Degree Jobs in the West Midlands

Academic Degree
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,185 1,581 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.52% 25.55% 18.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.46% 62.81% 59.02%
Number of salaries quoted 620 506 716
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,125 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,027 2,517 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.55% 40.68% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,292 949 1,229
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,950 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,575 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +14.13% -3.16%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,995 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.34% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
Birmingham -4 309 £55,000 -3.51% 178
Warwickshire +2 257 £37,500 -29.25% 88
Staffordshire 0 169 £40,000 -11.11% 95
Worcestershire +5 86 £50,000 +11.11% 49
Shropshire +1 69 £52,500 -4.55% 24
Coventry -3 40 £31,250 -17.76% 66
Wolverhampton +14 38 £25,000 -54.55% 26
Solihull -12 28 £50,000 +11.11% 13
Sutton Coldfield 0 19 £24,000 -76.00% 3
Tipton - 11 £25,000 -
Dudley +13 9 £25,000 - 4
Wednesbury +1 8 £24,750 -29.29% 4
Walsall +8 6 £39,649 -20.70% 2
Halesowen - 5 - - 1
West Bromwich 0 4 - -
Herefordshire -14 4 £85,000 +80.85% 9
Bilston - 4 - -
Willenhall - 4 - - 3
Brierley Hill - 4 - - 1
Rowley Regis - 4 - -
Smethwick - 4 - -
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 39 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (1.77%) WordPress
4 11 (0.93%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) Apache
5 8 (0.68%) IIS
5 8 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.59%) Confluence
7 5 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.25%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) Appian
9 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.17%) MTS
9 2 (0.17%) WinCC
10 1 (0.084%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.084%) Umbraco
Applications
1 344 (29.03%) Microsoft Office
2 231 (19.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.35%) AutoCAD
4 16 (1.35%) Simulink
5 7 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.51%) CANalyzer
7 5 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.34%) EPLAN
8 4 (0.34%) InDesign
8 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.084%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.084%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.084%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.084%) InVision
9 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.084%) Sketch
9 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.76%) Shopify
3 8 (0.68%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.34%) Magento
6 3 (0.25%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.25%) Sage 300 ERP
7 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 134 (11.31%) Azure
2 105 (8.86%) Power Platform
3 73 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (3.97%) SaaS
5 37 (3.12%) AWS
6 30 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (1.86%) PowerApps
8 19 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.52%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.43%) GCP
11 15 (1.27%) Entra ID
12 10 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (0.84%) OneDrive
13 9 (0.76%) Boomi
13 9 (0.76%) Snowflake
14 8 (0.68%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.59%) GitHub
16 6 (0.51%) WhatsApp
17 5 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.71%) WAN
2 25 (2.11%) LAN
3 22 (1.86%) Firewall
4 21 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.52%) SD-WAN
5 18 (1.52%) VoIP
6 17 (1.43%) Ethernet
7 16 (1.35%) Network Security
8 15 (1.27%) DHCP
8 15 (1.27%) DNS
9 13 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (1.01%) VPN
11 11 (0.93%) Internet
12 8 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (0.68%) SAN
13 6 (0.51%) VLAN
13 6 (0.51%) Wireless
14 5 (0.42%) WLAN
15 4 (0.34%) MPLS
15 4 (0.34%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (8.19%) Power BI
2 72 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 39 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (2.70%) Tableau
5 24 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 21 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.10%) Data Mining
7 13 (1.10%) MySQL
8 10 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (0.68%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.59%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (0.59%) Power Query
11 6 (0.51%) Looker
12 5 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.42%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 24 (2.03%) JIRA
2 21 (1.77%) Git
3 18 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.68%) CANoe
5 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.34%) Postman
6 4 (0.34%) Xcode
7 2 (0.17%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.17%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.084%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.084%) CMake
8 1 (0.084%) Moq
8 1 (0.084%) NUnit
8 1 (0.084%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 450 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 239 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
3 165 (13.92%) Finance
4 162 (13.67%) Influencing Skills
5 144 (12.15%) Military
6 126 (10.63%) Organisational Skills
7 113 (9.54%) Manufacturing
8 106 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 68 (5.74%) Automotive
10 67 (5.65%) Marketing
11 61 (5.15%) Legal
12 58 (4.89%) Retail
13 53 (4.47%) Electronics
14 50 (4.22%) Local Government
15 34 (2.87%) Public Sector
16 25 (2.11%) Telecoms
17 24 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (1.94%) Games
19 18 (1.52%) Back Office
20 12 (1.01%) Police
Job Titles
1 252 (21.27%) Analyst
2 190 (16.03%) Graduate
3 116 (9.79%) Product Analyst
3 116 (9.79%) Sales Analyst
4 111 (9.37%) Senior
5 97 (8.19%) Developer
6 88 (7.43%) Project Manager
7 74 (6.24%) Lead
8 41 (3.46%) Architect
8 41 (3.46%) Software Engineer
9 38 (3.21%) Junior
10 37 (3.12%) Consultant
11 35 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 30 (2.53%) Data Scientist
13 25 (2.11%) Software Developer
14 24 (2.03%) Data Engineer
15 21 (1.77%) Business Analyst
16 19 (1.60%) Systems Engineer
17 18 (1.52%) Junior Developer
17 18 (1.52%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.39%) .NET
2 32 (2.70%) HTML
3 28 (2.36%) RESTful
4 26 (2.19%) CSS
5 22 (1.86%) AngularJS
6 16 (1.35%) .NET Core
6 16 (1.35%) ASP.NET
7 15 (1.27%) EDI
7 15 (1.27%) XML
8 13 (1.10%) GraphQL
9 12 (1.01%) React
10 11 (0.93%) Vue
11 9 (0.76%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.76%) SOAP
12 8 (0.68%) JSON
12 8 (0.68%) Node.js
12 8 (0.68%) Web Services
13 7 (0.59%) PyTorch
13 7 (0.59%) TensorFlow
14 6 (0.51%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 154 (13.00%) Onboarding
2 69 (5.82%) Management Information System
3 40 (3.38%) Algorithms
3 40 (3.38%) Data Centre
4 36 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (2.45%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.11%) Driving Licence
8 18 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.43%) SCADA
10 13 (1.10%) Social Media
11 12 (1.01%) Infotainment
11 12 (1.01%) Smartcard
12 11 (0.93%) CCTV
12 11 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 11 (0.93%) PMI
13 10 (0.84%) IoT
13 10 (0.84%) NHS
13 10 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 101 (8.52%) Windows
2 48 (4.05%) Linux
3 30 (2.53%) Windows 10
4 29 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.10%) Windows 7
6 10 (0.84%) Android
6 10 (0.84%) Unix
7 8 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.68%) Solaris
8 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.42%) SUSE
9 5 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.34%) VMS
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.17%) CentOS
12 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
2 355 (29.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 321 (27.09%) Customer Service
4 252 (21.27%) Computer Science
5 227 (19.16%) Data Analysis
6 194 (16.37%) Mathematics
7 178 (15.02%) Process Improvement
8 173 (14.60%) Project Management
9 171 (14.43%) Agile
9 171 (14.43%) Customer Requirements
10 167 (14.09%) Logistics
11 158 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
12 156 (13.16%) Performance Metrics
13 150 (12.66%) Customer Experience
14 141 (11.90%) Contingency Planning
15 130 (10.97%) Cybersecurity
16 118 (9.96%) Mentoring
17 98 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
18 84 (7.09%) Analytics
19 82 (6.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 130 (10.97%) SQL
2 74 (6.24%) Python
3 62 (5.23%) JavaScript
4 55 (4.64%) C#
5 30 (2.53%) C++
6 29 (2.45%) C
7 28 (2.36%) Java
8 21 (1.77%) MATLAB
9 18 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.43%) Embedded C
11 16 (1.35%) TypeScript
12 15 (1.27%) PHP
13 14 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.93%) Embedded C++
15 9 (0.76%) R
16 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.51%) VB
18 3 (0.25%) Apex Code
19 2 (0.17%) Bash
19 2 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 132 (11.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 71 (5.99%) Security Cleared
3 61 (5.15%) Master's Degree
4 36 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (2.87%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.62%) CCNA
6 31 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (2.28%) HND
8 24 (2.03%) CCNP
9 23 (1.94%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.69%) DBS Check
11 19 (1.60%) CISM
11 19 (1.60%) CISSP
12 17 (1.43%) HNC
12 17 (1.43%) PMP
13 16 (1.35%) MCP
14 14 (1.18%) Azure Certification
15 12 (1.01%) PhD
15 12 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 11 (0.93%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.23%) QA
2 25 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.69%) ISO 9001
5 19 (1.60%) PMO
6 18 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 13 (1.10%) ISO 26262
7 13 (1.10%) NIST
8 9 (0.76%) AUTOSAR
9 8 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.68%) SLA
10 7 (0.59%) GDPR
11 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.34%) GMP
13 3 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
13 3 (0.25%) COSHH
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.17%) SOX 404
System Software
1 50 (4.22%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.60%) Firmware
4 15 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
4 15 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.84%) Docker
6 4 (0.34%) pfSense
6 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.17%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.17%) vSphere
8 1 (0.084%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.084%) XenApp
8 1 (0.084%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (1.27%) SCCM
2 14 (1.18%) EnCase
2 14 (1.18%) Terraform
3 11 (0.93%) Functional Safety
4 10 (0.84%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.68%) Stealthwatch
6 5 (0.42%) CASB
6 5 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.42%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.42%) SCOM
6 5 (0.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (0.34%) Autotask
7 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.084%) VxRail
Vendors
1 242 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.12%) VMware
3 34 (2.87%) Cisco
4 30 (2.53%) Adobe
5 29 (2.45%) Apple
6 21 (1.77%) IFS
7 19 (1.60%) EMC
8 18 (1.52%) Databricks
9 17 (1.43%) Meraki
9 17 (1.43%) SAP
10 16 (1.35%) Workday
11 13 (1.10%) NEC
11 13 (1.10%) Oracle
11 13 (1.10%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.01%) Alteryx
13 11 (0.93%) Dell
14 10 (0.84%) Cellebrite
14 10 (0.84%) Google
14 10 (0.84%) Sage
14 10 (0.84%) Xamarin