Checkmarx Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Checkmarx
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring knowledge or experience of Checkmarx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Checkmarx over the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Checkmarx.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Checkmarx 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.33% 0.51% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.47% 1.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 - -

All Vendors
Newcastle upon Tyne

Checkmarx falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 68 82 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.52% 41.62% 58.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 45 65
10th Percentile £170 £153 £163
25th Percentile £338 £305 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £738 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £425 £481
% change year-on-year +11.76% -11.64% -8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £16.64 - £31.48
25th Percentile £17.88 - £31.81
Median hourly rate £20.88 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +270.00%
75th Percentile £52.06 - £60.00
90th Percentile £54.13 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £20.88 - £46.25
% change year-on-year - - +270.00%

Checkmarx
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Checkmarx job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Checkmarx
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

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

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

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform