Internet Contracts in Manchester

Internet
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Internet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Internet over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 78 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 +35
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Internet 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.30% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.45% 3.70% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £316 - £221
25th Percentile £341 £400 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £379
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +25.32% -13.37%
75th Percentile £441 £500 £486
90th Percentile £469 £530 £547
North West median daily rate £475 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +18.75% -30.43% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 87 162 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.59% 13.40% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 127 139
10th Percentile £209 £307 £310
25th Percentile £353 £397 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% +12.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £492 £775 £550
90th Percentile £621 £850 £650
North West median daily rate £442 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -14.13% +8.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £18.65 £37.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.88 £40.63 £15.74
Median hourly rate £19.50 £47.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.95% +187.88% -28.43%
75th Percentile £19.88 £76.38 £24.79
90th Percentile £19.95 £92.95 £46.88
North West median hourly rate £46.75 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -3.73% +191.13% -27.65%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Internet in Manchester

Internet
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Internet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Internet

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in Manchester

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Internet

Internet
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 Internet within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bolton - 1 - - 4
Internet
North West

Internet
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DWDM
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Procurement Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Aruba
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft