IFS Contract Job Trends in the North East

IFS
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring knowledge or experience of IFS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFS over the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IFS AB.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IFS 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.20% - 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% - 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -11.56% -8.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £13.99
England median hourly rate - - £13.99

All Vendors
North East

IFS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 144 151 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 28.51% 46.89% 45.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 100 80
10th Percentile £258 £213 £162
25th Percentile £406 £325 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £592 £550 £581
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 14
10th Percentile £24.75 £20.93 £11.90
25th Percentile £46.19 £25.14 £13.99
Median hourly rate £60.00 £32.47 £19.14
Median % change year-on-year +84.81% +69.66% -66.72%
75th Percentile £69.86 £39.48 £39.83
90th Percentile £72.50 £43.50 £55.85
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.43 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.83% +21.70% -28.57%

IFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

IFS job vacancy trend in the North East

IFS
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing IFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing IFS

IFS
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 IFS within the North East region over the 6 months to 17 March 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 - 1 £500 - 1
IFS
England

IFS
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cutover Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP