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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.070% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £524 - -
25th Percentile £533 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £565 - -
90th Percentile £570 - -
England median daily rate £550 £380 -
% change year-on-year +44.74% - -

All Process & 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 4,950 2,946 4,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 86.24% 90.17% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,207 1,865 2,601
10th Percentile £270 £263 £284
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £582
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 155 363
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.00 £11.01
25th Percentile £22.67 £20.60 £12.58
Median hourly rate £45.23 £28.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.32% +55.41% -35.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £44.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £52.78
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%

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

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

Trunk-Based Development job vacancy trend 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 23 March 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 - 4 £550 - 1
Trunk-Based Development
England

Trunk-Based Development
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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 4 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Attestation
3 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) SBOM
3 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Brown Bag Session
4 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Design for Test
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google