iGaming Contract Job Trends in Manchester

iGaming
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iGaming in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iGaming over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing iGaming 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.050% - -
As % of the General category 0.096% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 - -

All General Skills
Manchester

iGaming falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,045 624 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 52.72% 60.76% 51.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 396 380
10th Percentile £275 £300 £325
25th Percentile £397 £395 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £689 £701
North West median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 52 30
10th Percentile £18.07 - £16.70
25th Percentile £24.19 £13.00 £23.96
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.32 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.93% -37.31% +92.09%
75th Percentile £69.50 £55.12 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £63.23
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £32.95
% change year-on-year +21.74% -12.74% +23.86%

iGaming
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

iGaming job vacancy trend in Manchester

iGaming
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java