Trunk-Based Development Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Trunk-Based Development
England > North of England

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.050% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 - -
75th Percentile £360 - -
90th Percentile £360 - -
England median daily rate £360 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Trunk-Based Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,559 3,451 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.04% 83.90% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,302 2,001 2,969
10th Percentile £268 £300 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 179 206
10th Percentile £13.56 £12.55 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.38 £17.81
Median hourly rate £22.32 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.24% +27.27% +36.61%
75th Percentile £35.75 £51.89 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.13 £70.00 £63.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Trunk-Based Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Trunk-Based Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Trunk-Based Development in the North of England

Trunk-Based Development
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Trunk-Based Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Trunk-Based Development

Trunk-Based Development
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 Trunk-Based Development within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 - 2 £359 - 1
Trunk-Based Development
England

Trunk-Based Development
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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle