RightScale Contract Job Trends in the North of England

RightScale
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 RightScale products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RightScale over the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, 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 RightScale, Inc.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RightScale 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.017% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.039% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
North of England

RightScale 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 2,546 1,605 2,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 42.74% 50.33% 43.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 1,048 1,259
10th Percentile £263 £234 £248
25th Percentile £385 £363 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 72 206
10th Percentile £15.93 £18.16 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.55 £12.53
Median hourly rate £41.86 £32.50 £15.09
Median % change year-on-year +28.78% +115.45% -49.72%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £21.32
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.03
England median hourly rate £27.00 £29.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -6.90% +24.92% -39.70%

RightScale
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

RightScale job vacancy trend in the North of England

RightScale
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

RightScale
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 RightScale within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 April 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 - -
RightScale
England

RightScale
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP