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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 86 35 26
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 11.54% 11.55% 9.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.22% 12.50% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 29 23
10th Percentile £400 £370 £340
25th Percentile £413 £419 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £500 £494
90th Percentile £775 £585 £538
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.25 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £48.56 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.26% -25.29% +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 704 280 245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 92.41% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 189 119
10th Percentile £313 £200 £248
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £544
90th Percentile £675 £650 £645
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 19 38
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.42
25th Percentile £62.50 £11.60 £11.46
Median hourly rate £69.44 £13.00 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +434.15% -17.43% -51.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.30 £46.18
90th Percentile - £47.34 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -7 81 £450 -6.25% 48
Durham -9 2 £875 +100.00% 1
Northumberland - 2 £875 - 3
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 53 (61.63%) Agile
2 50 (58.14%) Security Cleared
3 49 (56.98%) SC Cleared
4 42 (48.84%) Java
5 31 (36.05%) Test Automation
6 28 (32.56%) CI/CD
7 26 (30.23%) Kubernetes
8 25 (29.07%) Scrum
9 24 (27.91%) AWS
9 24 (27.91%) TDD
10 23 (26.74%) Software Engineering
11 19 (22.09%) DevOps
12 18 (20.93%) QA
13 17 (19.77%) Accessibility
13 17 (19.77%) AngularJS
13 17 (19.77%) Docker
14 16 (18.60%) Containerisation
15 15 (17.44%) Front End Development
15 15 (17.44%) Microservices
15 15 (17.44%) Python
16 14 (16.28%) SDLC
16 14 (16.28%) TypeScript
17 13 (15.12%) Analytics
17 13 (15.12%) Argo
17 13 (15.12%) DevSecOps
17 13 (15.12%) OpenShift
17 13 (15.12%) Quarkus
17 13 (15.12%) Red Hat
17 13 (15.12%) SonarQube
17 13 (15.12%) Sprint Planning

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 (9.30%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.14%) Apache
2 7 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.14%) Jupyter
3 4 (4.65%) SAS
3 4 (4.65%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.33%) CMS
4 2 (2.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.91%) AWS
2 13 (15.12%) OpenShift
3 11 (12.79%) Azure
4 8 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.30%) Firebase
5 7 (8.14%) GitHub
5 7 (8.14%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.65%) Google Play
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.49%) Serverless
8 2 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.33%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.33%) Kong
8 2 (2.33%) npm
8 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.65%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.49%) MySQL
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.33%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.33%) Power BI
6 2 (2.33%) Redis
6 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (1.16%) Big Data
7 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.16%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) SonarQube
2 11 (12.79%) GitLab
3 10 (11.63%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.30%) fastlane
5 4 (4.65%) Android Studio
5 4 (4.65%) Crashlytics
5 4 (4.65%) Gradle
5 4 (4.65%) Xcode
6 3 (3.49%) Git
7 2 (2.33%) Mocha
7 2 (2.33%) Mockito
8 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
General
1 31 (36.05%) Public Sector
2 15 (17.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (9.30%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Finance
5 4 (4.65%) Banking
5 4 (4.65%) Front Office
5 4 (4.65%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.65%) Publishing
6 2 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.77%) AngularJS
2 13 (15.12%) Quarkus
3 11 (12.79%) Spring
4 10 (11.63%) RESTful
5 9 (10.47%) Node.js
5 9 (10.47%) React
5 9 (10.47%) Spring Boot
6 7 (8.14%) Kafka
7 6 (6.98%) Express.js
7 6 (6.98%) Jest
8 5 (5.81%) Next.js
9 4 (4.65%) Android SDK
9 4 (4.65%) Core Data
9 4 (4.65%) iOS SDK
9 4 (4.65%) Jetpack Compose
9 4 (4.65%) Middleware
9 4 (4.65%) Redux
9 4 (4.65%) REST
9 4 (4.65%) Retrofit
9 4 (4.65%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.30%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.65%) Equities
4 4 (4.65%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.16%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.16%) MicroBlaze
6 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) Android
2 4 (4.65%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.16%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (61.63%) Agile
2 31 (36.05%) Test Automation
3 28 (32.56%) CI/CD
4 25 (29.07%) Scrum
5 24 (27.91%) TDD
6 23 (26.74%) Software Engineering
7 19 (22.09%) DevOps
8 16 (18.60%) Containerisation
9 15 (17.44%) Front End Development
9 15 (17.44%) Microservices
10 14 (16.28%) SDLC
11 13 (15.12%) Analytics
11 13 (15.12%) DevSecOps
11 13 (15.12%) Sprint Planning
11 13 (15.12%) Sprint Review
11 13 (15.12%) Unit Testing
11 13 (15.12%) User Experience
12 11 (12.79%) API Development
12 11 (12.79%) Clean Code
12 11 (12.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.84%) Java
2 15 (17.44%) Python
3 14 (16.28%) TypeScript
4 9 (10.47%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.14%) SQL
6 5 (5.81%) C#
7 4 (4.65%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.65%) Swift
8 2 (2.33%) C
8 2 (2.33%) PHP
8 2 (2.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.16%) C++
9 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.16%) ProC
Qualifications
1 50 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 49 (56.98%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.93%) QA
2 17 (19.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (13.95%) WCAG
4 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (19.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.12%) Argo
3 9 (10.47%) Terraform
4 2 (2.33%) Kibana
5 1 (1.16%) Grafana
5 1 (1.16%) Istio
5 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) Red Hat
2 10 (11.63%) Dynatrace
3 7 (8.14%) Informatica
3 7 (8.14%) Oracle
4 5 (5.81%) Trend Micro
5 4 (4.65%) Apple
5 4 (4.65%) Google
6 2 (2.33%) Confluent
6 2 (2.33%) DataFlux