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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 10,577 12,014 14,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.39% 21.59% 18.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.60% 56.99% 56.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,115 3,974 5,455
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,734 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +9.11% -2.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £60,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% +0.92%

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 20,500 21,081 24,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.95% 37.88% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,311 7,937 10,633
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,549
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.96% +0.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 9 June 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 9 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
South East -1 3,085 £51,000 -2.86% 1,188
North of England -2 2,117 £47,500 -9.52% 1,108
Midlands 0 2,060 £45,500 -9.00% 901
West Midlands 0 1,372 £50,000 -4.76% 546
South West -4 1,367 £50,000 - 694
North West -1 1,245 £47,500 -13.64% 642
East of England -3 883 £47,500 -13.64% 631
East Midlands -2 675 £42,500 -10.53% 356
Scotland -29 661 £44,100 -11.80% 373
Yorkshire -1 636 £45,000 -10.00% 339
Wales -3 274 £44,943 +5.75% 119
North East -10 236 £47,500 -0.36% 144
Northern Ireland +4 109 £43,000 -6.52% 53
Isle of Man +4 24 £52,500 -27.59% 6
Channel Islands 0 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
1 245 (2.32%) SharePoint
2 207 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 188 (1.78%) Confluence
4 69 (0.65%) CMS
5 51 (0.48%) SAS
6 50 (0.47%) WordPress
7 46 (0.43%) IIS
8 43 (0.41%) Oracle Service Bus
8 43 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 39 (0.37%) Apache
10 32 (0.30%) Apache Spark
11 30 (0.28%) FileNet
12 24 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 21 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 18 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.066%) MS Project Server
15 7 (0.066%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.057%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 6 (0.057%) Exchange Server 2000
16 6 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,244 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1,092 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 397 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 185 (1.75%) Simulink
5 167 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
6 151 (1.43%) MS Visio
7 78 (0.74%) AutoCAD
8 50 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
9 45 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
10 44 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 32 (0.30%) UserZoom
12 31 (0.29%) InDesign
13 30 (0.28%) Stateflow
14 20 (0.19%) OrCAD
15 19 (0.18%) Trello
16 18 (0.17%) Revit
17 17 (0.16%) Sketch
17 17 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
18 15 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 116 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 46 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 40 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 30 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 25 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 16 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.15%) Shopify
9 15 (0.14%) Primavera
9 15 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 15 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 12 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
10 12 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
11 9 (0.085%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.085%) Maximo
11 9 (0.085%) SAP CX
12 6 (0.057%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,177 (11.13%) Azure
2 778 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
3 673 (6.36%) AWS
4 517 (4.89%) Power Platform
5 279 (2.64%) SaaS
6 196 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 178 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
8 149 (1.41%) GCP
9 129 (1.22%) GitHub
10 120 (1.13%) Entra ID
11 98 (0.93%) Serverless
12 97 (0.92%) PowerApps
13 93 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
14 89 (0.84%) Amazon S3
15 86 (0.81%) Figma
16 85 (0.80%) Power Automate
17 69 (0.65%) SurveyMonkey
18 63 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
19 61 (0.58%) OneDrive
20 56 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 412 (3.90%) Firewall
2 252 (2.38%) WAN
3 241 (2.28%) Network Security
4 228 (2.16%) Internet
5 209 (1.98%) Wireless
6 201 (1.90%) LAN
7 198 (1.87%) DNS
8 189 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 155 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
10 154 (1.46%) DHCP
11 135 (1.28%) VPN
12 96 (0.91%) WLAN
13 88 (0.83%) Ethernet
13 88 (0.83%) SD-WAN
14 86 (0.81%) 5G
15 83 (0.78%) SAN
16 82 (0.78%) VoIP
17 79 (0.75%) VLAN
18 55 (0.52%) HTTP
19 52 (0.49%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 538 (5.09%) SQL Server
2 446 (4.22%) Power BI
3 244 (2.31%) NoSQL
4 206 (1.95%) Relational Database
5 192 (1.82%) MySQL
6 172 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 146 (1.38%) Tableau
8 130 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 98 (0.93%) Big Data
10 91 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 89 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 87 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 77 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
14 73 (0.69%) Redis
15 63 (0.60%) RDBMS
16 61 (0.58%) GIS
17 57 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
18 50 (0.47%) MongoDB
19 43 (0.41%) Oracle Database 10g
19 43 (0.41%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 608 (5.75%) Git
2 417 (3.94%) JIRA
3 192 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 138 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 90 (0.85%) Selenium
6 88 (0.83%) LabVIEW
7 80 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 75 (0.71%) Subversion
9 71 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 64 (0.61%) Sourcetree
11 53 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
12 45 (0.43%) GitLab
13 41 (0.39%) JUnit
14 34 (0.32%) Mockito
15 31 (0.29%) Postman
16 30 (0.28%) Jasmine
16 30 (0.28%) TeamCity
17 29 (0.27%) CMake
18 26 (0.25%) SoapUI
19 24 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4,262 (40.29%) Social Skills
2 1,775 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1,665 (15.74%) Finance
4 1,233 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 994 (9.40%) Manufacturing
6 788 (7.45%) Retail
7 724 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
8 715 (6.76%) Marketing
9 668 (6.32%) Electronics
10 583 (5.51%) Law
11 539 (5.10%) Legal
12 405 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
13 374 (3.54%) Military
14 345 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
15 321 (3.03%) Telecoms
16 309 (2.92%) Public Sector
17 302 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
18 252 (2.38%) Games
19 250 (2.36%) Automotive
20 239 (2.26%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,431 (13.53%) Senior
2 1,178 (11.14%) Analyst
3 1,168 (11.04%) Developer
4 927 (8.76%) Graduate
5 846 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 703 (6.65%) Lead
7 587 (5.55%) Project Manager
8 497 (4.70%) Architect
9 365 (3.45%) Junior
10 351 (3.32%) Systems Engineer
11 325 (3.07%) Support Engineer
12 318 (3.01%) Consultant
13 317 (3.00%) Software Developer
14 267 (2.52%) IT Engineer
15 258 (2.44%) IT Support
16 244 (2.31%) Senior Developer
17 238 (2.25%) Embedded Engineer
18 213 (2.01%) Business Analyst
19 202 (1.91%) Data Scientist
20 199 (1.88%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 683 (6.46%) .NET
2 455 (4.30%) HTML
3 415 (3.92%) React
4 389 (3.68%) CSS
5 327 (3.09%) AngularJS
6 211 (1.99%) Node.js
7 161 (1.52%) ASP.NET
8 158 (1.49%) RESTful
9 153 (1.45%) .NET Core
10 148 (1.40%) HTML5
11 146 (1.38%) .NET Framework
12 145 (1.37%) Web Services
13 111 (1.05%) REST
14 105 (0.99%) JSON
15 104 (0.98%) Vue
16 100 (0.95%) Spring
17 90 (0.85%) XML
18 83 (0.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
19 79 (0.75%) Kafka
20 78 (0.74%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 664 (6.28%) Onboarding
2 662 (6.26%) Management Information System
3 576 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 569 (5.38%) Algorithms
5 415 (3.92%) Driving Licence
6 297 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 235 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 167 (1.58%) IoT
9 142 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
10 135 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 134 (1.27%) FPGA
12 130 (1.23%) Life Science
13 122 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 119 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
15 118 (1.12%) FMCG
16 117 (1.11%) Cloud Native
17 116 (1.10%) Robotics
18 100 (0.95%) Social Media
19 88 (0.83%) Virtual Team
20 82 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1,173 (11.09%) Windows
2 905 (8.56%) Linux
3 355 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 219 (2.07%) Unix
5 202 (1.91%) Windows 10
6 145 (1.37%) Android
7 113 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 98 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 98 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 80 (0.76%) Apple iOS
10 78 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 60 (0.57%) Solaris
12 59 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
13 57 (0.54%) Ubuntu
14 50 (0.47%) Windows 7
15 39 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 28 (0.26%) CentOS
17 25 (0.24%) VMS
18 24 (0.23%) Windows Vista
19 23 (0.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,328 (31.46%) Problem-Solving
2 3,001 (28.37%) Computer Science
3 1,957 (18.50%) Agile
4 1,500 (14.18%) Software Engineering
5 1,442 (13.63%) Project Management
6 1,326 (12.54%) Mentoring
7 1,282 (12.12%) Mathematics
8 1,249 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 1,186 (11.21%) Customer Service
10 1,018 (9.62%) Data Analysis
11 880 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
12 843 (7.97%) DevOps
13 801 (7.57%) ITIL
14 791 (7.48%) Coaching
15 783 (7.40%) Decision-Making
16 749 (7.08%) Analytics
17 697 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence
18 637 (6.02%) Project Delivery
19 561 (5.30%) Business Intelligence
20 543 (5.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,280 (12.10%) SQL
2 1,173 (11.09%) Python
3 1,029 (9.73%) C#
4 824 (7.79%) JavaScript
5 691 (6.53%) C
6 556 (5.26%) C++
7 536 (5.07%) Java
8 308 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 249 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 236 (2.23%) MATLAB
11 192 (1.82%) PHP
12 165 (1.56%) Embedded C
13 142 (1.34%) R
14 132 (1.25%) Bash
15 117 (1.11%) Fortran
16 110 (1.04%) VB
17 83 (0.78%) T-SQL
18 70 (0.66%) PL/SQL
19 64 (0.61%) Perl
20 54 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,693 (16.01%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,131 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 878 (8.30%) Master's Degree
4 661 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 453 (4.28%) HNC
6 387 (3.66%) PhD
7 331 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
8 318 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 288 (2.72%) DBS Check
10 272 (2.57%) CCNA
11 251 (2.37%) HND
12 239 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 198 (1.87%) CCNP
14 178 (1.68%) CISSP
15 175 (1.65%) DV Cleared
16 173 (1.64%) MCP
17 152 (1.44%) PMI Certification
18 129 (1.22%) PMP
19 110 (1.04%) MCSE
20 109 (1.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 581 (5.49%) QA
2 202 (1.91%) SLA
3 172 (1.63%) GDPR
4 168 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 163 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (1.47%) PMO
7 153 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 116 (1.10%) GMP
9 104 (0.98%) ISO 9001
10 97 (0.92%) NIST
11 70 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
12 56 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 52 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 46 (0.43%) ISO 13485
15 44 (0.42%) ISO 26262
16 39 (0.37%) WCAG
17 34 (0.32%) NEBOSH
18 33 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
19 30 (0.28%) Automotive SPICE
20 28 (0.26%) MISRA
System Software
1 541 (5.11%) Active Directory
2 368 (3.48%) Firmware
3 355 (3.36%) Docker
4 281 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 181 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
6 157 (1.48%) Hyper-V
7 59 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 52 (0.49%) vSphere
9 49 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 43 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
11 35 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
12 24 (0.23%) Terminal Services
13 23 (0.22%) XenApp
14 14 (0.13%) OpenSSH
15 12 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
16 9 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
17 7 (0.066%) KVM
18 5 (0.047%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.047%) pfSense
18 5 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 330 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 159 (1.50%) Terraform
3 116 (1.10%) SCCM
4 99 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (0.79%) Ansible
6 58 (0.55%) WSUS
7 53 (0.50%) SCOM
8 44 (0.42%) Data Guard
8 44 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
9 33 (0.31%) Stealthwatch
10 31 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 29 (0.27%) Functional Safety
11 29 (0.27%) vCenter Server
12 28 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 27 (0.26%) CASB
14 22 (0.21%) Puppet
15 19 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
16 17 (0.16%) Autotask
17 15 (0.14%) EnCase
18 14 (0.13%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 2,169 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 364 (3.44%) VMware
3 343 (3.24%) Cisco
4 309 (2.92%) SAP
5 272 (2.57%) Oracle
6 211 (1.99%) Google
7 193 (1.82%) EMC
8 182 (1.72%) Adobe
9 168 (1.59%) Apple
10 118 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 100 (0.95%) HP
12 90 (0.85%) Meraki
13 82 (0.78%) Dell
13 82 (0.78%) ServiceNow
14 78 (0.74%) IBM
15 74 (0.70%) Databricks
16 70 (0.66%) Veeam
17 68 (0.64%) Citrix
18 67 (0.63%) Xilinx
19 66 (0.62%) Sage