Backends for Frontends Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £77.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Backends for Frontends 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,658 897 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.44% 89.79% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 587 596
10th Percentile £313 £311 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -5.60% -
75th Percentile £600 £581 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £488
% change year-on-year +9.89% -6.81% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 65 33
10th Percentile £19.60 £15.06 £15.94
25th Percentile £32.73 £19.07 £22.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +154.09% -35.34% +81.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £35.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.63 £67.50 £89.30
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +87.39% -40.84% +21.43%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backends for Frontends relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Backends for Frontends job vacancy trend in Manchester

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Backends for Frontends.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Backends for Frontends

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backends for Frontends in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backends for Frontends in Manchester

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Jest
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) Vue
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) AI Agents
2 2 (28.57%) Educational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
2 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Micro Frontends
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) UX Design
4 3 (42.86%) A/B Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) AI
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Product Requirements
5 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) User Research
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes