Developer Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Developer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Developer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 36 51 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 14.75% 20.99% 22.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.25% 23.08% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 61
10th Percentile £328 £336 £370
25th Percentile £363 £363 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £490 £715 £600
90th Percentile £550 £720 £725
North East median daily rate £460 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.05% +0.05% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 236 221 342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.72% 90.95% 98.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 102 266
10th Percentile £223 £271 £311
25th Percentile £350 £377 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.91% +11.00%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £734
North East median daily rate £461 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 41 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £23.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £49.08 £60.00 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
% change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Tyne and Wear

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Tyne and Wear

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Tyne and Wear

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Tyne and Wear

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -6 35 £460 -8.05% 98
Developer
North East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 15 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
3 13 (36.11%) HTML
3 13 (36.11%) CSS
4 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 12 (33.33%) AWS
4 12 (33.33%) Node.js
5 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
5 11 (30.56%) Java
6 10 (27.78%) Agile
7 9 (25.00%) Microservices
8 8 (22.22%) Front End Development
8 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
8 8 (22.22%) TDD
8 8 (22.22%) Git
8 8 (22.22%) SQL
9 7 (19.44%) MySQL
9 7 (19.44%) WCAG
10 6 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (16.67%) Data Protection
10 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 6 (16.67%) Sass
10 6 (16.67%) GitLab
10 6 (16.67%) React
10 6 (16.67%) Terraform
10 6 (16.67%) Jest
10 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
11 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (13.89%) Virgin Media

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (11.11%) OpenEdge
2 2 (5.56%) nginx
2 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) CMS
3 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) Kong
2 4 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 3 (8.33%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Lightsail
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 7 (19.44%) MySQL
3 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.33%) Redis
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.78%) Power BI
6 1 (2.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Git
2 6 (16.67%) GitLab
3 5 (13.89%) SonarQube
4 4 (11.11%) Artifactory
4 4 (11.11%) gulp
4 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 4 (11.11%) Maven
4 4 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.56%) JIRA
5 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
5 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.56%) Electronics
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) French Language
4 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing
4 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) CSS
1 13 (36.11%) HTML
2 12 (33.33%) Node.js
3 6 (16.67%) Jest
3 6 (16.67%) React
3 6 (16.67%) Sass
4 5 (13.89%) Kafka
5 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.11%) Apache CXF
5 4 (11.11%) Dropwizard
5 4 (11.11%) Express.js
5 4 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 4 (11.11%) JAX-RS
5 4 (11.11%) MEAN Stack
5 4 (11.11%) MERN Stack
5 4 (11.11%) Mongoose
5 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (11.11%) Sequelize
5 4 (11.11%) Spring
5 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Agile
2 9 (25.00%) Microservices
3 8 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 8 (22.22%) TDD
4 6 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.11%) API Integration
6 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (11.11%) Open Source
6 4 (11.11%) Operational Stability
6 4 (11.11%) User Experience
6 4 (11.11%) Visualisation
7 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 3 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 11 (30.56%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) Scala
5 2 (5.56%) ABAP
5 2 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) WCAG
2 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) Kibana
4 2 (5.56%) Grafana
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Virgin Media
3 4 (11.11%) SAP
4 2 (5.56%) New Relic