Next.js Contract Job Trends in the North West

Next.js
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Next.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 115 127
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing Next.js 12 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.49% 0.14% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% 0.86% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 14
10th Percentile £359 £305 £416
25th Percentile £409 £350 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £631
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -28.71% +17.44%
75th Percentile £600 £469 £643
90th Percentile - £473 £645
England median daily rate £500 £519 £488
% change year-on-year -3.61% +6.41% -15.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Next.js falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 510 349 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.75% 16.30% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 227 448
10th Percentile £325 £354 £366
25th Percentile £380 £401 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £664 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 31
10th Percentile £50.25 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £76.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

Next.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Next.js job vacancy trend in the North West

Next.js
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Next.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Next.js in the North West over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Next.js in the North West

Next.js
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 Next.js within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Manchester +5 9 £488 +8.33% 18
Cheshire - 2 - - 9
Merseyside -3 1 - - 8
Next.js
England

Next.js
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
5 1 (8.33%) Firebase
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (16.67%) git-flow
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (8.33%) Automotive
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 3 (25.00%) Games Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) React
2 6 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 6 (50.00%) Node.js
3 5 (41.67%) REST
4 4 (33.33%) Redux
4 4 (33.33%) WebSockets
5 3 (25.00%) Playwright
5 3 (25.00%) Zustand
6 2 (16.67%) Express.js
6 2 (16.67%) Jest
6 2 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 1 (8.33%) D3.js
7 1 (8.33%) HTML5
7 1 (8.33%) JSON
7 1 (8.33%) OAuth
7 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (8.33%) RESTful
7 1 (8.33%) Sass
7 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Educational Technology
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) API Management
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Observability
3 2 (16.67%) Product Management
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) UX Design
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
4 1 (8.33%) LLM
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Use Case
4 1 (8.33%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Netlify
1 1 (8.33%) OpenAI