Degree Job Trends in Glasgow

Academic Degree
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 24 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 +28 -40
Permanent jobs citing Degree 64 93 212
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 5.24% 12.92% 8.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.16% 51.38% 62.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27 16 62
10th Percentile £25,900 - £32,850
25th Percentile £43,750 £29,000 £40,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £34,625 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.40% -34.67% -3.64%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £66,250 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £39,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.21% -22.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 177 181 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.48% 25.14% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 56 53 140
10th Percentile £25,375 £29,000 £36,225
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £36,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -34.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,190 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,513 £90,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £44,128 £50,309
% change year-on-year +24.64% -12.29% +0.62%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Degree job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Degree
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Glasgow over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Degree in Glasgow

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.13%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.56%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (12.50%) Azure
3 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.69%) AWS
4 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.56%) Asana
5 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.56%) GCP
5 1 (1.56%) SaaS
5 1 (1.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) DNS
2 3 (4.69%) MPLS
2 3 (4.69%) SDH
2 3 (4.69%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.56%) Firewall
3 1 (1.56%) LAN
3 1 (1.56%) Network Security
3 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.13%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Redis
2 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Finance
3 16 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (23.44%) Law
5 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (10.94%) Banking
6 7 (10.94%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.25%) Private Banking
8 3 (4.69%) Electronics
8 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.13%) Front Office
9 2 (3.13%) Local Government
9 2 (3.13%) Marketing
10 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (12.50%) Developer
1 8 (12.50%) RPG Developer
2 7 (10.94%) Senior
3 6 (9.38%) Lead
4 5 (7.81%) Architect
4 5 (7.81%) Industrial Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Project Manager
4 5 (7.81%) Sales Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Account Executive
5 4 (6.25%) Administrator
5 4 (6.25%) IT Administrator
5 4 (6.25%) IT Manager
5 4 (6.25%) IT Systems Administrator
5 4 (6.25%) Senior IT Administrator
5 4 (6.25%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 4 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (4.69%) IT Support
6 3 (4.69%) Network Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Software Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Telesales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) Hugging Face
1 4 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.13%) SAP Basis
2 2 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) NestJS
3 1 (1.56%) Node.js
3 1 (1.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) AS400
2 6 (9.38%) AI Agents
2 6 (9.38%) Driving Licence
3 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.13%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.13%) SCADA
5 1 (1.56%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.56%) FMCG
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) PropTech
5 1 (1.56%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Linux
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
1 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (35.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (28.13%) ITIL
4 13 (20.31%) Mentoring
5 11 (17.19%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (15.63%) AI
7 8 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 8 (12.50%) Telesales
8 7 (10.94%) Agile
8 7 (10.94%) Data Science
8 7 (10.94%) Project Management
8 7 (10.94%) Validation
9 6 (9.38%) Change Management
9 6 (9.38%) Customer Service
9 6 (9.38%) Data Analysis
9 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (7.81%) Decision-Making
10 5 (7.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 5 (7.81%) ERP
10 5 (7.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) RPG
2 8 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) Java
4 1 (1.56%) C
4 1 (1.56%) C#
4 1 (1.56%) C++
4 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) City & Guilds
2 4 (6.25%) PhD
3 2 (3.13%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.13%) HNC
3 2 (3.13%) HND
3 2 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.56%) CISSP
4 1 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.13%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) IBM
3 3 (4.69%) Dell
4 2 (3.13%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) SAP
4 2 (3.13%) Siemens
4 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Qualys
5 1 (1.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.56%) Splunk