Semaphore Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Semaphore
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Semaphore skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semaphore 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.019% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.052% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
England median daily rate £650 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

Semaphore falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,929 1,145 1,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.23% 34.56% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 798 1,166
10th Percentile £220 £263 £263
25th Percentile £366 £376 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -2.46% -7.24%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 19 72
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £13.05
25th Percentile £21.46 £22.61 £15.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £20.14
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +36.58% -52.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.50 £44.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £97.71 £60.42
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

Semaphore
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 Semaphore within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West - 1 £650 -
Semaphore
England

Semaphore
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 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) RStudio
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IDERA