Developer Contracts in the North West

Developer
England > North West

The median Developer daily rate in the North West is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 8 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 346 401 732
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 12.64% 13.23% 18.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.35% 13.94% 18.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 314 571
10th Percentile £306 £325 £325
25th Percentile £363 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +24.22%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 18
10th Percentile £78.05 - £34.18
25th Percentile £78.88 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £81.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £82.88 - £77.50
90th Percentile £82.95 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +2.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,591 2,877 3,911
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 94.92% 96.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,638 2,039 2,853
10th Percentile £272 £300 £213
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 131 164
10th Percentile £11.13 £14.55 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.06 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £32.90 £30.00 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% +24.48% +33.89%
75th Percentile £48.00 £45.62 £52.60
90th Percentile £71.02 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the North West

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +4 242 £453 -4.74% 206
Cheshire -9 48 £338 -38.64% 43
Merseyside +15 36 £450 - 36
Lancashire -5 12 £438 -20.45% 30
Cumbria -14 4 £488 +14.76% 3
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 84 (24.28%) SQL
2 70 (20.23%) Java
3 68 (19.65%) JavaScript
4 66 (19.08%) C#
5 59 (17.05%) AWS
6 55 (15.90%) HTML
7 51 (14.74%) React
8 48 (13.87%) .NET
8 48 (13.87%) Python
9 47 (13.58%) Agile
10 42 (12.14%) Security Cleared
11 37 (10.69%) Unit Testing
12 36 (10.40%) Power Platform
13 34 (9.83%) RESTful
14 33 (9.54%) Azure
15 32 (9.25%) Spring
15 32 (9.25%) Social Skills
16 31 (8.96%) Degree
16 31 (8.96%) Android
16 31 (8.96%) SC Cleared
16 31 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (8.96%) REST
17 30 (8.67%) DevOps
17 30 (8.67%) Microsoft
17 30 (8.67%) Software Engineering
17 30 (8.67%) CI/CD
17 30 (8.67%) Code Quality
18 29 (8.38%) CSS
18 29 (8.38%) Power BI
19 28 (8.09%) Spring Boot

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (2.31%) CMS
2 7 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.73%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.16%) Mule
5 3 (0.87%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.87%) IIS
6 2 (0.58%) Apache
6 2 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) Camunda
7 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.29%) Mendix
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (7.23%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.45%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.87%) Maximo
4 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.29%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 59 (17.05%) AWS
2 36 (10.40%) Power Platform
3 33 (9.54%) Azure
4 28 (8.09%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (3.18%) Power Automate
6 10 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.89%) GitHub
6 10 (2.89%) Serverless
7 6 (1.73%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (1.45%) SaaS
9 4 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.16%) npm
9 4 (1.16%) OCI
9 4 (1.16%) Yarn
10 3 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.87%) Contentstack
10 3 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.58%) Intranet
1 2 (0.58%) MQTT
1 2 (0.58%) SSL
1 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.38%) Power BI
2 16 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.89%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.31%) MySQL
7 8 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.45%) Redis
9 5 (1.45%) Tableau
10 4 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.87%) SQLite
12 2 (0.58%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 21 (6.07%) Git
2 13 (3.76%) Android Studio
3 12 (3.47%) Mockito
4 11 (3.18%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.60%) JUnit
6 7 (2.02%) Mocha
7 5 (1.45%) GitLab
8 4 (1.16%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.16%) JIRA
8 4 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (1.16%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.16%) Log4j
8 4 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.16%) webpack
8 4 (1.16%) Xcode
8 4 (1.16%) XCUITest
9 3 (0.87%) Maven
10 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
General
1 32 (9.25%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.23%) Public Sector
3 24 (6.94%) Finance
4 14 (4.05%) Banking
5 12 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.73%) Retail
7 5 (1.45%) Law
7 5 (1.45%) Legal
8 4 (1.16%) Marketing
9 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Local Government
10 2 (0.58%) Advertising
10 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.29%) Games
11 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.29%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.90%) HTML
2 51 (14.74%) React
3 48 (13.87%) .NET
4 34 (9.83%) RESTful
5 32 (9.25%) Spring
6 31 (8.96%) REST
7 29 (8.38%) CSS
8 28 (8.09%) Node.js
8 28 (8.09%) Spring Boot
9 21 (6.07%) .NET Framework
10 18 (5.20%) Hibernate
11 16 (4.62%) AngularJS
11 16 (4.62%) Vue
12 14 (4.05%) JPA
12 14 (4.05%) Web Services
13 12 (3.47%) Kafka
13 12 (3.47%) Redux
13 12 (3.47%) XML
14 11 (3.18%) .NET Core
15 10 (2.89%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.94%) Mobile App
2 16 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (2.31%) Algorithms
3 8 (2.31%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.16%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.16%) NHS
5 4 (1.16%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.87%) Derivative
6 3 (0.87%) e-Learning
6 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.29%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.96%) Android
2 12 (3.47%) Apple iOS
2 12 (3.47%) Unix
3 6 (1.73%) Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (13.58%) Agile
2 37 (10.69%) Unit Testing
3 31 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (8.67%) CI/CD
4 30 (8.67%) Code Quality
4 30 (8.67%) DevOps
4 30 (8.67%) Software Engineering
5 28 (8.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 28 (8.09%) Front End Development
5 28 (8.09%) Microservices
6 27 (7.80%) Android Development
6 27 (7.80%) Full Stack Development
7 25 (7.23%) Conversational UI
7 25 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (7.23%) Scrum
8 23 (6.65%) Design Patterns
9 21 (6.07%) OO
10 19 (5.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (4.91%) User Experience
12 15 (4.34%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 84 (24.28%) SQL
2 70 (20.23%) Java
3 68 (19.65%) JavaScript
4 66 (19.08%) C#
5 48 (13.87%) Python
6 21 (6.07%) Kotlin
7 20 (5.78%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.05%) PHP
9 10 (2.89%) Go
10 9 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.73%) Ruby
11 6 (1.73%) Swift
11 6 (1.73%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.16%) ABAP
12 4 (1.16%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.87%) C++
13 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.58%) Perl
14 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.96%) Degree
2 31 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.31%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.18%) QA
2 4 (1.16%) GDPR
2 4 (1.16%) HL7
3 3 (0.87%) SLA
4 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (3.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.60%) Terraform
3 2 (0.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Control-M
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (8.67%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.23%) PayPal
3 12 (3.47%) Oracle
4 11 (3.18%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.31%) SAP
6 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.16%) Nokia
7 4 (1.16%) Siemens
8 3 (0.87%) IBM
8 3 (0.87%) Nintex
8 3 (0.87%) Pega
9 2 (0.58%) Google
9 2 (0.58%) Sage
9 2 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.29%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.29%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.29%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.29%) VMware