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 5 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Degree 102 162 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.34% 28.57% 11.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.77% 71.68% 56.88%
Number of salaries quoted 29 62 181
10th Percentile - £30,475 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +11.98% +1.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £85,000 £65,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 448 226 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.44% 39.86% 20.45%
Number of salaries quoted 169 115 298
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £42,911
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +28.17% -9.66%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,375 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,100 £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,745 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.74% +3.17% -6.78%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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
Durham -2 54 £51,500 +3.00% 16
Tyne and Wear -42 46 £46,500 -15.45% 49
Northumberland - 2 - - 5
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 2 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (7.84%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.94%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.98%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 20 (19.61%) Azure
2 16 (15.69%) AWS
3 7 (6.86%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.92%) GCP
4 4 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.96%) IaaS
5 2 (1.96%) PaaS
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.98%) Azure AI
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.98%) Dagster
6 1 (0.98%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.98%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.98%) SaaS
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.80%) Firewall
2 8 (7.84%) BGP
2 8 (7.84%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (7.84%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (7.84%) Cisco Wireless
2 8 (7.84%) EIGRP
2 8 (7.84%) LAN
2 8 (7.84%) Network Security
2 8 (7.84%) OSPF
2 8 (7.84%) SNMP
2 8 (7.84%) VLAN
2 8 (7.84%) VPN
2 8 (7.84%) WAAS
2 8 (7.84%) WAN
2 8 (7.84%) Wireless
2 8 (7.84%) Wireless Security
3 2 (1.96%) SAN
4 1 (0.98%) DNS
4 1 (0.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.98%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) Power BI
2 5 (4.90%) Tableau
3 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.98%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.98%) GIS
5 1 (0.98%) Looker
5 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.96%) Git
2 2 (1.96%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (46.08%) Manufacturing
2 43 (42.16%) Marketing
3 23 (22.55%) Finance
4 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
5 20 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Games
7 4 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.96%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.96%) Electronics
9 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Wearables
10 1 (0.98%) Back Office
10 1 (0.98%) Law
10 1 (0.98%) Legal
10 1 (0.98%) Military
10 1 (0.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (41.18%) Development Manager
1 42 (41.18%) Product Development Manager
1 42 (41.18%) Product Manager
2 18 (17.65%) Senior
3 15 (14.71%) Analyst
4 12 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.84%) Architect
5 8 (7.84%) Network Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Trainee
5 8 (7.84%) Trainee Analyst
5 8 (7.84%) Trainee Business Analyst
6 5 (4.90%) Lead
6 5 (4.90%) Project Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Manager
8 3 (2.94%) Developer
8 3 (2.94%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.90%) .NET
2 2 (1.96%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.98%) Ajax
3 1 (0.98%) boto
3 1 (0.98%) CSS
3 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.98%) Flask
3 1 (0.98%) HTML
3 1 (0.98%) Jinja
3 1 (0.98%) jQuery
3 1 (0.98%) Node.js
3 1 (0.98%) OpenLayers
3 1 (0.98%) PySpark
3 1 (0.98%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 42 (41.18%) FMCG
2 8 (7.84%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.90%) Hedge funds
4 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.94%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.98%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.98%) IoT
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.98%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.92%) Windows
2 3 (2.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (55.88%) Project Management
2 54 (52.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 51 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 48 (47.06%) Decision-Making
5 45 (44.12%) Community of Practice
6 44 (43.14%) Chemistry
7 42 (41.18%) Commercialisation
8 25 (24.51%) Computer Science
9 17 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (10.78%) Analytical Thinking
11 11 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (9.80%) Business Analysis
13 9 (8.82%) Change Management
13 9 (8.82%) Kalman Filter
14 8 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
14 8 (7.84%) Load Balancing
14 8 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (7.84%) Software Engineering
14 8 (7.84%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.61%) Python
2 6 (5.88%) SQL
3 5 (4.90%) C#
3 5 (4.90%) Java
4 4 (3.92%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.96%) R
5 2 (1.96%) VB
6 1 (0.98%) C++
6 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (7.84%) CCIE
3 8 (7.84%) CCNP
4 7 (6.86%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.92%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.92%) PMP
6 3 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.94%) PhD
7 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.96%) IIBA
7 2 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.98%) CCSP
8 1 (0.98%) CISA
8 1 (0.98%) CISSP
8 1 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) PMO
2 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) ProxySG
2 2 (1.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) vSphere
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) Firmware
3 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.96%) Control-M
2 2 (1.96%) Grafana
3 1 (0.98%) Ansible
3 1 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.98%) SCCM
3 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 9 (8.82%) Cisco
2 9 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.84%) Blue Coat
3 8 (7.84%) CheckPoint
3 8 (7.84%) F5
3 8 (7.84%) Infoblox
3 8 (7.84%) Motorola
3 8 (7.84%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.92%) Anaplan
4 4 (3.92%) Genesys
4 4 (3.92%) Verint
5 3 (2.94%) PayPal
6 2 (1.96%) VMware
7 1 (0.98%) Aruba
7 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.98%) Databricks
7 1 (0.98%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.98%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.98%) Sage