Senior Contract Job Trends in Bury

Senior
Manchester > Bury

The median Senior daily rate in Bury is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bury 64.71% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 64.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £689 - -
25th Percentile £710 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £774 - -
90th Percentile £790 - -
Manchester median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -13.04%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bury

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bury. 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 Bury with a recognized job title 17 4 1
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 36.36% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 - £325
75th Percentile £764 - £338
90th Percentile £775 - -
Manchester median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.77 -
Manchester median hourly rate £60.00 £20.26 £42.50
% change year-on-year +196.22% -52.34% +123.68%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Bury

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bury.

Senior job vacancy trend in Bury

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Bury

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Bury.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Bury

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury

For the 6 months to 25 July 2026, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bury region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) GitHub
1 10 (90.91%) Observability
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 9 (81.82%) Monorepo
3 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (72.73%) QA
4 7 (63.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (63.64%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
6 5 (45.45%) Agile
6 5 (45.45%) AI
6 5 (45.45%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (45.45%) Bash
6 5 (45.45%) Claude Code
6 5 (45.45%) Cloud Operations
6 5 (45.45%) Code Quality
6 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
6 5 (45.45%) Customer Experience
6 5 (45.45%) Docker
6 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven
6 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (45.45%) FinOps
6 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (45.45%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (45.45%) Google Gemini
6 5 (45.45%) Information Security
6 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) AutoCAD
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) GitHub
2 7 (63.64%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (45.45%) Anthropic Claude
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub Copilot
3 5 (45.45%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Claude Code
2 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 6 (54.55%) Retail
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Next.js
1 5 (45.45%) React
1 5 (45.45%) REST
2 4 (36.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Culture of Ownership
3 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) Observability
2 9 (81.82%) Monorepo
3 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (63.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
6 5 (45.45%) Agile
6 5 (45.45%) AI
6 5 (45.45%) Cloud Operations
6 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
6 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven
6 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (45.45%) FinOps
6 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (45.45%) Information Security
6 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
6 5 (45.45%) Microservices
6 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
6 5 (45.45%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) TOWER Software