IFS Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

IFS
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring knowledge or experience of IFS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFS over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IFS AB.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IFS 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.22% - 1.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.83% - 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £500 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £13.99
North East median hourly rate - - £13.99

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

IFS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 121 116 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 26.59% 47.15% 45.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 81 60
10th Percentile £192 £213 £157
25th Percentile £385 £325 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £428
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.21% -18.48%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £556
90th Percentile £635 £624 £716
North East median daily rate £500 £408 £431
% change year-on-year +22.70% -5.45% -17.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 8
10th Percentile £22.75 - £13.09
25th Percentile £46.19 - £13.99
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £15.75
75th Percentile £65.63 - £29.06
90th Percentile £69.83 - £60.00
North East median hourly rate £60.00 £32.47 £19.14
% change year-on-year +84.81% +69.66% -66.72%

IFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

IFS job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

IFS
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 IFS within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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 - 1 £500 -
IFS
North East

IFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cutover Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP