Developer Contracts in Manchester

Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Developer daily rate in Manchester is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 276 277 541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 18.46% 14.84% 20.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.26% 15.38% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 219 431
10th Percentile £332 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £613 £638 £663
North West median daily rate £453 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -7.18% - +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £78.05 £38.95 £30.75
25th Percentile £78.88 £39.63 £37.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.76% -19.05% +123.69%
75th Percentile £82.88 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.95 - -
North West median hourly rate £81.50 £42.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year +91.76% +23.19% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,433 1,801 2,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.85% 96.52% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 1,343 1,987
10th Percentile £313 £313 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £592 £575
90th Percentile £693 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 50 59
10th Percentile £12.02 £16.42 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £25.10 £36.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +107.14% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.44 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £30.76 £20.50
% change year-on-year -13.31% +50.02% +14.53%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Stockport +2 7 £500 +35.14% 6
Salford -2 4 £425 -34.62% 5
Oldham 0 3 £450 -
Bolton - 2 £500 - 4
Altrincham 0 1 £563 +2.27% 7
Bury - 1 £325 - 1
Cheadle - 1 £400 - 2
Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 Manchester region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 67 (24.28%) AWS
2 58 (21.01%) Java
3 53 (19.20%) SQL
4 51 (18.48%) Agile
5 47 (17.03%) React
6 43 (15.58%) C#
7 42 (15.22%) JavaScript
8 40 (14.49%) RESTful
9 35 (12.68%) .NET
10 34 (12.32%) Unit Testing
11 33 (11.96%) Security Cleared
12 31 (11.23%) HTML
12 31 (11.23%) Azure
12 31 (11.23%) CI/CD
12 31 (11.23%) Front End Development
13 28 (10.14%) Microservices
13 28 (10.14%) TypeScript
13 28 (10.14%) Node.js
13 28 (10.14%) Python
14 27 (9.78%) Degree
14 27 (9.78%) Code Quality
15 26 (9.42%) DevOps
15 26 (9.42%) Scrum
15 26 (9.42%) Artificial Intelligence
16 24 (8.70%) SC Cleared
16 24 (8.70%) PayPal
16 24 (8.70%) Chatbot
16 24 (8.70%) Public Sector
16 24 (8.70%) Conversational UI
17 23 (8.33%) Kotlin

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (2.17%) Umbraco
2 5 (1.81%) CMS
3 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.09%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
Applications
1 24 (8.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.81%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 67 (24.28%) AWS
2 31 (11.23%) Azure
3 22 (7.97%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.16%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.90%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.54%) GitHub
7 7 (2.54%) Serverless
8 6 (2.17%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.81%) SaaS
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.45%) npm
10 4 (1.45%) OCI
10 4 (1.45%) Yarn
11 3 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Intranet
1 2 (0.72%) MQTT
1 2 (0.72%) SSL
1 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.16%) Power BI
2 13 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.99%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.99%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.62%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.81%) MySQL
6 5 (1.81%) Redis
7 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.45%) Tableau
8 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.09%) SQLite
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.72%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.61%) Git
2 14 (5.07%) Android Studio
3 11 (3.99%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.26%) GitLab
4 9 (3.26%) JUnit
4 9 (3.26%) Mockito
5 7 (2.54%) Mocha
6 5 (1.81%) Xcode
6 5 (1.81%) XCUITest
7 4 (1.45%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.45%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (1.45%) Maven
7 4 (1.45%) webpack
8 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.72%) JIRA
8 2 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.72%) Selenium
8 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 18 (6.52%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.71%) Finance
4 7 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (2.54%) Banking
5 4 (1.45%) Law
5 4 (1.45%) Legal
5 4 (1.45%) Marketing
6 3 (1.09%) Local Government
7 2 (0.72%) Retail
8 1 (0.36%) Advertising
8 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.36%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.03%) React
2 40 (14.49%) RESTful
3 35 (12.68%) .NET
4 31 (11.23%) HTML
5 28 (10.14%) Node.js
6 23 (8.33%) Spring
7 22 (7.97%) REST
7 22 (7.97%) Spring Boot
8 19 (6.88%) CSS
9 14 (5.07%) Hibernate
9 14 (5.07%) JPA
10 12 (4.35%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.35%) Redux
11 11 (3.99%) Web Services
12 10 (3.62%) .NET Framework
12 10 (3.62%) Vue
13 8 (2.90%) .NET Core
13 8 (2.90%) Django
13 8 (2.90%) Spring Security
14 7 (2.54%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.52%) Mobile App
2 13 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.54%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.72%) Derivative
7 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.36%) CMDB
8 1 (0.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.36%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.36%) IoT
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.33%) Android
2 7 (2.54%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.72%) Linux
3 2 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (18.48%) Agile
2 34 (12.32%) Unit Testing
3 31 (11.23%) CI/CD
3 31 (11.23%) Front End Development
4 28 (10.14%) Microservices
5 27 (9.78%) Code Quality
6 26 (9.42%) Artificial Intelligence
6 26 (9.42%) DevOps
6 26 (9.42%) Scrum
7 24 (8.70%) Conversational UI
8 23 (8.33%) Android Development
9 21 (7.61%) Full Stack Development
9 21 (7.61%) Software Engineering
10 18 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (6.52%) Design Patterns
10 18 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (4.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (4.71%) TDD
12 13 (4.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (21.01%) Java
2 53 (19.20%) SQL
3 43 (15.58%) C#
4 42 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 28 (10.14%) Python
5 28 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.33%) Kotlin
7 11 (3.99%) Go
8 10 (3.62%) PHP
9 7 (2.54%) Swift
10 4 (1.45%) ABAP
10 4 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.72%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.72%) C++
12 2 (0.72%) Ruby
12 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) C
13 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 33 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.78%) Degree
3 24 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.90%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.36%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.62%) QA
2 4 (1.45%) GDPR
3 3 (1.09%) SLA
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (3.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) Control-M
3 1 (0.36%) Grafana
3 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (8.70%) PayPal
2 14 (5.07%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.99%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.62%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.17%) Oracle
6 5 (1.81%) SAP
7 4 (1.45%) Nokia
7 4 (1.45%) Siemens
8 2 (0.72%) Google
8 2 (0.72%) Sage
8 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.36%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.36%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.36%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.36%) Xamarin