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 16 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 1 13
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 200 270 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.52% 27.58% 10.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.25% 75.84% 57.26%
Number of salaries quoted 124 50 53
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,575 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,478 £29,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,831 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.70% -9.27% -10.00%
75th Percentile £84,688 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £74,375 £95,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,560
% change year-on-year - -8.79% -4.07%

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 640 356 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 17.65% 36.36% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 435 128 112
10th Percentile £34,250 £28,250 £28,107
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,625 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -10.95%
75th Percentile £75,537 £60,750 £69,013
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,887 £94,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -34 136 £52,000 +48.57% 65
Durham -11 38 £51,000 +2.00% 8
Northumberland +5 21 £81,750 - 6
Cleveland - 1 £50,000 -
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 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (15.50%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.50%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.00%) Adobe XD
5 2 (1.00%) CATIA
5 2 (1.00%) InVision
5 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.00%) Navisworks
5 2 (1.00%) Revit
5 2 (1.00%) Siemens NX
5 2 (1.00%) Sketch
5 2 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (1.00%) Trello
6 1 (0.50%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.50%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (4.50%) SAP PM
2 4 (2.00%) Sage 50
3 2 (1.00%) iTrent
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.50%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.50%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.50%) Azure
2 13 (6.50%) AWS
3 9 (4.50%) SaaS
4 8 (4.00%) IaaS
4 8 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.00%) PaaS
5 6 (3.00%) Azure AI
5 6 (3.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.50%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.00%) Figma
8 3 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.50%) GCP
8 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.50%) Serverless
9 2 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.50%) DHCP
1 5 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (1.50%) Wireless
3 2 (1.00%) Firewall
3 2 (1.00%) VLAN
3 2 (1.00%) VPN
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.50%) Internet
4 1 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.00%) GIS
1 4 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (2.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (1.50%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.50%) Power BI
3 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.00%) JIRA
2 5 (2.50%) Git
3 3 (1.50%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 3 (1.50%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.50%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.50%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.00%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.00%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 72 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 68 (34.00%) Finance
3 49 (24.50%) Manufacturing
4 34 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (15.50%) Electronics
6 21 (10.50%) Financial Institution
7 19 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (9.00%) Law
9 14 (7.00%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (6.00%) Billing
11 12 (6.00%) General Ledger
11 12 (6.00%) Legal
11 12 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (4.00%) Local Government
13 8 (4.00%) Public Sector
13 8 (4.00%) Retail
14 6 (3.00%) Automotive
15 4 (2.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 28 (14.00%) Senior
2 24 (12.00%) Developer
3 16 (8.00%) Analyst
3 16 (8.00%) Architect
3 16 (8.00%) Electronics Engineer
3 16 (8.00%) Lead
3 16 (8.00%) Software Engineer
4 13 (6.50%) Software Developer
5 12 (6.00%) Electrical Engineer
6 11 (5.50%) C++ Software Engineer
6 11 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
6 11 (5.50%) Rust Engineer
6 11 (5.50%) Rust Software Engineer
7 10 (5.00%) Consultant
7 10 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.50%) C++ Developer
8 9 (4.50%) C++ Software Developer
8 9 (4.50%) Lead Architect
8 9 (4.50%) Rust Developer
9 8 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.00%) .NET
2 7 (3.50%) Middleware
2 7 (3.50%) React
3 6 (3.00%) CSS
3 6 (3.00%) HTML
4 4 (2.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.00%) Ajax
4 4 (2.00%) Flask
4 4 (2.00%) Jinja
4 4 (2.00%) jQuery
4 4 (2.00%) OpenLayers
4 4 (2.00%) SignalR
4 4 (2.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (2.00%) Terraform
4 4 (2.00%) WebSockets
5 3 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.50%) Flash
6 2 (1.00%) Framer.js
6 2 (1.00%) HTML5
6 2 (1.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.00%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.00%) Driving Licence
3 12 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (5.00%) IoT
6 9 (4.50%) Web Conferencing
7 8 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (3.50%) SCADA
9 5 (2.50%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.50%) CCTV
9 5 (2.50%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.00%) Hedge funds
10 4 (2.00%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.50%) Blog
11 3 (1.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.50%) Linux
2 12 (6.00%) Windows
3 7 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (33.50%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 51 (25.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (21.00%) AI
5 36 (18.00%) Mathematics
5 36 (18.00%) Software Engineering
6 28 (14.00%) Physics
7 25 (12.50%) Analytics
8 24 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 24 (12.00%) Validation
9 23 (11.50%) Mentoring
10 22 (11.00%) ITIL
11 20 (10.00%) ITSM
11 20 (10.00%) Project Delivery
11 20 (10.00%) Requirements Management
11 20 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (9.00%) Workflow
14 17 (8.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.00%) C++
2 25 (12.50%) SQL
3 21 (10.50%) Rust
4 15 (7.50%) Python
5 8 (4.00%) C#
5 8 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.50%) Java
6 7 (3.50%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.50%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (17.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (5.00%) HND
3 8 (4.00%) HNC
4 7 (3.50%) Chartered Engineer
4 7 (3.50%) DBS Check
5 6 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.00%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.00%) City & Guilds
7 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.50%) NVQ Level 3
8 3 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.00%) APMP
9 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.00%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.50%) CIMA
10 1 (0.50%) IIBA
10 1 (0.50%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.00%) QA
2 9 (4.50%) ISO 9001
3 7 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.00%) GDPR
5 3 (1.50%) PMO
6 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.00%) HAZOP
6 2 (1.00%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.00%) P3O
6 2 (1.00%) WCAG
7 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.50%) ECSS
7 1 (0.50%) GMP
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 8 (4.00%) vSphere
2 7 (3.50%) Docker
3 6 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.50%) Firmware
6 2 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.50%) SCCM
3 3 (1.50%) Ansible
3 3 (1.50%) Control-M
3 3 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 34 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.00%) Aderant
3 11 (5.50%) SAP
4 10 (5.00%) VMware
5 9 (4.50%) Sage
6 6 (3.00%) Google
7 5 (2.50%) Aruba
8 4 (2.00%) EMC
8 4 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.00%) Xero
9 3 (1.50%) ANSYS
9 3 (1.50%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.50%) Foundry
9 3 (1.50%) NEC
10 2 (1.00%) Adobe
10 2 (1.00%) Infor
10 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle
10 2 (1.00%) Siemens
10 2 (1.00%) Veeam