Developer Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Developer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Developer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £484, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 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
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 25 19 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.68% 11.66% 14.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.63% 13.01% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 22
10th Percentile £455 £350 £323
25th Percentile £468 £356 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -2.44% -10.44%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £597
90th Percentile £628 £538 £719
North East median daily rate £480 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +12.94% -3.41% -14.56%

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 198 146 189
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 89.57% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 85 130
10th Percentile £200 £319 £278
25th Percentile £411 £383 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £524
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.12% -0.19%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £625
90th Percentile £650 £618 £720
North East median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 4
10th Percentile £11.78 £18.23 £14.20
25th Percentile £12.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.49 £50.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.02% +104.08% +48.48%
75th Percentile £20.63 £70.00 £32.44
90th Percentile £32.93 - £33.23
North East median hourly rate £13.25 £38.27 £32.25
% change year-on-year -65.39% +18.67% +92.54%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +2 22 £480 +6.67% 36
Developer
North East

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
1 14 (56.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (48.00%) AWS
3 11 (44.00%) Node.js
3 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (40.00%) Java
5 9 (36.00%) SQL
5 9 (36.00%) MySQL
5 9 (36.00%) Agile
6 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
7 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (28.00%) NoSQL
8 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
8 6 (24.00%) Git
8 6 (24.00%) Spring
8 6 (24.00%) GitLab
8 6 (24.00%) Terraform
9 5 (20.00%) User Experience
9 5 (20.00%) Microservices
9 5 (20.00%) WCAG
9 5 (20.00%) TDD
10 4 (16.00%) HTML
10 4 (16.00%) CSS
10 4 (16.00%) RESTful
10 4 (16.00%) Jest
10 4 (16.00%) React
10 4 (16.00%) SonarQube
10 4 (16.00%) Front End Development

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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
1 3 (12.00%) OpenEdge
2 2 (8.00%) Documentum
2 2 (8.00%) FileNet
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (12.00%) Kong
2 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.00%) Serverless
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Lightsail
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) MySQL
2 7 (28.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.00%) DocumentDB
6 1 (4.00%) Power BI
6 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
1 6 (24.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (12.00%) gulp
3 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) Maven
3 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (56.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) Node.js
2 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (24.00%) Spring
4 4 (16.00%) CSS
4 4 (16.00%) HTML
4 4 (16.00%) Jest
4 4 (16.00%) Kafka
4 4 (16.00%) React
4 4 (16.00%) RESTful
4 4 (16.00%) Sass
5 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (12.00%) Dropwizard
5 3 (12.00%) Express.js
5 3 (12.00%) JAX-RS
5 3 (12.00%) MEAN Stack
5 3 (12.00%) MERN Stack
5 3 (12.00%) Mongoose
5 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (12.00%) Sequelize
5 3 (12.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (20.00%) Microservices
3 5 (20.00%) TDD
3 5 (20.00%) User Experience
4 4 (16.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL
5 3 (12.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 3 (12.00%) MVC
5 3 (12.00%) Open Source
5 3 (12.00%) Operational Stability
5 3 (12.00%) SFIA
5 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) Content Management
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) Rust
6 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) WCAG
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Kibana
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Aderant
3 1 (4.00%) OpenText
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce