Postgraduate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 818 1066
Rank change year-on-year +54 +248 -190
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 140 175 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.52% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 73 85 41
10th Percentile £33,300 £31,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £38,354 £35,333 £41,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,560 £42,238 £50,836
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% -16.91% +18.99%
75th Percentile £56,619 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,094 £72,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £39,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -17.89% +3.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Postgraduate 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 27,433 33,803 42,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 32.57% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,326 15,201 19,033
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

Postgraduate
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Postgraduate in the UK

Postgraduate
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Postgraduate in the UK

Postgraduate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Postgraduate over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Postgraduate in the UK

Postgraduate
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postgraduate within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +42 115 £49,000 +6.25% 52
UK excluding London -28 80 £38,500 -1.28% 31
London +123 42 £52,000 -20.00% 20
Work from Home +100 31 £46,520 +3.68% 20
North of England +68 25 £41,500 -11.79% 5
East of England -35 20 £43,705 -27.16% 10
North West +19 15 £41,500 +15.28% 1
Midlands -4 13 £38,000 -2.56% 2
West Midlands +2 11 £38,000 -2.56% 1
South West -12 11 £32,815 +7.59% 8
Yorkshire +82 8 - - 4
South East +5 4 £57,500 +125.49% 6
Scotland -62 4 £36,000 -18.53% 2
Wales +8 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £50,750 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £51,000 -

Postgraduate
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 5 (3.57%) Tomcat
2 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) iTrent
1 1 (0.71%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (2.86%) Power Automate
1 4 (2.86%) Power Platform
1 4 (2.86%) PowerApps
2 3 (2.14%) Google Workspace
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.71%) Azure
4 1 (0.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) Intranet
1 2 (1.43%) LAN
1 2 (1.43%) Network Security
1 2 (1.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 5 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.43%) GIS
2 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) JIRA
1 1 (0.71%) Redmine
1 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (38.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.43%) Finance
5 11 (7.86%) Social Science
6 9 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (5.71%) Retail
8 5 (3.57%) Police
9 4 (2.86%) Humanities
9 4 (2.86%) Military
9 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.43%) Advertising
10 2 (1.43%) Billing
10 2 (1.43%) Electronics
10 2 (1.43%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.43%) Law
10 2 (1.43%) Marketing
10 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.43%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 67 (47.86%) Senior
2 17 (12.14%) Developer
3 11 (7.86%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (5.00%) Development Manager
5 5 (3.57%) Audit Manager
5 5 (3.57%) Information Manager
5 5 (3.57%) Instructor
5 5 (3.57%) IT Manager
5 5 (3.57%) Senior IT Manager
5 5 (3.57%) Senior Manager
5 5 (3.57%) Software Engineer
5 5 (3.57%) Technical Instructor
5 5 (3.57%) Technology Manager
6 4 (2.86%) Analyst
6 4 (2.86%) Data Scientist
6 4 (2.86%) Lead
6 4 (2.86%) Power Platform Developer
6 4 (2.86%) Principal Advisor
7 3 (2.14%) Coordinator
7 3 (2.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) CSS
2 8 (5.71%) .NET
2 8 (5.71%) HTML
2 8 (5.71%) React
3 6 (4.29%) RESTful
4 5 (3.57%) Ajax
4 5 (3.57%) Flutter
4 5 (3.57%) Hibernate
4 5 (3.57%) Java EE
4 5 (3.57%) JDBC
4 5 (3.57%) JPA
4 5 (3.57%) jQuery
4 5 (3.57%) JSP
4 5 (3.57%) SOAP
4 5 (3.57%) Spring
4 5 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.57%) XML
5 4 (2.86%) EDI
6 3 (2.14%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.43%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 47 (33.57%) Driving Licence
2 13 (9.29%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.86%) NHS
4 5 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.86%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.14%) CUDA
6 3 (2.14%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.43%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.43%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.43%) IoT
7 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.43%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.43%) Social Media
8 1 (0.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.86%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Windows
2 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.57%) Feasibility Study
1 47 (33.57%) Project Delivery
2 16 (11.43%) Budget Management
3 15 (10.71%) Agile
4 11 (7.86%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (7.86%) Data Science
4 11 (7.86%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (6.43%) Computer Science
6 8 (5.71%) Decision-Making
6 8 (5.71%) Software Engineering
6 8 (5.71%) Technology Strategy
7 7 (5.00%) CRM
7 7 (5.00%) Economics
7 7 (5.00%) Line Management
7 7 (5.00%) Risk Management
7 7 (5.00%) Strategic Planning
8 6 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (4.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (4.29%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.43%) Python
2 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 9 (6.43%) SQL
4 7 (5.00%) Java
5 5 (3.57%) C++
5 5 (3.57%) PL/1
6 4 (2.86%) C#
7 1 (0.71%) Ada
7 1 (0.71%) Bash
7 1 (0.71%) C
7 1 (0.71%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.71%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.71%) Fortran
7 1 (0.71%) Groovy
7 1 (0.71%) Perl
7 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.71%) Ruby
7 1 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (29.29%) Degree
2 9 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.86%) MBA
6 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.43%) CIPD
8 1 (0.71%) HND
8 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) GDPR
2 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.43%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.43%) IEC 62304
3 2 (1.43%) ISO 13485
3 2 (1.43%) QA
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) MISRA
4 1 (0.71%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (2.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.43%) Firmware
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.71%) Google
2 1 (0.71%) Parasoft
2 1 (0.71%) VMware