376 2,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.39% 42.15% 33.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,528 978 970
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £29,363
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £37,027
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,000 £51,350 £51,750
% change year-on-year +1.27% -0.77% +3.50%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire 0 645 £59,000 +7.27% 196
Buckinghamshire -1 525 £43,500 -17.14% 124
Oxfordshire -1 348 £47,500 +0.53% 152
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 48 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.99%) Confluence
4 14 (0.92%) Oracle Service Bus
4 14 (0.92%) WebLogic
5 7 (0.46%) SAS
6 6 (0.40%) CMS
6 6 (0.40%) Kinematics
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.13%) Apache
9 1 (0.066%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.066%) Documentum
9 1 (0.066%) IIS
9 1 (0.066%) JBoss
9 1 (0.066%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.066%) Totara
9 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.066%) WordPress
Applications
1 167 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (8.04%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.64%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.53%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.26%) Maya
8 4 (0.26%) MotionBuilder
8 4 (0.26%) Solid Edge
8 4 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.13%) Revit
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.066%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.066%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.066%) Simulink
11 1 (0.066%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 30 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.20%) Primavera
7 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.066%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.066%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 136 (8.96%) Azure
2 127 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (5.01%) Power Platform
4 38 (2.50%) AWS
5 35 (2.31%) SaaS
6 34 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (2.04%) Power Automate
8 29 (1.91%) Entra ID
9 25 (1.65%) PowerApps
10 19 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (1.25%) Azure Storage
11 15 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (0.86%) OneDrive
13 12 (0.79%) OCI
14 11 (0.72%) ShareGate
15 10 (0.66%) GCP
16 9 (0.59%) GitHub
17 7 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 103 (6.79%) Firewall
2 42 (2.77%) DNS
3 38 (2.50%) DHCP
4 30 (1.98%) 5G
4 30 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
5 27 (1.78%) Internet
5 27 (1.78%) Wireless
6 24 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
6 24 (1.58%) Network Security
7 23 (1.52%) Bluetooth
7 23 (1.52%) WAN
8 22 (1.45%) GSM
8 22 (1.45%) ISDN
8 22 (1.45%) LTE
8 22 (1.45%) PSTN
8 22 (1.45%) UMTS
8 22 (1.45%) VPN
9 21 (1.38%) SAN
10 17 (1.12%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.92%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.20%) NoSQL
2 78 (5.14%) SQL Server
3 63 (4.15%) Power BI
4 28 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 15 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 14 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (0.92%) Oracle Database 10g
6 14 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
6 14 (0.92%) VLDB
7 10 (0.66%) Big Data
7 10 (0.66%) Tableau
8 9 (0.59%) GIS
9 8 (0.53%) MySQL
10 7 (0.46%) MS Access
10 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.40%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 113 (7.44%) Git
2 59 (3.89%) Selenium
3 56 (3.69%) Cypress.io
4 24 (1.58%) SoapUI
5 22 (1.45%) GitLab
5 22 (1.45%) JIRA
5 22 (1.45%) LabVIEW
6 21 (1.38%) Visual Studio
7 14 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.46%) AdminStudio
8 7 (0.46%) InstallShield
8 7 (0.46%) MSI
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.26%) Subversion
11 4 (0.26%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.13%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.13%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 462 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 337 (22.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 238 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.21%) Finance
5 146 (9.62%) Manufacturing
6 134 (8.83%) Electronics
7 75 (4.94%) Marketing
8 74 (4.87%) Legal
9 73 (4.81%) Telecoms
10 72 (4.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 48 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.31%) Retail
13 33 (2.17%) Law
14 29 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.58%) Automotive
15 24 (1.58%) Public Sector
16 20 (1.32%) Military
17 17 (1.12%) Aerospace
18 14 (0.92%) Brand Awareness
19 13 (0.86%) French Language
Job Titles
1 271 (17.85%) Senior
2 151 (9.95%) Developer
3 142 (9.35%) Analyst
4 122 (8.04%) Data Scientist
5 117 (7.71%) Software Engineer
6 106 (6.98%) Junior
7 104 (6.85%) Graduate
8 102 (6.72%) Architect
9 84 (5.53%) Lead
10 78 (5.14%) Electronics Engineer
11 70 (4.61%) Systems Engineer
12 65 (4.28%) Software Developer
13 62 (4.08%) Development Engineer
14 61 (4.02%) Graduate Development Engineer
14 61 (4.02%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
14 61 (4.02%) Junior Electronics Engineer
15 52 (3.43%) Hardware Engineer
16 49 (3.23%) Senior Developer
17 47 (3.10%) IT Support
18 42 (2.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (9.62%) React
2 130 (8.56%) .NET
3 55 (3.62%) Jest
4 47 (3.10%) HTML
5 45 (2.96%) CSS
6 36 (2.37%) HTML5
7 33 (2.17%) CSS3
8 20 (1.32%) OpenMP
9 18 (1.19%) ARM Templates
10 14 (0.92%) OpenACC
11 12 (0.79%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.79%) EDI
11 12 (0.79%) React Native
11 12 (0.79%) WPF
11 12 (0.79%) XML
12 11 (0.72%) Web Services
13 10 (0.66%) Node.js
14 9 (0.59%) Spring
15 7 (0.46%) .NET Core
16 6 (0.40%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 222 (14.62%) Algorithms
2 122 (8.04%) Management Information System
3 89 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
4 61 (4.02%) Data Centre
5 52 (3.43%) Life Science
6 47 (3.10%) Biopharmaceutical
7 25 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 25 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 25 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 23 (1.52%) Acoustics
9 22 (1.45%) CUDA
9 22 (1.45%) Satnav
10 19 (1.25%) Driving Licence
10 19 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.25%) PKI
11 18 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
11 18 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.19%) IoT
12 17 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
12 17 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 172 (11.33%) Windows
2 133 (8.76%) Linux
3 61 (4.02%) Unix
4 55 (3.62%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.49%) Windows Server
6 49 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 49 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 25 (1.65%) Windows 7
9 14 (0.92%) Solaris
10 12 (0.79%) Windows XP
11 10 (0.66%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.40%) VMS
14 5 (0.33%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.066%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (34.72%) Computer Science
2 477 (31.42%) Problem-Solving
3 348 (22.92%) Agile
4 256 (16.86%) Cybersecurity
5 253 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 223 (14.69%) Mentoring
7 220 (14.49%) Coaching
8 206 (13.57%) Decision-Making
9 197 (12.98%) Data Analysis
10 194 (12.78%) Software Engineering
11 191 (12.58%) Artificial Intelligence
12 185 (12.19%) Data Science
13 168 (11.07%) Project Management
14 157 (10.34%) Physics
15 142 (9.35%) Red Team
16 131 (8.63%) ITIL
17 129 (8.50%) Analytics
18 125 (8.23%) Propensity Modelling
19 114 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
20 113 (7.44%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 241 (15.88%) C#
2 238 (15.68%) Python
3 161 (10.61%) JavaScript
4 137 (9.03%) SQL
5 132 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 124 (8.17%) C++
7 115 (7.58%) C
8 96 (6.32%) Fortran
9 68 (4.48%) PowerShell
10 49 (3.23%) Java
11 36 (2.37%) PHP
12 30 (1.98%) Bash
13 25 (1.65%) VB
14 24 (1.58%) MATLAB
15 18 (1.19%) Bicep
15 18 (1.19%) VBScript
16 17 (1.12%) R
17 14 (0.92%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.72%) Embedded C
18 11 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 223 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 193 (12.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 185 (12.19%) Master's Degree
4 136 (8.96%) PhD
5 93 (6.13%) SC Cleared
6 48 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (2.64%) CISSP
9 35 (2.31%) CCNA
10 34 (2.24%) HNC
11 29 (1.91%) CCNP
11 29 (1.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 27 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.32%) MBA
14 19 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
15 17 (1.12%) HND
16 16 (1.05%) MCP
17 15 (0.99%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
19 12 (0.79%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.27%) QA
2 56 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 40 (2.64%) SLA
4 32 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.11%) WCAG
5 24 (1.58%) ISO 9001
6 22 (1.45%) GDPR
7 19 (1.25%) NIST
8 17 (1.12%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.99%) Good Clinical Practice
11 13 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.79%) ISO 13485
12 12 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (0.72%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.66%) IEC 62304
15 9 (0.59%) ISO 14001
15 9 (0.59%) ISO 22301
16 8 (0.53%) GRC
17 7 (0.46%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 144 (9.49%) Docker
2 102 (6.72%) Firmware
3 97 (6.39%) Active Directory
4 78 (5.14%) Embedded Firmware
5 73 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 24 (1.58%) Hyper-V
7 21 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
10 13 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.13%) HDFS
14 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 150 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.69%) SCCM
3 41 (2.70%) WSUS
4 30 (1.98%) SCOM
5 28 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 14 (0.92%) Data Guard
7 14 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (0.79%) NetBackup
8 12 (0.79%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.66%) Stealthwatch
10 8 (0.53%) Terraform
11 7 (0.46%) Ansible
11 7 (0.46%) Nessus
12 6 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 5 (0.33%) CASB
13 5 (0.33%) Suricata
14 2 (0.13%) Functional Safety
14 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 350 (23.06%) Microsoft
2 107 (7.05%) EMC
3 78 (5.14%) VMware
4 45 (2.96%) Oracle
5 40 (2.64%) Adobe
6 39 (2.57%) Cisco
7 38 (2.50%) Apple
8 32 (2.11%) HP
9 31 (2.04%) Veeam
10 26 (1.71%) Dell
11 19 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.19%) Juniper
12 18 (1.19%) SAP
13 17 (1.12%) Citrix
13 17 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 17 (1.12%) Sun
14 16 (1.05%) Meraki
14 16 (1.05%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.92%) Remedy
16 12 (0.79%) Symantec