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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +19
Permanent jobs citing Degree 138 161 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 27.60% 11.87% 24.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 73.80% 58.76% 75.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59 138 75
10th Percentile £30,050 £27,125 £36,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -4.50% +4.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,750 £60,800
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,250 £67,500
North East median annual salary £53,750 £48,367 £47,586
% change year-on-year +11.13% +1.64% +18.97%

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 187 274 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 37.40% 20.21% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 104 239 127
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,700 £35,600
25th Percentile £40,500 £31,250 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -13.27% +3.16%
75th Percentile £68,250 £53,750 £60,800
90th Percentile £84,550 £70,581 £70,600
North East median annual salary £56,500 £43,072 £47,500
% change year-on-year +31.18% -9.32% +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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +14 104 £56,500 +27.76% 137
Sunderland +11 25 £36,000 -28.00% 20
Gateshead +6 4 £52,500 -35.58% 4
South Shields -1 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 5 (3.62%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.45%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.72%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (17.39%) Chatbot
2 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Pegasus Opera
2 4 (2.90%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.36%) Azure
2 13 (9.42%) Entra ID
3 7 (5.07%) AWS
4 5 (3.62%) GitHub
5 4 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.45%) GCP
7 2 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.45%) SaaS
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.72%) IaaS
8 1 (0.72%) Serverless
8 1 (0.72%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.72%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) SAN
2 2 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (1.45%) VoIP
3 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.52%) Data Lake
3 8 (5.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.35%) Tableau
5 5 (3.62%) Dremio
6 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.90%) MySQL
7 2 (1.45%) Power BI
7 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.72%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (1.45%) JIRA
1 2 (1.45%) Postman
1 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.72%) Git
2 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (31.16%) Finance
2 38 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.32%) Manufacturing
4 17 (12.32%) Marketing
5 16 (11.59%) Retail
6 14 (10.14%) Advertising
7 5 (3.62%) Back Office
8 4 (2.90%) Dutch Language
8 4 (2.90%) Finnish Language
8 4 (2.90%) Norwegian Language
9 3 (2.17%) Electronics
9 3 (2.17%) Local Government
9 3 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.45%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.45%) Front Office
10 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.45%) Military
11 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (28.26%) Trainer
2 15 (10.87%) Analyst
3 13 (9.42%) Developer
3 13 (9.42%) Identity Management Specialist
3 13 (9.42%) Technology Specialist
4 12 (8.70%) Development Manager
5 11 (7.97%) Product Development Manager
5 11 (7.97%) Product Manager
6 8 (5.80%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.07%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.35%) Graduate
9 5 (3.62%) C# Developer
9 5 (3.62%) DBA
9 5 (3.62%) Senior
10 4 (2.90%) Graduate Developer
10 4 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.90%) IT Graduate
10 4 (2.90%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (2.90%) SQL DBA
10 4 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.59%) .NET
2 7 (5.07%) React
3 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.62%) Node.js
4 4 (2.90%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.90%) CSS
4 4 (2.90%) jQuery
4 4 (2.90%) WebSockets
5 3 (2.17%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.45%) SignalR
6 2 (1.45%) Web Services
7 1 (0.72%) Flash
7 1 (0.72%) HTML
7 1 (0.72%) JSON
7 1 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.87%) NHS
1 15 (10.87%) Robotics
2 11 (7.97%) FMCG
2 11 (7.97%) Hedge funds
3 6 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 6 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.35%) Equities
4 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.90%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.90%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.17%) SCADA
6 2 (1.45%) ASTM
6 2 (1.45%) Derivative
6 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.35%) Linux
2 3 (2.17%) Windows
3 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.72%) AIX
4 1 (0.72%) Solaris
4 1 (0.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (46.38%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (31.16%) Computer Science
3 41 (29.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 24 (17.39%) Conversational UI
5 19 (13.77%) Project Management
6 17 (12.32%) Machine Learning
6 17 (12.32%) Software Engineering
7 16 (11.59%) ITIL
8 15 (10.87%) Generative AI
8 15 (10.87%) LLM
8 15 (10.87%) Red Team
9 13 (9.42%) Chemistry
9 13 (9.42%) Identity Management
9 13 (9.42%) Mathematics
10 12 (8.70%) Data Privacy
10 12 (8.70%) OOP
11 11 (7.97%) Commercialisation
11 11 (7.97%) Competitor Analysis
11 11 (7.97%) Product Strategy
11 11 (7.97%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.57%) SQL
2 22 (15.94%) C#
3 20 (14.49%) Python
4 15 (10.87%) Java
5 11 (7.97%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.07%) C++
6 7 (5.07%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.62%) PHP
8 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.72%) C
9 1 (0.72%) Dart
9 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.72%) R
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (18.84%) Master's Degree
2 23 (16.67%) PhD
3 20 (14.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (9.42%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.45%) CISSP
5 2 (1.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.45%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) CEH
6 1 (0.72%) CISA
6 1 (0.72%) CISM
6 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.72%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.32%) QA
2 7 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.62%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.90%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.17%) Def Stans
6 3 (2.17%) NEBOSH
7 2 (1.45%) NIST
7 2 (1.45%) SLA
8 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.35%) Terraform
2 2 (1.45%) Ansible
2 2 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (1.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (22.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.39%) PayPal
3 21 (15.22%) Databricks
4 17 (12.32%) Adobe
5 15 (10.87%) Google
6 5 (3.62%) Nimble Storage
6 5 (3.62%) Pegasus
7 4 (2.90%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.90%) Reuters
8 2 (1.45%) Cisco
8 2 (1.45%) Facebook
8 2 (1.45%) YouTube
9 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.72%) Capita
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle
9 1 (0.72%) SAP
9 1 (0.72%) VMware