Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in the North East

Secure Code Development
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.52% 0.66% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £575 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -9.80% +2.00% +8.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Secure Coding falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 339 278 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.51% 92.36% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 134 149
10th Percentile £174 £305 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £595 £714 £711
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 10
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.31 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £28.91 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.16% +8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in the North East

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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 -9 2 £600 - 4
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Mocha
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes