Driving Licence Job Trends in the North East

Drivers' Licence
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Driving Licence in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Driving Licence over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 63 59
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +34
Permanent jobs citing Driving Licence 15 3 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.84% 0.54% 3.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.58% 1.31% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 45
10th Percentile - £31,300 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,875 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +10.77% -23.53%
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,375 £33,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £45,900 £65,073
England median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £31,250
% change year-on-year -4.11% +16.80% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
North East

Driving Licence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 419 229 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.41% 41.56% 30.19%
Number of salaries quoted 233 109 453
10th Percentile £29,800 £34,600 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,459
90th Percentile £80,250 £79,600 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Driving Licence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Driving Licence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Driving Licence job vacancy trend in the North East

Driving Licence
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Driving Licence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Driving Licence

Driving Licence
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Driving Licence in the North East over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Driving Licence in the North East

Driving Licence
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 Driving Licence within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 April 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 -28 15 £40,000 +11.11% 11
Driving Licence
England

Driving Licence
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:

Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Broadband
1 1 (6.67%) DSLAM
General
1 11 (73.33%) Advertising
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Support Engineer
1 11 (73.33%) Technical Engineer
1 11 (73.33%) Technical Support
1 11 (73.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Business Development Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Business Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Development Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Cabling Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Business Development
2 12 (80.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 12 (80.00%) Customer Service
3 11 (73.33%) B2B
3 11 (73.33%) B2B Sales
3 11 (73.33%) Customer Experience
3 11 (73.33%) Data Entry
3 11 (73.33%) Mathematics
3 11 (73.33%) Telesales
4 1 (6.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (6.67%) Cost Control
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Retention
4 1 (6.67%) Facilities Management
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) OCR
4 1 (6.67%) People Management
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Project Management
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Register
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) HNC
2 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO 14000
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) BT