Developer Contracts in Manchester

Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Developer daily rate in Manchester is £453 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 283 298 523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 18.31% 15.20% 20.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.16% 15.70% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 238 422
10th Percentile £331 £334 £326
25th Percentile £401 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.56% +21.88%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £453 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.18% +2.63% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £78.05 £34.90 £30.75
25th Percentile £78.88 £38.50 £37.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +103.75% -23.81% +123.69%
75th Percentile £82.88 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.95 - -
North West median hourly rate £81.50 £40.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year +103.75% +15.94% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,477 1,898 2,475
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 96.79% 97.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 1,418 1,977
10th Percentile £306 £306 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £568
90th Percentile £694 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 60 58
10th Percentile £12.02 £14.61 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £38.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.39% +118.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £20.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.13
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £32.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -19.73% +64.39% +11.73%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport +4 7 £500 +35.14% 11
Salford +1 6 £425 -34.62% 6
Bolton - 4 £500 - 2
Oldham 0 3 £450 - 2
Altrincham 0 1 £563 +2.27% 6
Bury - 1 £325 - 2
Cheadle - 1 £400 - 2
Developer
North West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 74 (26.15%) AWS
2 55 (19.43%) Java
3 54 (19.08%) SQL
4 50 (17.67%) Agile
5 45 (15.90%) JavaScript
6 44 (15.55%) React
7 43 (15.19%) C#
8 41 (14.49%) RESTful
9 36 (12.72%) .NET
10 32 (11.31%) Azure
11 31 (10.95%) CI/CD
11 31 (10.95%) Front End Development
12 30 (10.60%) Node.js
12 30 (10.60%) HTML
13 29 (10.25%) Python
13 29 (10.25%) Unit Testing
14 28 (9.89%) Artificial Intelligence
15 27 (9.54%) Degree
15 27 (9.54%) Security Cleared
15 27 (9.54%) TypeScript
16 26 (9.19%) Code Quality
17 24 (8.48%) Conversational UI
17 24 (8.48%) Android Development
17 24 (8.48%) Microservices
17 24 (8.48%) Kotlin
17 24 (8.48%) PayPal
17 24 (8.48%) Chatbot
17 24 (8.48%) Android
18 23 (8.13%) Scrum
19 22 (7.77%) DevOps

Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.12%) Umbraco
2 5 (1.77%) CMS
3 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 24 (8.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.77%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 74 (26.15%) AWS
2 32 (11.31%) Azure
3 22 (7.77%) Power Platform
4 18 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.83%) GitHub
5 8 (2.83%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.47%) Serverless
7 6 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.12%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.77%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.77%) SaaS
9 4 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (1.41%) npm
9 4 (1.41%) OCI
9 4 (1.41%) Yarn
10 3 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.06%) GCP
10 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) Intranet
1 2 (0.71%) MQTT
1 2 (0.71%) SSL
1 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.01%) Power BI
2 11 (3.89%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.18%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.47%) MySQL
5 6 (2.12%) Redis
5 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.41%) Tableau
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.06%) SQLite
9 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.71%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.30%) Android Studio
2 14 (4.95%) Git
3 11 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.53%) Mockito
5 8 (2.83%) GitLab
6 6 (2.12%) Mocha
7 5 (1.77%) Xcode
7 5 (1.77%) XCUITest
8 4 (1.41%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.41%) JUnit
8 4 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (1.41%) Maven
8 4 (1.41%) webpack
9 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.71%) JIRA
9 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.35%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (7.77%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.36%) Public Sector
3 14 (4.95%) Finance
4 7 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.12%) Banking
6 5 (1.77%) Law
7 4 (1.41%) Legal
7 4 (1.41%) Marketing
8 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.06%) Local Government
9 1 (0.35%) Advertising
9 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.55%) React
2 41 (14.49%) RESTful
3 36 (12.72%) .NET
4 30 (10.60%) HTML
4 30 (10.60%) Node.js
5 18 (6.36%) CSS
5 18 (6.36%) REST
5 18 (6.36%) Spring
6 15 (5.30%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.89%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.89%) Vue
7 11 (3.89%) Web Services
8 9 (3.18%) .NET Framework
8 9 (3.18%) Hibernate
8 9 (3.18%) JPA
8 9 (3.18%) Redux
9 8 (2.83%) Spring Security
10 7 (2.47%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.47%) Django
10 7 (2.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.71%) Mobile App
2 12 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.12%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.71%) Derivative
7 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.35%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.35%) IoT
8 1 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.48%) Android
2 7 (2.47%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.06%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (17.67%) Agile
2 31 (10.95%) CI/CD
2 31 (10.95%) Front End Development
3 29 (10.25%) Unit Testing
4 28 (9.89%) Artificial Intelligence
5 26 (9.19%) Code Quality
6 24 (8.48%) Android Development
6 24 (8.48%) Conversational UI
6 24 (8.48%) Microservices
7 23 (8.13%) Scrum
8 22 (7.77%) DevOps
9 21 (7.42%) Full Stack Development
10 19 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (6.71%) Software Engineering
11 18 (6.36%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (6.36%) Design Patterns
12 15 (5.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (4.59%) TDD
14 12 (4.24%) E-Commerce
14 12 (4.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (19.43%) Java
2 54 (19.08%) SQL
3 45 (15.90%) JavaScript
4 43 (15.19%) C#
5 29 (10.25%) Python
6 27 (9.54%) TypeScript
7 24 (8.48%) Kotlin
8 12 (4.24%) Go
9 10 (3.53%) PHP
10 7 (2.47%) Swift
11 4 (1.41%) ABAP
11 4 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.06%) C++
12 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.71%) Ruby
13 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.35%) C
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 27 (9.54%) Degree
1 27 (9.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.01%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.71%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.18%) QA
2 4 (1.41%) GDPR
3 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.24%) Terraform
2 9 (3.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (8.48%) PayPal
2 14 (4.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.95%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.18%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.12%) Oracle
5 5 (1.77%) SAP
6 4 (1.41%) Google
6 4 (1.41%) Nokia
6 4 (1.41%) Siemens
7 3 (1.06%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.71%) Sage
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.35%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.35%) Xamarin