Blog Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Blogs
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blog over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	66	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Blog	8	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne	1.34%	-	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	4.42%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	8	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£413	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	-	-
75^th Percentile	£438	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Tyne and Wear median daily rate	£425	-	-

All Generic Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

Blog falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing generic IT skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	181	66	66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne	30.32%	23.83%	36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted	110	38	21
10^th Percentile	£313	£146	£310
25^th Percentile	£400	£165	£340
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£357	£425
Median % change year-on-year	+26.14%	-16.06%	-6.39%
75^th Percentile	£600	£492	£560
90^th Percentile	£651	£600	£750
Tyne and Wear median daily rate	£450	£369	£425
% change year-on-year	+21.87%	-13.12%	+2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted	28	2	1
10^th Percentile	£18.35	£14.03	-
25^th Percentile	£43.96	£15.02	£18.00
Median hourly rate	£50.73	£16.73	£19.00
Median % change year-on-year	+203.23%	-11.95%	-40.63%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£18.38	£20.00
90^th Percentile	£84.08	£19.33	-
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate	£43.96	£16.73	£19.00
% change year-on-year	+162.76%	-11.95%	-40.63%

Blog Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blog relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Blog Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Blog.

Blog Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Blog also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing Blog.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Accessibility	100.0%	8
1	Agile	100.0%	8
1	Amazon EKS	100.0%	8
1	AWS	100.0%	8
1	CI/CD	100.0%	8
1	Community of Practice	100.0%	8
1	Continuous Deployment	100.0%	8
1	Continuous Integration	100.0%	8
1	GitHub	100.0%	8
1	GitHub Actions	100.0%	8
1	Grafana	100.0%	8
1	Incident Response	100.0%	8
1	Information Security	100.0%	8
1	Kanban	100.0%	8
1	Kubernetes	100.0%	8
1	MongoDB	100.0%	8
1	Observability	100.0%	8
1	Open Source	100.0%	8
1	Play Framework	100.0%	8
1	Scala	100.0%	8
1	Scrum	100.0%	8
1	Splunk	100.0%	8
1	TDD	100.0%	8
1	Terraform	100.0%	8
1	User Research	100.0%	8
1	User-Centered Design (UCD)	100.0%	8
27	Clean Code	62.5%	5
28	API Development	37.5%	3
28	Functional Programming	37.5%	3
28	Interaction Design	37.5%	3

Blog Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Product Ownership	37.5%	3