Eclipse Contract Job Trends in the North West

Eclipse
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Eclipse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 118 141
Rank change year-on-year -17 +23 +31
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.042% 0.073%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.82% 0.38% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £361 - £513
25th Percentile £393 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £528
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.50%
75th Percentile £498 - £543
90th Percentile £529 - £544
England median daily rate £418 £618 £575
% change year-on-year -32.39% +7.39% +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
North West

Eclipse falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 366 265 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.04% 11.14% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 158 263
10th Percentile £313 £314 £350
25th Percentile £360 £360 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £448 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -12.25% -2.86%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £596
90th Percentile £635 £638 £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 37
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £42.23 £41.86 -
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.29% - +2.62%
75th Percentile £72.21 £51.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

Eclipse
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Eclipse job vacancy trend in the North West

Eclipse
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Eclipse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Eclipse

Eclipse
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Eclipse in the North West over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Eclipse in the North West

Eclipse
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Eclipse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Eclipse

Eclipse
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Eclipse within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Cheshire -19 1 £340 -
Cumbria - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 £550 -
Eclipse
England

Eclipse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
1 1 (33.33%) Ajax
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) EJB
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) JavaBeans
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) JSP
1 1 (33.33%) JSTL
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Struts
1 1 (33.33%) Swing
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk