Graduate Jobs in the UK excluding London

Graduate
UK > UK excluding London

The median Graduate salary in the UK excluding London is £27,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 202 210
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 1,099 1,037 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.53% 1.75% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.97% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 520 314 479
10th Percentile £22,385 £23,000 £22,700
25th Percentile £25,000 £24,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £25,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +2.63%
75th Percentile £33,460 £31,750 £37,500
90th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £45,500
UK median annual salary £28,500 £25,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year +14.00% -20.63% +7.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Graduate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Graduate in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Graduate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Graduate in the UK excluding London

Graduate
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 Graduate within the UK excluding London 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
South East +53 364 £30,000 +8.11% 87
Midlands +63 281 £25,000 +4.17% 54
West Midlands +117 203 £24,000 - 38
North of England +2 158 £25,500 +6.25% 69
North West -4 112 £25,500 +6.25% 42
South West -56 91 £25,000 - 65
Wales +37 78 £25,000 -13.99% 8
East Midlands -29 78 £26,000 +8.33% 16
Scotland -92 61 £30,000 +20.00% 22
East of England -66 59 £29,000 -10.77% 31
Yorkshire +65 39 £25,000 +4.17% 17
North East -26 7 £27,500 +14.58% 11
Channel Islands - 5 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 £35,000 - 3
Graduate
UK

Graduate Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Graduate job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Graduate in the job title.

1 883 (80.35%) Degree
2 360 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 258 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 251 (22.84%) Microsoft Excel
6 218 (19.84%) Customer Service
7 203 (18.47%) Manufacturing
8 197 (17.93%) Data Analysis
9 189 (17.20%) Microsoft Office
10 184 (16.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 178 (16.20%) Onboarding
12 173 (15.74%) Logistics
12 173 (15.74%) Performance Metrics
13 172 (15.65%) Creative Thinking
14 171 (15.56%) Process Improvement
15 170 (15.47%) Military
15 170 (15.47%) Contingency Planning
15 170 (15.47%) Customer Experience
16 161 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
17 143 (13.01%) Self-Motivation
18 137 (12.47%) Computer Science
19 125 (11.37%) Electronics
20 121 (11.01%) Firmware
21 113 (10.28%) Mathematics
21 113 (10.28%) Retail
22 110 (10.01%) Driving Licence
23 104 (9.46%) Software Engineering
24 85 (7.73%) Embedded Firmware
25 81 (7.37%) German Language
25 81 (7.37%) Finance

Graduate Skill Set
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 6 (0.55%) CMS
2 3 (0.27%) WordPress
3 2 (0.18%) Drupal
Applications
1 251 (22.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (17.20%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (6.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.36%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.36%) Simulink
5 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.18%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.091%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.091%) Blender
7 1 (0.091%) InDesign
7 1 (0.091%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (1.27%) AWS
1 14 (1.27%) Power Platform
2 12 (1.09%) Azure
3 7 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (0.64%) SaaS
4 3 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 3 (0.27%) PowerApps
5 2 (0.18%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.18%) CloudFront
5 2 (0.18%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.091%) Asana
6 1 (0.091%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.091%) GitHub
6 1 (0.091%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.091%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.46%) Wireless
2 10 (0.91%) HTTP
3 5 (0.45%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.36%) WebEx
5 3 (0.27%) Internet
5 3 (0.27%) Modbus
5 3 (0.27%) PPP
5 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.18%) 5G
6 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.18%) WAN
7 1 (0.091%) 3G
7 1 (0.091%) 4G
7 1 (0.091%) Broadband
7 1 (0.091%) GPRS
7 1 (0.091%) LTE
7 1 (0.091%) MPLS
7 1 (0.091%) MQTT
7 1 (0.091%) RS-485
7 1 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.36%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.27%) Power BI
3 8 (0.73%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.36%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.27%) Tableau
6 2 (0.18%) GIS
6 2 (0.18%) MS Access
7 1 (0.091%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.091%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.091%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (1.00%) Git
2 7 (0.64%) LabVIEW
2 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.55%) JIRA
4 4 (0.36%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.27%) CMake
5 3 (0.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.27%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.27%) Subversion
5 3 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.27%) TestRail
6 2 (0.18%) GDB
6 2 (0.18%) Hudson
7 1 (0.091%) TeamCity
General
1 360 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 203 (18.47%) Manufacturing
3 184 (16.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 170 (15.47%) Military
5 161 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (11.37%) Electronics
7 113 (10.28%) Retail
8 81 (7.37%) Finance
8 81 (7.37%) German Language
9 78 (7.10%) Law
10 75 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
11 69 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (3.46%) Legal
13 37 (3.37%) Marketing
14 32 (2.91%) Public Sector
15 29 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (2.55%) Aviation
17 17 (1.55%) Advertising
18 11 (1.00%) Banking
19 10 (0.91%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.28%) .NET
2 18 (1.64%) HTML
3 16 (1.46%) AngularJS
4 15 (1.36%) .NET Core
4 15 (1.36%) CSS
4 15 (1.36%) React
5 14 (1.27%) ASP.NET
6 12 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (0.82%) WPF
8 6 (0.55%) .NET Framework
8 6 (0.55%) Node.js
9 5 (0.45%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (0.45%) OpenCL
9 5 (0.45%) Vulkan
10 4 (0.36%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.36%) Vue
11 3 (0.27%) HTML5
11 3 (0.27%) Laravel
11 3 (0.27%) QML
11 3 (0.27%) VTK
Miscellaneous
1 178 (16.20%) Onboarding
2 143 (13.01%) Self-Motivation
3 110 (10.01%) Driving Licence
4 68 (6.19%) FMCG
5 33 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 23 (2.09%) FPGA
7 22 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 21 (1.91%) Social Media
9 16 (1.46%) Photography
10 13 (1.18%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.09%) Analogue Electronics
11 12 (1.09%) Client/Server
12 10 (0.91%) IoT
12 10 (0.91%) Robotics
12 10 (0.91%) VHDL
13 7 (0.64%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.55%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.45%) Blog
15 5 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
15 5 (0.45%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.37%) Linux
2 10 (0.91%) Windows
3 7 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.55%) Android
5 4 (0.36%) CentOS
5 4 (0.36%) SUSE
5 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.091%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.091%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 218 (19.84%) Customer Service
4 197 (17.93%) Data Analysis
5 173 (15.74%) Logistics
5 173 (15.74%) Performance Metrics
6 172 (15.65%) Creative Thinking
7 171 (15.56%) Process Improvement
8 170 (15.47%) Contingency Planning
8 170 (15.47%) Customer Experience
9 137 (12.47%) Computer Science
10 113 (10.28%) Mathematics
11 104 (9.46%) Software Engineering
12 81 (7.37%) Schematic Capture
13 71 (6.46%) Project Planning
14 68 (6.19%) Benchmarking
14 68 (6.19%) Lean Manufacturing
14 68 (6.19%) Lean Six Sigma
14 68 (6.19%) Physics
14 68 (6.19%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 65 (5.91%) C
2 63 (5.73%) Python
3 59 (5.37%) C#
4 46 (4.19%) JavaScript
5 40 (3.64%) Java
6 39 (3.55%) SQL
7 30 (2.73%) C++
8 26 (2.37%) Embedded C
9 12 (1.09%) MATLAB
10 7 (0.64%) Bash
11 6 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
12 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.27%) Ada
13 3 (0.27%) C-shell
13 3 (0.27%) Fortran
13 3 (0.27%) Haskell
14 1 (0.091%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.091%) Perl
14 1 (0.091%) Rust
Qualifications
1 883 (80.35%) Degree
2 80 (7.28%) DBS Check
3 68 (6.19%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 63 (5.73%) Security Cleared
5 47 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (3.73%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.64%) PhD
8 16 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.27%) SC Cleared
10 13 (1.18%) ACCA
11 7 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.55%) HND
13 4 (0.36%) CIMA
13 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.36%) HNC
13 4 (0.36%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.18%) ICAEW
14 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.091%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.091%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.73%) QA
2 4 (0.36%) GRC
2 4 (0.36%) IFRS
2 4 (0.36%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.091%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.091%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.091%) JTAG
4 1 (0.091%) PMO
4 1 (0.091%) SLA
System Software
1 121 (11.01%) Firmware
2 85 (7.73%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) Docker
4 1 (0.091%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.091%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 72 (6.55%) EMC
2 56 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 16 (1.46%) Google
4 14 (1.27%) SAP
5 8 (0.73%) Adobe
5 8 (0.73%) Apple
6 6 (0.55%) Dell
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle
7 4 (0.36%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.36%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.36%) Rockwell
8 3 (0.27%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.18%) F5
9 2 (0.18%) Facebook
9 2 (0.18%) Twitter
10 1 (0.091%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.091%) Sigfox
10 1 (0.091%) Splunk
10 1 (0.091%) Sun
10 1 (0.091%) Xamarin