Bun Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Anthropic Bun
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Bun skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bun 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.032% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £446 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £505 - -
England median daily rate £450 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Bun falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,273 678 883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.67% 20.62% 18.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 485 594
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £565 £556 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 8 31
10th Percentile £52.50 £65.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £55.75 £68.81 £21.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £86.46 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +87.22% -26.11%
75th Percentile £74.26 £99.42 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £102.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

Bun
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 Bun within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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 - 2 £479 -
Bun
England

Bun
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 1 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Vite
1 1 (50.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Deno
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) Nuxt
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Go
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe