Value Proposition Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Value Proposition
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Value Proposition skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 156 173
Rank change year-on-year -47 +17 +35
Contract jobs citing Value Proposition 5 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.10% 0.090% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £362 -
25th Percentile £463 £370 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -23.86% -15.38%
75th Percentile £488 £461 £575
90th Percentile - £466 -
England median daily rate £625 £503 £531
% change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -3.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Value Proposition 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 4,292 2,941 4,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 87.88% 88.11% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 1,706 2,770
10th Percentile £232 £263 £280
25th Percentile £364 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £645 £656 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 140 277
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.00 £11.79
25th Percentile £20.82 £17.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £41.68 £27.50 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +51.56% +4.21% +17.29%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £73.68 £55.06
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%

Value Proposition
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Value Proposition job vacancy trend in the North of England

Value Proposition
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Value Proposition
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 Value Proposition within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 January 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 - 3 £475 - 52
Yorkshire -44 2 - - 91
Value Proposition
England

Value Proposition
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) CrewAI
2 2 (40.00%) LangChain
2 2 (40.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (40.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematical Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) NVIDIA
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAI