England Degree Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Degree
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bexley Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop Auckland Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenock Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hoddesdon Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Tavistock Telford Templecombe Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welling Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Whitstable Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	12	13
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	11326	18749
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	9.789 %	9.568 %
As % of the category below	45.18 %	48.37 %
Salaries quoted	9795	15298
Average minimum salary	£36,512	£37,965
Average salary	£40,536	£42,349
% change on same period last year	-4.28 %
Average maximum salary	£44,560	£46,734
UK excluding London average salary	£36,646	£36,975
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Qualifications England
Matching permanent IT job ads	25068	38763
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	21.67 %	19.78 %
Salaries quoted	21614	32093
Average minimum salary	£37,507	£38,120
Average salary	£40,976	£41,571
% change on same period last year	-1.43 %
Average maximum salary	£44,445	£45,022
UK excluding London average salary	£38,607	£38,188
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Degree UK

Degree
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Degree across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Degree
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Degree across the England region.

Degree
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Degree across the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-1	4586	£47,287	-3.76 %
South East	+2	2480	£39,142	+2.01 %
East of England	+1	984	£38,424	+4.62 %
South West	+3	869	£35,290	+0.38 %
North West	0	780	£34,713	-6.90 %
Yorkshire	+2	586	£30,105	-3.38 %
West Midlands	+4	484	£34,458	+3.11 %
East Midlands	+6	395	£33,306	+5.78 %
North East	+3	109	£30,489	-27.57 %
Midlands	-4	44	£48,345	+7.09 %
South Coast	-4	2	-	-

Degree UK

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England region citing Degree also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Degree.

1 6512 (23.13 %) Finance 2 6220 (22.10 %) SQL 3 6171 (21.92 %) .NET 4 5579 (19.82 %) C# 5 5175 (18.38 %) SQL Server 6 4857 (17.25 %) Java 7 4815 (17.11 %) C++ 8 4450 (15.81 %) Windows 9 4423 (15.71 %) Computer Science 10 3566 (12.67 %) Microsoft 11 3186 (11.32 %) XML 12 3118 (11.08 %) Oracle 13 2985 (10.60 %) ASP.NET 14 2707 (9.617 %) UNIX 15 2635 (9.361 %) OO

16 2545 (9.041 %) C 17 2416 (8.583 %) HTML 18 2325 (8.260 %) Project Management 19 2271 (8.068 %) Mathematics 20 2241 (7.961 %) Education 21 2215 (7.869 %) MS Excel 22 2206 (7.837 %) Linux 23 2052 (7.290 %) JavaScript 24 1999 (7.101 %) Banking 25 1841 (6.540 %) VB 26 1671 (5.936 %) Pensions 27 1568 (5.570 %) VB.NET 28 1560 (5.542 %) Marketing 29 1540 (5.471 %) J2EE 30 1447 (5.141 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England region citing Degree also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6171 (21.92 %) .NET 2 3186 (11.32 %) XML 3 2985 (10.60 %) ASP.NET 4 2416 (8.583 %) HTML 5 1540 (5.471 %) J2EE 6 1447 (5.141 %) CSS 7 1124 (3.993 %) WebServices 8 1032 (3.666 %) AJAX 9 990 (3.517 %) ASP 10 611 (2.171 %) .NET Framework 11 578 (2.053 %) WinForms 12 541 (1.922 %) JSP 13 538 (1.911 %) Flash 13 538 (1.911 %) XHTML 14 537 (1.908 %) Spring 15 525 (1.865 %) XSLT 16 417 (1.481 %) Hibernate 17 397 (1.410 %) STL 18 388 (1.378 %) MFC 19 333 (1.183 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 759 (2.696 %) SAS 2 565 (2.007 %) IIS 3 532 (1.890 %) SharePoint 4 515 (1.830 %) MS Exchange 5 392 (1.393 %) Apache 6 317 (1.126 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 248 (0.881 %) Tomcat 8 247 (0.877 %) BizTalk Server 9 238 (0.846 %) WebLogic 10 189 (0.671 %) CMS 11 182 (0.647 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 172 (0.611 %) JBoss 13 105 (0.373 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 97 (0.345 %) ColdFusion 15 82 (0.291 %) Lotus Notes 16 69 (0.245 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 47 (0.167 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 47 (0.167 %) CICS 18 44 (0.156 %) LiveLink 19 43 (0.153 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 2215 (7.869 %) MS Excel 2 1012 (3.595 %) MS Office 3 383 (1.361 %) Photoshop 4 377 (1.339 %) MS Visio 5 323 (1.147 %) SPSS 6 279 (0.991 %) MATLAB 7 237 (0.842 %) MS Project 8 209 (0.742 %) MS PowerPoint 9 159 (0.565 %) Spreadsheet 10 117 (0.416 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 82 (0.291 %) Simulink 12 66 (0.234 %) CA Clarity 13 41 (0.146 %) AutoCAD 14 38 (0.135 %) RoboHelp 14 38 (0.135 %) Acrobat 15 37 (0.131 %) Fireworks 16 33 (0.117 %) Pro/ENGINEER 17 24 (0.085 %) FrameMaker 18 20 (0.071 %) InfoPath 18 20 (0.071 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 96 (0.341 %) SAP SD 2 80 (0.284 %) Oracle Financials 3 78 (0.277 %) Oracle Applications 4 77 (0.274 %) SAP FI 5 71 (0.252 %) SAP FI/CO 5 71 (0.252 %) SAP CO 6 68 (0.242 %) Oracle EBS 7 65 (0.231 %) Oracle 11i 8 48 (0.171 %) SAP HR 9 45 (0.160 %) SoftGrid 10 42 (0.149 %) Microsoft CRM 11 39 (0.139 %) Dynamics AX 12 37 (0.131 %) Summit 13 33 (0.117 %) Kondor+ 14 31 (0.110 %) Oracle ERP 15 28 (0.099 %) RMDS 16 27 (0.096 %) Navision 16 27 (0.096 %) SAP MM 17 26 (0.092 %) Oracle EBS R12 18 25 (0.089 %) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking 1 1152 (4.093 %) Internet 2 942 (3.346 %) TCP/IP 3 576 (2.046 %) WAN 4 571 (2.028 %) LAN 5 500 (1.776 %) Firewall 6 462 (1.641 %) Wireless 7 351 (1.247 %) DNS 8 304 (1.080 %) Intranet 9 277 (0.984 %) VPN 10 260 (0.924 %) HTTP 11 245 (0.870 %) SAN 12 223 (0.792 %) VoIP 13 221 (0.785 %) Network Security 14 179 (0.636 %) DHCP 15 154 (0.547 %) GSM 16 136 (0.483 %) SMTP 17 100 (0.355 %) MPLS 18 98 (0.348 %) 3G 19 97 (0.345 %) GPRS 20 88 (0.313 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5175 (18.38 %) SQL Server 2 1301 (4.622 %) SQL Server 2005 3 851 (3.023 %) SQL Server 2000 4 729 (2.590 %) MySQL 5 677 (2.405 %) Datawarehouse 6 519 (1.844 %) RDBMS 7 387 (1.375 %) BusinessObjects 8 357 (1.268 %) ETL 9 344 (1.222 %) Oracle 10g 10 278 (0.988 %) Crystal Reports 11 263 (0.934 %) MS Access 12 242 (0.860 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 241 (0.856 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 205 (0.728 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 203 (0.721 %) GIS 16 201 (0.714 %) DTS 17 179 (0.636 %) Oracle 9i 18 155 (0.551 %) DB2 19 140 (0.497 %) Oracle Reports 20 125 (0.444 %) Base SAS
Development Applications 1 859 (3.052 %) Visual Studio 2 222 (0.789 %) JUnit 3 221 (0.785 %) Eclipse 4 183 (0.650 %) Subversion 5 146 (0.519 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 137 (0.487 %) TestDirector 7 116 (0.412 %) Dreamweaver 8 111 (0.394 %) QuickTest Pro 9 100 (0.355 %) LoadRunner 10 96 (0.341 %) Selenium 11 87 (0.309 %) Ant 12 84 (0.298 %) Oracle Forms 13 82 (0.291 %) NUnit 14 76 (0.270 %) WinRunner 15 66 (0.234 %) Rational Rose 16 65 (0.231 %) ClearCase 17 43 (0.153 %) RequisitePro 18 38 (0.135 %) InstallShield 19 37 (0.131 %) IntelliJ 20 32 (0.114 %) FitNesse	General 1 6512 (23.13 %) Finance 2 2241 (7.961 %) Education 3 1999 (7.101 %) Banking 4 1671 (5.936 %) Pensions 5 1560 (5.542 %) Marketing 6 1329 (4.721 %) Telecoms 7 1209 (4.295 %) Health 8 1118 (3.972 %) Front Office 9 968 (3.439 %) Insurance 10 920 (3.268 %) Retail 11 797 (2.831 %) Electronics 12 752 (2.671 %) Games 13 689 (2.448 %) Government 14 670 (2.380 %) Investment Banking 15 526 (1.869 %) Manufacturing 16 430 (1.528 %) Back Office 17 379 (1.346 %) Electric 18 368 (1.307 %) Financial Institution 19 297 (1.055 %) Aerospace 20 269 (0.956 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 8588 (30.51 %) Developer 2 4543 (16.14 %) Analyst 3 2005 (7.123 %) Consultant 4 1946 (6.913 %) Graduate 5 1919 (6.817 %) Software Engineer 6 1747 (6.206 %) C# Developer 7 1738 (6.174 %) .NET Developer 8 1352 (4.803 %) Java Developer 9 1243 (4.416 %) Software Developer 10 1175 (4.174 %) Junior 11 1139 (4.046 %) Business Analyst 12 1134 (4.029 %) Project Manager 13 1067 (3.791 %) Senior Developer 14 1009 (3.584 %) C++ Developer 15 955 (3.393 %) Programmer 16 929 (3.300 %) Architect 17 921 (3.272 %) Web Developer 18 744 (2.643 %) Graduate Developer 19 665 (2.362 %) Support Analyst 20 563 (2.000 %) Junior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4423 (15.71 %) Computer Science 2 2271 (8.068 %) Mathematics 3 1027 (3.648 %) Derivative 4 740 (2.629 %) Physics 5 547 (1.943 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 484 (1.719 %) Fixed Income 7 444 (1.577 %) Equities 8 417 (1.481 %) Management Information System 9 404 (1.435 %) Statistics 10 348 (1.236 %) Multithreading 11 341 (1.211 %) Client/Server 12 241 (0.856 %) Credit Risk 13 219 (0.778 %) N-Tier 14 215 (0.764 %) Credit Derivative 14 215 (0.764 %) Economics 15 213 (0.757 %) German Language 16 207 (0.735 %) French Language 17 201 (0.714 %) Equity Derivative 18 176 (0.625 %) Blackberry 19 165 (0.586 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 4450 (15.81 %) Windows 2 2707 (9.617 %) UNIX 3 2206 (7.837 %) Linux 4 999 (3.549 %) Windows Server 2003 5 698 (2.480 %) Windows XP 6 483 (1.716 %) Solaris 7 429 (1.524 %) Windows 2000 8 163 (0.579 %) Windows Vista 9 158 (0.561 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 154 (0.547 %) Red Hat Linux 11 135 (0.480 %) Windows NT 12 123 (0.437 %) Windows Mobile 13 106 (0.377 %) AIX 14 81 (0.288 %) Embedded Linux 15 66 (0.234 %) Debian 16 63 (0.224 %) Windows Server 2008 17 58 (0.206 %) HPUX 18 50 (0.178 %) Windows CE 19 49 (0.174 %) Mac OS X 20 47 (0.167 %) VxWorks	Processes & Methodologies 1 2635 (9.361 %) OO 2 2325 (8.260 %) Project Management 3 1380 (4.902 %) Software Engineering 4 1229 (4.366 %) UML 5 1088 (3.865 %) PRINCE2 6 886 (3.148 %) Business Analysis 7 815 (2.895 %) E-Commerce 8 797 (2.831 %) ITIL 9 790 (2.806 %) Agile Software Development 10 770 (2.735 %) Business Intelligence 11 718 (2.551 %) Web Development 12 687 (2.441 %) CRM 13 627 (2.227 %) OOD 14 568 (2.018 %) Risk Management 15 508 (1.805 %) Data Analysis 16 424 (1.506 %) ERP 17 418 (1.485 %) Software Testing 18 413 (1.467 %) Workflow 19 407 (1.446 %) OOP 20 398 (1.414 %) Business Development
Programming Languages 1 6220 (22.10 %) SQL 2 5579 (19.82 %) C# 3 4857 (17.25 %) Java 4 4815 (17.11 %) C++ 5 2545 (9.041 %) C 6 2052 (7.290 %) JavaScript 7 1841 (6.540 %) VB 8 1568 (5.570 %) VB.NET 9 814 (2.892 %) Perl 10 812 (2.885 %) Transact-SQL 11 806 (2.863 %) PHP 12 774 (2.750 %) VBA 13 511 (1.815 %) VB6 14 499 (1.773 %) PL/SQL 15 413 (1.467 %) VC++ 16 402 (1.428 %) Python 17 353 (1.254 %) Delphi 18 316 (1.123 %) VBScript 19 259 (0.920 %) ActionScript 20 255 (0.906 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 1412 (5.016 %) Microsoft Certification 2 757 (2.689 %) Security Cleared 3 693 (2.462 %) MCSE 4 563 (2.000 %) HND 5 506 (1.798 %) ISEB 6 464 (1.648 %) Cisco Certification 7 409 (1.453 %) PhD 8 407 (1.446 %) MCP 9 333 (1.183 %) CCNA 10 255 (0.906 %) CISSP 11 243 (0.863 %) SC Cleared 12 222 (0.789 %) MCSD 13 204 (0.725 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 188 (0.668 %) MCSA 15 174 (0.618 %) HNC 16 159 (0.565 %) CCNP 17 153 (0.544 %) ITIL Certification 18 143 (0.508 %) MBA 19 128 (0.455 %) MCTS 20 109 (0.387 %) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 756 (2.686 %) QA 2 282 (1.002 %) SLA 3 98 (0.348 %) ISO27001 4 95 (0.337 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 87 (0.309 %) ISO9001 6 73 (0.259 %) WAI 7 70 (0.249 %) PCI DSS 8 59 (0.210 %) Basel II 9 42 (0.149 %) ISO9000 10 27 (0.096 %) ISO17799 11 25 (0.089 %) TickIT 11 25 (0.089 %) COBIT 12 21 (0.075 %) BS7799 13 13 (0.046 %) MiFID 14 12 (0.043 %) 21 CFR Part 11 14 12 (0.043 %) GCP 15 11 (0.039 %) GAMP 15 11 (0.039 %) GxP 16 10 (0.036 %) JTAG 17 8 (0.028 %) PCI QSA	System Software 1 947 (3.364 %) Active Directory 2 127 (0.451 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 88 (0.313 %) Oracle RAC 4 75 (0.266 %) Backup Exec 5 70 (0.249 %) Oracle RMAN 6 54 (0.192 %) ISA Server 7 40 (0.142 %) MSMQ 8 38 (0.135 %) NFS 9 34 (0.121 %) VMware ESX 10 33 (0.117 %) NetBackup 11 24 (0.085 %) Terminal Server 11 24 (0.085 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 12 19 (0.067 %) Citrix Presentation Server 13 16 (0.057 %) AquaLogic 14 13 (0.046 %) Samba 15 12 (0.043 %) Terminal Services 16 8 (0.028 %) Xen 17 7 (0.025 %) Hyper-V 17 7 (0.025 %) MetaFrame 18 5 (0.018 %) Nmap
Systems Management 1 57 (0.202 %) OpenView 2 37 (0.131 %) MOM 2 37 (0.131 %) Data Guard 3 33 (0.117 %) AutoSys 4 32 (0.114 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 31 (0.110 %) Nagios 6 27 (0.096 %) SCOM 7 26 (0.092 %) Tivoli 8 19 (0.067 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 18 (0.064 %) SCCM 10 14 (0.050 %) BMC PATROL 11 13 (0.046 %) WSUS 12 12 (0.043 %) CONTROL-M 12 12 (0.043 %) Unicenter 13 8 (0.028 %) OVSD 14 7 (0.025 %) EMC NetWorker 14 7 (0.025 %) Legato 15 6 (0.021 %) CiscoWorks 15 6 (0.021 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 15 6 (0.021 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 3566 (12.67 %) Microsoft 2 3118 (11.08 %) Oracle 3 668 (2.373 %) SAP 4 662 (2.352 %) Cisco 5 474 (1.684 %) Sybase 6 387 (1.375 %) Business Objects 7 386 (1.371 %) Citrix 8 383 (1.361 %) IBM 9 300 (1.066 %) VMware 10 292 (1.037 %) HP 11 271 (0.963 %) Cognos 12 221 (0.785 %) Sun 13 204 (0.725 %) Adobe 14 159 (0.565 %) Red Hat 15 123 (0.437 %) Informatica 16 114 (0.405 %) EMC 17 110 (0.391 %) Murex 17 110 (0.391 %) Lotus 18 109 (0.387 %) CheckPoint 19 94 (0.334 %) Reuters