Degree Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Academic Degree
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 13 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 +22
Permanent jobs citing Degree 133 162 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 23.92% 10.92% 25.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 74.30% 59.78% 74.51%
Number of salaries quoted 54 135 78
10th Percentile £28,850 £26,750 £33,800
25th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £49,779
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -4.58% +4.52%
75th Percentile £69,688 £53,750 £60,800
90th Percentile £84,250 £69,950 £70,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,672
% change year-on-year +15.79% -0.36% +19.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 179 271 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 32.19% 18.26% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 96 231 129
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £34,100
25th Percentile £39,763 £31,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -13.27% +3.16%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £60,899
90th Percentile £82,500 £69,914 £70,600
North East median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +29.41% -10.53% +18.75%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Tyne and Wear

Degree
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Degree in Tyne and Wear

Degree
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in Tyne and Wear

Degree
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +15 99 £57,000 +34.12% 104
Sunderland +11 25 £35,000 -30.00% 7
Gateshead +4 4 £52,500 -50.00% 6
South Shields -3 3 - -
Jarrow - 1 £39,100 -
Degree
North East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (2.26%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.50%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Chatbot
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.50%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.75%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Pegasus Opera
2 2 (1.50%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.31%) Azure
2 13 (9.77%) Entra ID
3 6 (4.51%) AWS
4 4 (3.01%) GitHub
4 4 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.50%) GCP
5 2 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.75%) Serverless
6 1 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) SAN
2 2 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (1.50%) VoIP
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.01%) MySQL
4 4 (3.01%) Power BI
4 4 (3.01%) Tableau
5 3 (2.26%) Dremio
6 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.75%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (2.26%) JIRA
1 3 (2.26%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.75%) Git
General
1 38 (28.57%) Finance
2 37 (27.82%) Social Skills
3 32 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.53%) Manufacturing
5 16 (12.03%) Retail
6 14 (10.53%) Advertising
7 13 (9.77%) Marketing
8 4 (3.01%) Dutch Language
8 4 (3.01%) Finnish Language
8 4 (3.01%) Norwegian Language
9 3 (2.26%) Electronics
9 3 (2.26%) Local Government
9 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.50%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.50%) Back Office
10 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.50%) Military
11 1 (0.75%) Front Office
11 1 (0.75%) Games
11 1 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (31.58%) Trainer
2 13 (9.77%) Identity Management Specialist
2 13 (9.77%) Technology Specialist
3 12 (9.02%) Developer
4 11 (8.27%) Analyst
4 11 (8.27%) Development Manager
4 11 (8.27%) Product Development Manager
4 11 (8.27%) Product Manager
5 6 (4.51%) Data Analyst
5 6 (4.51%) Graduate
5 6 (4.51%) Senior
5 6 (4.51%) Software Engineer
6 5 (3.76%) C# Developer
6 5 (3.76%) DBA
6 5 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (3.01%) Graduate Developer
7 4 (3.01%) IT Graduate
7 4 (3.01%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (3.01%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.77%) .NET
2 5 (3.76%) Node.js
2 5 (3.76%) React
3 4 (3.01%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.01%) ASP.NET
3 4 (3.01%) CSS
3 4 (3.01%) jQuery
3 4 (3.01%) WebSockets
4 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.50%) Flash
5 2 (1.50%) SignalR
6 1 (0.75%) HTML
6 1 (0.75%) JSON
6 1 (0.75%) RESTful
6 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) NHS
1 15 (11.28%) Robotics
2 11 (8.27%) FMCG
3 8 (6.02%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.26%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.01%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (3.01%) SCADA
6 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.26%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.26%) Equities
7 2 (1.50%) ASTM
7 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.75%) AIX
4 1 (0.75%) Solaris
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.86%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (33.08%) Artificial Intelligence
3 37 (27.82%) Computer Science
4 27 (20.30%) Conversational UI
5 19 (14.29%) Project Management
6 17 (12.78%) Machine Learning
7 16 (12.03%) Chemistry
7 16 (12.03%) ITIL
8 15 (11.28%) Generative AI
8 15 (11.28%) LLM
8 15 (11.28%) Red Team
9 14 (10.53%) Mathematics
10 13 (9.77%) Identity Management
11 12 (9.02%) Data Privacy
11 12 (9.02%) Software Engineering
12 11 (8.27%) Commercialisation
12 11 (8.27%) Competitor Analysis
12 11 (8.27%) Product Strategy
13 10 (7.52%) High Availability
14 9 (6.77%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.79%) SQL
2 20 (15.04%) C#
3 15 (11.28%) Python
4 12 (9.02%) Java
5 10 (7.52%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.51%) C++
8 5 (3.76%) PHP
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) Dart
9 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.75%) R
9 1 (0.75%) Ruby
9 1 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (22.56%) Master's Degree
2 26 (19.55%) PhD
3 17 (12.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (9.77%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.50%) CISSP
5 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) CEH
6 1 (0.75%) CISA
6 1 (0.75%) CISM
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.75%) RIBA
6 1 (0.75%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.03%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.76%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.01%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.26%) NEBOSH
6 2 (1.50%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.75%) GDPR
7 1 (0.75%) NIST
7 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.26%) Docker
3 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.26%) Terraform
2 3 (2.26%) Ansible
2 3 (2.26%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (2.26%) Grafana
3 1 (0.75%) Control-M
Vendors
1 29 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.30%) PayPal
3 19 (14.29%) Databricks
4 17 (12.78%) Adobe
5 16 (12.03%) Google
6 5 (3.76%) Nimble Storage
6 5 (3.76%) Pegasus
7 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.50%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.50%) Cisco
7 2 (1.50%) Facebook
7 2 (1.50%) Reuters
7 2 (1.50%) VMware
7 2 (1.50%) YouTube
8 1 (0.75%) Capita
8 1 (0.75%) Epicor
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle