Bun Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Anthropic Bun
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Bun skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bun 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.12% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £446 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £505 - -
North West median daily rate £479 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Bun falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 420 228 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.73% 25.45% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 182 273
10th Percentile £355 £400 £368
25th Percentile £400 £406 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £552 £555 £623
90th Percentile £638 £638 £825
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 1 8
10th Percentile £52.50 - £67.13
25th Percentile £53.75 £76.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £82.50 £71.87
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +14.79% +59.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £76.13
90th Percentile £95.00 - £81.45
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +3.32% +39.89% +13.17%

Bun
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Vite
1 1 (50.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Deno
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) Nuxt
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Go
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe