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 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 1 15
Rank change year-on-year -31 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Degree 124 200 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.40% 22.86% 10.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.65% 70.92% 59.18%
Number of salaries quoted 82 48 102
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,122 £32,500 £32,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,110 £51,250 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +21.30% -14.74%
75th Percentile £87,986 £65,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £92,000 £62,375
England median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -8.33%

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 503 282 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 17.84% 32.23% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 273 121 183
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,500 £25,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +23.53% -16.71%
75th Percentile £78,312 £67,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £69,914
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 4 August 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 4 August 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 93 £66,720 +27.08% 58
Durham -20 26 £51,500 +3.00% 16
Northumberland 0 3 £87,250 - 17
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 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (14.52%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.03%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.42%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.61%) Adobe XD
5 2 (1.61%) InVision
5 2 (1.61%) Sketch
5 2 (1.61%) Trello
6 1 (0.81%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.81%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.81%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.16%) Azure
2 18 (14.52%) AWS
3 7 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.84%) GCP
4 6 (4.84%) IaaS
4 6 (4.84%) PaaS
5 5 (4.03%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.23%) Azure AI
6 4 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.23%) SaaS
7 3 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.42%) Figma
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.61%) Asana
8 2 (1.61%) npm
8 2 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) Firewall
2 5 (4.03%) DHCP
2 5 (4.03%) DNS
2 5 (4.03%) VLAN
2 5 (4.03%) VPN
2 5 (4.03%) Wireless
3 4 (3.23%) BGP
3 4 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (3.23%) Cisco Wireless
3 4 (3.23%) EIGRP
3 4 (3.23%) LAN
3 4 (3.23%) Network Security
3 4 (3.23%) OSPF
3 4 (3.23%) SNMP
3 4 (3.23%) WAAS
3 4 (3.23%) WAN
3 4 (3.23%) Wireless Security
4 2 (1.61%) Internet
5 1 (0.81%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (3.23%) GIS
1 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.23%) Power BI
1 4 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.42%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.61%) Tableau
4 1 (0.81%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.81%) Looker
4 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.45%) JIRA
2 5 (4.03%) Git
3 3 (2.42%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.42%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.42%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.42%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.42%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.61%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.61%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.81%) Balsamiq
General
1 37 (29.84%) Finance
2 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (16.13%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.87%) Marketing
6 9 (7.26%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.65%) Financial Institution
9 6 (4.84%) Electronics
10 5 (4.03%) Legal
10 5 (4.03%) Local Government
11 4 (3.23%) Banking
11 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.42%) Law
12 3 (2.42%) Retail
13 2 (1.61%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.61%) Wearables
14 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (17.74%) Developer
2 21 (16.94%) Senior
3 18 (14.52%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.29%) Architect
4 14 (11.29%) Software Developer
5 11 (8.87%) C++ Software Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Rust Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Rust Software Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Development Manager
6 10 (8.06%) Product Development Manager
6 10 (8.06%) Product Manager
7 9 (7.26%) C++ Developer
7 9 (7.26%) C++ Software Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Rust Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Principal Software Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Analyst
9 7 (5.65%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) .NET
2 6 (4.84%) CSS
2 6 (4.84%) HTML
2 6 (4.84%) React
3 5 (4.03%) .NET Core
4 4 (3.23%) Ajax
4 4 (3.23%) Flask
4 4 (3.23%) Jinja
4 4 (3.23%) jQuery
4 4 (3.23%) Middleware
4 4 (3.23%) OpenLayers
4 4 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.42%) SignalR
5 3 (2.42%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.61%) boto
6 2 (1.61%) CSS3
6 2 (1.61%) Framer.js
6 2 (1.61%) HTML5
6 2 (1.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.87%) FMCG
2 9 (7.26%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.45%) Hedge funds
4 7 (5.65%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.65%) IoT
4 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.84%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.03%) Client/Server
6 5 (4.03%) Cyber Security Posture
6 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (3.23%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.61%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.61%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.16%) Linux
2 11 (8.87%) Windows
3 6 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.61%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.97%) Computer Science
2 37 (29.84%) AI
3 33 (26.61%) Software Engineering
4 31 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 28 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (20.16%) Physics
8 20 (16.13%) Project Delivery
8 20 (16.13%) Requirements Management
9 19 (15.32%) Decision-Making
10 18 (14.52%) Workflow
11 16 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (12.10%) Mentoring
12 15 (12.10%) Technical Debt
13 14 (11.29%) Analytics
13 14 (11.29%) CI/CD
13 14 (11.29%) Project Management
13 14 (11.29%) User Experience
14 13 (10.48%) DevOps
15 12 (9.68%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.16%) C++
1 25 (20.16%) Python
2 20 (16.13%) Rust
3 16 (12.90%) SQL
4 9 (7.26%) C#
4 9 (7.26%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.45%) Java
6 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.61%) C
8 2 (1.61%) R
9 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (29.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.84%) AWS Certification
2 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (4.03%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.23%) CCIE
4 4 (3.23%) CCNP
5 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.61%) IIBA
6 2 (1.61%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) CCSP
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) GSEC
7 1 (0.81%) HNC
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PhD
7 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.03%) ISO 9001
2 5 (4.03%) PMO
3 3 (2.42%) QA
4 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.61%) WCAG
5 1 (0.81%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (6.45%) vSphere
2 7 (5.65%) Docker
3 5 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.23%) Firmware
4 4 (3.23%) ProxySG
5 2 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.03%) SCCM
3 3 (2.42%) Ansible
3 3 (2.42%) Control-M
3 3 (2.42%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (2.42%) Grafana
3 3 (2.42%) Terraform
4 1 (0.81%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 29 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) VMware
3 6 (4.84%) Sage
4 5 (4.03%) Aruba
4 5 (4.03%) Cisco
5 4 (3.23%) Blue Coat
5 4 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 4 (3.23%) F5
5 4 (3.23%) Infoblox
5 4 (3.23%) Motorola
5 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.23%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.23%) Xero
6 3 (2.42%) ANSYS
6 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.42%) Foundry
6 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.61%) Adobe
7 2 (1.61%) Databricks
7 2 (1.61%) Infor