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 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Degree 206 139 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 20.12% 12.23% 13.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.88% 56.05% 53.08%
Number of salaries quoted 47 52 59
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,100 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £30,410
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £60,750 £81,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.79% -4.07% +9.09%

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 344 248 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 33.59% 21.81% 25.59%
Number of salaries quoted 154 114 112
10th Percentile - £28,375 £29,050
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,688 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,404 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.71% -3.99% +22.24%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,998 £66,563
90th Percentile £73,596 £95,000 £79,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% +2.68%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +15 148 £33,500 -33.00% 104
Durham 0 57 £50,000 +36.99% 35
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 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
Applications
1 85 (41.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.46%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.11%) Azure
2 13 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (4.37%) AWS
4 5 (2.43%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (1.94%) GCP
6 3 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.97%) GitHub
7 2 (0.97%) SaaS
8 1 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.49%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.88%) DNS
1 8 (3.88%) TCP/IP
1 8 (3.88%) VPN
1 8 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (2.91%) Asterisk PBX
2 6 (2.91%) Firewall
2 6 (2.91%) PSTN
2 6 (2.91%) VoIP
3 4 (1.94%) SAN
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) VLAN
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (2.43%) Power BI
3 4 (1.94%) Metadata
4 3 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.46%) GIS
4 3 (1.46%) MySQL
4 3 (1.46%) QGIS
4 3 (1.46%) Spatial Data
5 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.49%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.49%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.85%) Bitbucket
1 10 (4.85%) JIRA
2 7 (3.40%) Git
3 3 (1.46%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.46%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.46%) TeamCity
General
1 87 (42.23%) Finance
2 63 (30.58%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (27.67%) Marketing
4 49 (23.79%) Manufacturing
5 35 (16.99%) Social Skills
6 10 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.37%) Advertising
8 7 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.94%) Legal
9 4 (1.94%) Retail
10 2 (0.97%) Agriculture
10 2 (0.97%) Back Office
10 2 (0.97%) Billing
10 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Electronics
11 1 (0.49%) Front Office
11 1 (0.49%) Games
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 84 (40.78%) Trainer
2 49 (23.79%) Development Manager
2 49 (23.79%) Product Development Manager
2 49 (23.79%) Product Manager
3 24 (11.65%) Analyst
4 14 (6.80%) Support Specialist
5 13 (6.31%) Trainee
6 11 (5.34%) Business Analyst
7 10 (4.85%) Coordinator
7 10 (4.85%) Trainee Analyst
7 10 (4.85%) Trainee Business Analyst
8 8 (3.88%) Customer Support Specialist
9 7 (3.40%) Applications Support
9 7 (3.40%) Applications Support Analyst
9 7 (3.40%) Content Editor
9 7 (3.40%) Support Analyst
10 5 (2.43%) Developer
10 5 (2.43%) Research Scientist
11 4 (1.94%) Design Engineer
11 4 (1.94%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.91%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.94%) .NET
2 4 (1.94%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.46%) CSS
3 3 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.46%) Flash
3 3 (1.46%) jQuery
4 2 (0.97%) XML
5 1 (0.49%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.79%) FMCG
2 8 (3.88%) LIMS
3 6 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.43%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.43%) NHS
5 4 (1.94%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.46%) Molecular Biology
6 3 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.46%) SCADA
7 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.49%) Derivative
8 1 (0.49%) Equities
8 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.49%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.49%) Social Media
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.74%) Linux
1 18 (8.74%) Windows
2 8 (3.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (42.23%) Chemistry
2 85 (41.26%) AI
2 85 (41.26%) Conversational UI
3 65 (31.55%) Project Management
4 61 (29.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (25.73%) Project Delivery
6 52 (25.24%) Decision-Making
7 49 (23.79%) Commercialisation
7 49 (23.79%) Community of Practice
8 42 (20.39%) Computer Science
9 41 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (10.68%) Change Management
11 17 (8.25%) Mathematics
12 16 (7.77%) Agile
12 16 (7.77%) ITIL
13 12 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (5.83%) Physics
14 10 (4.85%) Business Analysis
14 10 (4.85%) Content Writing
14 10 (4.85%) Experimental Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.17%) SQL
2 16 (7.77%) Python
3 9 (4.37%) C#
4 8 (3.88%) Java
5 6 (2.91%) Bash
6 4 (1.94%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.46%) C++
7 3 (1.46%) PHP
8 2 (0.97%) C
8 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 68 (33.01%) Master's Degree
2 62 (30.10%) PhD
3 18 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.37%) HNC
4 9 (4.37%) HND
5 7 (3.40%) CCNP
5 7 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.91%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (2.43%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.43%) PMP
8 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.46%) CISSP
9 3 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.97%) CISM
10 2 (0.97%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.88%) QA
2 5 (2.43%) PMO
3 4 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.97%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.46%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) vSphere
3 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (4.85%) Control-M
1 10 (4.85%) Grafana
1 10 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.40%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.46%) Ansible
3 3 (1.46%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 85 (41.26%) PayPal
2 25 (12.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.40%) Cisco
4 4 (1.94%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.46%) DIgSILENT
5 3 (1.46%) ESRI
5 3 (1.46%) VMware
6 2 (0.97%) Databricks
6 2 (0.97%) Google
7 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.49%) Meraki
7 1 (0.49%) Mitel
7 1 (0.49%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle
7 1 (0.49%) SAP
7 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow