Developer Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Developer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Developer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 19 28 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.55% 16.77% 22.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.24% 18.18% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 79
10th Percentile £343 £275 £400
25th Percentile £352 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £484 £720 £631
90th Percentile £545 - £720
North East median daily rate £425 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -25.44% +3.64% +8.11%

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 169 154 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.92% 92.22% 96.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 114 371
10th Percentile £211 £202 £350
25th Percentile £348 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £474 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -9.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £544 £580 £631
90th Percentile £646 £717 £700
North East median daily rate £450 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -17.14% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £17.01 £14.00 £11.05
25th Percentile £42.00 £15.50 £11.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £17.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +252.94% +36.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £32.00 £14.50
90th Percentile - £33.05 £20.05
North East median hourly rate £46.18 £32.50 £15.75
% change year-on-year +42.09% +106.35% +5.28%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024. 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 -9 16 £450 -25.00% 51
Sunderland - 3 £350 - 6
Gateshead 0 1 £450 +50.00% 2
Developer
North East

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
4 4 (21.05%) Docker
4 4 (21.05%) .NET
4 4 (21.05%) ETL
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle
5 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
5 3 (15.79%) C#
5 3 (15.79%) Git
5 3 (15.79%) Spring
5 3 (15.79%) TDD
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Play Framework
5 3 (15.79%) Scala
5 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
5 3 (15.79%) Talend
5 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 3 (15.79%) ETL Development
5 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (10.53%) CI/CD

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 1 (5.26%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.26%) Redis
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.26%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Back Office
3 1 (5.26%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Games
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
1 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
2 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (15.79%) Play Framework
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) CSS
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (10.53%) React
3 2 (10.53%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) SignalR
3 2 (10.53%) Visualforce
3 2 (10.53%) WebRTC
4 1 (5.26%) Akka
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.26%) Dropwizard
4 1 (5.26%) Swagger
4 1 (5.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
3 4 (21.05%) ETL
3 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) ETL Development
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (15.79%) TDD
5 2 (10.53%) API Integration
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.53%) Scrum
5 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Web Development
6 1 (5.26%) OOD
6 1 (5.26%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) Scala
4 2 (10.53%) Apex Code
4 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
1 3 (15.79%) Talend
2 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.26%) Xamarin