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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 538 696
Rank change year-on-year +31 +158 +125
Contract jobs citing NEC Housing 11 44 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.10% 0.012%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.45% 1.36% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 33 6
10th Percentile £125 £411 £432
25th Percentile £306 £442 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £531
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -10.55% +54.47%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £536
90th Percentile £595 - £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £660 £450 £526
% change year-on-year +46.67% -14.37% +75.17%
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 2,445 3,235 3,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.30% 7.52% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,882 2,136
10th Percentile £400 £375 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £681
90th Percentile £788 £787 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +3.81% -2.10% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 111 55
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £22.55
25th Percentile £40.00 £21.25 £32.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.33 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.79% -17.70% +40.00%
75th Percentile £79.13 £59.50 £66.88
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £41.23 £49.50
% change year-on-year +45.53% -16.71% +115.22%

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 11 May 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 11 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
England +50 11 £430 -9.47% 7
London +9 8 £388 -18.42% 2
Work from Home +32 4 £475 +4.97% 6
UK excluding London +48 1 £660 +46.67% 7
South East - 1 £660 - 3

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 (18.18%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Appium
1 2 (18.18%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Local Government
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Consultant
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
1 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Senior Project Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Business Information Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Information Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Housing Association
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
1 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Housing Management
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) API Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Contract Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Project Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Test Management
5 1 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) NEC
2 2 (18.18%) Capita
2 2 (18.18%) Civica
2 2 (18.18%) Northgate
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle