Developer Contracts in the North West

Developer
England > North West

The median Developer daily rate in the North West is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 391 436 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 14.15% 13.57% 17.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.00% 14.33% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 340 557
10th Percentile £310 £338 £325
25th Percentile £388 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £569
90th Percentile £625 £638 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £78.05 £38.95 £25.80
25th Percentile £78.88 £39.63 £26.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £42.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.76% +23.19% +15.00%
75th Percentile £82.88 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.95 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +7.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,043 3,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.71% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,182 2,880
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 135 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the North West

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester +4 283 £475 - 201
Merseyside +21 43 £450 -1.64% 31
Cheshire -11 37 £320 -41.82% 82
Lancashire -4 18 £715 +40.20% 35
Cumbria -22 4 £473 +11.24% 4
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 82 (20.97%) AWS
2 80 (20.46%) SQL
3 73 (18.67%) Java
4 67 (17.14%) C#
5 66 (16.88%) JavaScript
6 62 (15.86%) Agile
7 59 (15.09%) React
8 53 (13.55%) Python
8 53 (13.55%) Degree
8 53 (13.55%) Code Quality
9 52 (13.30%) Artificial Intelligence
10 50 (12.79%) HTML
10 50 (12.79%) .NET
11 49 (12.53%) PayPal
11 49 (12.53%) Chatbot
11 49 (12.53%) Conversational UI
12 45 (11.51%) RESTful
13 41 (10.49%) Security Cleared
14 40 (10.23%) Public Sector
14 40 (10.23%) CI/CD
15 39 (9.97%) Microservices
15 39 (9.97%) Software Engineering
16 38 (9.72%) Unit Testing
17 37 (9.46%) Azure
18 36 (9.21%) Node.js
18 36 (9.21%) Social Skills
19 35 (8.95%) Front End Development
20 34 (8.70%) REST
21 33 (8.44%) DevOps
22 30 (7.67%) TypeScript

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (2.05%) CMS
2 6 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.53%) Umbraco
3 4 (1.02%) Mule
4 3 (0.77%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.77%) IIS
5 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (12.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.02%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.77%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.26%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 82 (20.97%) AWS
2 37 (9.46%) Azure
3 25 (6.39%) Power Platform
4 19 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.81%) Power Automate
7 10 (2.56%) SaaS
8 9 (2.30%) GitHub
8 9 (2.30%) Serverless
9 6 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.53%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.02%) npm
11 4 (1.02%) OCI
11 4 (1.02%) Yarn
12 3 (0.77%) Contentstack
12 3 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) Intranet
1 2 (0.51%) MQTT
1 2 (0.51%) SSL
1 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.12%) Power BI
2 18 (4.60%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.58%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.07%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.28%) MySQL
8 5 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (1.28%) Redis
9 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.02%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.02%) Tableau
10 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (0.77%) SQLite
11 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 24 (6.14%) Git
2 14 (3.58%) Android Studio
3 13 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.07%) Mockito
5 11 (2.81%) GitLab
6 9 (2.30%) JUnit
7 7 (1.79%) Mocha
8 5 (1.28%) Xcode
8 5 (1.28%) XCUITest
9 4 (1.02%) Jasmine
9 4 (1.02%) JIRA
9 4 (1.02%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (1.02%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.02%) Log4j
9 4 (1.02%) Maven
9 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.02%) webpack
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (10.23%) Public Sector
2 36 (9.21%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.86%) Finance
4 11 (2.81%) Banking
5 10 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.53%) Law
7 5 (1.28%) Legal
8 4 (1.02%) Marketing
8 4 (1.02%) Retail
9 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.77%) Local Government
10 1 (0.26%) Advertising
10 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.26%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.09%) React
2 50 (12.79%) .NET
2 50 (12.79%) HTML
3 45 (11.51%) RESTful
4 36 (9.21%) Node.js
5 34 (8.70%) REST
6 26 (6.65%) CSS
7 25 (6.39%) Spring
8 21 (5.37%) Spring Boot
9 20 (5.12%) .NET Framework
10 18 (4.60%) Hibernate
10 18 (4.60%) Web Services
11 15 (3.84%) Vue
12 14 (3.58%) AngularJS
12 14 (3.58%) JPA
13 12 (3.07%) .NET Core
14 11 (2.81%) Django
14 11 (2.81%) Kafka
14 11 (2.81%) Redux
15 10 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.37%) Mobile App
2 16 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.53%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.02%) NHS
6 4 (1.02%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.77%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.77%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.77%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.77%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.51%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.51%) Derivative
8 2 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.26%) CMDB
9 1 (0.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.26%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.42%) Android
2 14 (3.58%) Unix
3 9 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.28%) Windows
5 3 (0.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (15.86%) Agile
2 53 (13.55%) Code Quality
3 52 (13.30%) Artificial Intelligence
4 49 (12.53%) Conversational UI
5 40 (10.23%) CI/CD
6 39 (9.97%) Microservices
6 39 (9.97%) Software Engineering
7 38 (9.72%) Unit Testing
8 35 (8.95%) Front End Development
9 33 (8.44%) DevOps
10 30 (7.67%) Scrum
11 28 (7.16%) Android Development
11 28 (7.16%) Full Stack Development
12 24 (6.14%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (5.88%) Design Patterns
14 22 (5.63%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (5.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (4.60%) API Development
16 18 (4.60%) ITIL
17 17 (4.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 80 (20.46%) SQL
2 73 (18.67%) Java
3 67 (17.14%) C#
4 66 (16.88%) JavaScript
5 53 (13.55%) Python
6 30 (7.67%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.88%) Kotlin
8 14 (3.58%) PHP
9 12 (3.07%) Go
10 7 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.79%) Ruby
10 7 (1.79%) Swift
11 4 (1.02%) ABAP
11 4 (1.02%) C++
11 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (13.55%) Degree
2 41 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.09%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.05%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.51%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.81%) QA
2 4 (1.02%) GDPR
2 4 (1.02%) HL7
3 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (2.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Firmware
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (5.12%) Terraform
2 17 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.05%) Ansible
4 5 (1.28%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.26%) Control-M
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (12.53%) PayPal
2 20 (5.12%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.12%) ServiceNow
3 13 (3.32%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.56%) Oracle
5 8 (2.05%) SAP
6 4 (1.02%) Nokia
6 4 (1.02%) Siemens
6 4 (1.02%) Sitecore
7 3 (0.77%) IBM
7 3 (0.77%) Nintex
7 3 (0.77%) Pega
8 2 (0.51%) Google
8 2 (0.51%) Sage
8 2 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.51%) VMware
9 1 (0.26%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.26%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.26%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.26%) Hyperion