Driving Licence Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Drivers' Licence
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Driving Licence in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Driving Licence over the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 83 78
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +33
Contract jobs citing Driving Licence 15 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.77% 0.70% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 2.13% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 6
10th Percentile £146 £154 -
25th Percentile £150 £164 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £200 £126
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +58.73% -42.73%
75th Percentile £238 £220 £281
90th Percentile - - £410
North West median daily rate £190 £180 £169
% change year-on-year +5.56% +6.67% -23.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £12.98 £17.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.31% - -
North West median hourly rate £15.69 £17.23 £11.00
% change year-on-year -8.91% +56.59% -33.33%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Driving Licence 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 678 329 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.84% 32.70% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 214 194
10th Percentile £354 £309 £366
25th Percentile £413 £406 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £612 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £818
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 14 23
10th Percentile £17.09 £23.56 £16.11
25th Percentile £26.33 £34.50 £21.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £54.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.34% +21.11% +68.22%
75th Percentile £77.50 £70.63 £60.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.38 £96.60
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £35.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year +23.83% +30.28% -23.24%

Driving Licence
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Driving Licence job vacancy trend in Manchester

Driving Licence
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Driving Licence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Driving Licence

Driving Licence
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Driving Licence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Driving Licence

Driving Licence
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 Driving Licence within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. 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
Rochdale - 2 - -
Stockport - 1 £140 - 1
Driving Licence
North West

Driving Licence
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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Chatbot
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Storage
1 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) IP Telephony
1 4 (26.67%) PSTN
1 4 (26.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) LAN
2 2 (13.33%) PABX
2 2 (13.33%) VLAN
2 2 (13.33%) VoIP
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (13.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Network Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Break Fix Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cabling Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) IT Assistant
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Assistant
4 2 (13.33%) Support Assistant
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (13.33%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) AI Agents
2 2 (13.33%) Handset
2 2 (13.33%) iPad
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Break/Fix
5 2 (13.33%) AI
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
5 2 (13.33%) Log Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Observability
5 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bicep
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
1 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCNA
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (13.33%) City & Guilds
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (26.67%) Firmware
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
1 4 (26.67%) Meraki
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) HP