Graduate Jobs in the South East

Graduate
England > South East

The median Graduate salary in the South East is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 195 135
Rank change year-on-year +66 -60 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 373 225 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 1.64% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 1.82% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 146 113 188
10th Percentile £24,750 £23,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £27,000 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +7.76%
75th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £37,500
90th Percentile £39,250 £37,500 £40,000
England median annual salary £28,500 £25,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -19.35% +6.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 16,769 12,374 19,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.99% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,915 7,936 12,370
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Graduate
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Graduate in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Graduate in the South East

Graduate
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Graduate in the South East.

Salary trend for Graduate in the South East

Graduate
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Graduate in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Graduate in the South East

Graduate
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the South East 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
Surrey +80 115 £33,480 +39.50% 9
Thames Valley +32 114 £30,000 +2.56% 25
Buckinghamshire +5 71 £32,500 -5.31% 6
Hampshire -45 63 £30,000 +5.26% 28
East Sussex +16 32 £30,000 +33.33% 5
West Sussex +41 24 £35,000 +12.90% 3
Kent +11 23 £31,500 - 5
Oxfordshire +6 23 £29,000 +20.83% 5
Berkshire +25 20 £30,000 -1.64% 14
Sussex -24 2 £24,500 -18.33% 1
Graduate
England

Graduate Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Graduate job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Graduate in the job title.

1 323 (86.60%) Degree
2 116 (31.10%) Social Skills
3 114 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (26.01%) Self-Motivation
5 96 (25.74%) Retail
6 91 (24.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 88 (23.59%) Electronics
8 87 (23.32%) Manufacturing
9 80 (21.45%) DBS Check
9 80 (21.45%) German Language
10 77 (20.64%) Microsoft Excel
11 76 (20.38%) Firmware
12 73 (19.57%) Embedded Firmware
13 70 (18.77%) Driving Licence
14 69 (18.50%) Schematic Capture
15 65 (17.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
16 64 (17.16%) Customer Insight
17 62 (16.62%) EMC
18 61 (16.35%) Project Planning
19 56 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
20 53 (14.21%) Computer Science
21 50 (13.40%) Python
22 48 (12.87%) Software Engineering
23 37 (9.92%) C#
24 36 (9.65%) Finance
25 35 (9.38%) Mathematics
26 34 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
27 32 (8.58%) Coaching
28 30 (8.04%) JavaScript
28 30 (8.04%) C

Graduate Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (0.54%) CMS
1 2 (0.54%) Drupal
1 2 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 77 (20.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (17.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 3 (0.80%) AWS
1 3 (0.80%) Azure
2 1 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.68%) HTTP
2 5 (1.34%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.07%) WebEx
4 1 (0.27%) 3G
4 1 (0.27%) 4G
4 1 (0.27%) GPRS
4 1 (0.27%) LAN
4 1 (0.27%) LTE
4 1 (0.27%) Modbus
4 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.61%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.80%) Tableau
4 1 (0.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (1.88%) Git
2 6 (1.61%) JIRA
3 3 (0.80%) CMake
3 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.80%) TestRail
4 2 (0.54%) GDB
4 2 (0.54%) Hudson
4 2 (0.54%) Subversion
4 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.27%) LabVIEW
General
1 116 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 114 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (25.74%) Retail
4 91 (24.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (23.59%) Electronics
6 87 (23.32%) Manufacturing
7 80 (21.45%) German Language
8 36 (9.65%) Finance
9 28 (7.51%) Aviation
10 23 (6.17%) Marketing
11 16 (4.29%) Advertising
12 11 (2.95%) Military
13 6 (1.61%) Legal
14 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.07%) Public Sector
15 4 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.80%) French Language
16 3 (0.80%) Law
17 1 (0.27%) Avionics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.83%) .NET
2 16 (4.29%) HTML
3 13 (3.49%) CSS
4 10 (2.68%) .NET Core
4 10 (2.68%) AngularJS
4 10 (2.68%) ASP.NET
4 10 (2.68%) React
5 9 (2.41%) WPF
6 8 (2.14%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (0.80%) HTML5
7 3 (0.80%) Laravel
7 3 (0.80%) OpenCL
7 3 (0.80%) OpenGL
7 3 (0.80%) QML
7 3 (0.80%) Qt
7 3 (0.80%) VTK
7 3 (0.80%) Vulkan
7 3 (0.80%) WinForms
8 2 (0.54%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.27%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 97 (26.01%) Self-Motivation
2 70 (18.77%) Driving Licence
3 22 (5.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (5.36%) FPGA
5 16 (4.29%) Photography
5 16 (4.29%) Social Media
6 14 (3.75%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.68%) Analogue Electronics
7 10 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.41%) VHDL
9 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.07%) CUDA
10 4 (1.07%) PCIe
10 4 (1.07%) Pricing Data
11 3 (0.80%) Digital Signage
11 3 (0.80%) IoT
12 2 (0.54%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.54%) NB-IoT
12 2 (0.54%) Tandem
13 1 (0.27%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.95%) Linux
2 7 (1.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (18.50%) Schematic Capture
2 64 (17.16%) Customer Insight
3 61 (16.35%) Project Planning
4 56 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (14.21%) Computer Science
6 48 (12.87%) Software Engineering
7 35 (9.38%) Mathematics
8 32 (8.58%) Coaching
9 28 (7.51%) Commercial Awareness
10 25 (6.70%) Data Analysis
11 21 (5.63%) Customer Service
11 21 (5.63%) ERP
11 21 (5.63%) Physics
12 19 (5.09%) Artificial Intelligence
13 18 (4.83%) Agile
13 18 (4.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (4.29%) Strategic Planning
15 14 (3.75%) Business Analysis
15 14 (3.75%) Decision-Making
15 14 (3.75%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.40%) Python
2 37 (9.92%) C#
3 30 (8.04%) C
3 30 (8.04%) JavaScript
4 23 (6.17%) C++
5 18 (4.83%) SQL
6 15 (4.02%) Java
7 7 (1.88%) Bash
8 4 (1.07%) Ada
9 3 (0.80%) C-shell
9 3 (0.80%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.80%) Fortran
9 3 (0.80%) Haskell
9 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.54%) PHP
11 1 (0.27%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 323 (86.60%) Degree
2 80 (21.45%) DBS Check
3 34 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.22%) PhD
5 10 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.41%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.88%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.07%) ACCA
9 4 (1.07%) CIMA
10 3 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.07%) IFRS
2 3 (0.80%) QA
3 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.27%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.27%) JTAG
4 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (20.38%) Firmware
2 73 (19.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 62 (16.62%) EMC
2 10 (2.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.34%) SAP
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe
5 2 (0.54%) Facebook
5 2 (0.54%) Google
6 1 (0.27%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle
6 1 (0.27%) Peregrine
6 1 (0.27%) Sigfox