Enterprise Software Contracts in Manchester

Enterprise Application Software
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 76 109
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 +22
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 13 20 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.40% 1.32% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.89% 4.77% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile £380 £463 -
25th Percentile - £472 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.19% +28.50%
75th Percentile £700 £694 £600
90th Percentile £753 £738 £653
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £547
% change year-on-year - -8.63% +18.32%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Enterprise Software 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 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in Manchester

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in Manchester

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in Manchester

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in Manchester

Enterprise Software
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 Enterprise Software within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bolton - 5 £300 - 10
Enterprise Software
North West

Enterprise Software
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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Couchbase
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) HBase
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Pentaho
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ERwin
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) French Language
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) IT Support
2 4 (30.77%) DBA
2 4 (30.77%) IT Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Project Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) ITSM
3 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Service Management
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) E-Discovery
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
5 1 (7.69%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) A+ Certification
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle