Senior Contracts in Manchester

Senior
North West > Manchester

The median Senior daily rate in Manchester is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 24 29
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 146 128 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.52% 6.75% 6.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.95% 6.98% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 100 138
10th Percentile £309 £410 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -0.70% +7.00%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £27.25 £24.00 -
25th Percentile £32.50 £28.13 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £82.20 £39.00 -
North West median hourly rate £44.74 £37.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year +19.31% -5.61% +16.85%

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 1,468 1,833 2,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.76% 96.63% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 1,365 1,997
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £394 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £656 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 55 61
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.13 £23.53
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.40 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Manchester

Senior
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 Senior within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Salford +2 6 £450 -29.41% 7
Stockport - 1 £550 - 4
Oldham - 1 £400 - 3
Bolton - 1 £200 - 1
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 31 (21.23%) AWS
2 29 (19.86%) Agile
3 25 (17.12%) Java
3 25 (17.12%) CI/CD
4 21 (14.38%) Social Skills
5 18 (12.33%) Public Sector
6 17 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (11.64%) DevOps
6 17 (11.64%) Azure
7 15 (10.27%) Test Automation
7 15 (10.27%) Degree
7 15 (10.27%) Python
7 15 (10.27%) Microsoft
8 14 (9.59%) Security Cleared
8 14 (9.59%) RESTful
8 14 (9.59%) Microservices
8 14 (9.59%) Terraform
9 13 (8.90%) React
9 13 (8.90%) Design Patterns
10 12 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (8.22%) ITIL
11 11 (7.53%) Project Management
11 11 (7.53%) Software Engineering
11 11 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (7.53%) Mentoring
12 10 (6.85%) Node.js
12 10 (6.85%) MongoDB
12 10 (6.85%) VMware

Senior 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 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Revit
2 2 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.68%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.37%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.23%) AWS
2 17 (11.64%) Azure
3 11 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.42%) GCP
6 3 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.05%) Serverless
7 2 (1.37%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.68%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.68%) Figma
8 1 (0.68%) Firebase
8 1 (0.68%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.68%) Matillion
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.68%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.16%) Network Security
2 3 (2.05%) Wireless
3 2 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.37%) HTTP
3 2 (1.37%) SAN
3 2 (1.37%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.37%) WAN
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.68%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) NFC
4 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.85%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.74%) Big Data
2 4 (2.74%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.74%) SQLite
3 3 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (2.05%) HBase
3 3 (2.05%) MySQL
3 3 (2.05%) Power BI
3 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.37%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Presto
5 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Git
1 8 (5.48%) GitLab
2 5 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.74%) Cucumber
3 4 (2.74%) Selenium
4 3 (2.05%) Gatling
4 3 (2.05%) JIRA
5 2 (1.37%) JMeter
5 2 (1.37%) Postman
5 2 (1.37%) TestCafe
5 2 (1.37%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.68%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.68%) GoCD
6 1 (0.68%) Gradle
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Pa11y
6 1 (0.68%) Storybook
General
1 21 (14.38%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.16%) Finance
5 7 (4.79%) Legal
6 5 (3.42%) Banking
7 3 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.37%) Automotive
8 2 (1.37%) Electronics
8 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.37%) Military
8 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Police
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.59%) RESTful
2 13 (8.90%) React
3 10 (6.85%) Node.js
4 7 (4.79%) CSS
4 7 (4.79%) Vue
5 6 (4.11%) HTML
5 6 (4.11%) Kafka
5 6 (4.11%) Redux
6 5 (3.42%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.42%) Next.js
6 5 (3.42%) Web Services
7 4 (2.74%) .NET
7 4 (2.74%) XML
8 3 (2.05%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.05%) OAuth
8 3 (2.05%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.05%) OpenID
8 3 (2.05%) Spring
9 2 (1.37%) CSS3
9 2 (1.37%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.37%) Derivative
5 2 (1.37%) Life Science
5 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.37%) Robotics
5 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.48%) Windows
2 7 (4.79%) Windows 10
2 7 (4.79%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.42%) Unix
3 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (2.74%) Android
5 3 (2.05%) Linux
6 2 (1.37%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.86%) Agile
2 25 (17.12%) CI/CD
3 17 (11.64%) DevOps
3 17 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (10.27%) Test Automation
5 14 (9.59%) Microservices
6 13 (8.90%) Design Patterns
7 12 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (8.22%) ITIL
8 11 (7.53%) Mentoring
8 11 (7.53%) Project Management
8 11 (7.53%) Software Engineering
9 9 (6.16%) Front End Development
10 8 (5.48%) Roadmaps
10 8 (5.48%) TDD
10 8 (5.48%) User Experience
11 7 (4.79%) Containerisation
11 7 (4.79%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (4.11%) Load Testing
12 6 (4.11%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.12%) Java
2 15 (10.27%) Python
3 7 (4.79%) Bash
4 6 (4.11%) SQL
5 5 (3.42%) Kotlin
5 5 (3.42%) Scala
5 5 (3.42%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.74%) C#
6 4 (2.74%) Go
7 3 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.37%) Groovy
8 2 (1.37%) Perl
8 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.68%) ABAP
9 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (10.27%) Degree
2 14 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.11%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (4.11%) CCNA
4 6 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (3.42%) MCSE
6 4 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.05%) CISM
7 3 (2.05%) CISSP
8 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.37%) CCNP
8 2 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.37%) MCITP
8 2 (1.37%) RIBA
8 2 (1.37%) VCAP
9 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.37%) GRC
3 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.37%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.79%) Docker
3 5 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (9.59%) Terraform
2 9 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.05%) Grafana
4 3 (2.05%) Kibana
5 2 (1.37%) Ansible
6 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (10.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.85%) VMware
3 9 (6.16%) Cisco
4 6 (4.11%) SAP
5 5 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.05%) 3PAR
6 3 (2.05%) Dell
7 2 (1.37%) Adobe
7 2 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.37%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.37%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (1.37%) Juniper
7 2 (1.37%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (1.37%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.37%) Veeam
8 1 (0.68%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.68%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.68%) Sparx
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk