Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends in the North East

Collaborative Working
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 23 28
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 4 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.14% 5.80% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 6.25% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £369 £331 -
25th Percentile £378 £423 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £463 £750
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% -38.33% +44.23%
75th Percentile £453 £521 -
90th Percentile £466 £596 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Collaborative Working falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 311 272 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.60% 92.83% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 116 154
10th Percentile £170 £308 £239
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £549 £591 £569
90th Percentile £600 £710 £626
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 15
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.72 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £19.25 £28.14 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +40.68% +14.29%
75th Percentile £52.63 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.00 £68.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Collaborative Working relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the North East

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the North East region over the 6 months to 17 November 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear -21 4 £413 -10.81% 19
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Facilities Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Facilities Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks