Firebird Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Firebird
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Firebird skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firebird 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.019% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 - -

All Database & BI Skills
North of England

Firebird falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 780 508 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.51% 15.44% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 355 486
10th Percentile £325 £325 £303
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.75%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.84% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 29
10th Percentile £20.30 £22.72 £20.77
25th Percentile £55.25 £23.93 £37.63
Median hourly rate £72.00 £27.50 £44.74
Median % change year-on-year +161.82% -38.53% -31.17%
75th Percentile £84.13 £31.04 £46.18
90th Percentile £89.60 £65.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £53.25 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.48% -4.71% -24.01%

Firebird
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Firebird job vacancy trend in the North of England

Firebird
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Firebird
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Firebird
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 Firebird within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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 East - 1 £450 -
Firebird
England

Firebird
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL