fastlane Contract Job Trends in the North of England

fastlane
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring fastlane skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing fastlane 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.081% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £431 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.65 - -
25th Percentile £61.38 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.38 - -
90th Percentile £69.35 - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 - -

All Development Application Skills
North of England

fastlane falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 899 513 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.51% 15.57% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 359 351
10th Percentile £337 £340 £368
25th Percentile £394 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -5.10% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £578
90th Percentile £622 £625 £645
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 8 12
10th Percentile £36.75 £52.13 £38.38
25th Percentile £52.19 £54.48 £45.88
Median hourly rate £60.50 £73.75 £53.09
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +38.92% +4.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.81 £74.17
90th Percentile £71.88 £80.70 £80.82
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

fastlane job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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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 fastlane within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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 - 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £450 - 2
fastlane
England

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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 (60.00%) Firebase
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Gradle
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Xcode
1 2 (40.00%) XCTest
2 1 (20.00%) CocoaPods
2 1 (20.00%) Crashlytics
2 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Android Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (20.00%) iOS Android Developer
4 1 (20.00%) iOS Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) SwiftUI
1 4 (80.00%) UIKit
2 2 (40.00%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Retrofit
3 1 (20.00%) Android SDK
3 1 (20.00%) Core Data
3 1 (20.00%) iOS SDK
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) JSON Schema
3 1 (20.00%) OkHttp
3 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (80.00%) MVVM
2 4 (80.00%) User Experience
3 3 (60.00%) API Development
3 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) A/B Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) API Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) iOS Development
4 2 (40.00%) Kanban
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Swift
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) WCAG
3 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Google