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 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 72 75
Rank change year-on-year -41 +3 +37
Contract jobs citing Driving Licence 14 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.72% 0.82% 1.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 2.64% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 16
10th Percentile £144 £149 -
25th Percentile £150 £163 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £151 £200 £126
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% +58.73% -40.00%
75th Percentile £238 £220 £230
90th Percentile - - £329
North West median daily rate £151 £190 £175
% change year-on-year -20.79% +8.57% -20.45%
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 £15.00
% change year-on-year -8.91% +14.83% -25.00%

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 647 303 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.04% 31.01% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 210 232
10th Percentile £346 £267 £301
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% -2.93%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £625
90th Percentile £672 £700 £750
North West median daily rate £489 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +8.67% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 12 39
10th Percentile £18.57 £34.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £28.63 £34.69 £18.68
Median hourly rate £56.25 £61.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +135.58% -2.80%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £120.13 £78.63 £71.60
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £35.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year +23.83% +40.59% -9.30%

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 11 July 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
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 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Storage
1 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) IP Telephony
1 4 (28.57%) PSTN
1 4 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (14.29%) Wireless
3 1 (7.14%) ATM
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Network Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Break Fix Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cabling Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Field Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
5 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) EPoS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 2 (14.29%) iPad
3 1 (7.14%) EPoS
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Break/Fix
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) Conversational UI
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Log Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Observability
4 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bicep
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CCNA
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) City & Guilds
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Firmware
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco
1 4 (28.57%) Meraki
2 3 (21.43%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft