Graduate jobs in Scotland 2018
Scotland boasts some of the best universities in the country, and with it a fantastic production line of graduates. While a different funding regime exists north of the border, we wanted to know how much graduates from the Scottish universities differed from those who attended university in the rest of the UK.
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Competitive
9KPMG
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£22,000 to £24,500 location weighting
4Explore Learning (2018)
South East, South West, London, East Midlands, West Midlands, North West, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£26,000
Stagecoach Group
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£Competitive
9KPMG
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£Competitive
9KPMG
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£Competitive
9KPMG
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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Competitive
Transport Scotland
Scotland
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Competitive
Mott MacDonald
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£21, 450
5Decathlon
Scotland, Glasgow
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£36,540
Lidl
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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Competitive
Vodafone
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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Competitive
Vodafone
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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Sponsored
£28,000 p.a
Lloyds Banking Group
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£25,000 to £28,000 starting salary
1Civil Service Fast Stream
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£30,000 to £35,000
ABF Grain Products Ltd
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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competitive
3Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Scotland
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Competitive
Mott MacDonald
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland
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£24,000
Highways England
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Yorkshire, Nationwide
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£27,000
Bakkavor Ltd
South East, South West, London, The East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North West, North East, Scotland
Scotland
To look a bit further into the difference between Scottish and UK graduates we took all the graduates registered on graduate-jobs.com that graduated between 2009 and 2014. We split this number up between universities in Scotland and universities elsewhere in the UK. We then decided see what differences could be drawn between Scottish graduates and rest of the UK (rUK) graduates.
Sectors
These figures show the most popular sectors that graduates want to work in. When registering with graduate-jobs.com, graduates can select multiple sectors that they would like to start their career in. From the figures we can see that the majority of the popular sectors are similar between graduates from both Scotland and the rest of the UK. The only notable difference between the desired sectors of Scottish and rUK graduates is that while Human Resources is the sixth most desired place for rUK graduatesmissing out of the top 5 by 0.4%, while the amount of Scottish graduates wanting to work in Finance falls to ninth place in desired sectors missing out by 4.6%.
Degree Classification
This is one of the more interesting discoveries we made when looking at the data and differences between the two. We discovered that in Scotland it is a lot harder to receive a higher classification for your degree. As you can see from the graph, in Scotland only 6% of the graduates registered on graduate-jobs.com received a First, while the number was much higher in the rest of the UK, at 9.8%. The same can be applied for the two next lower classifications of degree, the 2.1 and 2.2. It is only the third, at 7% over the rUK's 3.8% that you are more likely to receive.
Degree Courses
Both sets of degrees studied by rUK and Scottish graduates points once again to very similar attitudes and academic pursuits. For example, from the data we can see that the top three most popular degrees in the UK are also the three most popular types of degree in Scotland, with the following three exactly the same just in a different order. From this data, it is almost impossible to draw any conclusions except that similarity of both Scottish and rUK students' studying habits.
Work Experience
When registering, we ask students and graduates if they have undertaken work experience or not and it is in this key employability factor that we see a difference between Scottish and rUK gradautes. Whether it is an internship or a part time job, graduates from Scotland are much more likely to have work experience than those from the rest of the UK. However, the difference is so small that no certain conclusion can be drawn from it.
