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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Degree 104 148 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.49% 25.83% 11.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.13% 67.89% 56.35%
Number of salaries quoted 32 56 170
10th Percentile - £31,375 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,763 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% +10.00% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61,813 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £89,375 £73,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £58,000 £53,818
% change year-on-year -9.48% +7.77% -6.40%

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 398 218 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 24.83% 38.05% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 169 115 288
10th Percentile - £32,500 £28,925
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +18.95% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,400 £73,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -4.35%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -4 52 - - 10
Tyne and Wear -27 50 £31,500 -42.73% 47
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 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.88%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.96%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.08%) Azure
2 16 (15.38%) AWS
3 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.92%) GCP
7 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.96%) Dagster
7 1 (0.96%) dbt
7 1 (0.96%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.62%) VPN
2 9 (8.65%) Firewall
3 8 (7.69%) BGP
3 8 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (7.69%) EIGRP
3 8 (7.69%) LAN
3 8 (7.69%) Network Security
3 8 (7.69%) OSPF
3 8 (7.69%) SNMP
3 8 (7.69%) VLAN
3 8 (7.69%) WAAS
3 8 (7.69%) WAN
3 8 (7.69%) Wireless
3 8 (7.69%) Wireless Security
4 2 (1.92%) DNS
4 2 (1.92%) SAN
4 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.69%) Power BI
3 5 (4.81%) Tableau
4 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.96%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.96%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.96%) GIS
6 1 (0.96%) Looker
6 1 (0.96%) Metadata
6 1 (0.96%) QGIS
6 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.96%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (6.73%) JIRA
2 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.85%) Git
4 2 (1.92%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (44.23%) Manufacturing
2 43 (41.35%) Marketing
3 30 (28.85%) Finance
4 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
5 22 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.85%) Games
8 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.88%) Advertising
9 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.88%) Retail
10 2 (1.92%) Billing
10 2 (1.92%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.92%) Electronics
10 2 (1.92%) Legal
10 2 (1.92%) Wearables
11 1 (0.96%) Back Office
11 1 (0.96%) Law
11 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (39.42%) Development Manager
1 41 (39.42%) Product Development Manager
1 41 (39.42%) Product Manager
2 22 (21.15%) Analyst
3 15 (14.42%) Senior
3 15 (14.42%) Trainee
4 13 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 12 (11.54%) Trainee Analyst
5 12 (11.54%) Trainee Business Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Project Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Applications Support
8 4 (3.85%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (3.85%) Architect
8 4 (3.85%) Senior Architect
8 4 (3.85%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.85%) Support Analyst
9 3 (2.88%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 3 (2.88%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) .NET
2 1 (0.96%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 41 (39.42%) FMCG
2 8 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.88%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.88%) NHS
4 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.92%) LIMS
5 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.96%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.96%) EPoS
6 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Linux
1 7 (6.73%) Windows
2 2 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (57.69%) Project Management
2 50 (48.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (47.12%) Project Delivery
4 48 (46.15%) Decision-Making
5 43 (41.35%) Chemistry
6 42 (40.38%) Community of Practice
7 41 (39.42%) Commercialisation
8 29 (27.88%) Computer Science
9 24 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (16.35%) Change Management
11 12 (11.54%) Business Analysis
12 10 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (8.65%) Kalman Filter
13 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (8.65%) Time Management
14 8 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (7.69%) ITIL
14 8 (7.69%) Load Balancing
14 8 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (7.69%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.31%) Python
2 10 (9.62%) SQL
3 3 (2.88%) C#
3 3 (2.88%) Java
3 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.92%) VB
5 1 (0.96%) C++
5 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (8.65%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (7.69%) CCIE
3 8 (7.69%) CCNP
3 8 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.81%) PMI Certification
4 5 (4.81%) PMP
5 3 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (2.88%) PhD
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.92%) HNC
6 2 (1.92%) HND
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CCSP
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) PMO
2 3 (2.88%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) ProxySG
2 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.81%) Control-M
1 5 (4.81%) Grafana
1 5 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.96%) Ansible
3 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (11.54%) ServiceNow
2 9 (8.65%) Cisco
3 8 (7.69%) Blue Coat
3 8 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 8 (7.69%) F5
3 8 (7.69%) Infoblox
3 8 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.69%) Motorola
3 8 (7.69%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.85%) Anaplan
4 4 (3.85%) Genesys
4 4 (3.85%) Verint
5 3 (2.88%) PayPal
6 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.96%) Databricks
6 1 (0.96%) ESRI
6 1 (0.96%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (0.96%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.96%) VMware
6 1 (0.96%) Zscaler