Senior Software Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 109 139
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 7 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.47% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.50% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £555 £468 £531
25th Percentile £600 £476 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -13.73% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £575 £659
90th Percentile - £658 £700
North West median daily rate £625 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £46.91 - £44.68

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 1,422 1,793 2,541
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 96.45% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 1,338 1,991
10th Percentile £313 £313 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 50 59
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.42 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.00 £36.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +107.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.44 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -23.83% +70.73% +14.53%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior Software Engineer 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Design Patterns
2 6 (85.71%) MongoDB
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) RESTful
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Node.js
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (14.29%) RxJava
6 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (14.29%) Java
6 1 (14.29%) JUnit
6 1 (14.29%) XML
6 1 (14.29%) MVVM
6 1 (14.29%) SQLite
6 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 1 (14.29%) Push Notifications
6 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (14.29%) Kotlin

Senior Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) RESTful
2 5 (71.43%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (14.29%) RxJava
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Design Patterns
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) MVVM
4 1 (14.29%) Push Notifications
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
4 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
26 Senior Software Engineer jobs in the North West