Contract Management Contracts in Manchester

Contract Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Contract Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contract Management over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +49
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Contract Management 6 5 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.59% 0.41% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.48% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 25
10th Percentile £208 - £518
25th Percentile £209 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% -21.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £638
90th Percentile £563 £555 £665
North West median daily rate £429 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -18.18% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Contract Management 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 908 1,050 1,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.85% 86.71% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 657 1,116
10th Percentile £306 £331 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £576 £600 £594
90th Percentile £663 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 45 55
10th Percentile £16.79 £15.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £23.50 £16.46
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +5.41%
75th Percentile £56.62 £62.50 £43.13
90th Percentile £75.25 £89.00 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%

Contract Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Contract Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Contract Management in Manchester

Contract Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Contract Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Contract Management

Contract Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contract Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contract Management in Manchester

Contract Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Contract Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Contract Management

Contract Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) Google Sheets
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Law
4 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Commercial Officer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Commercial Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Procurement Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Procurement Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Procurement Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Commercial Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Supplier Management
2 4 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Business Case
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) E-Procurement
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Supplier Relationship Management
5 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Management
5 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Google