Junior Contracts in Northamptonshire

Junior
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Junior daily rate in Northamptonshire is £281, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.70% - 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £215 - -
25th Percentile £238 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £281 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.00%
75th Percentile £314 - -
90th Percentile £319 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £311 £175 £243
% change year-on-year +77.71% -27.84% -10.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 136 192 222
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 95.05% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 144 173
10th Percentile £272 £282 £207
25th Percentile £358 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £428 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +6.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £500
90th Percentile £575 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +11.75% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 10
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £14.19
25th Percentile £21.56 £12.37 £17.82
Median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
Median % change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%
75th Percentile £45.06 £35.00 £26.33
90th Percentile £51.03 £57.88 £35.30
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.32
% change year-on-year +32.60% -13.88% +18.80%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in Northamptonshire

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Junior in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Junior in Northamptonshire

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Junior in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Junior in Northamptonshire

Junior
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Northampton - 4 £281 - 1
Junior
East Midlands

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Junior 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) DOM
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) Content Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe XD
3 1 (25.00%) Figma
3 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Aerospike
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Typography
3 1 (25.00%) Veracode
3 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 1 (25.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (25.00%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospike
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) DOM
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Contextual Inquiry
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Typography
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Veracode