Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Academic Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 9,883 12,709 11,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.92% 21.21% 16.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.63% 58.40% 53.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 4,015 5,202
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £61,588
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,521 21,762 22,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.50% 36.31% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,237 8,104 10,275
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,276 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% +0.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK excluding London 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
South East -1 2,919 £52,000 +1.96% 1,271
North of England 0 1,992 £47,500 -5.00% 1,177
Midlands -2 1,679 £47,500 -5.00% 936
South West -4 1,344 £48,750 +2.63% 683
North West +3 1,199 £48,000 -12.73% 680
West Midlands -1 1,128 £50,000 -4.76% 581
East of England -3 864 £47,500 -5.00% 717
Scotland -29 696 £45,543 -8.91% 330
Yorkshire +4 577 £45,000 -8.16% 362
East Midlands -4 539 £40,000 -15.79% 354
Wales -6 260 £44,886 -0.25% 140
North East -9 216 £48,367 +1.82% 155
Northern Ireland +8 108 £45,000 +2.86% 63
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 5
Channel Islands -1 6 £67,500 +8.00% 5
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 256 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 217 (2.20%) Confluence
3 203 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 70 (0.71%) SAS
5 65 (0.66%) CMS
6 51 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 49 (0.50%) WordPress
8 46 (0.47%) Apache
9 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
9 44 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 41 (0.41%) IIS
11 31 (0.31%) FileNet
12 20 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 17 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 17 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.071%) MS Project Server
14 7 (0.071%) nginx
14 7 (0.071%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,106 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 972 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 374 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 165 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 163 (1.65%) Simulink
6 156 (1.58%) MS Visio
7 71 (0.72%) AutoCAD
8 49 (0.50%) Photoshop
9 44 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 44 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 44 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 38 (0.38%) UserZoom
11 32 (0.32%) Chatbot
12 31 (0.31%) InDesign
12 31 (0.31%) Stateflow
13 20 (0.20%) Trello
14 18 (0.18%) OrCAD
15 17 (0.17%) Sketch
15 17 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
16 15 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 110 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 48 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 40 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 33 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 22 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 20 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 17 (0.17%) Primavera
10 16 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 16 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
10 16 (0.16%) Shopify
11 14 (0.14%) SAP Business One
12 13 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 11 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
14 10 (0.10%) SAP QM
15 9 (0.091%) SAP CX
16 8 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
17 7 (0.071%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,142 (11.56%) Azure
2 777 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
3 630 (6.37%) AWS
4 478 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 260 (2.63%) SaaS
6 183 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 178 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (1.39%) GCP
9 128 (1.30%) GitHub
10 118 (1.19%) Entra ID
11 96 (0.97%) Serverless
12 92 (0.93%) Figma
13 90 (0.91%) PowerApps
14 89 (0.90%) Amazon S3
15 85 (0.86%) Power Automate
16 84 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
17 75 (0.76%) SurveyMonkey
18 63 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
19 62 (0.63%) OneDrive
20 55 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 390 (3.95%) Firewall
2 239 (2.42%) WAN
3 211 (2.13%) Wireless
4 191 (1.93%) DNS
5 189 (1.91%) LAN
6 175 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 160 (1.62%) Network Security
8 154 (1.56%) Internet
9 151 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
10 141 (1.43%) DHCP
11 128 (1.30%) VPN
12 87 (0.88%) 5G
12 87 (0.88%) Ethernet
13 82 (0.83%) VoIP
14 76 (0.77%) SD-WAN
15 75 (0.76%) SAN
16 66 (0.67%) VLAN
17 53 (0.54%) HTTP
18 51 (0.52%) Bluetooth
19 49 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 523 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 413 (4.18%) Power BI
3 209 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 199 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 190 (1.92%) MySQL
6 175 (1.77%) Tableau
7 160 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
8 100 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 97 (0.98%) Big Data
10 85 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 78 (0.79%) Oracle Database
12 74 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 68 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
14 63 (0.64%) RDBMS
15 57 (0.58%) GIS
16 53 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
17 48 (0.49%) Redis
18 44 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
18 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
18 44 (0.45%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 611 (6.18%) Git
2 447 (4.52%) JIRA
3 208 (2.10%) Visual Studio
4 147 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 105 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 92 (0.93%) Selenium
7 84 (0.85%) LabVIEW
8 75 (0.76%) Subversion
9 72 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 64 (0.65%) Sourcetree
11 47 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
12 39 (0.39%) GitLab
12 39 (0.39%) JUnit
13 34 (0.34%) Mockito
14 31 (0.31%) Jasmine
14 31 (0.31%) TeamCity
15 30 (0.30%) CMake
15 30 (0.30%) Postman
16 24 (0.24%) SoapUI
17 20 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,924 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 1,739 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
3 1,648 (16.68%) Finance
4 1,249 (12.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 975 (9.87%) Manufacturing
6 700 (7.08%) Marketing
7 613 (6.20%) Electronics
8 582 (5.89%) Law
9 548 (5.54%) Retail
10 533 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
11 463 (4.68%) Legal
12 405 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
13 341 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
14 320 (3.24%) Telecoms
15 289 (2.92%) Public Sector
16 285 (2.88%) Military
17 273 (2.76%) Games
18 250 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
19 241 (2.44%) Automotive
20 225 (2.28%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,338 (13.54%) Senior
2 1,185 (11.99%) Developer
3 1,157 (11.71%) Analyst
4 854 (8.64%) Graduate
5 761 (7.70%) Software Engineer
6 689 (6.97%) Lead
7 579 (5.86%) Project Manager
8 456 (4.61%) Architect
9 356 (3.60%) Junior
10 320 (3.24%) Systems Engineer
11 316 (3.20%) Software Developer
12 296 (3.00%) Consultant
13 246 (2.49%) Senior Developer
13 246 (2.49%) Support Engineer
14 202 (2.04%) IT Engineer
15 199 (2.01%) Embedded Engineer
16 196 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
17 194 (1.96%) IT Manager
18 193 (1.95%) Data Scientist
19 185 (1.87%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 654 (6.62%) .NET
2 442 (4.47%) HTML
3 429 (4.34%) React
4 375 (3.79%) CSS
5 324 (3.28%) AngularJS
6 206 (2.08%) Node.js
7 152 (1.54%) RESTful
8 147 (1.49%) HTML5
9 144 (1.46%) ASP.NET
10 142 (1.44%) .NET Core
11 139 (1.41%) .NET Framework
12 111 (1.12%) Web Services
13 110 (1.11%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 106 (1.07%) JSON
15 102 (1.03%) Spring
16 100 (1.01%) Vue
17 88 (0.89%) XML
18 87 (0.88%) REST
19 78 (0.79%) CSS3
20 77 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 635 (6.43%) Management Information System
2 559 (5.66%) Algorithms
3 548 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
4 355 (3.59%) Driving Licence
5 307 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 273 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 227 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 159 (1.61%) IoT
9 142 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 132 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
11 126 (1.27%) FPGA
12 118 (1.19%) Cloud Native
13 116 (1.17%) FMCG
14 115 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 113 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
16 108 (1.09%) Virtual Reality
17 106 (1.07%) Robotics
18 101 (1.02%) Life Science
19 97 (0.98%) Social Media
20 84 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,058 (10.71%) Windows
2 776 (7.85%) Linux
3 328 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 216 (2.19%) Unix
5 188 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 133 (1.35%) Android
7 104 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 97 (0.98%) Mac OS
9 89 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 72 (0.73%) Apple iOS
11 71 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 57 (0.58%) Solaris
13 49 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
13 49 (0.50%) Windows 7
14 45 (0.46%) Ubuntu
15 33 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 24 (0.24%) CentOS
17 23 (0.23%) Mac OS X
17 23 (0.23%) VMS
18 20 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,946 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
2 2,777 (28.10%) Computer Science
3 1,926 (19.49%) Agile
4 1,405 (14.22%) Software Engineering
5 1,398 (14.15%) Project Management
6 1,108 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,062 (10.75%) Mathematics
8 1,008 (10.20%) Mentoring
9 886 (8.96%) Customer Service
10 846 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
11 813 (8.23%) DevOps
12 780 (7.89%) Decision-Making
13 708 (7.16%) Analytics
14 705 (7.13%) Artificial Intelligence
15 702 (7.10%) Data Analysis
16 688 (6.96%) Coaching
17 668 (6.76%) ITIL
18 606 (6.13%) Project Delivery
19 539 (5.45%) Roadmaps
20 527 (5.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (12.04%) SQL
2 1,121 (11.34%) Python
3 1,012 (10.24%) C#
4 794 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 647 (6.55%) C
6 507 (5.13%) Java
7 491 (4.97%) C++
8 321 (3.25%) TypeScript
9 236 (2.39%) PowerShell
10 222 (2.25%) MATLAB
11 193 (1.95%) PHP
12 157 (1.59%) R
13 153 (1.55%) Embedded C
14 116 (1.17%) Bash
15 99 (1.00%) Fortran
16 95 (0.96%) VB
17 91 (0.92%) T-SQL
18 67 (0.68%) PL/SQL
19 63 (0.64%) Perl
20 56 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,515 (15.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,066 (10.79%) Security Cleared
3 846 (8.56%) Master's Degree
4 646 (6.54%) SC Cleared
5 374 (3.78%) PhD
6 273 (2.76%) DBS Check
7 260 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 250 (2.53%) HND
9 247 (2.50%) HNC
10 242 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
11 237 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 186 (1.88%) CCNA
13 176 (1.78%) CISSP
14 149 (1.51%) DV Cleared
15 145 (1.47%) PMI Certification
16 123 (1.24%) PMP
17 113 (1.14%) CCNP
18 107 (1.08%) CISM
19 103 (1.04%) MCP
20 98 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (4.89%) QA
2 188 (1.90%) SLA
3 164 (1.66%) GDPR
4 160 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 160 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 160 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 156 (1.58%) PMO
6 102 (1.03%) ISO 9001
7 95 (0.96%) NIST
8 88 (0.89%) GMP
9 69 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 65 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
11 51 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 45 (0.46%) ISO 13485
13 43 (0.44%) WCAG
14 40 (0.40%) ISO 26262
15 38 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 38 (0.38%) NEBOSH
16 29 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 28 (0.28%) IFRS
System Software
1 514 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 370 (3.74%) Docker
3 332 (3.36%) Firmware
4 258 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 170 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
6 144 (1.46%) Hyper-V
7 50 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
8 45 (0.46%) vSphere
9 42 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 26 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (0.23%) Terminal Services
12 17 (0.17%) XenApp
13 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 10 (0.10%) OpenSSH
15 7 (0.071%) KVM
16 5 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.051%) pfSense
17 4 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
18 2 (0.020%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 336 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 142 (1.44%) Terraform
3 104 (1.05%) SCCM
4 96 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 76 (0.77%) Ansible
6 47 (0.48%) SCOM
7 46 (0.47%) WSUS
8 45 (0.46%) Data Guard
8 45 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
9 29 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 28 (0.28%) CASB
11 26 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 25 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 25 (0.25%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.21%) Puppet
13 21 (0.21%) Stealthwatch
14 20 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (0.16%) Autotask
16 15 (0.15%) EnCase
16 15 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1,992 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 338 (3.42%) VMware
3 311 (3.15%) SAP
4 260 (2.63%) Oracle
5 248 (2.51%) Cisco
6 213 (2.16%) Google
7 189 (1.91%) EMC
8 172 (1.74%) Adobe
9 157 (1.59%) Apple
10 124 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 90 (0.91%) HP
12 89 (0.90%) Dell
13 79 (0.80%) Meraki
14 78 (0.79%) ServiceNow
15 77 (0.78%) IBM
16 70 (0.71%) Qualtrics
17 67 (0.68%) Veeam
18 65 (0.66%) Databricks
18 65 (0.66%) Sage
19 64 (0.65%) Citrix