Developer Contracts in the North West

Developer
England > North West

The median Developer daily rate in the North West is £458 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 8 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 377 432 707
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 14.07% 13.90% 17.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.88% 14.65% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 337 554
10th Percentile £307 £338 £325
25th Percentile £380 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -2.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 16
10th Percentile £78.05 £38.65 £29.25
25th Percentile £78.88 £38.88 £48.75
Median hourly rate £81.50 £39.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.33% -45.52% +141.67%
75th Percentile £82.88 £39.88 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.95 £39.95 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,533 2,949 3,871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 94.85% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 2,098 2,817
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 124 176
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.68 £11.56
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year -17.88% +36.42% +34.26%
75th Percentile £46.91 £50.72 £49.00
90th Percentile £69.14 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the North West

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
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 Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +3 269 £475 - 181
Merseyside +18 45 £450 - 34
Cheshire -13 35 £316 -42.50% 58
Lancashire -2 18 £715 +33.64% 21
Cumbria -19 4 £473 +11.24% 6
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 85 (22.55%) SQL
2 70 (18.57%) Java
2 70 (18.57%) AWS
3 69 (18.30%) C#
4 66 (17.51%) JavaScript
5 55 (14.59%) React
6 54 (14.32%) Agile
6 54 (14.32%) Degree
7 53 (14.06%) Code Quality
8 52 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
8 52 (13.79%) HTML
9 50 (13.26%) .NET
10 49 (13.00%) PayPal
10 49 (13.00%) Chatbot
10 49 (13.00%) Conversational UI
11 47 (12.47%) Python
12 43 (11.41%) Security Cleared
13 42 (11.14%) RESTful
14 39 (10.34%) Public Sector
14 39 (10.34%) CI/CD
15 38 (10.08%) Unit Testing
16 37 (9.81%) Microservices
16 37 (9.81%) Azure
17 36 (9.55%) Social Skills
18 34 (9.02%) DevOps
19 33 (8.75%) Node.js
19 33 (8.75%) REST
20 31 (8.22%) Front End Development
20 31 (8.22%) Software Engineering
21 30 (7.96%) SC Cleared

Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.12%) CMS
2 7 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.59%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.06%) Mule
5 3 (0.80%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.80%) IIS
6 2 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) Camunda
7 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (13.00%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.06%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.80%) Maximo
4 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 70 (18.57%) AWS
2 37 (9.81%) Azure
3 28 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.57%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.18%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.39%) GitHub
6 9 (2.39%) Serverless
7 7 (1.86%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.59%) SaaS
9 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.06%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.06%) npm
10 4 (1.06%) OCI
10 4 (1.06%) Yarn
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) Intranet
1 2 (0.53%) MQTT
1 2 (0.53%) SSL
1 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.10%) Power BI
2 19 (5.04%) MongoDB
3 16 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.12%) MySQL
7 8 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.33%) Redis
11 4 (1.06%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.06%) Tableau
12 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
12 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.80%) SQLite
13 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.84%) Git
2 14 (3.71%) Android Studio
3 12 (3.18%) Mockito
4 11 (2.92%) GitLab
4 11 (2.92%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.39%) JUnit
6 7 (1.86%) Mocha
7 5 (1.33%) Xcode
7 5 (1.33%) XCUITest
8 4 (1.06%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.06%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (1.06%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.06%) Log4j
8 4 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.06%) webpack
9 3 (0.80%) JIRA
9 3 (0.80%) Maven
9 3 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 39 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 36 (9.55%) Social Skills
3 20 (5.31%) Finance
4 14 (3.71%) Banking
5 11 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.33%) Law
6 5 (1.33%) Legal
7 4 (1.06%) Marketing
7 4 (1.06%) Retail
8 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.80%) Local Government
9 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.27%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.59%) React
2 52 (13.79%) HTML
3 50 (13.26%) .NET
4 42 (11.14%) RESTful
5 33 (8.75%) Node.js
5 33 (8.75%) REST
6 28 (7.43%) CSS
7 25 (6.63%) Spring
8 22 (5.84%) Spring Boot
9 20 (5.31%) .NET Framework
10 18 (4.77%) Hibernate
11 17 (4.51%) AngularJS
11 17 (4.51%) Vue
11 17 (4.51%) Web Services
12 14 (3.71%) JPA
13 13 (3.45%) XML
14 12 (3.18%) .NET Core
14 12 (3.18%) Redux
15 11 (2.92%) Kafka
16 10 (2.65%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.10%) Mobile App
2 16 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (1.59%) Algorithms
3 6 (1.59%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.06%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.06%) NHS
5 4 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.53%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.53%) CMDB
7 2 (0.53%) Derivative
7 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.27%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.27%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.96%) Android
2 11 (2.92%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.65%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (14.32%) Agile
2 53 (14.06%) Code Quality
3 52 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
4 49 (13.00%) Conversational UI
5 39 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 38 (10.08%) Unit Testing
7 37 (9.81%) Microservices
8 34 (9.02%) DevOps
9 31 (8.22%) Front End Development
9 31 (8.22%) Software Engineering
10 27 (7.16%) Android Development
10 27 (7.16%) Scrum
11 26 (6.90%) Full Stack Development
12 25 (6.63%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (5.57%) Design Patterns
15 19 (5.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (5.04%) User Experience
16 18 (4.77%) ITIL
17 14 (3.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 85 (22.55%) SQL
2 70 (18.57%) Java
3 69 (18.30%) C#
4 66 (17.51%) JavaScript
5 47 (12.47%) Python
6 24 (6.37%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.84%) Kotlin
8 13 (3.45%) PHP
9 11 (2.92%) Go
10 7 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.86%) Ruby
10 7 (1.86%) Swift
11 4 (1.06%) ABAP
11 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.06%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.06%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.80%) C++
13 2 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (14.32%) Degree
2 43 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.24%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.92%) QA
2 4 (1.06%) GDPR
2 4 (1.06%) HL7
3 3 (0.80%) SLA
4 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (2.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (4.24%) Kubernetes
1 16 (4.24%) Terraform
2 2 (0.53%) Ansible
3 1 (0.27%) Control-M
3 1 (0.27%) Grafana
3 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (13.00%) PayPal
2 23 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.57%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.71%) Oracle
5 11 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.12%) SAP
7 4 (1.06%) Nokia
7 4 (1.06%) Siemens
8 3 (0.80%) IBM
8 3 (0.80%) Nintex
8 3 (0.80%) Pega
9 2 (0.53%) Google
9 2 (0.53%) Sage
9 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.27%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.27%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.27%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.27%) VMware
10 1 (0.27%) Xamarin