Foglight Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Quest Foglight
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Foglight 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 Foglight 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.019% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.097% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
England median daily rate £475 £619 -
% change year-on-year -23.23% - -

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

Foglight falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,027 598 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.11% 18.17% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 362 436
10th Percentile £313 £250 £258
25th Percentile £400 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +4.71% -13.18%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £621 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 8 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.07
25th Percentile £41.76 £23.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +63.74% -27.26% +8.66%
75th Percentile £60.31 £70.51 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.50 £74.25
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

Foglight
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Foglight job vacancy trend in the North of England

Foglight
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Foglight
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 Foglight 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
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
Foglight
England

Foglight
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DTS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Flyway
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow