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 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 97 39 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 11.60% 13.78% 8.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.45% 15.29% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 27 20
10th Percentile - £411 £336
25th Percentile £400 £427 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.94% -22.73%
75th Percentile £638 £513 £491
90th Percentile £775 £595 £538
England median daily rate £520 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.97% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.75 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +10.94%

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 779 255 236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 90.11% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 156 111
10th Percentile £313 £194 £275
25th Percentile £364 £340 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year - -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £550 £546 £589
90th Percentile £650 £640 £650
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 15 27
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £11.03
25th Percentile £41.25 £12.05 £18.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +306.25% -65.35% +44.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £48.09
90th Percentile £75.80 £45.60 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -4 92 £450 -6.25% 45
Durham -13 2 £875 +100.00% 10
Northumberland - 2 £875 - 2
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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 72 (74.23%) Agile
2 54 (55.67%) SC Cleared
2 54 (55.67%) Security Cleared
3 42 (43.30%) Java
4 41 (42.27%) CI/CD
5 40 (41.24%) Test Automation
6 39 (40.21%) Scrum
7 37 (38.14%) Kubernetes
8 34 (35.05%) AWS
9 28 (28.87%) Software Engineering
9 28 (28.87%) TDD
10 24 (24.74%) AngularJS
10 24 (24.74%) DevOps
10 24 (24.74%) QA
11 23 (23.71%) Docker
11 23 (23.71%) SDLC
12 22 (22.68%) Accessibility
13 21 (21.65%) Unit Testing
14 20 (20.62%) Terraform
15 19 (19.59%) Front End Development
15 19 (19.59%) Microservices
16 18 (18.56%) Containerisation
16 18 (18.56%) DevSecOps
16 18 (18.56%) MongoDB
17 17 (17.53%) Argo
17 17 (17.53%) Azure
17 17 (17.53%) Clean Code
17 17 (17.53%) OpenShift
17 17 (17.53%) Quarkus
17 17 (17.53%) 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 10 (10.31%) Apache Spark
2 9 (9.28%) Apache
2 9 (9.28%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (9.28%) Jupyter
3 4 (4.12%) SAS
3 4 (4.12%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.06%) CMS
4 2 (2.06%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.05%) AWS
2 17 (17.53%) Azure
2 17 (17.53%) OpenShift
3 13 (13.40%) GitHub
4 12 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (8.25%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.25%) Firebase
7 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.19%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.19%) Serverless
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.12%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (4.12%) Google Play
9 4 (4.12%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.56%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.12%) DocumentDB
3 4 (4.12%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.09%) MySQL
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) Redis
5 2 (2.06%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.03%) Power BI
6 1 (1.03%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (17.53%) SonarQube
2 15 (15.46%) GitLab
3 10 (10.31%) Git
3 10 (10.31%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.25%) fastlane
5 4 (4.12%) Android Studio
5 4 (4.12%) Crashlytics
5 4 (4.12%) Gradle
5 4 (4.12%) Xcode
6 2 (2.06%) Mocha
6 2 (2.06%) Mockito
6 2 (2.06%) ScalaTest
7 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.03%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (48.45%) Public Sector
2 27 (27.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (14.43%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.37%) Finance
5 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Front Office
6 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Publishing
7 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) French Language
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.74%) AngularJS
2 20 (20.62%) Terraform
3 17 (17.53%) Quarkus
4 15 (15.46%) RESTful
5 13 (13.40%) Node.js
6 10 (10.31%) Kafka
6 10 (10.31%) Spring
7 9 (9.28%) React
8 8 (8.25%) Express.js
8 8 (8.25%) Jest
8 8 (8.25%) Play Framework
8 8 (8.25%) Spring Boot
9 7 (7.22%) REST
10 5 (5.15%) .NET
11 4 (4.12%) Core Data
11 4 (4.12%) iOS SDK
11 4 (4.12%) Middleware
11 4 (4.12%) Nunjucks
11 4 (4.12%) Redux
11 4 (4.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.56%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.31%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.25%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.19%) Blog
5 4 (4.12%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.12%) Equities
5 4 (4.12%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.06%) NHS
7 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.03%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.03%) MicroBlaze
7 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) RISC-V
7 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Android
2 4 (4.12%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.09%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.03%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (74.23%) Agile
2 41 (42.27%) CI/CD
3 40 (41.24%) Test Automation
4 39 (40.21%) Scrum
5 28 (28.87%) Software Engineering
5 28 (28.87%) TDD
6 24 (24.74%) DevOps
7 23 (23.71%) SDLC
8 21 (21.65%) Unit Testing
9 19 (19.59%) Front End Development
9 19 (19.59%) Microservices
10 18 (18.56%) Containerisation
10 18 (18.56%) DevSecOps
11 17 (17.53%) Clean Code
11 17 (17.53%) Sprint Planning
11 17 (17.53%) Sprint Review
12 16 (16.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 15 (15.46%) API Integration
13 15 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (15.46%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.30%) Java
2 15 (15.46%) TypeScript
3 14 (14.43%) Python
4 13 (13.40%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.28%) C#
5 9 (9.28%) Scala
5 9 (9.28%) SQL
6 4 (4.12%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.12%) Swift
7 2 (2.06%) PHP
7 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.03%) C
8 1 (1.03%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 54 (55.67%) SC Cleared
1 54 (55.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.74%) QA
2 22 (22.68%) Accessibility
3 14 (14.43%) WCAG
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (23.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (38.14%) Kubernetes
2 17 (17.53%) Argo
3 7 (7.22%) Grafana
4 2 (2.06%) Kibana
5 1 (1.03%) Istio
5 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Red Hat
2 12 (12.37%) Dynatrace
3 7 (7.22%) Informatica
4 6 (6.19%) Splunk
5 5 (5.15%) Google
5 5 (5.15%) Trend Micro
6 4 (4.12%) Apple
6 4 (4.12%) Confluent
6 4 (4.12%) UiPath
7 2 (2.06%) Blue Prism
7 2 (2.06%) DataFlux
7 2 (2.06%) Oracle
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.03%) Sage