Contract Digital & IT Job Statistics in the North West

Contract IT Job Statistics in the North West

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Senior	13	Up 12 places+12	£600	+17.49%	383 9.58%	339
Analyst	14	Down 3 places-3	£420	+1.75%	379 9.48%	144
Lead	17	Up 11 places+11	£550	+10.00%	350 8.75%	154
Architect	18	Down 2 places-2	£591	+2.11%	324 8.10%	73
Developer	20	Down 5 places-5	£492	+15.82%	314 7.85%	172
Consultant	34	Down 14 places-14	£585	-5.64%	225 5.63%	65
Network Engineer	50	Up 17 places+17	£500	-1.47%	159 3.98%	36
Administrator	58	Up 30 places+30	£450	+0.55%	147 3.68%	16
Project Manager	65	Up 1 place+1	£500	-	130 3.25%	44
Software Engineer	66	Up 27 places+27	£550	-	129 3.23%	87
Business Analyst	75	Down 14 places-14	£450	+4.40%	116 2.90%	31
Security Engineer	76	Up 29 places+29	£529	+5.80%	115 2.88%	42
Data Engineer	87	Up 21 places+21	£525	+30.43%	95 2.38%	48
Infrastructure Engineer	88	Up 25 places+25	£515	+9.11%	93 2.33%	33
Support Engineer	89	Up 5 places+5	£200	+5.26%	92 2.30%	35
Cloud Engineer	91	Up 32 places+32	£513	+20.58%	90 2.25%	20
Solutions Architect	97	Down 24 places-24	£625	+7.94%	84 2.10%	24
IT Support	105	Down 22 places-22	£200	+14.28%	73 1.83%	42
DevOps Engineer	108	Down 1 place-1	£600	+50.00%	70 1.75%	37
DBA	109	Up 23 places+23	£479	+6.44%	69 1.73%	2
Senior Developer	114	Up 7 places+7	£625	+25.00%	64 1.60%	39
Test Engineer	117	Up 9 places+9	£525	+34.61%	61 1.53%	23
Service Analyst	119	Down 4 places-4	£175	-6.66%	59 1.48%	7
Java Engineer	120	Up 19 places+19	£557	+82.62%	57 1.43%	19
Java Developer	122	Down 28 places-28	£522	+21.39%	55 1.38%	19
IT Engineer	123	Down 12 places-12	£200	+21.21%	54 1.35%	27
Data Analyst	128	Down 14 places-14	£450	+12.50%	49 1.23%	28
Service Desk Analyst	129	Down 8 places-8	£169	+3.84%	48 1.20%	6
Designer	129	Down 33 places-33	£575	+31.80%	48 1.20%	23
AWS Engineer	132	Down 19 places-19	£525	+30.59%	45 1.13%	18
SAP Consultant	133	Down 67 places-67	£625	-11.03%	44 1.10%	3
IT Support Engineer	133	Down 7 places-7	£200	+29.03%	44 1.10%	19
Systems Engineer	136	Down 17 places-17	£500	+11.11%	41 1.03%	46
SC Cleared Network Engineer	137	Down 3 places-3	£515	+3.00%	40 1.00%
SQL DBA	137	Up 3 places+3	£435	+12.25%	40 1.00%	1
IT Manager	137	Down 16 places-16	£438	-16.66%	40 1.00%	32
Technical Architect	137	Down 33 places-33	£600	+11.62%	40 1.00%	15
Delivery Manager	138	Down 22 places-22	£450	+2.85%	39 0.98%	26
Security Analyst	139	Down 8 places-8	£468	+74.44%	38 0.95%	19
Product Manager	139	Down 4 places-4	£575	+27.77%	38 0.95%	7
Security Architect	139	Down 20 places-20	£600	-18.28%	38 0.95%	9
Full-Stack Engineer	139	Up 1 place+1	£557	+39.25%	38 0.95%	33
Lead Architect	140	Down 2 places-2	£500	-32.20%	37 0.93%	6
Unix Engineer	140	New entry-	£481	-	37 0.93%
Desktop Engineer	141	Down 16 places-16	£240	+16.36%	36 0.90%	1
Coordinator	141	Down 7 places-7	£338	+3.84%	36 0.90%	7
Security Consultant	143	Down 10 places-10	£525	+4.52%	34 0.85%	8
Principal Engineer	144	Down 10 places-10	£718	+30.45%	33 0.83%	41
Support Analyst	144	Down 37 places-37	£300	+42.85%	33 0.83%	9
Senior Infrastructure Engineer	146	Down 14 places-14	£575	-6.12%	31 0.78%	17