Dagger Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Dagger
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Dagger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dagger 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.17% - 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £55.38 - £76.38
25th Percentile £57.81 - £76.56
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £78.75
75th Percentile £67.81 - £81.56
90th Percentile £69.13 - £82.13
North West median hourly rate £63.75 - £78.75

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Dagger 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 269 217 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 23.27% 19.82% 24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 142 319
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £670
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 8
10th Percentile £52.50 - £60.50
25th Percentile £53.13 - £64.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.78%
75th Percentile £66.75 - £77.81
90th Percentile £70.00 - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%

Dagger
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Dagger job vacancy trend in Manchester

Dagger
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Dagger

Dagger
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Dagger.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Dagger

Dagger
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Dagger in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Dagger in Manchester

Dagger
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 2 (100.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Android Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (50.00%) OkHttp
2 1 (50.00%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Android Development
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana