Junior Contracts in the North of England

Junior
England > North of England

The median Junior daily rate in the North of England is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 169 206
Rank change year-on-year +10 +37 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 26 33 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.54% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.64% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 30
10th Percentile - £200 £119
25th Percentile £288 £250 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £308 £244
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% +26.15% -8.02%
75th Percentile £375 £400 £325
90th Percentile - £419 £351
England median daily rate £320 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile - - £11.69
25th Percentile - - £17.99
Median hourly rate £10.42 £30.54 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.88% +52.70% -16.21%
75th Percentile - - £22.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £10.42 £13.15 £19.00
% change year-on-year -20.76% -30.79% +5.56%

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 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the North of England

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Junior in the North of England

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in the North of England

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior in the North of England

Junior
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 Junior within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. 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 +17 12 £325 +36.84% 24
North East +17 10 £321 -14.33% 7
North West -4 4 £375 +16.73% 45
Junior
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
1 9 (34.62%) High Availability
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 6 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Bash
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
3 5 (19.23%) Git
3 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Certification
3 5 (19.23%) Terraform
4 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 4 (15.38%) React
4 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 4 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) Microservices
4 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (15.38%) REST
4 4 (15.38%) JPA

Junior 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) AWS
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) JUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.85%) Postman
General
1 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
1 4 (15.38%) JPA
1 4 (15.38%) React
1 4 (15.38%) REST
1 4 (15.38%) Spring
1 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps
1 9 (34.62%) High Availability
2 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
3 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Agile
4 4 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) Microservices
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum
4 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 2 (7.69%) Business Continuity
5 2 (7.69%) Business Impact Analysis
5 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.69%) Data Integration
5 2 (7.69%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Bash
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.85%) ABAP
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) AWS Certification
2 5 (19.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Talend
2 1 (3.85%) Informatica
2 1 (3.85%) SAP