Developer Contracts in the North East

Developer
England > North East

The median Developer daily rate in the North East is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 41 52 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 12.81% 15.38% 20.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.31% 17.05% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 18 66
10th Percentile £328 £340 £363
25th Percentile £376 £373 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +0.05% -
75th Percentile £488 £705 £600
90th Percentile £544 £720 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £63.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.08% +16.67%

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 308 305 414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 90.24% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 140 319
10th Percentile £200 £190 £231
25th Percentile £344 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £653 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 63 2
10th Percentile - £10.42 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £35.56
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%
75th Percentile £23.97 £34.50 £45.56
90th Percentile £49.73 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North East

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Developer 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the North East

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Developer 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 1 May 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 -7 36 £460 -8.00% 76
Durham +5 4 £470 -27.69% 4
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer 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 North East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 16 (39.02%) HTML
1 16 (39.02%) CSS
1 16 (39.02%) Security Cleared
1 16 (39.02%) Public Sector
2 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
3 12 (29.27%) Java
3 12 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 12 (29.27%) AWS
3 12 (29.27%) Node.js
4 11 (26.83%) Agile
5 10 (24.39%) Microservices
5 10 (24.39%) React
6 9 (21.95%) Front End Development
6 9 (21.95%) TDD
6 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
7 8 (19.51%) SQL
7 8 (19.51%) Git
7 8 (19.51%) MongoDB
7 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
7 8 (19.51%) Power Platform
7 8 (19.51%) Power Automate
8 7 (17.07%) PowerApps
8 7 (17.07%) WCAG
8 7 (17.07%) MySQL
9 6 (14.63%) SharePoint
9 6 (14.63%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
9 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (14.63%) Sass
9 6 (14.63%) Terraform

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (14.63%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.76%) OpenEdge
3 2 (4.88%) nginx
4 1 (2.44%) CMS
4 1 (2.44%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) Power Automate
2 8 (19.51%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.07%) PowerApps
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.76%) Azure
5 4 (9.76%) Kong
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.32%) Serverless
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon Lightsail
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) MongoDB
2 7 (17.07%) MySQL
3 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.32%) Redis
4 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.44%) Power BI
6 1 (2.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) GitLab
3 5 (12.20%) SonarQube
4 4 (9.76%) Artifactory
4 4 (9.76%) gulp
4 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.76%) Maven
4 4 (9.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.88%) JIRA
5 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio
5 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.44%) JUnit
General
1 16 (39.02%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Electronics
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) French Language
4 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.88%) Marketing
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) CSS
1 16 (39.02%) HTML
2 12 (29.27%) Node.js
3 10 (24.39%) React
4 6 (14.63%) Jest
4 6 (14.63%) Sass
5 5 (12.20%) Kafka
5 5 (12.20%) Spring
5 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
6 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (9.76%) Apache CXF
6 4 (9.76%) Dropwizard
6 4 (9.76%) Express.js
6 4 (9.76%) Hibernate
6 4 (9.76%) JAX-RS
6 4 (9.76%) MEAN Stack
6 4 (9.76%) MERN Stack
6 4 (9.76%) Mongoose
6 4 (9.76%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (9.76%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Agile
2 10 (24.39%) Microservices
3 9 (21.95%) Front End Development
3 9 (21.95%) TDD
4 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
4 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
5 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.76%) API Integration
6 4 (9.76%) Code Quality
6 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven
6 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (9.76%) Open Source
6 4 (9.76%) Operational Stability
6 4 (9.76%) User Experience
6 4 (9.76%) Visualisation
7 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.32%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (7.32%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.32%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
2 12 (29.27%) Java
3 8 (19.51%) SQL
4 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.32%) Python
5 3 (7.32%) Scala
6 2 (4.88%) ABAP
6 2 (4.88%) C#
7 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (39.02%) Security Cleared
2 12 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) WCAG
2 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.32%) Kibana
4 2 (4.88%) Grafana
4 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Virgin Media
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
4 2 (4.88%) New Relic