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The number of UK jobs that require a degree has overtaken the number of posts not needing qualifications, the latest research suggests 26/04/2013

A study by the Institute of Education has found that more than a quarter of jobs are now exclusively available to graduates. In 2006, when the survey was last completed, 20% of jobs required degrees. The latest figure for 2012 was 26%.

The study also shows positions for those with no qualifications has reached an all-time low.

Researchers surveyed more than 3,000 workers aged between 20 and 60 across the job market for the study, which first began in 1986.

It also revealed that 'at no time in the 1986-2012 period have falls and rises of these magnitudes been recorded.'

The 'over-qualification' rate has fallen, with fewer graduates now in non-graduate roles. The survey declares that 74% of those with degrees are in graduate jobs, with the figure at 69% in 2006.

Professor Francis Green of the Institute of Education said, 'Employers in Britain have been slow to take up the swathes of better qualified workers, but now they are starting to wake up to the use of graduate labour.'