Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends 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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 62 93
Rank change year-on-year -27 +31 +39
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 4 24 14
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.35% 2.05% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 6.23% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile £329 £478 £500
25th Percentile £362 £491 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £498 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% -23.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £512 £521 £719
90th Percentile £550 £585 £738
North West median daily rate £344 £495 £650
% change year-on-year -30.56% -23.85% +23.81%

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 411 385 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.12% 32.91% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 201 341
10th Percentile £298 £294 £225
25th Percentile £358 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% -5.37%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £714 £688
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £524
% change year-on-year -8.16% -6.44% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £28.69
25th Percentile £19.75 £29.50 £35.13
Median hourly rate £21.50 £32.50 £43.13
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% -24.64% +23.21%
75th Percentile £35.50 £45.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £60.63 £93.00 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £44.82
% change year-on-year +39.88% -27.48% +93.08%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in Manchester

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in Manchester

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce