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 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 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,892 16,413 23,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.17% 19.51% 16.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.81% 57.96% 61.85%
Number of salaries quoted 7,982 6,975 9,190
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,543
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% +0.18%

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 24,881 28,320 37,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.35% 33.66% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15,751 12,947 16,894
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

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 1 June 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 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
London +2 3,780 £67,500 -3.57% 2,548
South East -1 3,014 £51,350 -2.19% 1,230
North of England -2 1,997 £47,500 -9.52% 1,143
Midlands -1 1,824 £46,188 -7.62% 902
South West -2 1,352 £50,000 - 662
North West 0 1,215 £47,500 -13.64% 667
West Midlands +1 1,205 £50,000 -4.76% 556
East of England -3 859 £47,500 -13.64% 642
East Midlands -3 606 £42,500 -10.53% 346
Yorkshire 0 571 £45,000 -10.00% 345
North East -8 211 £47,500 -0.36% 148
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
1 364 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 332 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 208 (1.61%) Confluence
4 117 (0.91%) CMS
5 105 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 99 (0.77%) SAS
7 79 (0.61%) Apache
8 72 (0.56%) IIS
9 58 (0.45%) WordPress
10 36 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 36 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 31 (0.24%) Skype for Business
12 22 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 14 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
13 14 (0.11%) WebLogic
14 13 (0.10%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
16 10 (0.078%) nginx
17 9 (0.070%) Drupal
17 9 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,428 (11.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1,342 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 578 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 172 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 169 (1.31%) Simulink
6 124 (0.96%) MS Visio
7 82 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 78 (0.61%) AutoCAD
9 62 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 57 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
11 50 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
12 38 (0.29%) InDesign
13 37 (0.29%) SPSS
14 31 (0.24%) Stateflow
15 27 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
16 26 (0.20%) Revit
16 26 (0.20%) Trello
17 21 (0.16%) Adobe XD
18 19 (0.15%) OrCAD
19 17 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 176 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 62 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 45 (0.35%) NEC Housing
4 42 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 35 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
6 32 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 27 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 23 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.13%) Endur
10 17 (0.13%) Primavera
10 17 (0.13%) SAP CO
10 17 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 16 (0.12%) Shopify
12 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 15 (0.12%) SAP Business One
13 13 (0.10%) SAP CX
14 8 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
14 8 (0.062%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,713 (13.29%) Azure
2 1,203 (9.33%) AWS
3 1,069 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
4 763 (5.92%) Power Platform
5 381 (2.96%) SaaS
6 333 (2.58%) GCP
7 238 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 223 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
9 180 (1.40%) PowerApps
10 155 (1.20%) Power Automate
11 150 (1.16%) Entra ID
12 142 (1.10%) GitHub
13 136 (1.05%) Serverless
14 121 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
15 107 (0.83%) PaaS
16 99 (0.77%) IaaS
17 85 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
18 79 (0.61%) WhatsApp
19 78 (0.61%) Amazon S3
19 78 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 467 (3.62%) Firewall
2 334 (2.59%) WAN
3 262 (2.03%) Wireless
4 253 (1.96%) DNS
5 220 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 219 (1.70%) Network Security
7 216 (1.68%) LAN
8 204 (1.58%) Internet
9 176 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 172 (1.33%) DHCP
11 163 (1.26%) SD-WAN
12 155 (1.20%) VPN
13 97 (0.75%) VoIP
14 95 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
15 89 (0.69%) 5G
16 86 (0.67%) SAN
17 84 (0.65%) Ethernet
18 79 (0.61%) WebEx
19 75 (0.58%) VLAN
20 66 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 763 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 646 (5.01%) Power BI
3 461 (3.58%) Tableau
4 252 (1.95%) Relational Database
5 245 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 243 (1.88%) MySQL
7 228 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
8 195 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
9 182 (1.41%) Big Data
10 142 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 129 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 125 (0.97%) Redis
13 86 (0.67%) Data Mining
14 84 (0.65%) MongoDB
15 81 (0.63%) Data Lake
16 78 (0.61%) GIS
17 77 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (0.57%) Hadoop
19 68 (0.53%) Oracle Database
20 62 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 907 (7.04%) Git
2 500 (3.88%) JIRA
3 241 (1.87%) Visual Studio
4 134 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 103 (0.80%) Selenium
6 102 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 97 (0.75%) GitLab
8 85 (0.66%) Sourcetree
9 73 (0.57%) Subversion
10 71 (0.55%) LabVIEW
11 68 (0.53%) TeamCity
12 62 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 57 (0.44%) Moq
14 51 (0.40%) NUnit
15 50 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
16 37 (0.29%) CMake
16 37 (0.29%) Postman
17 31 (0.24%) Burp Suite
17 31 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
18 29 (0.22%) Metasploit
General
1 5,395 (41.85%) Social Skills
2 2,659 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
3 2,379 (18.45%) Finance
4 1,216 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,007 (7.81%) Retail
6 938 (7.28%) Marketing
7 906 (7.03%) Manufacturing
8 730 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
9 703 (5.45%) Legal
10 635 (4.93%) Electronics
11 472 (3.66%) Law
11 472 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
12 447 (3.47%) Public Sector
13 403 (3.13%) Telecoms
14 387 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 346 (2.68%) Military
16 343 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
17 314 (2.44%) Games
18 303 (2.35%) Banking
19 291 (2.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,015 (15.63%) Senior
2 1,642 (12.74%) Analyst
3 1,530 (11.87%) Developer
4 1,025 (7.95%) Graduate
5 899 (6.97%) Lead
6 841 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 695 (5.39%) Architect
8 691 (5.36%) Project Manager
9 433 (3.36%) Consultant
10 377 (2.92%) Junior
11 372 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
12 357 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
13 343 (2.66%) Senior Developer
14 342 (2.65%) Software Developer
15 330 (2.56%) Support Engineer
16 313 (2.43%) Data Scientist
17 293 (2.27%) IT Support
18 291 (2.26%) Data Analyst
19 278 (2.16%) Business Analyst
20 263 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 918 (7.12%) .NET
2 634 (4.92%) HTML
3 568 (4.41%) CSS
4 490 (3.80%) React
5 322 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 248 (1.92%) ASP.NET
7 217 (1.68%) Node.js
7 217 (1.68%) Web Services
8 216 (1.68%) .NET Framework
9 198 (1.54%) RESTful
10 190 (1.47%) HTML5
11 178 (1.38%) .NET Core
12 162 (1.26%) REST
13 150 (1.16%) XML
14 124 (0.96%) jQuery
14 124 (0.96%) JSON
15 117 (0.91%) Entity Framework
16 113 (0.88%) Vue
17 110 (0.85%) ASP.NET MVC
18 108 (0.84%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 869 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 817 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
3 715 (5.55%) Algorithms
4 528 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 461 (3.58%) Driving Licence
6 330 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 302 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 242 (1.88%) Life Science
9 209 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 198 (1.54%) Social Media
11 187 (1.45%) IoT
12 157 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 148 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 135 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 131 (1.02%) FPGA
16 129 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
17 127 (0.99%) Robotics
18 123 (0.95%) Client/Server
19 119 (0.92%) Public Cloud
19 119 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1,381 (10.71%) Windows
2 907 (7.04%) Linux
3 391 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 351 (2.72%) Windows 10
5 225 (1.75%) Android
6 192 (1.49%) Unix
7 120 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 117 (0.91%) Mac OS
9 106 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 105 (0.81%) Apple iOS
11 81 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
12 76 (0.59%) Windows 7
13 69 (0.54%) Ubuntu
14 47 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
15 39 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 39 (0.30%) Solaris
16 34 (0.26%) Kali Linux
17 29 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
18 28 (0.22%) CentOS
19 27 (0.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,914 (30.36%) Computer Science
2 3,843 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
3 2,408 (18.68%) Agile
4 1,806 (14.01%) Project Management
5 1,643 (12.74%) Software Engineering
6 1,489 (11.55%) Mathematics
7 1,246 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,201 (9.32%) Mentoring
9 1,185 (9.19%) Analytics
10 1,110 (8.61%) Data Analysis
11 1,076 (8.35%) Customer Service
12 1,064 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
13 1,025 (7.95%) Decision-Making
14 973 (7.55%) DevOps
15 909 (7.05%) ITIL
16 862 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence
17 846 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
18 821 (6.37%) Project Delivery
19 780 (6.05%) Coaching
20 755 (5.86%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 2,001 (15.52%) SQL
2 1,883 (14.61%) Python
3 1,341 (10.40%) C#
4 1,101 (8.54%) JavaScript
5 686 (5.32%) Java
6 608 (4.72%) C
7 566 (4.39%) C++
8 371 (2.88%) PowerShell
9 364 (2.82%) TypeScript
10 234 (1.82%) MATLAB
11 222 (1.72%) PHP
12 220 (1.71%) R
13 189 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 164 (1.27%) Bash
15 115 (0.89%) Fortran
16 107 (0.83%) Embedded C
16 107 (0.83%) VB
17 83 (0.64%) Scala
18 73 (0.57%) Go
19 71 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,235 (17.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,359 (10.54%) Master's Degree
3 1,172 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 664 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 650 (5.04%) DBS Check
6 455 (3.53%) PhD
7 384 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 293 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 285 (2.21%) CISSP
10 263 (2.04%) HNC
11 250 (1.94%) HND
12 248 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 221 (1.71%) PMI Certification
14 200 (1.55%) CCNA
15 194 (1.50%) DV Cleared
16 185 (1.43%) PMP
17 179 (1.39%) CISM
18 165 (1.28%) Azure Certification
19 154 (1.19%) MBA
20 137 (1.06%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 681 (5.28%) QA
2 268 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 234 (1.82%) GDPR
4 216 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 200 (1.55%) SLA
6 193 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 170 (1.32%) PMO
8 129 (1.00%) NIST
9 106 (0.82%) GMP
10 104 (0.81%) ISO 9001
11 72 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 71 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
13 65 (0.50%) PCI DSS
14 48 (0.37%) WCAG
15 42 (0.33%) NEBOSH
16 40 (0.31%) ISO 13485
17 37 (0.29%) ISO 26262
18 36 (0.28%) NCSC
19 35 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
20 33 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 724 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 457 (3.54%) Docker
3 309 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 296 (2.30%) Firmware
5 165 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
6 146 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 124 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 87 (0.67%) XenApp
9 83 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
10 71 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
11 69 (0.54%) XenDesktop
12 64 (0.50%) vSphere
13 45 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 18 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 14 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
17 13 (0.10%) OpenSSH
18 9 (0.070%) KVM
19 5 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 4 (0.031%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 383 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 231 (1.79%) Terraform
3 197 (1.53%) SCCM
4 142 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 105 (0.81%) Ansible
6 74 (0.57%) AirWatch
7 57 (0.44%) WSUS
8 54 (0.42%) SCOM
9 41 (0.32%) CASB
10 38 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 34 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 31 (0.24%) Functional Safety
13 28 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 27 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 27 (0.21%) Stealthwatch
15 25 (0.19%) Puppet
16 23 (0.18%) Grafana
17 20 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
18 17 (0.13%) ZABBIX
19 16 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,665 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 402 (3.12%) VMware
3 392 (3.04%) Cisco
4 334 (2.59%) Google
5 329 (2.55%) SAP
6 282 (2.19%) Oracle
7 269 (2.09%) Adobe
8 266 (2.06%) Databricks
9 219 (1.70%) Apple
10 191 (1.48%) Salesforce
11 189 (1.47%) EMC
12 153 (1.19%) Citrix
13 121 (0.94%) HP
14 109 (0.85%) ServiceNow
15 101 (0.78%) Meraki
16 95 (0.74%) Dell
16 95 (0.74%) IBM
17 76 (0.59%) Veeam
18 71 (0.55%) NEC
19 68 (0.53%) Juniper