Degree Jobs in the North East

Academic Degree
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 6 5 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +7
Permanent jobs citing Degree 70 212 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.57% 19.63% 10.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 53.03% 67.73% 48.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60 103 95
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £30,455 £35,234 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -3.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £50,750 £49,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £56,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 132 313 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 25.58% 28.98% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 114 161 216
10th Percentile £29,150 £30,000 £24,250
25th Percentile £36,375 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,948 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.24% +1.05% -1.16%
75th Percentile £67,188 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,625 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,955 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.76% +1.74% -

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 1 December 2023.

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 December 2023. 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 +1 43 £51,278 +16.61% 79
Northumberland +7 12 £28,320 -43.36% 4
Durham -11 10 £60,000 +50.00% 33
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 (2.86%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.29%) Chatbot
3 3 (4.29%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (8.57%) AWS
2 6 (8.57%) Azure
3 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.86%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) Wireless
2 6 (8.57%) Firewall
3 5 (7.14%) LAN
3 5 (7.14%) WAN
4 4 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (5.71%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (5.71%) DHCP
4 4 (5.71%) DNS
4 4 (5.71%) MPLS
4 4 (5.71%) Network Security
4 4 (5.71%) VPN
4 4 (5.71%) WLAN
5 3 (4.29%) Internet
5 3 (4.29%) OSPF
5 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.86%) Junos
6 2 (2.86%) RSVP
7 1 (1.43%) BGP
7 1 (1.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.29%) Power BI
2 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.86%) Data Hub
3 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.86%) Metadata
3 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Gradle
2 2 (2.86%) Maven
3 1 (1.43%) Git
General
1 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Finance
4 6 (8.57%) Electronics
5 3 (4.29%) Police
6 2 (2.86%) Back Office
6 2 (2.86%) Games
6 2 (2.86%) Law
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Senior
2 10 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 7 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Graduate
4 6 (8.57%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Senior Manager
4 6 (8.57%) Senior Project Manager
5 5 (7.14%) Tester
6 4 (5.71%) Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (4.29%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.29%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (4.29%) Lead
7 3 (4.29%) Manual Tester
7 3 (4.29%) Network Manager
7 3 (4.29%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) .NET
1 2 (2.86%) SOAP
1 2 (2.86%) Spring
2 1 (1.43%) HTML
2 1 (1.43%) Web Services
2 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.43%) Management Information System
3 7 (10.00%) CMDB
3 7 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
3 7 (10.00%) NHS
4 6 (8.57%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.71%) Driving Licence
6 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (4.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.14%) Computer Science
2 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (21.43%) DevOps
4 12 (17.14%) Agile
4 12 (17.14%) Project Management
5 11 (15.71%) PRINCE2
5 11 (15.71%) Scrum
6 10 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 10 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 8 (11.43%) Coaching
8 7 (10.00%) ERP
8 7 (10.00%) Migration
8 7 (10.00%) Workflow
9 6 (8.57%) Data Modelling
9 6 (8.57%) SDLC
10 5 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (7.14%) Regression Testing
10 5 (7.14%) Software Engineering
10 5 (7.14%) Unit Testing
10 5 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.57%) Java
2 5 (7.14%) SQL
3 4 (5.71%) Python
4 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.86%) C
5 2 (2.86%) C++
5 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.43%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
3 8 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (10.00%) CCNP
5 5 (7.14%) CCNA
6 4 (5.71%) PMI Certification
6 4 (5.71%) PMP
6 4 (5.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (4.29%) HND
7 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.86%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.86%) JNCIE
8 2 (2.86%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.86%) JNCIS
8 2 (2.86%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.43%) CISM
9 1 (1.43%) CISSP
9 1 (1.43%) HNC
9 1 (1.43%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.29%) PMO
2 2 (2.86%) COBIT
2 2 (2.86%) GRC
2 2 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) NCSC
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.86%) Docker
4 1 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) Ansible
2 1 (1.43%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.43%) Nessus
2 1 (1.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Cisco
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 7 (10.00%) F5
3 7 (10.00%) HP
3 7 (10.00%) Riverbed
4 6 (8.57%) NEC
4 6 (8.57%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.71%) Aruba
5 4 (5.71%) Oracle
5 4 (5.71%) VMware
6 3 (4.29%) Citrix
6 3 (4.29%) PayPal
7 2 (2.86%) Juniper
7 2 (2.86%) Planview
8 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.43%) Meraki
8 1 (1.43%) SAP
8 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds