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 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 80 35 27
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 10.83% 11.40% 9.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.46% 12.32% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 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 10 0 0
10th Percentile £61.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.94 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £47.12 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.42% -27.51% +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 698 284 255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 92.51% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 193 121
10th Percentile £313 £200 £263
25th Percentile £365 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £648 £644
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 19 45
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.42
25th Percentile £62.50 £11.60 £11.50
Median hourly rate £68.47 £13.00 £13.99
Median % change year-on-year +426.69% -7.08% -56.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.30 £46.18
90th Percentile - £47.34 £62.00
England median hourly rate £45.50 £27.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +65.45% -31.80% -8.35%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 75 £450 -6.25% 43
Durham -9 2 £875 +100.00% 1
Northumberland - 2 £875 - 2
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 48 (60.00%) Agile
2 47 (58.75%) Security Cleared
3 46 (57.50%) SC Cleared
4 40 (50.00%) Java
5 27 (33.75%) Test Automation
6 24 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 23 (28.75%) Scrum
8 22 (27.50%) TDD
9 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
10 20 (25.00%) AWS
10 20 (25.00%) Software Engineering
11 17 (21.25%) DevOps
12 15 (18.75%) Accessibility
12 15 (18.75%) Python
13 14 (17.50%) AngularJS
13 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
13 14 (17.50%) Docker
13 14 (17.50%) QA
14 13 (16.25%) Analytics
15 12 (15.00%) Front End Development
15 12 (15.00%) Microservices
15 12 (15.00%) SDLC
15 12 (15.00%) User Experience
16 11 (13.75%) API Development
16 11 (13.75%) Argo
16 11 (13.75%) Azure
16 11 (13.75%) DevSecOps
16 11 (13.75%) OpenShift
16 11 (13.75%) Quarkus
16 11 (13.75%) Red Hat

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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.75%) Apache
2 7 (8.75%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.75%) Jupyter
3 4 (5.00%) SAS
3 4 (5.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.25%) CMS
4 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.00%) AWS
2 11 (13.75%) Azure
2 11 (13.75%) OpenShift
3 8 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.00%) Firebase
4 5 (6.25%) GitHub
4 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.00%) Google Play
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.50%) Serverless
7 2 (2.50%) Textract
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.25%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.50%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Redis
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (1.25%) Big Data
5 1 (1.25%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.25%) MySQL
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) SonarQube
2 8 (10.00%) fastlane
2 8 (10.00%) GitLab
2 8 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.00%) Android Studio
3 4 (5.00%) Crashlytics
3 4 (5.00%) Gradle
3 4 (5.00%) Xcode
4 2 (2.50%) Mockito
5 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 28 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (16.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Finance
5 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Banking
6 4 (5.00%) Front Office
6 4 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.75%) Publishing
8 2 (2.50%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.50%) AngularJS
2 11 (13.75%) Quarkus
2 11 (13.75%) Spring
3 10 (12.50%) RESTful
4 9 (11.25%) React
4 9 (11.25%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.25%) Next.js
5 5 (6.25%) Node.js
6 4 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (5.00%) Android SDK
6 4 (5.00%) Core Data
6 4 (5.00%) iOS SDK
6 4 (5.00%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (5.00%) Kafka
6 4 (5.00%) Middleware
6 4 (5.00%) Redux
6 4 (5.00%) Retrofit
6 4 (5.00%) SwiftUI
6 4 (5.00%) UIKit
7 3 (3.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.00%) Equities
3 4 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 4 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.25%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) MicroBlaze
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Android
2 4 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.00%) Agile
2 27 (33.75%) Test Automation
3 24 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 23 (28.75%) Scrum
5 22 (27.50%) TDD
6 20 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 17 (21.25%) DevOps
8 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.25%) Analytics
10 12 (15.00%) Front End Development
10 12 (15.00%) Microservices
10 12 (15.00%) SDLC
10 12 (15.00%) User Experience
11 11 (13.75%) API Development
11 11 (13.75%) DevSecOps
11 11 (13.75%) Sprint Planning
11 11 (13.75%) Sprint Review
11 11 (13.75%) Unit Testing
12 10 (12.50%) Clean Code
12 10 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 40 (50.00%) Java
2 15 (18.75%) Python
3 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.75%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.75%) SQL
5 5 (6.25%) C#
6 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
6 4 (5.00%) Swift
7 2 (2.50%) C
7 2 (2.50%) Scala
8 1 (1.25%) C++
8 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.25%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.25%) ProC
Qualifications
1 47 (58.75%) Security Cleared
2 46 (57.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 14 (17.50%) QA
3 11 (13.75%) WCAG
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.75%) Argo
3 8 (10.00%) Terraform
4 2 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (1.25%) Grafana
5 1 (1.25%) Istio
5 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Red Hat
2 9 (11.25%) Dynatrace
3 7 (8.75%) Informatica
3 7 (8.75%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) Trend Micro
5 4 (5.00%) Apple
5 4 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) DataFlux
7 1 (1.25%) Confluent