North East
Key cities
Sunderland and Newcastle
Key sectors
- Professional services
- Shared services centres
- Outsources service provision
Key facts
- Around 45,000 of the regional workforce are employed in the financial and associated professional services sector.
- The North East is home to the headquarters of SAGE, the world's pre-eminent provider of accounting software.
Contribution of financial and professional services
Here you can download statistics on financial and professional services employment, gross value added, and number of enterprises in the North East for 2010.















