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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 74 76
Rank change year-on-year -29 +2 +33
Contract jobs citing Driving Licence 11 5 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.61% 0.54% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 1.90% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 17
10th Percentile £141 £149 -
25th Percentile £148 £163 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £200 £126
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +58.73% -40.00%
75th Percentile £151 £220 £230
90th Percentile £194 - £328
North West median daily rate £150 £200 £166
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.30% -16.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.98 - -
North West median hourly rate £15.69 - £15.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 566 263 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 31.32% 28.65% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 191 244
10th Percentile £325 £220 £305
25th Percentile £389 £389 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -9.09% -3.41%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £669 £750
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 11 34
10th Percentile £20.23 £24.25 £13.12
25th Percentile £32.00 £40.13 £15.92
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +147.52% -2.88%
75th Percentile £86.88 £75.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £78.75 £62.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £33.63 £25.25
% change year-on-year +33.81% +33.19% -8.51%

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 June 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 - 2
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 (18.18%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Storage
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (18.18%) Wireless
2 1 (9.09%) ATM
2 1 (9.09%) IP Telephony
2 1 (9.09%) PSTN
2 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Break Fix Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cabling Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Field Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) EPoS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) AI Agents
1 2 (18.18%) iPad
2 1 (9.09%) EPoS
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Break/Fix
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Conversational UI
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Log Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bicep
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) City & Guilds
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki