The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Graduate in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the North East region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graduate
Rank 56 57 62
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 12 16 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 1.775% 1.826% 0.840%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.878% 1.900% 0.865%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 6
Average salary £22,500 £23,500 £21,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.25% +10.58%
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
% change year-on-year
-2.17% +2.22%
All Job Titles
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
639 842 694
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 94.53% 96.12% 97.20%
Number of salaries quoted 555 693 589
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Graduate
England

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Graduate across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North East Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Graduate across the North East region.

North East Graduate Salary Trend

Graduate
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the North East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Tyne and Wear -10 9 £22,500 -4.25%
Cleveland - 2 - -
Durham +8 1 £19,000 -
Graduate
England

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title.

1 22 (84.62%) Computer Science
2 17 (65.38%) C#
3 16 (61.54%) .NET
3 16 (61.54%) Degree
4 14 (53.85%) ASP.NET
5 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
6 11 (42.31%) WCF
7 10 (38.46%) Kanban
7 10 (38.46%) Scrum
8 9 (34.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (34.62%) MCP
8 9 (34.62%) MCAD
8 9 (34.62%) MCSD
8 9 (34.62%) .NET Framework
8 9 (34.62%) TDD
8 9 (34.62%) NUnit
8 9 (34.62%) MCTS
8 9 (34.62%) MVC
8 9 (34.62%) ASP.NET MVC
8 9 (34.62%) Rhino Mocks
8 9 (34.62%) Moq
8 9 (34.62%) Razor View Engine
8 9 (34.62%) Web Application Development
8 9 (34.62%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 8 (30.77%) C
10 7 (26.92%) SQL
10 7 (26.92%) WPF
11 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (19.23%) Spring.NET
12 5 (19.23%) Tandem

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (61.54%) .NET
2 14 (53.85%) ASP.NET
3 11 (42.31%) WCF
4 9 (34.62%) ASP.NET MVC
4 9 (34.62%) Razor View Engine
4 9 (34.62%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 9 (34.62%) .NET Framework
5 7 (26.92%) WPF
6 5 (19.23%) Spring.NET
6 5 (19.23%) Unity DI Container
6 5 (19.23%) Castle Windsor
6 5 (19.23%) Ninject
6 5 (19.23%) WinForms
7 4 (15.38%) NHibernate
8 3 (11.54%) HTML
8 3 (11.54%) CSS
9 1 (3.846%) Middleware
9 1 (3.846%) CSS3
9 1 (3.846%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (15.38%) QlikView
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) NUnit
1 9 (34.62%) Rhino Mocks
1 9 (34.62%) Moq
2 5 (19.23%) MSTest
General
1 4 (15.38%) Music
1 4 (15.38%) Music Industry
Miscellaneous
1 22 (84.62%) Computer Science
2 5 (19.23%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (19.23%) Tandem
3 3 (11.54%) NHS
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
4 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Scrum
1 10 (38.46%) Kanban
2 9 (34.62%) Web Application Development
2 9 (34.62%) TDD
2 9 (34.62%) MVC
3 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (19.23%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (19.23%) MVVM
4 5 (19.23%) BDD
5 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
6 3 (11.54%) Information Management
7 1 (3.846%) Use Case
7 1 (3.846%) OOP
7 1 (3.846%) OO
7 1 (3.846%) Progressive Enhancement
7 1 (3.846%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (3.846%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) C#
2 8 (30.77%) C
3 7 (26.92%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) VB.NET
5 2 (7.692%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.846%) C++
6 1 (3.846%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Degree
2 9 (34.62%) MCP
2 9 (34.62%) MCAD
2 9 (34.62%) MCSD
2 9 (34.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (34.62%) MCTS
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
Newcastle, Staffordshire
The Role Following an excellent initial training period, this role will offer a lot of success for a graduate with a computer related degree and a technical understanding...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £17000 - £21000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
Knowledge of C++... - Knowledge of Software testing techniques... Experience of writing programs in CUDA and Matlab will also be of benefit as will experience of producing multi-threaded...
Solutions Recruitment
Salary: From £20,000 to £25,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013