Blog Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Blogs
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blog over the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 156 189
Rank change year-on-year -62 +33 +35
Contract jobs citing Blog 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.059% 0.18% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.54% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £334 £204 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £208 £450
Median % change year-on-year +72.53% -53.89% -15.29%
75th Percentile - £211 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £375 £543 £378
% change year-on-year -30.94% +43.65% -28.27%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Blog falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,756 1,112 1,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.38% 33.11% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 650 887
10th Percentile £213 £200 £233
25th Percentile £366 £329 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £582
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
England median daily rate £510 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 46 113
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.72 £12.33
25th Percentile £20.55 £22.78 £14.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £29.90 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.04% +35.91% +10.66%
75th Percentile £58.19 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.63 £46.18 £48.75
England median hourly rate £31.36 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -16.37% +15.38% +44.54%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Blog job vacancy trend in the North of England

Blog
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Blog
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Blog.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Blog

Blog
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 Blog within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
North West -25 3 £358 +72.53% 7
Blog
England

Blog
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) ESLint
General
1 3 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Flutter
1 3 (100.00%) Jest
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) React Native
1 3 (100.00%) Redux
1 3 (100.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Cross-Platform Development
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Xamarin