Developer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Developer
England > North East

The median Developer daily rate in the North East is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 38 22 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 13.19% 8.15% 11.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.62% 9.17% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 22
10th Percentile £408 £335 £340
25th Percentile £419 £352 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -26.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £720
90th Percentile £605 £538 -
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -4.35%

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 260 240 219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 88.89% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 110 163
10th Percentile £189 £251 £255
25th Percentile £338 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £549 £589 £584
90th Percentile £640 £650 £672
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 7
10th Percentile £11.60 £10.93 £14.95
25th Percentile £13.47 £20.13 £16.63
Median hourly rate £19.06 £46.18 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.73% +44.31% +88.24%
75th Percentile £20.63 £49.05 £39.97
90th Percentile £47.20 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +6 32 £484 +7.50% 45
Durham +7 5 £438 +2.94% 6
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 16 (42.11%) Java
2 16 (42.11%) Agile
3 14 (36.84%) Security Cleared
4 13 (34.21%) Public Sector
5 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
6 10 (26.32%) SQL
6 10 (26.32%) Node.js
6 10 (26.32%) GitLab
7 9 (23.68%) Microservices
7 9 (23.68%) MongoDB
7 9 (23.68%) MySQL
7 9 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (21.05%) Terraform
9 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
9 7 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (18.42%) NoSQL
9 7 (18.42%) Kafka
9 7 (18.42%) Git
9 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
10 6 (15.79%) JAX-RS
10 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
10 6 (15.79%) Linux
10 6 (15.79%) TDD
10 6 (15.79%) Spring
11 5 (13.16%) Python
11 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
11 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
11 5 (13.16%) Power Platform

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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
1 3 (7.89%) Documentum
1 3 (7.89%) OpenEdge
2 2 (5.26%) CMS
2 2 (5.26%) FileNet
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.63%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (5.26%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (10.53%) PowerApps
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (7.89%) Kong
4 3 (7.89%) Serverless
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) Intacct
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Lightsail
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) MongoDB
1 9 (23.68%) MySQL
2 7 (18.42%) NoSQL
2 7 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.63%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.63%) Power BI
5 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) GitLab
2 7 (18.42%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.53%) JIRA
3 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
4 3 (7.89%) gulp
4 3 (7.89%) Maven
4 3 (7.89%) Mockito
4 3 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.63%) Appium
5 1 (2.63%) Postman
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 13 (34.21%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
2 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) Node.js
2 7 (18.42%) Kafka
2 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.79%) JAX-RS
3 6 (15.79%) Spring
4 4 (10.53%) React
4 4 (10.53%) RESTful
5 3 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.89%) Apache CXF
5 3 (7.89%) Dropwizard
5 3 (7.89%) Express.js
5 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.89%) MEAN Stack
5 3 (7.89%) MERN Stack
5 3 (7.89%) Mongoose
5 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.89%) Sequelize
5 3 (7.89%) Spring MVC
5 3 (7.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Mac OS X
2 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (23.68%) Microservices
3 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.79%) TDD
5 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
6 4 (10.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (10.53%) Migration
7 3 (7.89%) BDD
7 3 (7.89%) Content Management
7 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) Data Protection
7 3 (7.89%) ITIL
7 3 (7.89%) MVC
7 3 (7.89%) Open Source
7 3 (7.89%) Pair Programming
7 3 (7.89%) Waterfall
7 3 (7.89%) Web Design
7 3 (7.89%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) Java
2 10 (26.32%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.16%) Python
5 4 (10.53%) PHP
6 3 (7.89%) Rust
7 2 (5.26%) Bash
8 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.63%) Scala
8 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
1 3 (7.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Kibana
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Sage
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Aderant
4 1 (2.63%) OpenText
4 1 (2.63%) Pega
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk