Installations Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Installation Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Installation Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Installations Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.054% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 - £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £305
75th Percentile £325 - £307
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £300 - £305

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,700 850 1,419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.79% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 593 957
10th Percentile £313 £305 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £581 £545 £575
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 46 87
10th Percentile £22.53 - £12.14
25th Percentile £30.00 £13.00 £13.41
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +179.90% -27.22% +35.00%
75th Percentile £76.50 £64.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.13 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £45.56 £29.01 £32.90
% change year-on-year +57.03% -11.81% +17.57%

Installations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Installations Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Installations Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Installations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Installations Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Installations Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Installations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Installations Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Installations Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Installations Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 20 June 2026, Installations Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Installations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Installations Engineer Skill Set
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:

Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware