Mocha Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Mocha
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Mocha skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 150 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Mocha 10 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.21% 0.31% -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.11% 2.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £538 £344 -
25th Percentile £577 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £483 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% - -
75th Percentile £633 £497 -
90th Percentile £650 £498 -
England median daily rate £575 £483 £550
% change year-on-year +19.17% -12.27% +4.76%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

Mocha 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 899 527 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.13% 14.66% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 334 430
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £393 £395 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -5.50% -8.26%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £599
90th Percentile £634 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 39
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £43.26 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - -1.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £52.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £72.98 £75.28 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Mocha
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Mocha job vacancy trend in the North of England

Mocha
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Mocha
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 Mocha within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 East -3 5 £600 +84.62%
Yorkshire - 5 £613 -
North West -37 1 £500 +2.04% 1
Mocha
England

Mocha
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 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (60.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior
3 5 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (10.00%) HTML CSS Developer
6 1 (10.00%) HTML Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (10.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Open Source Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Jest
2 9 (90.00%) Node.js
3 6 (60.00%) CSS
3 6 (60.00%) HTML
4 5 (50.00%) React
5 4 (40.00%) Express.js
5 4 (40.00%) REST
6 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
7 2 (20.00%) Spring
7 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
8 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (10.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Microservices
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (60.00%) Open Source
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (30.00%) API Development
6 3 (30.00%) BDD
6 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (30.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) Progressive Enhancement
6 3 (30.00%) Secure Coding
6 3 (30.00%) TDD
6 3 (30.00%) User Experience
7 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (60.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes