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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 13 3
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Degree 200 236 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 14.64% 11.20% 26.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 75.19% 60.20% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 55 167 101
10th Percentile £25,700 £25,650 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £49,557
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.20% +23.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £60,899
90th Percentile £82,000 £65,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,600 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -12.50% +14.29%

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 266 392 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 19.47% 18.60% 32.86%
Number of salaries quoted 113 282 153
10th Percentile £30,700 £27,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,583 £49,557
Median % change year-on-year +20.46% -12.06% +23.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £61,445
90th Percentile £78,852 £73,250 £70,600
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +6 139 £55,000 +24.37% 236
Durham +1 51 £50,000 - 46
Northumberland +3 9 - - 7
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 2 (1.00%) Apache
1 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (21.00%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.00%) Azure
2 30 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 8 (4.00%) AWS
4 5 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.00%) GCP
5 4 (2.00%) GitHub
5 4 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.00%) Serverless
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.00%) Broadband
2 5 (2.50%) SAN
3 3 (1.50%) LAN
3 3 (1.50%) Network Security
3 3 (1.50%) VLAN
3 3 (1.50%) WAN
4 2 (1.00%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.00%) VoIP
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (3.50%) MySQL
4 5 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.00%) Power BI
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) Parquet
6 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.00%) JIRA
2 3 (1.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.00%) Git
3 2 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 71 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 69 (34.50%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (31.00%) Finance
4 36 (18.00%) Marketing
5 17 (8.50%) Manufacturing
5 17 (8.50%) Retail
6 10 (5.00%) Advertising
7 4 (2.00%) Dutch Language
7 4 (2.00%) Finnish Language
7 4 (2.00%) Local Government
7 4 (2.00%) Norwegian Language
8 3 (1.50%) Agriculture
8 3 (1.50%) Electronics
8 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.00%) Front Office
9 2 (1.00%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Catalan Language
10 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (28.50%) Trainer
2 37 (18.50%) Product Manager
3 36 (18.00%) Development Manager
3 36 (18.00%) Product Development Manager
4 30 (15.00%) Identity Management Specialist
4 30 (15.00%) Technology Specialist
5 13 (6.50%) Developer
6 8 (4.00%) Graduate
6 8 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (4.00%) Senior
6 8 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (3.50%) Analyst
8 6 (3.00%) C# Developer
8 6 (3.00%) Graduate Developer
8 6 (3.00%) IT Graduate
8 6 (3.00%) Software Engineer
9 5 (2.50%) Design Engineer
9 5 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.00%) Instructor
10 4 (2.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.00%) .NET
2 7 (3.50%) CSS
3 6 (3.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.00%) jQuery
4 5 (2.50%) Node.js
5 4 (2.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.00%) Flash
5 4 (2.00%) React
6 3 (1.50%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.50%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.50%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.00%) HTML
7 2 (1.00%) RESTful
7 2 (1.00%) SignalR
7 2 (1.00%) Web Services
8 1 (0.50%) CSS3
8 1 (0.50%) HTML5
8 1 (0.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.00%) FMCG
2 32 (16.00%) NHS
3 15 (7.50%) Robotics
4 11 (5.50%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.00%) SCADA
6 5 (2.50%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.50%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.00%) ASTM
9 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.00%) Social Media
10 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.50%) Equities
10 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.50%) Linux
2 5 (2.50%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) AIX
4 1 (0.50%) Solaris
4 1 (0.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.50%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (29.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 43 (21.50%) Project Management
4 42 (21.00%) Conversational UI
5 41 (20.50%) Computer Science
6 37 (18.50%) Product Strategy
7 36 (18.00%) Commercialisation
7 36 (18.00%) Competitor Analysis
8 32 (16.00%) ITIL
9 30 (15.00%) Identity Management
10 25 (12.50%) Chemistry
11 18 (9.00%) Machine Learning
11 18 (9.00%) Mathematics
12 15 (7.50%) Generative AI
12 15 (7.50%) LLM
12 15 (7.50%) Red Team
13 14 (7.00%) Data Privacy
14 13 (6.50%) Software Engineering
15 12 (6.00%) Agile
15 12 (6.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.50%) C#
2 17 (8.50%) SQL
3 13 (6.50%) Java
3 13 (6.50%) Python
4 10 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.00%) C++
5 8 (4.00%) PHP
6 6 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.50%) C
8 1 (0.50%) Dart
8 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.50%) R
8 1 (0.50%) Ruby
8 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (22.50%) Master's Degree
2 40 (20.00%) PhD
3 30 (15.00%) DBS Check
4 21 (10.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.00%) CISM
5 4 (2.00%) CISSP
6 3 (1.50%) CCNA
6 3 (1.50%) CCNP
6 3 (1.50%) CISA
6 3 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.00%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.00%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.50%) CEH
8 1 (0.50%) CRISC
8 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) PMP
8 1 (0.50%) RIBA
8 1 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.00%) QA
2 6 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.50%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.50%) GDPR
5 3 (1.50%) NIST
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.00%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (15.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.50%) Docker
3 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.50%) Kubernetes
1 7 (3.50%) Terraform
2 3 (1.50%) Ansible
2 3 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.50%) Grafana
3 2 (1.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 50 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 42 (21.00%) PayPal
3 18 (9.00%) Databricks
4 17 (8.50%) Adobe
4 17 (8.50%) Google
5 5 (2.50%) Cisco
5 5 (2.50%) Pegasus
6 3 (1.50%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.50%) Meraki
6 3 (1.50%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) Facebook
7 2 (1.00%) VMware
7 2 (1.00%) YouTube
8 1 (0.50%) Capita
8 1 (0.50%) Epicor
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) SAP
8 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) Sun