Low-Code Contract Job Trends in the North West

Low-Code
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Low-Code in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Low-Code over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.33% 0.13% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £535 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
North West

Low-Code falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 725 639 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.71% 26.94% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 381 537
10th Percentile £306 £313 £256
25th Percentile £375 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £553 £595 £593
90th Percentile £638 £738 £654
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 27 39
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.75 £16.20
25th Percentile £26.69 £18.07 £17.05
Median hourly rate £47.12 £31.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% -23.12% +100.32%
75th Percentile £66.13 £57.50 £51.88
90th Percentile £77.75 £74.70 £67.60
England median hourly rate £32.77 £53.75 £45.41
% change year-on-year -39.03% +18.37% +74.65%

Low-Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Low-Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Low-Code in the North West

Low-Code
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Low-Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Low-Code

Low-Code
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 Low-Code within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Merseyside +5 3 £425 -22.73% 2
Manchester +1 2 £530 -3.64% 2
Lancashire - 2 £528 - 3
Low-Code
England

Low-Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
2 4 (57.14%) Power Automate
3 3 (42.86%) PowerApps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Figma
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Firebase
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (14.29%) Automotive
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead UX Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Streamlit
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) D3.js
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) Flutter
2 1 (14.29%) Gradio
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) LangChain
2 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) React Native
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (42.86%) Shadow IT
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Prototyping
2 3 (42.86%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (42.86%) User Experience
2 3 (42.86%) UX Design
3 2 (28.57%) Design Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Co-Creation
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
4 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (14.29%) Interaction Design
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Presales
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Netlify
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI