Degree Jobs in Scotland

Academic Degree
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -29 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Degree 696 750 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.37% 16.23% 12.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.10% 54.90% 47.02%
Number of salaries quoted 315 242 257
10th Percentile £27,050 £25,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,733 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,543 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +11.11% +2.73%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £79,500 £76,247 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,285 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.07% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,219 1,366 1,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.17% 29.55% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 550 426 500
10th Percentile £26,700 £28,625 £25,450
25th Percentile £34,000 £38,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £45,607
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +16.21% +1.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,603 £60,500
90th Percentile £79,600 £77,715 £81,375
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 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
Glasgow -48 333 £42,500 -22.73% 79
Edinburgh +8 169 £60,000 +13.21% 90
Aberdeen -2 65 £35,000 -26.32% 41
Dundee 0 32 £47,500 -0.23% 10
Fife -4 17 £42,500 -22.73% 10
Lanarkshire +1 11 £42,500 +6.57% 31
Renfrewshire +4 10 £36,083 - 2
Midlothian +5 7 £42,500 +6.90% 18
Stirling +2 6 £41,250 -13.36% 10
Aberdeenshire -5 6 £28,500 +15.15% 22
North Lanarkshire -2 5 £35,000 - 5
West Lothian -9 5 £38,750 +29.17% 12
South Lanarkshire - 5 - - 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 4 - - 1
Perthshire +2 3 £30,000 -
Argyll and Bute - 2 £37,214 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £65,000 - 10
East Ayrshire - 1 £25,000 - 4
East Lothian - 1 - - 1
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 36 (5.17%) Confluence
2 29 (4.17%) FileNet
3 18 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.57%) OpenEdge
6 4 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (4.60%) UserZoom
4 16 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.15%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.86%) Simulink
8 4 (0.57%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.43%) InVision
9 3 (0.43%) Sketch
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.14%) EViews
10 1 (0.14%) Revit
10 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (0.57%) Primavera
2 4 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (11.35%) Figma
2 75 (10.78%) SurveyMonkey
3 74 (10.63%) Azure
4 53 (7.61%) AWS
5 36 (5.17%) SaaS
6 35 (5.03%) GitHub
7 32 (4.60%) Amazon S3
8 28 (4.02%) Power Platform
9 22 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (2.16%) Entra ID
12 13 (1.87%) Serverless
13 11 (1.58%) GCP
14 8 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (1.01%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (1.01%) Datadog
15 7 (1.01%) IaaS
16 4 (0.57%) ChatGPT
16 4 (0.57%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.47%) Wireless
2 14 (2.01%) LAN
2 14 (2.01%) WAN
3 13 (1.87%) Firewall
4 11 (1.58%) Network Security
5 9 (1.29%) DHCP
5 9 (1.29%) DNS
6 8 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.01%) HTTP
7 7 (1.01%) MQTT
8 6 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.86%) VLAN
8 6 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.72%) VPN
10 4 (0.57%) Internet
10 4 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.57%) SMS
11 2 (0.29%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.14%) MPLS
12 1 (0.14%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.89%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
2 29 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 28 (4.02%) Power BI
4 19 (2.73%) Big Data
5 14 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (1.87%) Apache Hive
7 12 (1.72%) MySQL
8 11 (1.58%) DB2
9 10 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.86%) MS Access
11 6 (0.86%) OLAP
12 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.57%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.43%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.29%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 69 (9.91%) Jenkins
2 64 (9.20%) JIRA
3 30 (4.31%) Jasmine
4 29 (4.17%) Git
4 29 (4.17%) JUnit
4 29 (4.17%) Mockito
5 15 (2.16%) LabVIEW
6 7 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.01%) MSTest
6 7 (1.01%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.57%) GitLab
8 4 (0.57%) Maven
8 4 (0.57%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
General
1 348 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 293 (42.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 291 (41.81%) Finance
4 207 (29.74%) Law
5 175 (25.14%) Marketing
6 101 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (7.47%) Manufacturing
8 43 (6.18%) Public Sector
9 42 (6.03%) Banking
10 36 (5.17%) Legal
11 33 (4.74%) Social Science
12 31 (4.45%) Electronics
13 24 (3.45%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.87%) Retail
15 18 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (2.16%) Military
16 15 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (2.01%) Private Banking
18 13 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (1.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 90 (12.93%) Software Engineer
2 84 (12.07%) Analyst
3 82 (11.78%) Developer
4 69 (9.91%) Senior
5 65 (9.34%) Lead
6 57 (8.19%) Graduate
7 47 (6.75%) Embedded Engineer
8 45 (6.47%) User Experience Researcher
9 33 (4.74%) Junior
10 26 (3.74%) Project Manager
11 23 (3.30%) Full Stack Developer
11 23 (3.30%) Java Engineer
11 23 (3.30%) Java Software Engineer
11 23 (3.30%) Junior Embedded Engineer
11 23 (3.30%) Software Developer
12 22 (3.16%) Support Analyst
13 21 (3.02%) Architect
14 20 (2.87%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
14 20 (2.87%) Firmware Engineer
15 19 (2.73%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 63 (9.05%) React
3 55 (7.90%) Spring
4 41 (5.89%) Kafka
5 35 (5.03%) HTML
6 34 (4.89%) CSS
7 29 (4.17%) GraphQL
7 29 (4.17%) Hibernate
7 29 (4.17%) J2EE
7 29 (4.17%) Spring Integration
8 18 (2.59%) .NET
8 18 (2.59%) Node.js
9 12 (1.72%) Django
9 12 (1.72%) RESTful
10 8 (1.15%) Express.js
10 8 (1.15%) JPA
10 8 (1.15%) Vue
11 7 (1.01%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.01%) Flask
11 7 (1.01%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.75%) Algorithms
2 45 (6.47%) Market Risk
3 43 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.89%) Management Information System
5 32 (4.60%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.73%) Data Structures
7 18 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.01%) IoT
9 12 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.72%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.58%) Life Science
10 11 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.01%) Arduino
12 7 (1.01%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.01%) Raspberry Pi
13 6 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.05%) Windows
2 56 (8.05%) Linux
3 30 (4.31%) Unix
3 30 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.01%) Mac OS X
5 10 (1.44%) Android
6 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.57%) CentOS
6 4 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (35.20%) Computer Science
2 232 (33.33%) Agile
3 178 (25.57%) Software Engineering
4 156 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (16.95%) User Experience
6 113 (16.24%) Actionable Insight
7 111 (15.95%) Project Management
8 105 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 105 (15.09%) Mentoring
9 95 (13.65%) DevOps
10 94 (13.51%) Decision-Making
10 94 (13.51%) SDLC
11 91 (13.07%) UX Research
12 88 (12.64%) Roadmaps
13 85 (12.21%) Service Design
14 84 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
15 82 (11.78%) User Research
16 79 (11.35%) Analytics
16 79 (11.35%) Product Management
17 77 (11.06%) Psychology
Programming Languages
1 102 (14.66%) SQL
2 93 (13.36%) C
3 88 (12.64%) Java
4 61 (8.76%) Python
5 50 (7.18%) C++
6 48 (6.90%) Embedded C
7 41 (5.89%) JavaScript
8 39 (5.60%) C#
9 38 (5.46%) R
10 18 (2.59%) TypeScript
11 17 (2.44%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.72%) Rust
13 10 (1.44%) PHP
14 9 (1.29%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.15%) Go
16 7 (1.01%) Haskell
16 7 (1.01%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.86%) Bash
18 5 (0.72%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 126 (18.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 109 (15.66%) Master's Degree
3 74 (10.63%) PhD
4 31 (4.45%) Security Cleared
5 26 (3.74%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.02%) CISSP
7 20 (2.87%) CISM
8 15 (2.16%) GCIA
8 15 (2.16%) GCIH
9 14 (2.01%) GREM
10 11 (1.58%) CISA
11 10 (1.44%) PMP
12 8 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 7 (1.01%) HNC
13 7 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.72%) HND
16 4 (0.57%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.74%) Actionable Recommendations
2 30 (4.31%) QA
3 17 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.72%) PMO
5 11 (1.58%) ITGC
6 8 (1.15%) GMP
7 7 (1.01%) ISO 14001
7 7 (1.01%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.57%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.57%) DICOM
9 4 (0.57%) GDPR
9 4 (0.57%) HL7
9 4 (0.57%) ISO 13485
9 4 (0.57%) NEBOSH
10 3 (0.43%) NCSC
10 3 (0.43%) NIST
10 3 (0.43%) WCAG
11 2 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (8.62%) Firmware
2 25 (3.59%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.59%) Docker
4 11 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) pfSense
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.57%) Ansible
3 4 (0.57%) Terraform
4 3 (0.43%) Autotask
5 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.29%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 64 (9.20%) Qualtrics
3 47 (6.75%) Oracle
4 26 (3.74%) SAP
5 23 (3.30%) Dell
6 18 (2.59%) VMware
7 15 (2.16%) Sage
8 12 (1.72%) Google
9 8 (1.15%) Cisco
9 8 (1.15%) Splunk
10 7 (1.01%) NVIDIA
11 5 (0.72%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.57%) Anaplan
12 4 (0.57%) ANSYS
12 4 (0.57%) Apple
12 4 (0.57%) Citrix
12 4 (0.57%) IBM
12 4 (0.57%) Xero
13 3 (0.43%) Facebook
13 3 (0.43%) HubSpot