Developer Contracts in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 649 757 1,116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 13.48% 13.87% 15.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.52% 14.55% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 604 894
10th Percentile £300 £363 £363
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +0.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 21
10th Percentile £78.05 - £35.00
25th Percentile £78.88 £61.25 £48.75
Median hourly rate £81.50 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.40% -10.71% +141.38%
75th Percentile £82.88 £66.88 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.95 £68.75 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,470 5,202 6,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 95.33% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 3,644 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 163 271
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.05 £11.30
25th Percentile £13.02 £17.60 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48.00 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
North West +3 351 £450 -10.00% 327
Yorkshire +2 264 £475 -9.52% 150
North East -1 34 £450 -10.00% 66
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 North of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 155 (23.88%) SQL
2 141 (21.73%) JavaScript
3 128 (19.72%) Python
4 119 (18.34%) C#
5 115 (17.72%) Java
6 104 (16.02%) HTML
7 101 (15.56%) Agile
8 98 (15.10%) AWS
9 87 (13.41%) Security Cleared
9 87 (13.41%) Software Engineering
10 80 (12.33%) .NET
11 75 (11.56%) Degree
12 71 (10.94%) SC Cleared
13 68 (10.48%) React
13 68 (10.48%) Social Skills
14 67 (10.32%) Code Quality
14 67 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence
15 66 (10.17%) Azure
16 62 (9.55%) DevOps
17 61 (9.40%) PayPal
17 61 (9.40%) Conversational UI
17 61 (9.40%) Chatbot
17 61 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
18 53 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
19 51 (7.86%) Public Sector
19 51 (7.86%) CI/CD
20 49 (7.55%) Full Stack Development
20 49 (7.55%) Unit Testing
21 48 (7.40%) Android
21 48 (7.40%) Spring

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (2.31%) Umbraco
2 14 (2.16%) CMS
3 10 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.23%) Drupal
5 7 (1.08%) Apache
6 4 (0.62%) Mule
7 3 (0.46%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.46%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) Confluence
9 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.15%) Kentico
9 1 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 61 (9.40%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.77%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.62%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.46%) Maximo
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 98 (15.10%) AWS
2 66 (10.17%) Azure
3 44 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 31 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (3.70%) Serverless
6 21 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (3.24%) GitHub
7 12 (1.85%) Power Automate
7 12 (1.85%) SaaS
8 8 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (1.23%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.08%) Azure Functions
10 6 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (0.77%) GCP
12 4 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.62%) Contentstack
12 4 (0.62%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.46%) HTTP
1 3 (0.46%) SSL
2 2 (0.31%) Intranet
2 2 (0.31%) MQTT
2 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) FTP
3 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.39%) Power BI
2 29 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.47%) SQL Server
3 20 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 18 (2.77%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.54%) Redis
8 9 (1.39%) MySQL
9 8 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.08%) Tableau
11 6 (0.92%) GIS
12 5 (0.77%) Flink
12 5 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.62%) SAP BW
13 4 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.46%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 39 (6.01%) Git
2 18 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.47%) JUnit
4 15 (2.31%) Mockito
5 13 (2.00%) Android Studio
6 12 (1.85%) JIRA
7 7 (1.08%) Mocha
8 6 (0.92%) GitLab
9 5 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.77%) Xcode
9 5 (0.77%) XCUITest
10 4 (0.62%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.62%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.62%) Log4j
10 4 (0.62%) Maven
10 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.62%) webpack
11 3 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 68 (10.48%) Social Skills
2 51 (7.86%) Public Sector
3 41 (6.32%) Finance
4 24 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.24%) Banking
6 17 (2.62%) Retail
7 7 (1.08%) Law
8 6 (0.92%) Legal
9 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.62%) Marketing
11 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.46%) Games
11 3 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.46%) Local Government
12 2 (0.31%) Advertising
12 2 (0.31%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.15%) Automotive
13 1 (0.15%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.15%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (16.02%) HTML
2 80 (12.33%) .NET
3 68 (10.48%) React
4 48 (7.40%) Spring
5 43 (6.63%) Spring Boot
6 42 (6.47%) Node.js
7 40 (6.16%) REST
8 39 (6.01%) CSS
9 38 (5.86%) RESTful
10 31 (4.78%) AngularJS
10 31 (4.78%) Web Services
11 29 (4.47%) .NET Framework
12 25 (3.85%) Hibernate
13 20 (3.08%) JPA
14 18 (2.77%) .NET Core
15 16 (2.47%) Vue
16 15 (2.31%) Kafka
16 15 (2.31%) XML
17 13 (2.00%) Redux
18 11 (1.69%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.31%) Mobile App
2 18 (2.77%) Algorithms
3 16 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.08%) CMDB
7 6 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.77%) Low-Code
8 5 (0.77%) NHS
8 5 (0.77%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.62%) e-Learning
9 4 (0.62%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.46%) Derivative
10 3 (0.46%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.46%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.31%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.31%) Freedom of Information
11 2 (0.31%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.40%) Android
2 33 (5.08%) Apple iOS
3 16 (2.47%) Unix
4 8 (1.23%) Linux
5 3 (0.46%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (15.56%) Agile
2 87 (13.41%) Software Engineering
3 67 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence
3 67 (10.32%) Code Quality
4 62 (9.55%) DevOps
5 61 (9.40%) Conversational UI
5 61 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
7 51 (7.86%) CI/CD
8 49 (7.55%) Full Stack Development
8 49 (7.55%) Unit Testing
9 46 (7.09%) Microservices
10 45 (6.93%) Front End Development
11 42 (6.47%) Scrum
12 41 (6.32%) Data Modelling
13 39 (6.01%) Android Development
13 39 (6.01%) TDD
14 30 (4.62%) Test Automation
15 28 (4.31%) ETL
15 28 (4.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (23.88%) SQL
2 141 (21.73%) JavaScript
3 128 (19.72%) Python
4 119 (18.34%) C#
5 115 (17.72%) Java
6 40 (6.16%) TypeScript
7 33 (5.08%) Kotlin
8 21 (3.24%) Swift
9 18 (2.77%) PHP
10 12 (1.85%) ABAP
11 11 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.39%) Go
13 8 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.23%) Scala
14 7 (1.08%) Ruby
14 7 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.92%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.77%) C++
17 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 75 (11.56%) Degree
3 71 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.16%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.15%) CEH
8 1 (0.15%) CISSP
8 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.08%) QA
2 9 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.62%) GDPR
4 4 (0.62%) HL7
4 4 (0.62%) WCAG
5 3 (0.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 31 (4.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
2 1 (0.15%) IAG
Systems Management
1 36 (5.55%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.54%) Terraform
3 6 (0.92%) Ansible
4 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.15%) Control-M
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (9.40%) PayPal
2 41 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.70%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.08%) SAP
5 18 (2.77%) Oracle
6 14 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.16%) Splunk
7 9 (1.39%) Google
7 9 (1.39%) RedPrairie
8 4 (0.62%) IBM
8 4 (0.62%) Nokia
8 4 (0.62%) Siemens
9 3 (0.46%) ESRI
9 3 (0.46%) Nintex
9 3 (0.46%) Pega
9 3 (0.46%) Talend
10 2 (0.31%) Ariba
10 2 (0.31%) Sage
10 2 (0.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.31%) Sitecore