BYOD Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BYOD over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 83 98
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 +27
Contract jobs citing BYOD 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.080% 0.19% 0.062%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.55% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
North West median daily rate £436 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +37.50%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

BYOD falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 431 366 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.32% 35.09% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 221 314
10th Percentile £247 £200 £233
25th Percentile £352 £350 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £451
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +0.83% -9.75%
75th Percentile £555 £584 £550
90th Percentile £624 £688 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -4.05% -6.20% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 23
10th Percentile £19.75 £20.05 £13.11
25th Percentile £21.03 £24.25 £24.35
Median hourly rate £46.25 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +25.00% -50.48%
75th Percentile £67.19 £33.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £81.63 - £77.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +65.31% -8.33% -14.29%

BYOD
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

BYOD job vacancy trend in Manchester

BYOD
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing BYOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing BYOD

BYOD
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 1 (100.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware