Degree Job Trends in the North East

Academic Degree
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 1 13
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 -10
Permanent jobs citing Degree 131 198 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.86% 23.54% 10.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.73% 73.61% 57.99%
Number of salaries quoted 78 54 135
10th Percentile £29,775 £25,525 £25,500
25th Percentile £34,603 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,110 £51,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +20.59% -13.27%
75th Percentile £86,250 £65,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,625 £65,000
England median annual salary £53,600 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 490 269 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.18% 31.99% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 256 118 242
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,900 £26,775
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £51,875 £44,094
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% +17.65% -11.02%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,981 £73,124
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Degree job vacancy trend in the North East

Degree
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North East over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Degree in the North East

Degree
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the North East region over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -35 87 £67,500 +25.58% 49
Durham -10 40 £41,220 -17.56% 8
Northumberland 0 2 - - 1
Degree
England

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (12.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.05%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.53%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.53%) InVision
3 2 (1.53%) Sketch
3 2 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.53%) Trello
4 1 (0.76%) LaTeX
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.76%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.76%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.76%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.27%) Azure
2 14 (10.69%) AWS
3 6 (4.58%) GCP
3 6 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.82%) IaaS
4 5 (3.82%) OneDrive
4 5 (3.82%) PaaS
4 5 (3.82%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.29%) Azure AI
5 3 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.29%) SaaS
6 2 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.53%) Asana
6 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.53%) Figma
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.34%) Firewall
2 5 (3.82%) DHCP
2 5 (3.82%) DNS
3 4 (3.05%) BGP
3 4 (3.05%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (3.05%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (3.05%) Cisco Wireless
3 4 (3.05%) EIGRP
3 4 (3.05%) LAN
3 4 (3.05%) Network Security
3 4 (3.05%) OSPF
3 4 (3.05%) SNMP
3 4 (3.05%) VLAN
3 4 (3.05%) VPN
3 4 (3.05%) WAAS
3 4 (3.05%) WAN
3 4 (3.05%) Wireless
3 4 (3.05%) Wireless Security
4 2 (1.53%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.82%) Power BI
2 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.53%) GIS
4 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) Looker
5 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.11%) JIRA
2 3 (2.29%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.29%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.29%) Git
2 3 (2.29%) LabVIEW
2 3 (2.29%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (2.29%) SonarQube
2 3 (2.29%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.53%) Axure RP
General
1 36 (27.48%) Manufacturing
2 35 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 34 (25.95%) Finance
4 26 (19.85%) Marketing
5 19 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.63%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.34%) Financial Institution
8 7 (5.34%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.58%) Electronics
10 5 (3.82%) Legal
10 5 (3.82%) Local Government
11 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.29%) Banking
12 3 (2.29%) Law
12 3 (2.29%) Retail
13 2 (1.53%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.53%) Wearables
14 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (19.08%) Development Manager
1 25 (19.08%) Product Development Manager
1 25 (19.08%) Product Manager
2 22 (16.79%) Senior
3 20 (15.27%) Developer
4 18 (13.74%) Software Engineer
5 14 (10.69%) Software Developer
6 13 (9.92%) Architect
7 11 (8.40%) C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Rust Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Rust Software Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) C++ Developer
8 9 (6.87%) C++ Software Developer
8 9 (6.87%) Lead
8 9 (6.87%) Rust Developer
8 9 (6.87%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Principal Software Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Principal Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Principal Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) .NET
2 6 (4.58%) React
3 4 (3.05%) CSS
3 4 (3.05%) HTML
4 3 (2.29%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.29%) Middleware
4 3 (2.29%) SignalR
4 3 (2.29%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.53%) Ajax
5 2 (1.53%) boto
5 2 (1.53%) Flask
5 2 (1.53%) Framer.js
5 2 (1.53%) Jinja
5 2 (1.53%) jQuery
5 2 (1.53%) Node.js
5 2 (1.53%) OpenLayers
5 2 (1.53%) PySpark
5 2 (1.53%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.85%) FMCG
2 8 (6.11%) Hedge funds
3 7 (5.34%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.34%) IoT
4 6 (4.58%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.58%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.82%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.82%) Cyber Security Posture
5 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.05%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (1.53%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.08%) Linux
2 10 (7.63%) Windows
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.53%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.46%) Computer Science
2 42 (32.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (26.72%) AI
4 34 (25.95%) Decision-Making
4 34 (25.95%) Project Delivery
4 34 (25.95%) Software Engineering
5 28 (21.37%) Community of Practice
5 28 (21.37%) Mathematics
5 28 (21.37%) Project Management
6 26 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (19.08%) Chemistry
7 25 (19.08%) Commercialisation
8 24 (18.32%) Physics
9 20 (15.27%) Requirements Management
10 18 (13.74%) Workflow
11 15 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (11.45%) Technical Debt
12 12 (9.16%) CI/CD
12 12 (9.16%) Fintech
12 12 (9.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.08%) C++
2 23 (17.56%) Python
3 20 (15.27%) Rust
4 13 (9.92%) SQL
5 9 (6.87%) C#
5 9 (6.87%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.11%) Java
7 6 (4.58%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.53%) C
8 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.53%) R
8 2 (1.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (26.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.58%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.82%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.05%) CCIE
4 4 (3.05%) CCNP
5 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.29%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.53%) IIBA
7 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.76%) CCSP
7 1 (0.76%) CISA
7 1 (0.76%) CISSP
7 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.76%) GSEC
7 1 (0.76%) PhD
7 1 (0.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.82%) ISO 9001
2 5 (3.82%) PMO
3 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.53%) WCAG
4 1 (0.76%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) vSphere
2 5 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.82%) Docker
2 5 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.05%) Firmware
3 4 (3.05%) ProxySG
4 2 (1.53%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.82%) SCCM
2 3 (2.29%) Ansible
2 3 (2.29%) Control-M
2 3 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (2.29%) Grafana
2 3 (2.29%) Terraform
3 1 (0.76%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 26 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) VMware
3 5 (3.82%) Aruba
3 5 (3.82%) Cisco
4 4 (3.05%) Blue Coat
4 4 (3.05%) CheckPoint
4 4 (3.05%) F5
4 4 (3.05%) Infoblox
4 4 (3.05%) Motorola
4 4 (3.05%) Sage
4 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.05%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.05%) Xero
5 3 (2.29%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.29%) Foundry
6 2 (1.53%) ANSYS
6 2 (1.53%) Databricks
6 2 (1.53%) Infor
6 2 (1.53%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.53%) Salesforce