Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Digital Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 80 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.15% 0.50% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
North West median daily rate £575 £620 -
% change year-on-year -7.30% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Digital Engineering 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,681 891 1,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.01% 89.10% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 572 643
10th Percentile £310 £303 £326
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £576 £600
90th Percentile £698 £672 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 62 43
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.20 £16.17
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.07 £22.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +143.04% -35.34% +79.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £54.38 £60.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £73.90
North West median hourly rate £46.43 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +84.61% -37.38% +18.13%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Hitachi