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 5 January 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 45 29 49
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 10.98% 9.86% 18.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.48% 11.03% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 23
10th Percentile £384 £335 £281
25th Percentile £400 £363 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -34.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £720
90th Percentile £591 £590 -
England median daily rate £500 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.19% -3.09% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +2.36% +5.83%

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 392 263 248
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.61% 89.46% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 138 163
10th Percentile £163 £245 £201
25th Percentile £350 £346 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +9.20% -18.12%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £575
90th Percentile £599 £661 £703
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 21
10th Percentile £17.20 £16.99 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.56 £27.32 £15.46
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +154.72% -49.29%
75th Percentile £54.38 - £48.75
90th Percentile £60.00 - £68.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -21.35% +28.74%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +2 43 £475 +11.76% 58
Durham +1 1 - - 5
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 January 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 22 (48.89%) Java
2 20 (44.44%) Agile
2 20 (44.44%) AWS
3 15 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 14 (31.11%) Microservices
5 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
6 12 (26.67%) Docker
6 12 (26.67%) TDD
7 11 (24.44%) GitLab
7 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (24.44%) Python
7 11 (24.44%) React
8 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
8 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 9 (20.00%) BDD
9 9 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
9 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (20.00%) Spring Boot
10 8 (17.78%) DevOps
10 8 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (17.78%) Node.js
10 8 (17.78%) Spring
10 8 (17.78%) SQL
10 8 (17.78%) Terraform
10 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
11 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
11 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
12 6 (13.33%) Coaching
12 6 (13.33%) Front End Development

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 2 (4.44%) Apache
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
2 1 (2.22%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) Azure
3 4 (8.89%) GitHub
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.67%) Serverless
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.44%) Intacct
6 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.67%) Redis
3 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) GitLab
2 5 (11.11%) Mocha
3 4 (8.89%) Git
4 3 (6.67%) Mockito
4 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.44%) JIRA
6 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) React
2 9 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (17.78%) Node.js
3 8 (17.78%) Spring
4 5 (11.11%) CSS
4 5 (11.11%) HTML
4 5 (11.11%) Jest
5 4 (8.89%) .NET
5 4 (8.89%) Akka
5 4 (8.89%) Kafka
5 4 (8.89%) Next.js
6 3 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.67%) Express.js
6 3 (6.67%) JAX-RS
6 3 (6.67%) Quarkus
6 3 (6.67%) REST
7 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.22%) NHS
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Mac OS X
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
3 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Agile
2 15 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (31.11%) Microservices
4 12 (26.67%) TDD
5 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 9 (20.00%) BDD
7 9 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (17.78%) DevOps
8 8 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
10 6 (13.33%) Coaching
10 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
11 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 5 (11.11%) Pair Programming
11 5 (11.11%) Scrum
11 5 (11.11%) SDLC
11 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
11 5 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Java
2 11 (24.44%) Python
3 8 (17.78%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.11%) Scala
5 3 (6.67%) C#
5 3 (6.67%) PHP
6 2 (4.44%) Bash
7 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.78%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Kibana
4 3 (6.67%) Argo
4 3 (6.67%) Grafana
5 2 (4.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.44%) Google
2 2 (4.44%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Pega
3 1 (2.22%) Sage
3 1 (2.22%) Splunk