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 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Degree 149 96 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 15.88% 12.55% 15.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.08% 52.46% 62.06%
Number of salaries quoted 50 80 90
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,525 £33,725
25th Percentile £42,031 £36,274 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £50,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% +20.48% +3.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £60,625 £52,188
90th Percentile £95,125 £73,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,456
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.28% +2.65%

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 248 183 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 26.44% 23.92% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 102 148 137
10th Percentile £30,300 £28,925 £30,900
25th Percentile £38,313 £35,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,430 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £79,900 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.60%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -4 84 £56,500 +13.00% 51
Durham +6 62 £36,500 -33.64% 12
Northumberland -15 2 £50,500 +90.57% 1
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 6 (4.03%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.01%) nginx
2 3 (2.01%) SAS
3 2 (1.34%) Apache
3 2 (1.34%) IIS
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (15.44%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (14.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Markit EDM
2 2 (1.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.34%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.12%) Azure
2 17 (11.41%) AWS
3 7 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.36%) Slack
5 4 (2.68%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.34%) GCP
6 2 (1.34%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.34%) SaaS
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.67%) GitHub
7 1 (0.67%) IaaS
7 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) SAN
1 4 (2.68%) SSL
2 1 (0.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) LAN
2 1 (0.67%) MPLS
2 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.67%) WAN
2 1 (0.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.70%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.03%) Dremio
3 6 (4.03%) Tableau
4 4 (2.68%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.01%) MySQL
6 2 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.67%) Power BI
7 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.34%) Postman
3 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 83 (55.70%) Finance
2 81 (54.36%) Social Skills
3 53 (35.57%) Marketing
4 52 (34.90%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.70%) Advertising
6 6 (4.03%) Back Office
6 6 (4.03%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.36%) Banking
7 5 (3.36%) Legal
8 2 (1.34%) Front Office
8 2 (1.34%) Military
8 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Electronics
9 1 (0.67%) Games
9 1 (0.67%) Local Government
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (31.54%) Development Manager
2 44 (29.53%) Product Development Manager
2 44 (29.53%) Product Manager
3 26 (17.45%) Graduate
4 15 (10.07%) Analyst
5 12 (8.05%) Developer
6 8 (5.37%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.70%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.70%) IT Support
7 7 (4.70%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Consultant
8 6 (4.03%) Junior
8 6 (4.03%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.36%) Administrator
9 5 (3.36%) C# Software Engineer
9 5 (3.36%) DBA
9 5 (3.36%) Senior
9 5 (3.36%) SQL DBA
10 4 (2.68%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (2.68%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.40%) .NET
2 5 (3.36%) Web Services
3 4 (2.68%) React
4 2 (1.34%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.34%) XML
4 2 (1.34%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.67%) Classic ASP
5 1 (0.67%) CSS
5 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.67%) HTML
5 1 (0.67%) jQuery
5 1 (0.67%) LAMP
5 1 (0.67%) REST
5 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.53%) FMCG
2 7 (4.70%) Hedge funds
3 6 (4.03%) Equities
3 6 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.36%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.01%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.01%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.34%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Derivative
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.05%) Windows
2 11 (7.38%) Linux
3 10 (6.71%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.01%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.34%) Debian
7 1 (0.67%) AIX
7 1 (0.67%) Solaris
7 1 (0.67%) Unix
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (51.01%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (35.57%) Project Management
3 44 (29.53%) Commercialisation
3 44 (29.53%) Competitor Analysis
3 44 (29.53%) Product Strategy
4 35 (23.49%) Computer Science
5 23 (15.44%) Data Analysis
6 20 (13.42%) Customer Service
7 17 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (10.07%) Contingency Planning
8 15 (10.07%) Creative Thinking
8 15 (10.07%) Customer Experience
8 15 (10.07%) Logistics
8 15 (10.07%) Performance Metrics
8 15 (10.07%) Process Improvement
9 12 (8.05%) Software Engineering
10 8 (5.37%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (4.70%) Agile
11 7 (4.70%) Change Management
11 7 (4.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (26.85%) SQL
2 25 (16.78%) Python
3 17 (11.41%) C#
4 16 (10.74%) Java
5 8 (5.37%) C++
6 7 (4.70%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.36%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.01%) Bash
8 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.34%) Ruby
10 1 (0.67%) PHP
10 1 (0.67%) VB
10 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (14.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.68%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.34%) ACCA
3 2 (1.34%) CIMA
4 1 (0.67%) CCIE
4 1 (0.67%) CCNA
4 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.67%) CISSP
4 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (32.21%) QA
2 8 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.70%) NEBOSH
4 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.67%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (3.36%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.36%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.03%) Ansible
2 3 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) Databricks
3 5 (3.36%) Bloomberg
3 5 (3.36%) Reuters
4 3 (2.01%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (1.34%) Cognos
5 2 (1.34%) IBM
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle
5 2 (1.34%) Sage
6 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.67%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) SAP
6 1 (0.67%) VMware