Developer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Developer
England > North East

The median Developer daily rate in the North East is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 15 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 39 24 28
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 11.78% 8.57% 12.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.70% 9.72% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 22
10th Percentile £400 £338 £275
25th Percentile £419 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £570
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -25.44% +3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £471 £720
90th Percentile £625 £540 -
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 East with a recognized job title 307 247 218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 88.21% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 107 165
10th Percentile £170 £268 £235
25th Percentile £340 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £569
90th Percentile £638 £650 £641
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 11
10th Percentile £13.98 £26.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.88 - £16.63
Median hourly rate £19.61 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.54% +42.09% +106.35%
75th Percentile £34.23 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £53.95 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.16% -8.39% +55.53%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Developer job vacancy trend in the North East

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the North East

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North East over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the North East

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the North East

Developer
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 Developer within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 October 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 0 33 £500 +17.65% 45
Durham +6 5 £438 +2.94% 7
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, Developer contract job roles required 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 North East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) Agile
3 15 (38.46%) Java
4 13 (33.33%) Microservices
5 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
5 11 (28.21%) GitLab
5 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
6 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
6 9 (23.08%) SQL
6 9 (23.08%) TDD
6 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 8 (20.51%) BDD
7 8 (20.51%) Docker
7 8 (20.51%) Node.js
7 8 (20.51%) Terraform
8 7 (17.95%) MongoDB
8 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
9 6 (15.38%) Git
9 6 (15.38%) Linux
9 6 (15.38%) Migration
9 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
10 5 (12.82%) Coaching
10 5 (12.82%) DevOps
10 5 (12.82%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (12.82%) Jest
10 5 (12.82%) Mocha
10 5 (12.82%) Python
10 5 (12.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.69%) Confluence
1 3 (7.69%) Documentum
2 2 (5.13%) FileNet
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (5.13%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (10.26%) GitHub
2 4 (10.26%) Serverless
3 3 (7.69%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.13%) Intacct
4 2 (5.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) MongoDB
1 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.69%) MySQL
3 3 (7.69%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.56%) Power BI
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) GitLab
2 6 (15.38%) Git
3 5 (12.82%) Mocha
4 4 (10.26%) JIRA
5 3 (7.69%) Mockito
6 1 (2.56%) Appium
6 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.56%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (28.21%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Node.js
2 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.82%) Jest
4 4 (10.26%) RESTful
5 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (7.69%) CSS
5 3 (7.69%) HTML
5 3 (7.69%) JAX-RS
5 3 (7.69%) Kafka
5 3 (7.69%) REST
5 3 (7.69%) Spring
5 3 (7.69%) Spring MVC
5 3 (7.69%) Web Services
6 2 (5.13%) .NET
6 2 (5.13%) Akka
6 2 (5.13%) Express.js
6 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.13%) React
7 1 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.56%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Mac OS X
2 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) Agile
2 13 (33.33%) Microservices
3 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
4 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.08%) TDD
4 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.51%) BDD
6 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 5 (12.82%) Coaching
7 5 (12.82%) DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (12.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 5 (12.82%) Web Development
8 4 (10.26%) Code Quality
8 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (10.26%) Front End Development
8 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) Python
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) PHP
5 3 (7.69%) Rust
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) Scala
6 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Sage
3 1 (2.56%) Aderant
3 1 (2.56%) OpenText
3 1 (2.56%) Pega
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk