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Information Technology Professionals

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of tasks.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£16,718
£43,538
£72,151

New workers start around £16,718. Normal pay is £43,538 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £72,151.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 143,471 vacancies for this type of job

5.55%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Manages and develops the content and operation of websites, monitors traffic, and ensures the functionality of websites and web servers.

  • Organises training for users and prepares documentation on IT systems.

  • Meets with clients to determine their requirements and designs, tests and installs new systems to meet client's needs.

  • Provides support to organisations in the operation of their IT software, hardware and networks.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Business Intelligence

  • SQL (Programming Language)

  • Power BI

  • Agile Methodology

  • Data Modeling

  • Extract Transform Load (ETL)

  • Dashboard

  • Data Warehousing

  • Data Analysis

  • Data Visualization

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Management

  • Communication

  • Problem Solving

  • Sales

  • Operations

  • Customer Service

  • Planning

  • Self-Motivation

  • Decision Making

  • Consulting

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Business Information Systems

Cardiff Metropolitan University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Cardiff · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/112

Computing

Gloucestershire College

HNC · 1 Year · Full-time · Cheltenham · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 48/48

Cybersecurity

University of Bedfordshire

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Luton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 96/96

Business Technology

University of the West of Scotland

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Paisley · 08/09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Cyber Security

Ravensbourne University London

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/104

Cyber Security

University of Staffordshire

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Stoke-on-Trent · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Computer Science

University of Huddersfield

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Huddersfield · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Cybersecurity

University of Chester

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Chester · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

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