Developer Contracts in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer daily rate in the North of England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 363 707 822
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 11.02% 14.83% 14.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.79% 15.92% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 478 658
10th Percentile £357 £300 £363
25th Percentile £400 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -8.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £608 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 11
10th Percentile £84.91 £78.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £86.00 £78.88 £45.00
Median hourly rate £90.42 £81.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +30.40% +35.87%
75th Percentile £102.00 £82.88 £70.00
90th Percentile - £82.95 -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £63.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.08% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the North of England

Developer
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 Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West -3 225 £500 +6.38% 453
Yorkshire -12 102 £460 -0.54% 140
North East -5 41 £460 -8.05% 84
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 97 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 90 (24.79%) Agile
3 83 (22.87%) Java
4 79 (21.76%) JavaScript
5 77 (21.21%) SC Cleared
6 75 (20.66%) AWS
6 75 (20.66%) CI/CD
7 74 (20.39%) Public Sector
8 73 (20.11%) SQL
9 72 (19.83%) Social Skills
10 59 (16.25%) Node.js
10 59 (16.25%) Microservices
11 58 (15.98%) React
11 58 (15.98%) CSS
12 56 (15.43%) HTML
12 56 (15.43%) Azure
12 56 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
13 51 (14.05%) TDD
14 50 (13.77%) Full-Stack Development
15 47 (12.95%) SAP
16 45 (12.40%) Python
16 45 (12.40%) Git
17 43 (11.85%) .NET
18 41 (11.29%) Docker
19 40 (11.02%) Power Platform
20 39 (10.74%) Microsoft
21 38 (10.47%) RESTful
22 37 (10.19%) DevOps
22 37 (10.19%) Front End Development
22 37 (10.19%) PostgreSQL

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (6.61%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.31%) Confluence
3 6 (1.65%) Camunda
3 6 (1.65%) CMS
4 5 (1.38%) NetWeaver
5 4 (1.10%) Moodle
5 4 (1.10%) OpenEdge
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.55%) CICS
6 2 (0.55%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) FileNet
7 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Mendix
7 1 (0.28%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 15 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.65%) SAP CO
2 6 (1.65%) SAP FI
2 6 (1.65%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (1.65%) SAP HR
2 6 (1.65%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.28%) Shopify
5 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.66%) AWS
2 56 (15.43%) Azure
3 40 (11.02%) Power Platform
4 32 (8.82%) Power Automate
5 26 (7.16%) PowerApps
6 24 (6.61%) Serverless
7 23 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (3.58%) GitHub
9 11 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.75%) GCP
11 8 (2.20%) Slack
12 7 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.38%) Kong
15 4 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
16 3 (0.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 3 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.03%) HTTP
2 2 (0.55%) Firewall
2 2 (0.55%) SSL
2 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.28%) FTP
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (8.54%) MongoDB
3 30 (8.26%) MySQL
4 20 (5.51%) SQL Server
5 16 (4.41%) Power BI
5 16 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.48%) SAP HANA
9 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.10%) ObjectStore
9 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.10%) Redis
9 4 (1.10%) Siebel EIM
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.83%) GIS
10 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 45 (12.40%) Git
2 26 (7.16%) GitLab
3 21 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.68%) JIRA
5 16 (4.41%) Jasmine
5 16 (4.41%) JUnit
6 9 (2.48%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.48%) gulp
7 7 (1.93%) Mocha
7 7 (1.93%) Subversion
7 7 (1.93%) webpack
8 6 (1.65%) Gradle
8 6 (1.65%) Maven
8 6 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.38%) Babel
9 5 (1.38%) Liquibase
9 5 (1.38%) Mockito
9 5 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.10%) Grunt
General
1 74 (20.39%) Public Sector
2 72 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 29 (7.99%) Finance
4 12 (3.31%) Banking
5 11 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 10 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.48%) Marketing
8 7 (1.93%) Electronics
8 7 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.38%) Law
10 3 (0.83%) Military
10 3 (0.83%) Retail
11 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.55%) French Language
11 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.28%) German Language
12 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.25%) Node.js
2 58 (15.98%) CSS
2 58 (15.98%) React
3 56 (15.43%) HTML
4 43 (11.85%) .NET
5 38 (10.47%) RESTful
6 37 (10.19%) Spring
7 36 (9.92%) Spring Boot
8 28 (7.71%) AngularJS
9 23 (6.34%) Kafka
10 21 (5.79%) REST
11 19 (5.23%) HTML5
12 18 (4.96%) Web Services
13 14 (3.86%) Sass
13 14 (3.86%) Swagger
14 13 (3.58%) Jest
14 13 (3.58%) OpenAPI
14 13 (3.58%) SAP Fiori
14 13 (3.58%) SOAP
15 12 (3.31%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (3.58%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.48%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.65%) NHS
6 6 (1.65%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (1.38%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.55%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.82%) Linux
2 16 (4.41%) Android
3 14 (3.86%) Apple iOS
4 13 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.48%) Unix
6 3 (0.83%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.55%) Solaris
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (24.79%) Agile
2 75 (20.66%) CI/CD
3 59 (16.25%) Microservices
4 56 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (14.05%) TDD
6 50 (13.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (10.19%) DevOps
7 37 (10.19%) Front End Development
8 36 (9.92%) Software Engineering
9 32 (8.82%) Containerisation
10 31 (8.54%) Test Automation
11 27 (7.44%) BDD
12 25 (6.89%) Mentoring
12 25 (6.89%) Scrum
12 25 (6.89%) SDLC
13 24 (6.61%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (6.06%) Code Quality
14 22 (6.06%) Event-Driven
15 21 (5.79%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (5.23%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (22.87%) Java
2 79 (21.76%) JavaScript
3 73 (20.11%) SQL
4 45 (12.40%) Python
5 33 (9.09%) ABAP
6 27 (7.44%) C#
6 27 (7.44%) TypeScript
7 17 (4.68%) Bash
7 17 (4.68%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.20%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.20%) PHP
8 8 (2.20%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.93%) Scala
10 4 (1.10%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.10%) C++
10 4 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.10%) Ruby
11 3 (0.83%) Clojure
11 3 (0.83%) COBOL
11 3 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 77 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.20%) Degree
5 6 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.55%) CCNA
6 2 (0.55%) CCNP
6 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.86%) WCAG
2 12 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.20%) QA
4 7 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.10%) HL7
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (11.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.96%) Terraform
3 7 (1.93%) Kibana
4 5 (1.38%) Ansible
5 2 (0.55%) Grafana
5 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Packer
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (12.95%) SAP
2 39 (10.74%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.68%) Oracle
4 14 (3.86%) Google
4 14 (3.86%) Virgin Media
5 7 (1.93%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.93%) Siebel
6 6 (1.65%) Workday
7 5 (1.38%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.10%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.55%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.55%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.55%) Infoblox
9 2 (0.55%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.55%) New Relic
9 2 (0.55%) Rockwell
9 2 (0.55%) Sage
9 2 (0.55%) Siemens
9 2 (0.55%) Sitecore