Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bury

Software Engineering
Manchester > Bury

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bury requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bury 29.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £709 - -
25th Percentile £716 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 - -
75th Percentile £766 - -
90th Percentile £769 - -
Manchester median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +9.95% -9.05% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bury

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bury 100.00% 72.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 £193 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £205 -
Median % change year-on-year +221.34% - -
75th Percentile £764 £218 -
90th Percentile £775 - -
Manchester median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.77 -
Manchester median hourly rate £60.50 £22.63 £35.00
% change year-on-year +167.34% -35.34% +79.49%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bury

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bury.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Bury

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bury

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bury citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bury citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 5 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Claude Code
2 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Principal Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Next.js
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform