Degree Jobs in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,724 17,049 22,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.71% 19.27% 16.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.97% 58.62% 61.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8,026 7,143 9,170
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,019 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,393 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.68% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,484 29,082 36,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.31% 32.87% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 15,742 13,274 16,890
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,712 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in England

Degree
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Degree in England

Degree
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +2 3,802 £67,500 -2.80% 2,971
South East -1 2,939 £51,425 -2.05% 1,637
North of England -1 1,985 £47,500 -9.52% 1,294
Midlands -2 1,735 £47,500 -5.00% 1,001
South West -3 1,334 £49,000 -2.00% 715
North West +3 1,195 £47,500 -13.64% 742
West Midlands +1 1,167 £50,000 -4.76% 628
East of England -3 861 £47,500 -5.00% 795
Yorkshire +3 578 £45,000 -10.00% 411
East Midlands -2 555 £41,250 -13.16% 372
North East -10 212 £48,367 +1.64% 159
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 372 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 351 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 215 (1.69%) Confluence
4 112 (0.88%) CMS
5 111 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 111 (0.87%) SAS
6 79 (0.62%) Apache
7 73 (0.57%) IIS
8 60 (0.47%) WordPress
9 38 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 34 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 31 (0.24%) Skype for Business
12 20 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 14 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
13 14 (0.11%) WebLogic
14 12 (0.094%) OpenStack
14 12 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.079%) nginx
16 9 (0.071%) Drupal
16 9 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,379 (10.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1,303 (10.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 568 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 176 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
5 163 (1.28%) Simulink
6 132 (1.04%) MS Visio
7 78 (0.61%) Photoshop
8 77 (0.61%) AutoCAD
9 62 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 57 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
12 38 (0.30%) InDesign
12 38 (0.30%) SPSS
13 31 (0.24%) Stateflow
14 27 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
14 27 (0.21%) Trello
15 25 (0.20%) Revit
16 21 (0.17%) Adobe XD
17 18 (0.14%) OrCAD
18 17 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 179 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 46 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 42 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 33 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 32 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
7 28 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 24 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.13%) Endur
10 17 (0.13%) Primavera
10 17 (0.13%) SAP CO
10 17 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 16 (0.13%) Shopify
12 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 15 (0.12%) SAP Business One
12 15 (0.12%) SAP CX
13 14 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
14 9 (0.071%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,690 (13.28%) Azure
2 1,197 (9.41%) AWS
3 1,092 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
4 744 (5.85%) Power Platform
5 376 (2.96%) SaaS
6 333 (2.62%) GCP
7 226 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
7 226 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
8 174 (1.37%) PowerApps
9 155 (1.22%) Power Automate
10 149 (1.17%) Entra ID
11 144 (1.13%) GitHub
12 138 (1.08%) Serverless
13 118 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
14 100 (0.79%) IaaS
14 100 (0.79%) PaaS
15 88 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
16 83 (0.65%) WhatsApp
17 81 (0.64%) Amazon S3
18 77 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 455 (3.58%) Firewall
2 351 (2.76%) WAN
3 288 (2.26%) Wireless
4 252 (1.98%) DNS
5 217 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 214 (1.68%) LAN
7 206 (1.62%) Network Security
8 199 (1.56%) Internet
9 179 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 172 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
11 166 (1.30%) DHCP
12 148 (1.16%) VPN
13 117 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
14 102 (0.80%) WebEx
15 95 (0.75%) VoIP
16 91 (0.72%) 5G
17 85 (0.67%) SAN
18 84 (0.66%) Ethernet
19 71 (0.56%) VLAN
20 66 (0.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 754 (5.93%) SQL Server
2 627 (4.93%) Power BI
3 473 (3.72%) Tableau
4 247 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 239 (1.88%) MySQL
6 232 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 224 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
8 179 (1.41%) Big Data
9 177 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
10 141 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 129 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 113 (0.89%) Redis
13 93 (0.73%) Data Mining
14 84 (0.66%) Data Lake
15 76 (0.60%) GIS
15 76 (0.60%) MongoDB
16 75 (0.59%) Hadoop
17 71 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (0.52%) Oracle Database
19 63 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 901 (7.08%) Git
2 506 (3.98%) JIRA
3 240 (1.89%) Visual Studio
4 136 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 110 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 103 (0.81%) Selenium
7 93 (0.73%) GitLab
8 82 (0.64%) Sourcetree
9 75 (0.59%) Subversion
10 70 (0.55%) LabVIEW
11 67 (0.53%) TeamCity
12 66 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 51 (0.40%) Moq
14 48 (0.38%) NUnit
14 48 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
15 39 (0.31%) Postman
16 37 (0.29%) CMake
17 32 (0.25%) Burp Suite
18 30 (0.24%) Metasploit
19 29 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5,341 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 2,643 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2,372 (18.64%) Finance
4 1,209 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 968 (7.61%) Retail
6 935 (7.35%) Marketing
7 900 (7.07%) Manufacturing
8 729 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
9 648 (5.09%) Legal
10 619 (4.86%) Electronics
11 466 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
12 454 (3.57%) Law
13 432 (3.40%) Public Sector
14 403 (3.17%) Telecoms
15 369 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
16 339 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
17 323 (2.54%) Military
18 319 (2.51%) Games
19 309 (2.43%) Banking
20 290 (2.28%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,983 (15.58%) Senior
2 1,617 (12.71%) Analyst
3 1,514 (11.90%) Developer
4 1,008 (7.92%) Graduate
5 880 (6.92%) Lead
6 800 (6.29%) Software Engineer
7 685 (5.38%) Architect
8 678 (5.33%) Project Manager
9 422 (3.32%) Consultant
10 380 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
11 377 (2.96%) Junior
12 349 (2.74%) Systems Engineer
13 342 (2.69%) Software Developer
14 332 (2.61%) Senior Developer
15 327 (2.57%) Support Engineer
16 316 (2.48%) Data Scientist
17 309 (2.43%) IT Support
18 288 (2.26%) Data Analyst
19 265 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
20 244 (1.92%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 904 (7.10%) .NET
2 619 (4.86%) HTML
3 554 (4.35%) CSS
4 495 (3.89%) React
5 318 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 236 (1.85%) ASP.NET
7 215 (1.69%) Node.js
8 208 (1.63%) .NET Framework
9 206 (1.62%) Web Services
10 190 (1.49%) RESTful
11 189 (1.49%) HTML5
12 172 (1.35%) .NET Core
13 153 (1.20%) REST
14 143 (1.12%) XML
15 125 (0.98%) JSON
16 115 (0.90%) Kafka
17 114 (0.90%) Entity Framework
17 114 (0.90%) Vue
18 113 (0.89%) jQuery
19 107 (0.84%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 862 (6.77%) Management Information System
2 800 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
3 704 (5.53%) Algorithms
4 501 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 467 (3.67%) Driving Licence
6 322 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 301 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 210 (1.65%) Life Science
9 209 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 197 (1.55%) Social Media
11 185 (1.45%) IoT
12 152 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 143 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 139 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
15 137 (1.08%) Virtual Team
16 129 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
17 128 (1.01%) FPGA
18 121 (0.95%) Client/Server
18 121 (0.95%) Public Cloud
19 120 (0.94%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,393 (10.95%) Windows
2 886 (6.96%) Linux
3 383 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 367 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 237 (1.86%) Android
6 192 (1.51%) Unix
7 117 (0.92%) Mac OS
8 116 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 104 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 101 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 78 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
12 73 (0.57%) Windows 7
13 61 (0.48%) Ubuntu
14 43 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
15 39 (0.31%) Solaris
16 37 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 35 (0.28%) Kali Linux
18 27 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
19 26 (0.20%) CentOS
19 26 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,862 (30.35%) Computer Science
2 3,776 (29.68%) Problem-Solving
3 2,379 (18.70%) Agile
4 1,786 (14.04%) Project Management
5 1,588 (12.48%) Software Engineering
6 1,481 (11.64%) Mathematics
7 1,193 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,184 (9.31%) Mentoring
9 1,172 (9.21%) Analytics
10 1,076 (8.46%) Data Analysis
11 1,065 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
12 1,056 (8.30%) Customer Service
13 1,015 (7.98%) Decision-Making
14 963 (7.57%) DevOps
15 879 (6.91%) ITIL
16 875 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence
17 832 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
18 816 (6.41%) Project Delivery
19 758 (5.96%) Data Science
20 734 (5.77%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,968 (15.47%) SQL
2 1,857 (14.59%) Python
3 1,326 (10.42%) C#
4 1,079 (8.48%) JavaScript
5 677 (5.32%) Java
6 593 (4.66%) C
7 546 (4.29%) C++
8 368 (2.89%) TypeScript
9 367 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 231 (1.82%) MATLAB
11 229 (1.80%) R
12 226 (1.78%) PHP
13 192 (1.51%) T-SQL
14 158 (1.24%) Bash
15 105 (0.83%) Embedded C
16 100 (0.79%) Fortran
17 99 (0.78%) VB
18 73 (0.57%) Go
18 73 (0.57%) Scala
19 72 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,207 (17.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,370 (10.77%) Master's Degree
3 1,130 (8.88%) Security Cleared
4 648 (5.09%) DBS Check
5 646 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 441 (3.47%) PhD
7 372 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 289 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 283 (2.22%) CISSP
10 259 (2.04%) HNC
11 254 (2.00%) HND
12 251 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
13 219 (1.72%) PMI Certification
14 198 (1.56%) CCNA
15 183 (1.44%) DV Cleared
16 180 (1.41%) PMP
17 179 (1.41%) CISM
18 161 (1.27%) Azure Certification
19 152 (1.19%) MBA
20 134 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 632 (4.97%) QA
2 263 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 236 (1.85%) GDPR
4 218 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (1.54%) SLA
6 189 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 174 (1.37%) PMO
8 130 (1.02%) NIST
9 104 (0.82%) ISO 9001
10 101 (0.79%) GMP
11 77 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 68 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 51 (0.40%) WCAG
14 42 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 42 (0.33%) NEBOSH
15 40 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
15 40 (0.31%) ISO 13485
16 39 (0.31%) ISO 26262
17 37 (0.29%) NCSC
18 35 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 737 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 475 (3.73%) Docker
3 296 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 282 (2.22%) Firmware
5 159 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 146 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 140 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 104 (0.82%) XenApp
9 91 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
10 88 (0.69%) XenDesktop
11 73 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
12 60 (0.47%) vSphere
13 39 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 18 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 15 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
17 11 (0.086%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.063%) KVM
19 5 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 4 (0.031%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 393 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 224 (1.76%) Terraform
3 214 (1.68%) SCCM
4 138 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 101 (0.79%) Ansible
6 96 (0.75%) AirWatch
7 51 (0.40%) WSUS
8 49 (0.39%) SCOM
9 41 (0.32%) CASB
10 37 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 33 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 32 (0.25%) Functional Safety
13 26 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 26 (0.20%) vCenter Server
14 24 (0.19%) Puppet
14 24 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
15 21 (0.17%) Grafana
15 21 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.13%) ZABBIX
17 16 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,635 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 403 (3.17%) Cisco
3 393 (3.09%) VMware
4 344 (2.70%) Google
5 336 (2.64%) SAP
6 283 (2.22%) Oracle
7 266 (2.09%) Adobe
8 263 (2.07%) Databricks
9 216 (1.70%) Apple
10 194 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 188 (1.48%) EMC
12 168 (1.32%) Citrix
13 117 (0.92%) HP
14 111 (0.87%) ServiceNow
15 98 (0.77%) Dell
16 95 (0.75%) Meraki
17 92 (0.72%) IBM
18 74 (0.58%) Veeam
19 73 (0.57%) NEC
20 70 (0.55%) Juniper