Degree Jobs 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 3
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 215 209 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 24.24% 10.55% 26.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 78.47% 55.44% 79.43%
Number of salaries quoted 59 177 108
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +0.69% +19.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £85,000 £68,600 £68,250
England median annual salary £52,600 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -12.50% +9.09%

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 274 377 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 30.89% 19.03% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 111 299 163
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £34,600
25th Percentile £40,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £60,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,250 £70,600
England median annual salary £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the North East

Degree
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North East.

Salary trend for Degree in the North East

Degree
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +10 133 £55,000 +15.79% 328
Durham +7 72 £50,000 - 21
Northumberland +4 9 - - 5
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.86%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.93%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 27 (12.56%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Pegasus Opera
2 3 (1.40%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 53 (24.65%) Azure
2 30 (13.95%) Entra ID
3 7 (3.26%) AWS
4 5 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.86%) GitHub
5 4 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (1.86%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.40%) GCP
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.93%) Serverless
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.26%) SAN
2 6 (2.79%) Broadband
3 3 (1.40%) LAN
3 3 (1.40%) Network Security
3 3 (1.40%) VLAN
3 3 (1.40%) WAN
4 2 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.93%) VoIP
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.58%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (3.72%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.33%) MySQL
3 5 (2.33%) Tableau
4 4 (1.86%) Dremio
4 4 (1.86%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.86%) Power BI
5 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (1.40%) JIRA
1 3 (1.40%) TeamCity
2 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.93%) Git
2 2 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 94 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 91 (42.33%) Finance
3 83 (38.60%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (30.23%) Marketing
5 18 (8.37%) Manufacturing
6 16 (7.44%) Retail
7 14 (6.51%) Advertising
8 4 (1.86%) Dutch Language
8 4 (1.86%) Finnish Language
8 4 (1.86%) Norwegian Language
9 3 (1.40%) Back Office
9 3 (1.40%) Electronics
9 3 (1.40%) Local Government
9 3 (1.40%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.93%) Agriculture
10 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Catalan Language
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (29.30%) Product Manager
2 62 (28.84%) Development Manager
2 62 (28.84%) Product Development Manager
3 42 (19.53%) Trainer
4 30 (13.95%) Identity Management Specialist
4 30 (13.95%) Technology Specialist
5 13 (6.05%) Developer
6 12 (5.58%) Analyst
7 7 (3.26%) Data Analyst
7 7 (3.26%) Senior
8 6 (2.79%) Graduate
8 6 (2.79%) Software Engineer
8 6 (2.79%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (2.33%) C# Developer
9 5 (2.33%) DBA
9 5 (2.33%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (1.86%) Graduate Developer
10 4 (1.86%) IT Graduate
10 4 (1.86%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (1.86%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.05%) .NET
2 5 (2.33%) CSS
2 5 (2.33%) Node.js
2 5 (2.33%) React
3 4 (1.86%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.86%) ASP.NET
3 4 (1.86%) jQuery
3 4 (1.86%) WebSockets
4 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.40%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.93%) Flash
5 2 (0.93%) HTML
5 2 (0.93%) RESTful
5 2 (0.93%) SignalR
5 2 (0.93%) Web Services
6 1 (0.47%) CSS3
6 1 (0.47%) HTML5
6 1 (0.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 62 (28.84%) FMCG
2 32 (14.88%) NHS
3 15 (6.98%) Robotics
4 8 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.26%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.86%) Equities
6 4 (1.86%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.86%) SCADA
7 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.40%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.40%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.93%) ASTM
8 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.26%) Linux
2 5 (2.33%) Windows
3 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) AIX
4 1 (0.47%) Solaris
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (54.42%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (32.56%) Project Management
3 63 (29.30%) Product Strategy
4 62 (28.84%) Commercialisation
4 62 (28.84%) Competitor Analysis
5 44 (20.47%) Artificial Intelligence
5 44 (20.47%) Computer Science
6 33 (15.35%) ITIL
7 30 (13.95%) Identity Management
8 27 (12.56%) Conversational UI
9 18 (8.37%) Machine Learning
10 15 (6.98%) Chemistry
10 15 (6.98%) Generative AI
10 15 (6.98%) LLM
10 15 (6.98%) Mathematics
10 15 (6.98%) Red Team
11 14 (6.51%) Data Privacy
11 14 (6.51%) High Availability
12 13 (6.05%) Software Engineering
13 10 (4.65%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.23%) SQL
2 20 (9.30%) C#
3 17 (7.91%) Python
4 12 (5.58%) Java
5 11 (5.12%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.72%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.79%) C++
7 6 (2.79%) PHP
8 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.47%) C
9 1 (0.47%) Dart
9 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.47%) R
9 1 (0.47%) Ruby
9 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (13.95%) DBS Check
1 30 (13.95%) Master's Degree
2 27 (12.56%) PhD
3 22 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.86%) CISSP
5 3 (1.40%) CCNA
5 3 (1.40%) CCNP
5 3 (1.40%) CISA
5 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.40%) CISM
6 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.93%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) CEH
7 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.47%) RIBA
7 1 (0.47%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.47%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (31.16%) QA
2 6 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.33%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.40%) GDPR
5 3 (1.40%) NEBOSH
5 3 (1.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.93%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (14.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.26%) Kubernetes
1 7 (3.26%) Terraform
2 3 (1.40%) Ansible
2 3 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.47%) Control-M
Vendors
1 50 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.56%) PayPal
3 20 (9.30%) Databricks
4 17 (7.91%) Adobe
5 16 (7.44%) Google
6 5 (2.33%) Cisco
6 5 (2.33%) Nimble Storage
6 5 (2.33%) Pegasus
7 3 (1.40%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.40%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.40%) Meraki
7 3 (1.40%) Reuters
8 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.93%) Facebook
8 2 (0.93%) VMware
8 2 (0.93%) YouTube
9 1 (0.47%) Capita
9 1 (0.47%) Epicor
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle
9 1 (0.47%) Sun