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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 108 35 25
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 12.68% 11.40% 8.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.57% 12.41% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 23 20
10th Percentile £374 £400 £338
25th Percentile £400 £419 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -25.44%
75th Percentile £567 £575 £482
90th Percentile £775 £620 £538
England median daily rate £522 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.11% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.19 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +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 796 282 258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 91.86% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 179 106
10th Percentile £313 £179 £266
25th Percentile £363 £338 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £571
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 12 23
10th Percentile £13.84 £13.83 £15.35
25th Percentile £39.88 £17.03 £32.70
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +237.66% -58.32% +44.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £26.81 £50.00
90th Percentile - £49.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.23% -41.51% -6.89%

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 14 October 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
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 14 October 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 +5 103 £450 -10.00% 64
Durham -13 2 £875 +100.00% 3
Northumberland - 2 £875 -
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 74 (68.52%) Agile
2 55 (50.93%) SC Cleared
2 55 (50.93%) Security Cleared
3 44 (40.74%) Test Automation
4 43 (39.81%) CI/CD
4 43 (39.81%) Scrum
5 40 (37.04%) Java
6 39 (36.11%) Kubernetes
7 35 (32.41%) AWS
8 31 (28.70%) Software Engineering
9 30 (27.78%) TDD
10 29 (26.85%) QA
11 28 (25.93%) DevOps
12 27 (25.00%) SDLC
13 26 (24.07%) AngularJS
14 25 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (22.22%) Unit Testing
16 23 (21.30%) Terraform
17 22 (20.37%) Docker
18 21 (19.44%) Accessibility
18 21 (19.44%) Front End Development
18 21 (19.44%) Sprint Planning
19 20 (18.52%) DevSecOps
19 20 (18.52%) Sprint Review
20 19 (17.59%) Argo
20 19 (17.59%) Microservices
20 19 (17.59%) MongoDB
20 19 (17.59%) OpenShift
20 19 (17.59%) Red Hat
20 19 (17.59%) SonarQube

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 10 (9.26%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.33%) Apache
2 9 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.33%) Jupyter
3 4 (3.70%) SAS
3 4 (3.70%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.85%) CMS
4 2 (1.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.41%) AWS
2 19 (17.59%) OpenShift
3 16 (14.81%) Azure
4 14 (12.96%) GitHub
5 13 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 8 (7.41%) Firebase
8 8 (7.41%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (6.48%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.48%) Serverless
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.63%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (4.63%) AWS KMS
10 5 (4.63%) Kong
11 4 (3.70%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.59%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.63%) DocumentDB
3 4 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.85%) MySQL
5 2 (1.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) Db2
6 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.93%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) Power Query
6 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (17.59%) SonarQube
2 16 (14.81%) GitLab
3 12 (11.11%) Git
4 10 (9.26%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.41%) fastlane
6 4 (3.70%) Android Studio
6 4 (3.70%) Crashlytics
6 4 (3.70%) Gradle
6 4 (3.70%) Xcode
7 3 (2.78%) ScalaTest
8 2 (1.85%) Mocha
8 2 (1.85%) Mockito
9 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (45.37%) Public Sector
2 30 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.96%) Finance
5 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Front Office
6 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Publishing
7 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) French Language
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.07%) AngularJS
2 23 (21.30%) Terraform
3 18 (16.67%) RESTful
4 17 (15.74%) Quarkus
5 15 (13.89%) Node.js
6 11 (10.19%) Kafka
7 10 (9.26%) Express.js
8 9 (8.33%) Jest
8 9 (8.33%) Play Framework
9 8 (7.41%) REST
9 8 (7.41%) Spring
10 7 (6.48%) React
11 6 (5.56%) .NET
11 6 (5.56%) Nunjucks
11 6 (5.56%) Spring Boot
12 5 (4.63%) MEAN Stack
12 5 (4.63%) Web Services
13 4 (3.70%) Core Data
13 4 (3.70%) Redux
13 4 (3.70%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.19%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.41%) Mobile App
4 7 (6.48%) Blog
5 5 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.70%) Equities
6 4 (3.70%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.85%) NHS
8 1 (0.93%) AS400
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) iSeries
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.70%) Android
1 4 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.78%) Linux
3 2 (1.85%) macOS
3 2 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (68.52%) Agile
2 44 (40.74%) Test Automation
3 43 (39.81%) CI/CD
3 43 (39.81%) Scrum
4 31 (28.70%) Software Engineering
5 30 (27.78%) TDD
6 28 (25.93%) DevOps
7 27 (25.00%) SDLC
8 25 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (22.22%) Unit Testing
10 21 (19.44%) Front End Development
10 21 (19.44%) Sprint Planning
11 20 (18.52%) DevSecOps
11 20 (18.52%) Sprint Review
12 19 (17.59%) Microservices
13 18 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 17 (15.74%) Clean Code
14 17 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (14.81%) Containerisation
15 16 (14.81%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 40 (37.04%) Java
2 15 (13.89%) JavaScript
2 15 (13.89%) TypeScript
3 12 (11.11%) Python
4 10 (9.26%) C#
4 10 (9.26%) Scala
5 8 (7.41%) SQL
6 4 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.70%) Swift
7 2 (1.85%) PHP
7 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.93%) RPG
Qualifications
1 55 (50.93%) SC Cleared
1 55 (50.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (26.85%) QA
2 21 (19.44%) Accessibility
3 14 (12.96%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (20.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.59%) Argo
3 8 (7.41%) Grafana
4 2 (1.85%) Kibana
5 1 (0.93%) Istio
5 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (17.59%) Red Hat
2 13 (12.04%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.48%) Informatica
3 7 (6.48%) Splunk
4 5 (4.63%) Confluent
4 5 (4.63%) Google
4 5 (4.63%) Trend Micro
4 5 (4.63%) UiPath
5 4 (3.70%) Apple
6 2 (1.85%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.85%) DataFlux
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle
7 1 (0.93%) Sage