Developer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Developer
England > North East

The median Developer daily rate in the North East is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 84 42 31
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 12.26% 13.59% 9.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.96% 14.38% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 35 15
10th Percentile £400 £360 £324
25th Percentile £425 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £405
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +14.81% -19.00%
75th Percentile £675 £500 £513
90th Percentile £775 £575 £538
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £67.73 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £40.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.18% -37.55% -

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 648 292 293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 94.50% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 204 127
10th Percentile £313 £200 £226
25th Percentile £395 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £588
90th Percentile £640 £625 £650
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 19 64
10th Percentile £17.00 - £10.42
25th Percentile £60.00 £11.60 £11.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 £13.99
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -7.08% -56.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.00 £49.40 £63.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 80 £475 -1.04% 39
Durham -3 2 £875 +100.00% 7
Northumberland - 2 £875 - 4
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 47 (55.95%) Security Cleared
2 46 (54.76%) SC Cleared
3 45 (53.57%) Agile
4 43 (51.19%) Java
5 23 (27.38%) Kubernetes
6 22 (26.19%) Test Automation
7 21 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 20 (23.81%) Scrum
9 19 (22.62%) Python
9 19 (22.62%) Software Engineering
9 19 (22.62%) TDD
10 18 (21.43%) TypeScript
11 16 (19.05%) Accessibility
11 16 (19.05%) AWS
11 16 (19.05%) React
11 16 (19.05%) Spring
12 15 (17.86%) DevOps
12 15 (17.86%) Docker
13 14 (16.67%) AngularJS
14 13 (15.48%) Azure
14 13 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (14.29%) Analytics
15 12 (14.29%) Front End Development
15 12 (14.29%) SDLC
16 11 (13.10%) Argo
16 11 (13.10%) DevSecOps
16 11 (13.10%) OpenShift
16 11 (13.10%) QA
16 11 (13.10%) Quarkus
16 11 (13.10%) 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 7 (8.33%) Apache
1 7 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.14%) Jupyter
3 4 (4.76%) SAS
4 1 (1.19%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) AWS
2 13 (15.48%) Azure
3 11 (13.10%) OpenShift
4 10 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (9.52%) Firebase
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.76%) Google Play
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.38%) Serverless
9 2 (2.38%) Textract
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.19%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.38%) Redis
4 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.38%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.19%) Big Data
5 1 (1.19%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.19%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) SonarQube
2 9 (10.71%) GitLab
3 8 (9.52%) fastlane
3 8 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.76%) Android Studio
4 4 (4.76%) Crashlytics
4 4 (4.76%) Gradle
4 4 (4.76%) Xcode
5 2 (2.38%) JIRA
6 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.19%) Git
General
1 27 (32.14%) Public Sector
2 14 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Finance
5 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.76%) Banking
6 4 (4.76%) Front Office
6 4 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Legal
7 2 (2.38%) Publishing
8 1 (1.19%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.05%) React
1 16 (19.05%) Spring
2 14 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 11 (13.10%) Quarkus
3 11 (13.10%) Spring Boot
4 10 (11.90%) RESTful
5 7 (8.33%) Next.js
6 6 (7.14%) Node.js
7 4 (4.76%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (4.76%) Android SDK
7 4 (4.76%) Core Data
7 4 (4.76%) iOS SDK
7 4 (4.76%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (4.76%) Redux
7 4 (4.76%) Retrofit
7 4 (4.76%) SwiftUI
7 4 (4.76%) UIKit
8 3 (3.57%) Express.js
8 3 (3.57%) Jest
8 3 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.76%) Equities
3 4 (4.76%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.19%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) MicroBlaze
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Android
1 4 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.57%) Linux
3 2 (2.38%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.38%) Unix
4 1 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (53.57%) Agile
2 22 (26.19%) Test Automation
3 21 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (23.81%) Scrum
5 19 (22.62%) Software Engineering
5 19 (22.62%) TDD
6 15 (17.86%) DevOps
7 13 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (14.29%) Analytics
8 12 (14.29%) Front End Development
8 12 (14.29%) SDLC
9 11 (13.10%) DevSecOps
9 11 (13.10%) Sprint Planning
9 11 (13.10%) Sprint Review
9 11 (13.10%) Unit Testing
9 11 (13.10%) User Experience
10 10 (11.90%) API Development
10 10 (11.90%) API Integration
10 10 (11.90%) Clean Code
10 10 (11.90%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.19%) Java
2 19 (22.62%) Python
3 18 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 9 (10.71%) SQL
5 7 (8.33%) C#
6 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.76%) Scala
7 4 (4.76%) Swift
8 2 (2.38%) C
8 2 (2.38%) Ruby
9 1 (1.19%) C++
9 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.19%) ProC
Qualifications
1 47 (55.95%) Security Cleared
2 46 (54.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.05%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.10%) QA
3 10 (11.90%) WCAG
4 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (17.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (27.38%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.10%) Argo
3 9 (10.71%) Terraform
4 4 (4.76%) Kibana
5 1 (1.19%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) Istio
5 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Red Hat
2 9 (10.71%) Dynatrace
3 7 (8.33%) Informatica
3 7 (8.33%) Oracle
4 6 (7.14%) Google
5 4 (4.76%) Apple
5 4 (4.76%) Trend Micro
6 2 (2.38%) DataFlux
6 2 (2.38%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.19%) Confluent