Senior Contract Job Trends in the North East

Senior
England > North East

The median Senior daily rate in the North East is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 36 29 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 10.68% 10.39% 7.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.43% 11.84% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 13
10th Percentile £103 - £407
25th Percentile £108 £388 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +10.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £556 £649 £720
90th Percentile £646 £736 -
England median daily rate £552 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% - -
England median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £56.03
% change year-on-year +8.89% -19.69% +24.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 315 245 220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 87.81% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 108 167
10th Percentile £170 £269 £225
25th Percentile £338 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £559
90th Percentile £638 £650 £636
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 11
10th Percentile £14.13 £25.65 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.88 £43.54 £16.63
Median hourly rate £21.24 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.02% +42.09% +106.35%
75th Percentile £51.50 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.38 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.94
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.66% +53.13%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Senior job vacancy trend in the North East

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in the North East

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North East over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North East

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in the North East

Senior
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 Senior within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 November 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 +7 34 £450 -25.00% 35
Durham -5 1 - - 3
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) AWS
3 12 (33.33%) Microservices
4 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
5 9 (25.00%) MongoDB
6 8 (22.22%) TDD
7 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
8 6 (16.67%) Azure
8 6 (16.67%) BDD
8 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (16.67%) SQL
8 6 (16.67%) Windows
9 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
9 5 (13.89%) Continuous Deployment
9 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
9 5 (13.89%) Git
9 5 (13.89%) IT Asset Management
9 5 (13.89%) Java
9 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (13.89%) Python
9 5 (13.89%) QA
9 5 (13.89%) Security Architecture
9 5 (13.89%) Terraform
9 5 (13.89%) Web Development
10 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
10 4 (11.11%) CISSP
10 4 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 4 (11.11%) DevOps
10 4 (11.11%) Docker

Senior 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) dbt
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) Google Docs
3 1 (2.78%) Google Sheets
3 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.78%) Pulumi
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
3 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.33%) Redis
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) Data Hub
5 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.78%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) Mocha
2 3 (8.33%) Mockito
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (36.11%) Public Sector
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (8.33%) CSS
1 3 (8.33%) HTML
1 3 (8.33%) JAX-RS
1 3 (8.33%) Jest
1 3 (8.33%) Kafka
1 3 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (5.56%) Express.js
2 2 (5.56%) React
3 1 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
3 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.78%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Mac OS X
2 3 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 12 (33.33%) Microservices
3 8 (22.22%) TDD
4 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.67%) BDD
5 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
6 5 (13.89%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
6 5 (13.89%) IT Asset Management
6 5 (13.89%) Security Architecture
6 5 (13.89%) Web Development
7 4 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 4 (11.11%) DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 3 (8.33%) Coaching
8 3 (8.33%) Responsive Web Design
8 3 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) Java
2 5 (13.89%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) Bash
4 2 (5.56%) Go
4 2 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) Swift
5 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.56%) WCAG
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Databricks
1 1 (2.78%) Google
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle
1 1 (2.78%) Sage
1 1 (2.78%) Workday