BiZZdesign Contract Job Trends in the North of England

BiZZdesign
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of BiZZdesign products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BiZZdesign over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 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 BiZZdesign.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 - 183
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Contract jobs citing BiZZdesign 19 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.39% - 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% - 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £494 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - -
75th Percentile £595 - -
90th Percentile £635 - -
England median daily rate £600 £800 £638
% change year-on-year -25.00% +25.49% -15.00%

All Vendors
North of England

BiZZdesign 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,221 1,597 2,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 46.11% 47.79% 46.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 912 1,380
10th Percentile £250 £250 £231
25th Percentile £363 £399 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -0.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £587
90th Percentile £675 £675 £673
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 60 103
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.55
25th Percentile £19.07 £19.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £31.45 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +17.44% +19.02%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.80 £56.56
England median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -20.71% -31.58% +39.07%

BiZZdesign
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

BiZZdesign job vacancy trend in the North of England

BiZZdesign
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BiZZdesign.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BiZZdesign

BiZZdesign
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BiZZdesign in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BiZZdesign in the North of England

BiZZdesign
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BiZZdesign within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire - 18 £537 - 2
North East - 1 £500 -
BiZZdesign
England

BiZZdesign
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 18 (94.74%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Kerberos
2 2 (10.53%) SSH
Development Applications
1 18 (94.74%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Architect
1 14 (73.68%) Solutions Architect
2 10 (52.63%) Security Architect
2 10 (52.63%) Security Solutions Architect
3 7 (36.84%) Lead
3 7 (36.84%) Lead Architect
3 7 (36.84%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 5 (26.32%) Lead Security Architect
5 4 (21.05%) Design Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) CyberArk Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) OAuth
1 3 (15.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Cybersecurity
1 17 (89.47%) Identity Access Management
1 17 (89.47%) UML
2 15 (78.95%) Privileged Access Management
2 15 (78.95%) Visualisation
3 13 (68.42%) Decision-Making
4 12 (63.16%) Computer Science
4 12 (63.16%) Cryptography
4 12 (63.16%) Secrets Management
4 12 (63.16%) Software Engineering
4 12 (63.16%) Technical Debt
5 11 (57.89%) Thought Leadership
5 11 (57.89%) TOGAF
6 10 (52.63%) Dependency Management
6 10 (52.63%) Incident Response
6 10 (52.63%) SABSA
6 10 (52.63%) Security Operations
6 10 (52.63%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 10 (52.63%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (42.11%) Architectural Patterns
Qualifications
1 18 (94.74%) CISM
1 18 (94.74%) CISSP
2 12 (63.16%) Degree
2 12 (63.16%) Master's Degree
3 10 (52.63%) PhD
3 10 (52.63%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) CyberArk
2 12 (63.16%) Centrify
3 5 (26.32%) Thycotic
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft