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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 1 13
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 -10
Permanent jobs citing Degree 107 212 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.15% 34.70% 11.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.52% 77.37% 55.64%
Number of salaries quoted 37 62 180
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,475 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £53,750 £48,367
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +11.13% +1.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £66,275
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 455 274 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.90% 44.84% 20.23%
Number of salaries quoted 171 119 303
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,957 £40,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,500 £43,072
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +31.18% -9.32%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,800 £73,250
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 19 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 19 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 -6 53 £51,500 +3.00% 14
Tyne and Wear -40 52 £50,000 -9.09% 39
Northumberland +3 2 - - 3
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 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (7.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.93%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.69%) Azure
2 17 (15.89%) AWS
3 7 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.67%) GCP
6 3 (2.80%) IaaS
6 3 (2.80%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.80%) PaaS
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.93%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Dagster
7 1 (0.93%) dbt
7 1 (0.93%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.93%) SaaS
7 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.35%) Firewall
2 8 (7.48%) BGP
2 8 (7.48%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (7.48%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (7.48%) Cisco Wireless
2 8 (7.48%) EIGRP
2 8 (7.48%) LAN
2 8 (7.48%) Network Security
2 8 (7.48%) OSPF
2 8 (7.48%) SNMP
2 8 (7.48%) VLAN
2 8 (7.48%) VPN
2 8 (7.48%) WAAS
2 8 (7.48%) WAN
2 8 (7.48%) Wireless
2 8 (7.48%) Wireless Security
3 3 (2.80%) DHCP
3 3 (2.80%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) Internet
4 1 (0.93%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) Power BI
2 5 (4.67%) Tableau
3 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) GIS
4 1 (0.93%) Looker
4 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.87%) LabVIEW
2 2 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.93%) Git
General
1 50 (46.73%) Manufacturing
2 43 (40.19%) Marketing
3 25 (23.36%) Finance
4 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
5 21 (19.63%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.74%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.74%) Games
8 4 (3.74%) Legal
8 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.80%) Local Government
10 2 (1.87%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.87%) Electronics
10 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Wearables
11 1 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (39.25%) Development Manager
1 42 (39.25%) Product Development Manager
1 42 (39.25%) Product Manager
2 20 (18.69%) Senior
3 11 (10.28%) Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Architect
4 9 (8.41%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) Network Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Senior Network Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Lead
7 5 (4.67%) Project Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Trainee
7 5 (4.67%) Trainee Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Trainee Business Analyst
8 4 (3.74%) Graduate
8 4 (3.74%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) .NET
2 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.87%) React
2 2 (1.87%) SignalR
2 2 (1.87%) WebSockets
3 1 (0.93%) Ajax
3 1 (0.93%) boto
3 1 (0.93%) CSS
3 1 (0.93%) Flask
3 1 (0.93%) HTML
3 1 (0.93%) Jinja
3 1 (0.93%) jQuery
3 1 (0.93%) Node.js
3 1 (0.93%) OpenLayers
3 1 (0.93%) PySpark
3 1 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 42 (39.25%) FMCG
2 8 (7.48%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.61%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.67%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.67%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.80%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.80%) IoT
6 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Windows
2 5 (4.67%) Linux
3 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (54.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (50.47%) Project Management
3 51 (47.66%) Project Delivery
4 48 (44.86%) Decision-Making
5 45 (42.06%) Community of Practice
6 42 (39.25%) Chemistry
6 42 (39.25%) Commercialisation
7 28 (26.17%) Computer Science
8 17 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (10.28%) Analytical Thinking
10 11 (10.28%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (9.35%) Software Engineering
12 9 (8.41%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (8.41%) Migration
13 8 (7.48%) Change Management
13 8 (7.48%) Load Balancing
13 8 (7.48%) Mentoring
13 8 (7.48%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.56%) Python
2 7 (6.54%) C#
2 7 (6.54%) Java
2 7 (6.54%) SQL
3 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.80%) C++
5 2 (1.87%) R
5 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.87%) VB
6 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (17.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (8.41%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (7.48%) CCIE
3 8 (7.48%) CCNP
4 5 (4.67%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.74%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.74%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.74%) PMP
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.80%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.87%) IIBA
7 2 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.93%) CCSP
8 1 (0.93%) CISA
8 1 (0.93%) CISSP
8 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) PMO
2 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.48%) ProxySG
2 5 (4.67%) vSphere
3 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.80%) Docker
3 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.80%) SCCM
2 2 (1.87%) Ansible
2 2 (1.87%) Control-M
2 2 (1.87%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (1.87%) Grafana
2 2 (1.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.41%) Cisco
4 8 (7.48%) Blue Coat
4 8 (7.48%) CheckPoint
4 8 (7.48%) F5
4 8 (7.48%) Infoblox
4 8 (7.48%) Motorola
4 8 (7.48%) SolarWinds
5 5 (4.67%) VMware
6 4 (3.74%) Anaplan
6 4 (3.74%) Genesys
6 4 (3.74%) Verint
7 3 (2.80%) Aruba
7 3 (2.80%) Sage
7 3 (2.80%) Xero
8 2 (1.87%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.93%) Databricks
9 1 (0.93%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.93%) Zscaler