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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 -27
Permanent jobs citing Degree 65 101 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 4.88% 13.85% 9.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.14% 54.89% 63.90%
Number of salaries quoted 28 23 47
10th Percentile £26,238 - £33,500
25th Percentile £43,719 £29,000 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £52,186
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.77% -5.12%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,375 £73,125
90th Percentile £68,250 £66,000 £90,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +2.96%

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 175 184 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.15% 25.24% 14.90%
Number of salaries quoted 63 65 109
10th Percentile £25,375 £28,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £33,875 £31,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £36,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.28% -34.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £74,021 £90,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £44,064 £50,654
% change year-on-year +24.82% -13.01% +1.31%

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 11 September 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 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.54%) Autodesk Smoke
3 1 (1.54%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.54%) C-CURE
2 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.77%) Azure
3 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.62%) AWS
5 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.54%) GCP
6 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) DNS
2 3 (4.62%) MPLS
2 3 (4.62%) SDH
2 3 (4.62%) Unified Communications
3 2 (3.08%) Wireless
4 1 (1.54%) Firewall
4 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.54%) LAN
4 1 (1.54%) Modbus
4 1 (1.54%) Network Security
4 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.08%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.54%) GIS
2 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.54%) Redis
2 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.62%) Finance
2 16 (24.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (23.08%) Law
4 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.31%) Manufacturing
6 7 (10.77%) Banking
7 5 (7.69%) Telecoms
8 4 (6.15%) Private Banking
9 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (3.08%) Aerospace
10 2 (3.08%) Electronics
10 2 (3.08%) Front Office
10 2 (3.08%) Local Government
10 2 (3.08%) Marketing
11 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (12.31%) Developer
1 8 (12.31%) RPG Developer
1 8 (12.31%) Senior
2 6 (9.23%) Lead
3 5 (7.69%) Architect
3 5 (7.69%) Industrial Engineer
3 5 (7.69%) Sales Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Administrator
4 4 (6.15%) IT Administrator
4 4 (6.15%) IT Manager
4 4 (6.15%) IT Systems Administrator
4 4 (6.15%) Junior
4 4 (6.15%) Senior IT Administrator
4 4 (6.15%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 4 (6.15%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (4.62%) Analyst
5 3 (4.62%) Development Manager
5 3 (4.62%) Network Architect
5 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Hugging Face
1 4 (6.15%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.08%) SAP Basis
2 2 (3.08%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.54%) Kafka
3 1 (1.54%) NestJS
3 1 (1.54%) Node.js
3 1 (1.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) AS400
2 6 (9.23%) AI Agents
3 5 (7.69%) Driving Licence
4 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.62%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (4.62%) SCADA
6 2 (3.08%) CCTV
6 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.08%) Credit Risk
6 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.08%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.08%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.54%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.54%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.54%) FMCG
7 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.54%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (35.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (27.69%) ITIL
4 13 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 10 (15.38%) AI
5 10 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (12.31%) Machine Learning
7 7 (10.77%) Data Science
7 7 (10.77%) Telesales
7 7 (10.77%) Validation
8 6 (9.23%) Agile
8 6 (9.23%) Customer Service
8 6 (9.23%) Data Analysis
9 5 (7.69%) Change Management
9 5 (7.69%) Decision-Making
9 5 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (7.69%) Pricing Strategy
9 5 (7.69%) Project Management
9 5 (7.69%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.38%) Python
2 9 (13.85%) RPG
3 3 (4.62%) Java
4 1 (1.54%) C
4 1 (1.54%) C#
4 1 (1.54%) C++
4 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) City & Guilds
2 4 (6.15%) PhD
3 3 (4.62%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.08%) HNC
4 2 (3.08%) HND
4 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CISSP
5 1 (1.54%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PMP
5 1 (1.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.54%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.08%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) IBM
3 3 (4.62%) Siemens
4 2 (3.08%) Databricks
4 2 (3.08%) Dell
4 2 (3.08%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) DIgSILENT
5 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.54%) NEC
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.54%) Qualys
5 1 (1.54%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) VMware