Developer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Developer
England > North East

The median Developer daily rate in the North East is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 93 30 26
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 12.17% 10.31% 10.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.92% 11.28% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 24 23
10th Percentile £400 £419 £340
25th Percentile £406 £457 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.94% -4.49%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £494
90th Percentile £775 £610 £538
England median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 720 266 226
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.41% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 177 118
10th Percentile £313 £188 £263
25th Percentile £364 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £547
90th Percentile £675 £643 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 19 25
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.42
25th Percentile £62.50 £11.60 £11.44
Median hourly rate £66.25 £13.00 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +409.62% -56.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.30 £50.00
90th Percentile - £47.34 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
% change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%

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 1 August 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the North East over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 August 2026. 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 88 £450 -6.98% 40
Durham -8 2 £875 +100.00% 12
Northumberland - 2 £875 - 3
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 2026, 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 59 (63.44%) Agile
2 53 (56.99%) Security Cleared
3 52 (55.91%) SC Cleared
4 46 (49.46%) Java
5 35 (37.63%) Test Automation
6 31 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 31 (33.33%) Kubernetes
7 30 (32.26%) Scrum
8 27 (29.03%) AWS
8 27 (29.03%) Software Engineering
9 24 (25.81%) TDD
10 22 (23.66%) AngularJS
10 22 (23.66%) DevOps
10 22 (23.66%) QA
11 20 (21.51%) Docker
12 19 (20.43%) SDLC
13 18 (19.35%) Accessibility
13 18 (19.35%) Containerisation
13 18 (19.35%) Front End Development
14 17 (18.28%) DevSecOps
14 17 (18.28%) Microservices
14 17 (18.28%) TypeScript
14 17 (18.28%) Unit Testing
15 16 (17.20%) Argo
15 16 (17.20%) OpenShift
15 16 (17.20%) Quarkus
15 16 (17.20%) Red Hat
15 16 (17.20%) SonarQube
15 16 (17.20%) Sprint Planning
15 16 (17.20%) Sprint Review

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 8 (8.60%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.53%) Apache
2 7 (7.53%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.53%) Jupyter
3 4 (4.30%) SAS
3 4 (4.30%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.15%) CMS
4 2 (2.15%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.03%) AWS
2 16 (17.20%) OpenShift
3 14 (15.05%) Azure
4 9 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (8.60%) Firebase
6 7 (7.53%) GitHub
6 7 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.30%) Google Play
8 4 (4.30%) Serverless
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.23%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.23%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.30%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.23%) DocumentDB
4 3 (3.23%) MySQL
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.15%) Power BI
5 2 (2.15%) Redis
5 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.15%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (1.08%) Big Data
6 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (17.20%) SonarQube
2 12 (12.90%) GitLab
3 10 (10.75%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.60%) fastlane
5 6 (6.45%) Git
6 4 (4.30%) Android Studio
6 4 (4.30%) Crashlytics
6 4 (4.30%) Gradle
6 4 (4.30%) Xcode
7 2 (2.15%) Mocha
7 2 (2.15%) Mockito
8 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
General
1 35 (37.63%) Public Sector
2 17 (18.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Finance
6 4 (4.30%) Banking
6 4 (4.30%) Front Office
6 4 (4.30%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.30%) Publishing
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.66%) AngularJS
2 16 (17.20%) Quarkus
3 13 (13.98%) RESTful
4 12 (12.90%) Node.js
4 12 (12.90%) Spring
5 11 (11.83%) React
6 10 (10.75%) Spring Boot
7 9 (9.68%) Kafka
8 7 (7.53%) Express.js
8 7 (7.53%) Jest
9 6 (6.45%) REST
10 5 (5.38%) Next.js
11 4 (4.30%) Android SDK
11 4 (4.30%) Core Data
11 4 (4.30%) iOS SDK
11 4 (4.30%) Jetpack Compose
11 4 (4.30%) Middleware
11 4 (4.30%) Redux
11 4 (4.30%) Retrofit
11 4 (4.30%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.60%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.30%) Equities
3 4 (4.30%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.08%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.08%) MicroBlaze
6 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Android
1 4 (4.30%) Apple iOS
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (63.44%) Agile
2 35 (37.63%) Test Automation
3 31 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 30 (32.26%) Scrum
5 27 (29.03%) Software Engineering
6 24 (25.81%) TDD
7 22 (23.66%) DevOps
8 19 (20.43%) SDLC
9 18 (19.35%) Containerisation
9 18 (19.35%) Front End Development
10 17 (18.28%) DevSecOps
10 17 (18.28%) Microservices
10 17 (18.28%) Unit Testing
11 16 (17.20%) Sprint Planning
11 16 (17.20%) Sprint Review
12 13 (13.98%) Analytics
12 13 (13.98%) User Experience
13 12 (12.90%) Clean Code
13 12 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (49.46%) Java
2 17 (18.28%) TypeScript
3 15 (16.13%) Python
4 12 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.53%) SQL
6 6 (6.45%) C#
7 4 (4.30%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.30%) Swift
8 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.15%) PHP
9 2 (2.15%) Scala
10 1 (1.08%) C
10 1 (1.08%) C++
10 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 53 (56.99%) Security Cleared
2 52 (55.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (23.66%) QA
2 18 (19.35%) Accessibility
3 13 (13.98%) WCAG
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (21.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.20%) Argo
3 11 (11.83%) Terraform
4 2 (2.15%) Kibana
5 1 (1.08%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) Istio
5 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (17.20%) Red Hat
2 11 (11.83%) Dynatrace
3 7 (7.53%) Informatica
4 5 (5.38%) Google
4 5 (5.38%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) Trend Micro
5 4 (4.30%) Apple
6 3 (3.23%) Confluent
7 2 (2.15%) Blue Prism
7 2 (2.15%) DataFlux
8 1 (1.08%) UiPath