Senior Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Senior daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 8
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 25 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.52% 4.35% 11.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.25% 4.96% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £445 £481 £556
25th Percentile £505 £549 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £598 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -8.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £650 £693 £720
90th Percentile £730 £729 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.60 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £44.00 - -
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile £50.40 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £44.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 204 141 136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 87.58% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 75 92
10th Percentile £200 £298 £227
25th Percentile £340 £401 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -14.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £455 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -4.21% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile £13.67 £17.01 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.50 £42.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £60.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.92% +144.90% +96.00%
75th Percentile £20.63 £70.00 £32.44
90th Percentile £39.20 - £33.23
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £60.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -67.92% +144.90% +84.91%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Senior 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 14 (56.00%) AWS
3 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
4 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 9 (36.00%) MongoDB
5 9 (36.00%) Microservices
6 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (24.00%) JIRA
7 6 (24.00%) Confluence
7 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
8 5 (20.00%) Security Architecture
8 5 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) TDD
8 5 (20.00%) QA
8 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
8 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (16.00%) Migration
9 4 (16.00%) CISSP
9 4 (16.00%) Java
9 4 (16.00%) Groovy
9 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
9 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 4 (16.00%) IaaS
9 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (16.00%) ScriptRunner
9 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
10 3 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 3 (12.00%) Application Security

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 (24.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) IaaS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure
4 1 (4.00%) dbt
4 1 (4.00%) Google Docs
4 1 (4.00%) Google Sheets
4 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Data Hub
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (12.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Mockito
4 1 (4.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (12.00%) JAX-RS
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
2 1 (4.00%) Spring
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.00%) FPGA
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Mac OS X
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 9 (36.00%) Microservices
3 5 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 5 (20.00%) TDD
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.00%) Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (12.00%) BDD
5 3 (12.00%) Database Security
5 3 (12.00%) Pair Programming
5 3 (12.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Web Design
5 3 (12.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Groovy
1 4 (16.00%) Java
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Go
3 2 (8.00%) Perl
4 1 (4.00%) C
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Sage