Developer Contracts in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer daily rate in the North of England is £453 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 700 832 1,113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 14.92% 14.58% 15.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.01% 15.29% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 664 916
10th Percentile £300 £363 £356
25th Percentile £375 £418 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £503 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +5.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £560
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £78.05 £39.85 £26.03
25th Percentile £78.88 £45.88 £30.75
Median hourly rate £81.50 £62.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.40% +35.87% +64.40%
75th Percentile £82.88 £70.00 £55.88
90th Percentile £82.95 £71.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% +6.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +4 376 £453 -7.18% 299
Yorkshire +4 283 £475 -9.52% 143
North East +3 54 £488 -2.50% 46
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 155 (22.14%) SQL
2 141 (20.14%) JavaScript
3 134 (19.14%) Degree
4 126 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 125 (17.86%) Code Quality
6 122 (17.43%) C#
7 121 (17.29%) PayPal
7 121 (17.29%) Conversational UI
7 121 (17.29%) Chatbot
8 116 (16.57%) AWS
8 116 (16.57%) Java
9 115 (16.43%) Python
10 108 (15.43%) Agile
11 100 (14.29%) HTML
12 93 (13.29%) Security Cleared
13 91 (13.00%) Software Engineering
14 82 (11.71%) .NET
15 73 (10.43%) SC Cleared
15 73 (10.43%) React
15 73 (10.43%) Public Sector
16 70 (10.00%) Social Skills
16 70 (10.00%) Azure
17 62 (8.86%) DevOps
18 58 (8.29%) CI/CD
19 55 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
19 55 (7.86%) Microservices
20 51 (7.29%) Unit Testing
20 51 (7.29%) Node.js
21 50 (7.14%) Front End Development
21 50 (7.14%) Full Stack Development

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (2.14%) CMS
2 13 (1.86%) Umbraco
3 11 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.29%) Drupal
5 7 (1.00%) Apache
6 4 (0.57%) Mule
7 3 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.43%) IIS
8 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.14%) Camunda
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Confluence
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) Kentico
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (17.29%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.43%) Maximo
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 116 (16.57%) AWS
2 70 (10.00%) Azure
3 38 (5.43%) Power Platform
4 24 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (3.00%) GitHub
6 21 (3.00%) Serverless
7 13 (1.86%) Power Automate
7 13 (1.86%) SaaS
8 9 (1.29%) Amazon S3
8 9 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (1.29%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.00%) Azure Functions
10 6 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.57%) Contentstack
12 4 (0.57%) npm
12 4 (0.57%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) SSL
2 2 (0.29%) HTTP
2 2 (0.29%) Intranet
2 2 (0.29%) MQTT
2 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.57%) Power BI
2 31 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.14%) MongoDB
3 29 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.71%) Relational Database
5 16 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.71%) MySQL
8 10 (1.43%) Redis
9 8 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.86%) Flink
10 6 (0.86%) GIS
10 6 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.86%) Tableau
11 5 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (0.57%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.57%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 38 (5.43%) Git
2 17 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.29%) JUnit
4 15 (2.14%) Mockito
5 14 (2.00%) Android Studio
6 12 (1.71%) GitLab
6 12 (1.71%) JIRA
7 7 (1.00%) Mocha
8 6 (0.86%) Xcode
8 6 (0.86%) XCUITest
9 5 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.57%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.57%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.57%) Log4j
10 4 (0.57%) Maven
10 4 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.57%) Selenium
10 4 (0.57%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 73 (10.43%) Public Sector
2 70 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (4.57%) Finance
4 20 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.00%) Banking
5 14 (2.00%) Retail
6 7 (1.00%) Law
7 5 (0.71%) Legal
7 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (0.57%) Marketing
9 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.43%) Local Government
10 2 (0.29%) Advertising
10 2 (0.29%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.14%) Automotive
11 1 (0.14%) Billing
11 1 (0.14%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (14.29%) HTML
2 82 (11.71%) .NET
3 73 (10.43%) React
4 51 (7.29%) Node.js
5 49 (7.00%) RESTful
6 45 (6.43%) Spring
7 42 (6.00%) REST
8 41 (5.86%) Spring Boot
9 39 (5.57%) CSS
10 38 (5.43%) Web Services
11 35 (5.00%) AngularJS
12 28 (4.00%) .NET Framework
13 25 (3.57%) Hibernate
14 20 (2.86%) JPA
15 19 (2.71%) Vue
16 18 (2.57%) .NET Core
17 14 (2.00%) Kafka
17 14 (2.00%) Redux
18 12 (1.71%) XML
19 11 (1.57%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 16 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (2.14%) Algorithms
4 9 (1.29%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.14%) CMDB
5 8 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.57%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.57%) NHS
9 4 (0.57%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.57%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.43%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.29%) Derivative
11 2 (0.29%) Freedom of Information
11 2 (0.29%) IoT
11 2 (0.29%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.29%) Android
2 27 (3.86%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.86%) Unix
4 5 (0.71%) Linux
5 2 (0.29%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 125 (17.86%) Code Quality
3 121 (17.29%) Conversational UI
4 108 (15.43%) Agile
5 91 (13.00%) Software Engineering
6 62 (8.86%) DevOps
7 58 (8.29%) CI/CD
8 55 (7.86%) Microservices
8 55 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (7.29%) Unit Testing
10 50 (7.14%) Front End Development
10 50 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
11 46 (6.57%) Scrum
12 41 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (5.71%) Data Modelling
14 38 (5.43%) Android Development
14 38 (5.43%) ITIL
15 34 (4.86%) TDD
16 31 (4.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 30 (4.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 155 (22.14%) SQL
2 141 (20.14%) JavaScript
3 122 (17.43%) C#
4 116 (16.57%) Java
5 115 (16.43%) Python
6 49 (7.00%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.86%) Kotlin
8 21 (3.00%) PHP
9 20 (2.86%) Swift
10 12 (1.71%) ABAP
10 12 (1.71%) Go
11 9 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.29%) Scala
12 8 (1.14%) Ruby
13 6 (0.86%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.86%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 134 (19.14%) Degree
2 93 (13.29%) Security Cleared
3 73 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.14%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.86%) QA
2 10 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.57%) GDPR
4 4 (0.57%) HL7
5 3 (0.43%) SLA
5 3 (0.43%) WCAG
6 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 34 (4.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Firmware
2 1 (0.14%) IAG
Systems Management
1 39 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.57%) Terraform
3 6 (0.86%) Ansible
4 4 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.29%) Grafana
5 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.14%) Control-M
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 121 (17.29%) PayPal
2 47 (6.71%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.14%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.71%) SAP
5 18 (2.57%) Oracle
6 13 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.14%) Google
7 8 (1.14%) RedPrairie
8 4 (0.57%) IBM
8 4 (0.57%) Nokia
8 4 (0.57%) Siemens
8 4 (0.57%) Splunk
9 3 (0.43%) ESRI
9 3 (0.43%) Nintex
9 3 (0.43%) Pega
9 3 (0.43%) Talend
10 2 (0.29%) Sage
10 2 (0.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.29%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.29%) Virgin Media