NEC Housing Contracts

NEC Housing (formerly Northgate Housing)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring NEC Housing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NEC Housing over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 558 707
Rank change year-on-year +63 +149 +131
Contract jobs citing NEC Housing 24 42 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.096% 0.010%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.00% 1.30% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 5
10th Percentile £273 £411 £420
25th Percentile £433 £442 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £481 £532
Median % change year-on-year +22.79% -9.68% +77.33%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £532
90th Percentile - - £558
UK excluding London median daily rate £660 £463 -
% change year-on-year +42.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

NEC Housing falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,403 3,240 3,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.22% 7.43% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,893 2,192
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £527
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.38% +0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 110 56
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £21.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £21.25 £29.21
Median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.82 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £45.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -8.16% +108.29%

NEC Housing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NEC Housing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NEC Housing in the UK

NEC Housing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NEC Housing.

Daily rate trend for NEC Housing in the UK

NEC Housing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NEC Housing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NEC Housing in the UK

NEC Housing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NEC Housing.

Hourly rate trend for NEC Housing in the UK

NEC Housing
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NEC Housing within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +46 23 £595 +25.26% 2
London +21 20 £600 +26.32% 2
Work from Home +39 6 £475 -5.00% 2
UK excluding London +49 1 £660 +42.70% 1
South East - 1 £660 -

NEC Housing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Appium
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (25.00%) Local Government
4 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Consultant
2 11 (45.83%) Development Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Business Information Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Information Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
1 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Housing Association
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Android
1 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (54.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (45.83%) Decision-Making
4 10 (41.67%) Data Protection
4 10 (41.67%) Requirements Workshops
4 10 (41.67%) Service Delivery
4 10 (41.67%) System Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Housing Management
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
7 2 (8.33%) Migration
7 2 (8.33%) Project Governance
7 2 (8.33%) Project Planning
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) NEC
2 2 (8.33%) Capita
2 2 (8.33%) Civica
2 2 (8.33%) Northgate
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle