Notepad++ Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Notepad++
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Notepad++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Notepad++ 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% - -
As % of the Applications category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £432 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 - -
75th Percentile £464 - -
90th Percentile £468 - -
UK median daily rate £459 £285 -
% change year-on-year +61.34% - -

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

Notepad++ falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,724 1,253 2,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.56% 9.89% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 724 902
10th Percentile £200 £163 £150
25th Percentile £306 £223 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -11.05%
75th Percentile £531 £500 £500
90th Percentile £640 £575 £613
UK median daily rate £450 £410 £400
% change year-on-year +9.89% +2.38% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 187 519
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.20 £11.07
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.91 £24.66 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -19.26% +51.94% -47.87%
75th Percentile £29.63 £46.30 £40.88
90th Percentile £68.75 £82.25 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £24.66 £18.00
% change year-on-year -18.90% +37.00% -45.04%

Notepad++
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Notepad++ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Notepad++ job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Notepad++
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Notepad++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Notepad++

Notepad++
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Notepad++ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 April 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
Midlands - 4 £459 -
West Midlands - 4 £459 -
Notepad++
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) PuTTY
1 4 (100.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Informatica
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle