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 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 1 12
Rank change year-on-year -30 +11 -9
Permanent jobs citing Degree 114 217 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.73% 32.01% 11.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.22% 77.50% 59.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58 59 179
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,400 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,372 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +15.79% -3.06%
75th Percentile £81,875 £68,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £65,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 452 280 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.76% 41.30% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 205 116 299
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,375 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,038 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £43,072
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +27.69% -9.80%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,688 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,875 £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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
Tyne and Wear -36 68 £62,500 +13.64% 87
Durham -7 43 £51,500 +3.00% 13
Northumberland +1 2 - - 2
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 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 13 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.26%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.75%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.75%) InVision
4 2 (1.75%) Sketch
4 2 (1.75%) Trello
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.88%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.67%) Azure
2 16 (14.04%) AWS
3 6 (5.26%) GCP
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.51%) IaaS
4 4 (3.51%) OneDrive
4 4 (3.51%) PaaS
5 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.75%) Asana
6 2 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.75%) Figma
6 2 (1.75%) SaaS
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.88%) dbt
7 1 (0.88%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.89%) Firewall
2 6 (5.26%) BGP
2 6 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (5.26%) Cisco Wireless
2 6 (5.26%) EIGRP
2 6 (5.26%) LAN
2 6 (5.26%) Network Security
2 6 (5.26%) OSPF
2 6 (5.26%) SNMP
2 6 (5.26%) VLAN
2 6 (5.26%) VPN
2 6 (5.26%) WAAS
2 6 (5.26%) WAN
2 6 (5.26%) Wireless
2 6 (5.26%) Wireless Security
3 4 (3.51%) DHCP
3 4 (3.51%) DNS
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
4 1 (0.88%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) Power BI
1 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.75%) GIS
2 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) Looker
3 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) JIRA
2 3 (2.63%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.63%) LabVIEW
2 3 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
2 3 (2.63%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.75%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.75%) Git
General
1 42 (36.84%) Manufacturing
2 33 (28.95%) Marketing
3 26 (22.81%) Social Skills
4 25 (21.93%) Finance
5 18 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.39%) Legal
9 4 (3.51%) Electronics
9 4 (3.51%) Local Government
9 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Wearables
11 1 (0.88%) Back Office
11 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (28.07%) Development Manager
1 32 (28.07%) Product Development Manager
1 32 (28.07%) Product Manager
2 22 (19.30%) Senior
3 14 (12.28%) Developer
4 12 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 9 (7.89%) Architect
5 9 (7.89%) Software Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) Rust Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) Rust Software Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) C++ Developer
7 7 (6.14%) C++ Software Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Lead
7 7 (6.14%) Rust Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Network Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) .NET
2 4 (3.51%) CSS
2 4 (3.51%) HTML
3 3 (2.63%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.63%) React
3 3 (2.63%) SignalR
3 3 (2.63%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.75%) Ajax
4 2 (1.75%) boto
4 2 (1.75%) Flask
4 2 (1.75%) Framer.js
4 2 (1.75%) Jinja
4 2 (1.75%) jQuery
4 2 (1.75%) Node.js
4 2 (1.75%) OpenLayers
4 2 (1.75%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.88%) Middleware
5 1 (0.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.07%) FMCG
2 6 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.39%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.51%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (3.51%) IoT
4 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.75%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.75%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.88%) Arduino
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.54%) Linux
2 9 (7.89%) Windows
3 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (36.84%) Computer Science
3 39 (34.21%) Project Delivery
4 37 (32.46%) Project Management
5 36 (31.58%) Decision-Making
6 35 (30.70%) Community of Practice
7 32 (28.07%) Chemistry
7 32 (28.07%) Commercialisation
8 23 (20.18%) Software Engineering
9 22 (19.30%) AI
10 20 (17.54%) Mathematics
11 16 (14.04%) Physics
11 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (13.16%) Requirements Management
13 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (11.40%) Workflow
15 11 (9.65%) User Experience
16 10 (8.77%) Root Cause Analysis
16 10 (8.77%) Technical Debt
17 9 (7.89%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.42%) Python
2 17 (14.91%) C++
3 15 (13.16%) Rust
4 8 (7.02%) C#
4 8 (7.02%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.02%) SQL
5 7 (6.14%) Java
6 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.75%) R
7 2 (1.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (5.26%) CCIE
3 6 (5.26%) CCNP
4 5 (4.39%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.51%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.75%) IIBA
7 2 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.88%) CCSP
8 1 (0.88%) CISA
8 1 (0.88%) CISSP
8 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.88%) GSEC
8 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) PMO
2 5 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.39%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) vSphere
2 6 (5.26%) ProxySG
3 5 (4.39%) Docker
4 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.51%) SCCM
3 3 (2.63%) Ansible
3 3 (2.63%) Control-M
3 3 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (2.63%) Grafana
3 3 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.14%) Cisco
2 7 (6.14%) VMware
3 6 (5.26%) Blue Coat
3 6 (5.26%) CheckPoint
3 6 (5.26%) F5
3 6 (5.26%) Infoblox
3 6 (5.26%) Motorola
3 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.26%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.51%) Aruba
4 4 (3.51%) Sage
4 4 (3.51%) Xero
5 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.75%) Adobe
7 1 (0.88%) Databricks
7 1 (0.88%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.88%) Zscaler