Pega Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Pega
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of Pega products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pega over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Pegasystems, Inc.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 162 190
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 +57
Contract jobs citing Pega 11 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.15% 0.060%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.35% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £411 - £338
25th Percentile £441 £609 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £619 £425
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +45.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £509 £628 £506
90th Percentile £519 - £533
England median daily rate £484 £619 £575
% change year-on-year -21.83% +7.57% +2.45%

All Vendors
North of England

Pega falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,036 1,706 2,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.91% 42.44% 46.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 909 1,497
10th Percentile £279 £300 £225
25th Percentile £376 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £685 £673 £663
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 80 112
10th Percentile £14.95 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.78 £20.91 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.18 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.67% +17.27% +40.61%
75th Percentile £53.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £55.79 £46.88
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +78.00%

Pega
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Pega job vacancy trend in the North of England

Pega
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Pega
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 Pega within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 October 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 West -12 7 £492 -20.45% 5
North East - 3 £438 -
Yorkshire -29 1 £463 -25.22%
Pega
England

Pega
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 2 (18.18%) SAS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
1 4 (36.36%) Redis
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Pega Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Pega Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Agile
1 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
2 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
2 2 (18.18%) Data Science
2 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
2 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
2 2 (18.18%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (18.18%) Stress Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) R
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Dynatrace
1 4 (36.36%) Informatica
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk