
Job marketplace Glassdoor is behind the findings, detailing the highest paying career prospects for university leavers in 2016. It found that analysts can look to earn the most at an average salary of £34,366, followed by consultants and software engineers.
In fact, the top three graduate jobs pay more that the UK national average salary of £27,600. Jon Ingham, Glassdoor careers and workplace expert, said: “Getting on the first rung of the career ladder is a time of both great excitement and trepidation for graduates. “However, finding the right job is not easy. With millions of final year students graduating this summer, we’ve now identified where some of the UK’s best young talent can earn the most in what is an extremely competitive entry-level market.”Richard Branson wants you to show entrepreneurial spirit and hire ex-prisoners
Interestingly, the study follows a report from earlier that listed the ten industries that are desperate to fill graduate jobs. Engineering came out on top of the struggling sectors with the highest number of vacancies, despite this new Glassdoor list revealing engineers are among the highest paid. Seemingly, this once again points to a shortage of STEM skills available among, with the gap appearing to be the ongoing root cause of the hiring problem, rather than it being one of a financial nature. Nick Boles, minister of state for skills, said: “These shortages are compounded by insufficient numbers of young people, especially girls, choosing a career in engineering.Brits would fail to survive an apocalypse due to lack of STEM skills
According to Glassdoor, the ten highest paying graduate jobs are: (1) Graduate analyst – £34,366 (2) Graduate consultant – £28,891 (3) Graduate software engineer –£28,370 (4) Graduate mechanical engineer – £26,949 (5) Graduate engineer – £26,500Check out the 15 jobs Brits would consider a dream during summer.
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