Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Onboarding
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 50 68
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 +44
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 51 33 38
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.51% 2.89% 2.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.47% 8.64% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 15 32
10th Percentile £313 £200 £308
25th Percentile £353 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +53.85% -40.23%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £541
90th Percentile £580 £705 £584
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £325
% change year-on-year -10.00% +53.85% -50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.75 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £21.50 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Onboarding 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 409 382 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.13% 33.42% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 206 338
10th Percentile £299 £279 £230
25th Percentile £358 £361 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% -4.39%
75th Percentile £580 £582 £575
90th Percentile £650 £706 £679
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -8.16% -4.39% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.33 £28.69
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.56 £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 £43.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £60.63 £89.50 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% -23.53% +68.68%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Manchester

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Manchester

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Contract 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 Onboarding within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oldham - 1 £225 -
Onboarding
North West

Onboarding
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (13.73%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.84%) CMS
3 3 (5.88%) Confluence
4 2 (3.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Sketch
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.84%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 8 (15.69%) Figma
3 6 (11.76%) AWS
4 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.80%) SaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.92%) OCI
6 2 (3.92%) Serverless
7 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.96%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (3.92%) VPN
2 1 (1.96%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.96%) DMZ
2 1 (1.96%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) Power BI
2 3 (5.88%) Tableau
3 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.92%) Jasmine
2 2 (3.92%) Postman
3 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 16 (31.37%) Finance
2 15 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Aviation
5 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Developer
2 7 (13.73%) Analyst
2 7 (13.73%) Java Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Lead
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Administrator
5 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Designer
5 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Project Support Administrator
6 3 (5.88%) Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) UX Designer
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) Spring Boot
2 6 (11.76%) Spring
3 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.84%) Node.js
4 3 (5.88%) Playwright
5 2 (3.92%) CSS
5 2 (3.92%) CSS3
5 2 (3.92%) HTML
5 2 (3.92%) HTML5
5 2 (3.92%) Jest
5 2 (3.92%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (3.92%) NestJS
5 2 (3.92%) RESTful
5 2 (3.92%) Sass
5 2 (3.92%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
1 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) IVR
3 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Agile
2 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (13.73%) DevOps
3 7 (13.73%) User Experience
3 7 (13.73%) Validation
4 6 (11.76%) Analytics
4 6 (11.76%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 6 (11.76%) KYC
4 6 (11.76%) Microservices
4 6 (11.76%) Migration
4 6 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (9.80%) Change Management
5 5 (9.80%) Interaction Design
5 5 (9.80%) Personalization
5 5 (9.80%) Usability Testing
5 5 (9.80%) UX Design
6 4 (7.84%) Accounts Payable
6 4 (7.84%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) Java
2 3 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.88%) Python
3 2 (3.92%) SQL
3 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) GCIA
4 2 (3.92%) GCIH
4 2 (3.92%) MCT
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.96%) ISEB
5 1 (1.96%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.88%) GDPR
2 3 (5.88%) PSD2
3 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.96%) SCCM
2 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (29.41%) Virgin Media
3 5 (9.80%) Hopewiser
4 3 (5.88%) Genesys
4 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.88%) UiPath
5 2 (3.92%) Adobe
5 2 (3.92%) Blue Prism
5 2 (3.92%) Citrix
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) Splunk
6 1 (1.96%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.96%) Concur
6 1 (1.96%) F5
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) McAfee
6 1 (1.96%) Rapid7