IEC 62304 Contracts in Manchester

IEC 62304
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring IEC 62304 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IEC 62304 over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing IEC 62304 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.098% - 0.058%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.68% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £600
75th Percentile £638 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £625 - £538

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

IEC 62304 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 148 160 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.48% 13.21% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 100 160
10th Percentile £325 £399 £338
25th Percentile £402 £412 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £732 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £469 £493 £495
% change year-on-year -4.87% -0.40% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £27.31 £28.80 £18.01
25th Percentile £49.13 £29.25 £20.09
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% +14.29% -65.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £49.38 £32.40
90th Percentile £84.25 £61.00 £36.72
North West median hourly rate £56.25 £10.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year +413.70% -68.71% -50.00%

IEC 62304
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing IEC 62304 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for IEC 62304 in Manchester

IEC 62304
DemandTrendContract 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 IEC 62304 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheadle - 1 £625 - 2
IEC 62304
North West

IEC 62304
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) FMEA
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) IEC 61508
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 26262
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) SAP