Academic Degree
UK

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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 14,060 19,443 25,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.27% 18.79% 16.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.38% 57.60% 60.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,810 7,996 10,168
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,363 33,755 42,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.77% 32.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,288 15,182 19,046
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,776 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +0.20%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -4 12,500 £52,500 -12.50% 7,691
UK excluding London -5 9,735 £48,750 -2.50% 5,390
Work from Home +5 4,236 £55,000 -8.33% 2,832
London +2 3,780 £67,500 -0.87% 2,599
South East -2 2,870 £51,500 +0.98% 1,341
North of England -1 1,975 £47,500 -5.00% 1,253
Midlands -3 1,613 £46,188 -7.62% 952
South West -3 1,333 £48,375 +1.84% 735
North West +3 1,187 £47,757 -9.04% 735
West Midlands -4 1,075 £50,000 -4.76% 591
East of England -3 858 £47,500 -5.00% 740
Scotland -25 701 £45,543 -8.91% 345
Yorkshire +4 573 £45,000 -10.00% 383
East Midlands -6 527 £40,000 -15.79% 359
Wales -6 261 £44,886 +0.12% 142
North East -10 215 £48,000 +1.05% 161
Northern Ireland +7 104 £43,000 -1.71% 72
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 6
Channel Islands -2 5 - - 5

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 408 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 388 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 269 (1.91%) Confluence
4 138 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 129 (0.92%) SAS
6 112 (0.80%) CMS
7 73 (0.52%) Apache
8 70 (0.50%) IIS
9 68 (0.48%) WordPress
10 45 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
10 45 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.23%) Skype for Business
12 31 (0.22%) FileNet
13 29 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
13 29 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 19 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 17 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 12 (0.085%) nginx
16 12 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
17 9 (0.064%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,417 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1,354 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 601 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 202 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 182 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 164 (1.17%) Simulink
7 87 (0.62%) AutoCAD
8 77 (0.55%) Photoshop
9 63 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 61 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 40 (0.28%) SPSS
13 38 (0.27%) InDesign
13 38 (0.27%) UserZoom
14 34 (0.24%) Chatbot
15 31 (0.22%) Revit
15 31 (0.22%) Stateflow
15 31 (0.22%) Trello
16 27 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
17 24 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 190 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 59 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 41 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 37 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 36 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 32 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 27 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
10 24 (0.17%) Primavera
11 18 (0.13%) SAP CO
11 18 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 18 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 17 (0.12%) Endur
12 17 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 16 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
13 16 (0.11%) SAP Business One
13 16 (0.11%) SAP CX
13 16 (0.11%) Shopify
14 10 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,837 (13.07%) Azure
2 1,250 (8.89%) AWS
3 1,150 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
4 799 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 443 (3.15%) SaaS
6 355 (2.52%) GCP
7 264 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 248 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 189 (1.34%) GitHub
10 184 (1.31%) Entra ID
11 177 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 168 (1.19%) Serverless
13 156 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
13 156 (1.11%) Power Automate
14 123 (0.87%) Figma
15 118 (0.84%) Amazon S3
15 118 (0.84%) IaaS
16 114 (0.81%) PaaS
17 99 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
18 92 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 511 (3.63%) Firewall
2 411 (2.92%) WAN
3 363 (2.58%) Wireless
4 273 (1.94%) DNS
5 263 (1.87%) LAN
6 254 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 226 (1.61%) Network Security
8 210 (1.49%) Internet
9 194 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
10 186 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 184 (1.31%) DHCP
12 164 (1.17%) VPN
13 138 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
14 112 (0.80%) WebEx
15 106 (0.75%) VoIP
16 100 (0.71%) SAN
17 95 (0.68%) 5G
18 90 (0.64%) Ethernet
19 81 (0.58%) VLAN
20 68 (0.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 863 (6.14%) SQL Server
2 667 (4.74%) Power BI
3 441 (3.14%) Tableau
4 288 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 281 (2.00%) MySQL
6 257 (1.83%) NoSQL
7 243 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
8 199 (1.42%) Big Data
9 183 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
10 153 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 139 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 99 (0.70%) Redis
13 96 (0.68%) Data Mining
13 96 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 94 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
15 93 (0.66%) MongoDB
16 85 (0.60%) Data Lake
16 85 (0.60%) Hadoop
17 79 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
18 78 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 911 (6.48%) Git
2 593 (4.22%) JIRA
3 264 (1.88%) Visual Studio
4 220 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 131 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 114 (0.81%) Selenium
7 88 (0.63%) GitLab
8 85 (0.60%) LabVIEW
9 81 (0.58%) Subversion
10 80 (0.57%) Sourcetree
11 74 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 61 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 47 (0.33%) JUnit
13 47 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
14 45 (0.32%) Moq
15 43 (0.31%) Postman
16 42 (0.30%) NUnit
17 39 (0.28%) Mockito
18 38 (0.27%) CMake
19 36 (0.26%) Jasmine
General
1 5,955 (42.35%) Social Skills
2 2,889 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
3 2,813 (20.01%) Finance
4 1,504 (10.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,187 (8.44%) Marketing
6 1,090 (7.75%) Manufacturing
7 965 (6.86%) Retail
8 819 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
9 785 (5.58%) Law
10 731 (5.20%) Legal
11 672 (4.78%) Electronics
12 519 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
13 499 (3.55%) Public Sector
14 480 (3.41%) Telecoms
15 465 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
16 373 (2.65%) Banking
17 358 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 349 (2.48%) Games
19 305 (2.17%) Automotive
20 288 (2.05%) German Language
Job Titles
1 2,071 (14.73%) Senior
2 1,781 (12.67%) Analyst
3 1,705 (12.13%) Developer
4 1,143 (8.13%) Graduate
5 962 (6.84%) Lead
6 917 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 750 (5.33%) Project Manager
8 693 (4.93%) Architect
9 490 (3.49%) Consultant
10 428 (3.04%) Junior
11 387 (2.75%) Software Developer
12 381 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
13 371 (2.64%) Senior Developer
14 358 (2.55%) Systems Engineer
15 351 (2.50%) Support Engineer
16 343 (2.44%) IT Support
17 311 (2.21%) Data Scientist
18 284 (2.02%) IT Engineer
19 277 (1.97%) IT Manager
20 270 (1.92%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 970 (6.90%) .NET
2 701 (4.99%) HTML
3 618 (4.40%) CSS
4 592 (4.21%) React
5 430 (3.06%) AngularJS
6 270 (1.92%) Node.js
7 257 (1.83%) ASP.NET
8 220 (1.56%) RESTful
9 212 (1.51%) Web Services
10 209 (1.49%) .NET Framework
10 209 (1.49%) HTML5
11 186 (1.32%) .NET Core
12 168 (1.19%) Kafka
13 162 (1.15%) XML
14 161 (1.15%) REST
15 156 (1.11%) Spring
16 143 (1.02%) JSON
17 132 (0.94%) Vue
18 116 (0.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
19 113 (0.80%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 966 (6.87%) Management Information System
2 845 (6.01%) Self-Motivation
3 740 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 546 (3.88%) Driving Licence
5 434 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 360 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 355 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 233 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 222 (1.58%) Social Media
10 213 (1.51%) IoT
11 198 (1.41%) Life Science
12 179 (1.27%) FMCG
13 171 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 168 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
15 151 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 150 (1.07%) Mobile App
17 147 (1.05%) Cloud Native
18 140 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
19 133 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
20 130 (0.92%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1,531 (10.89%) Windows
2 1,006 (7.16%) Linux
3 444 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 388 (2.76%) Windows 10
5 260 (1.85%) Android
6 259 (1.84%) Unix
7 130 (0.92%) Mac OS
8 120 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 110 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 107 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
11 83 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (0.53%) Windows 7
13 60 (0.43%) Solaris
13 60 (0.43%) Ubuntu
14 47 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
15 35 (0.25%) Kali Linux
16 34 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 28 (0.20%) Debian
18 27 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 26 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,255 (30.26%) Computer Science
2 4,125 (29.34%) Problem-Solving
3 2,711 (19.28%) Agile
4 2,021 (14.37%) Project Management
5 1,846 (13.13%) Software Engineering
6 1,537 (10.93%) Mathematics
7 1,385 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,252 (8.90%) Mentoring
9 1,239 (8.81%) Analytics
10 1,166 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
11 1,140 (8.11%) Decision-Making
12 1,099 (7.82%) DevOps
13 1,045 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,045 (7.43%) Customer Service
14 1,001 (7.12%) Data Analysis
15 940 (6.69%) ITIL
16 907 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
17 870 (6.19%) Roadmaps
18 851 (6.05%) Project Delivery
19 804 (5.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,167 (15.41%) SQL
2 1,934 (13.76%) Python
3 1,430 (10.17%) C#
4 1,176 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 771 (5.48%) Java
6 709 (5.04%) C
7 591 (4.20%) C++
8 407 (2.89%) TypeScript
9 402 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 280 (1.99%) R
11 257 (1.83%) PHP
12 239 (1.70%) MATLAB
13 217 (1.54%) T-SQL
14 189 (1.34%) Bash
15 153 (1.09%) Embedded C
16 117 (0.83%) VB
17 104 (0.74%) PL/SQL
18 97 (0.69%) Fortran
19 82 (0.58%) Go
20 79 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,456 (17.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,603 (11.40%) Master's Degree
3 1,254 (8.92%) Security Cleared
4 759 (5.40%) SC Cleared
5 624 (4.44%) DBS Check
6 520 (3.70%) PhD
7 395 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 322 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
8 322 (2.29%) CISSP
9 278 (1.98%) HND
10 276 (1.96%) HNC
11 271 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 222 (1.58%) PMI Certification
13 220 (1.56%) CCNA
14 216 (1.54%) CISM
15 191 (1.36%) PMP
16 189 (1.34%) DV Cleared
17 174 (1.24%) MBA
18 170 (1.21%) Azure Certification
19 146 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 683 (4.86%) QA
2 268 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 253 (1.80%) GDPR
4 238 (1.69%) SLA
5 232 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 228 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 193 (1.37%) PMO
8 144 (1.02%) NIST
9 110 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 90 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 83 (0.59%) GMP
12 80 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
13 68 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 63 (0.45%) WCAG
15 47 (0.33%) ISO 13485
15 47 (0.33%) NCSC
16 46 (0.33%) NEBOSH
17 39 (0.28%) ISO 26262
17 39 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 39 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 807 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 539 (3.83%) Docker
3 348 (2.48%) Firmware
4 315 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 179 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 158 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 154 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 113 (0.80%) XenApp
9 100 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
10 96 (0.68%) XenDesktop
11 74 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
12 58 (0.41%) vSphere
13 46 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
14 38 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
15 23 (0.16%) Terminal Services
16 19 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
17 10 (0.071%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.057%) KVM
19 5 (0.036%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 5 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 471 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 241 (1.71%) Terraform
3 229 (1.63%) SCCM
4 154 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 113 (0.80%) Ansible
6 105 (0.75%) AirWatch
7 49 (0.35%) WSUS
8 48 (0.34%) SCOM
9 46 (0.33%) Data Guard
9 46 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 41 (0.29%) CASB
11 38 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 32 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
13 30 (0.21%) Functional Safety
14 28 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 26 (0.18%) vCenter Server
16 24 (0.17%) Puppet
17 20 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
18 19 (0.14%) Grafana
19 18 (0.13%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 2,894 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 446 (3.17%) VMware
3 440 (3.13%) Cisco
4 405 (2.88%) SAP
5 395 (2.81%) Google
6 376 (2.67%) Oracle
7 263 (1.87%) Adobe
8 218 (1.55%) Apple
9 214 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 210 (1.49%) Databricks
11 191 (1.36%) EMC
12 182 (1.29%) Citrix
13 130 (0.92%) Dell
14 126 (0.90%) ServiceNow
15 121 (0.86%) HP
15 121 (0.86%) IBM
16 95 (0.68%) Meraki
17 87 (0.62%) Sage
18 77 (0.55%) Qualtrics
18 77 (0.55%) Veeam