Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Public Sector
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 213 126 160
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 12.71% 13.64% 10.46%
As % of the General category 23.05% 24.05% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 84 101
10th Percentile £356 £347 £350
25th Percentile £400 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £524 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% -1.18% +6.00%
75th Percentile £568 £591 £630
90th Percentile £633 £697 £720
North West median daily rate £467 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -9.54% -1.67% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £15.93 -
25th Percentile - £15.98 £12.00
Median hourly rate - £16.13 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% -11.46%
75th Percentile - £16.22 £26.88
90th Percentile - £16.24 £33.30
North West median hourly rate £25.38 £16.01 £16.00
% change year-on-year +58.50% +0.08% -20.00%

All General Skills
Manchester

Public Sector 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 924 524 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 55.13% 56.71% 48.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 341 485
10th Percentile £283 £263 £302
25th Percentile £375 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £584
90th Percentile £630 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 39 61
10th Percentile £18.00 - £12.24
25th Percentile £22.68 £13.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.06 £24.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.57% +22.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £46.88 £27.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.00 £57.50
North West median hourly rate £35.91 £28.75 £17.72
% change year-on-year +24.90% +62.25% -31.85%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Manchester

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Manchester

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Public Sector

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
Salford - 1 - - 2
Public Sector
North West

Public Sector
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 14 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (6.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.82%) Confluence
3 2 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.94%) CICS
3 2 (0.94%) CMS
3 2 (0.94%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.47%) Quicktime
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.47%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.47%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 55 (25.82%) Azure
2 54 (25.35%) AWS
3 22 (10.33%) Serverless
4 20 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.57%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (5.63%) GCP
6 12 (5.63%) GitHub
7 11 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (4.23%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.76%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.76%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.76%) SaaS
11 7 (3.29%) Google Workspace
11 7 (3.29%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) Firewall
2 5 (2.35%) DNS
3 4 (1.88%) VPN
4 3 (1.41%) BGP
4 3 (1.41%) OSPF
5 2 (0.94%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.94%) DHCP
5 2 (0.94%) DKIM
5 2 (0.94%) DMARC
5 2 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.94%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.94%) WAN
5 2 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.47%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.47%) VLAN
6 1 (0.47%) VSAN
6 1 (0.47%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.57%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.76%) DocumentDB
3 7 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.82%) Metadata
4 6 (2.82%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.88%) Looker
5 4 (1.88%) Power BI
5 4 (1.88%) Redis
6 3 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.41%) MySQL
6 3 (1.41%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.94%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.94%) DataStage
7 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (11.27%) GitLab
2 16 (7.51%) Git
3 9 (4.23%) JIRA
4 8 (3.76%) JUnit
4 8 (3.76%) Mocha
4 8 (3.76%) Mockito
5 7 (3.29%) CircleCI
5 7 (3.29%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.82%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.82%) Postman
6 6 (2.82%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.94%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.94%) Selenium
8 1 (0.47%) JMeter
8 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 39 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.45%) Finance
3 12 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.23%) Military
5 5 (2.35%) Legal
6 4 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.41%) Local Government
7 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Banking
8 2 (0.94%) Digital Economy
8 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Electronics
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (33.80%) Developer
2 33 (15.49%) Java Developer
3 29 (13.62%) Senior
4 26 (12.21%) Lead
5 20 (9.39%) Architect
6 17 (7.98%) Analyst
7 16 (7.51%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (6.10%) Lead Developer
9 12 (5.63%) Designer
9 12 (5.63%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.63%) Software Developer
9 12 (5.63%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (4.23%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.76%) Lead Architect
12 8 (3.76%) Test Engineer
13 7 (3.29%) Administrator
13 7 (3.29%) Lead Software Developer
13 7 (3.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.49%) Node.js
2 28 (13.15%) Spring
3 27 (12.68%) Spring Boot
4 18 (8.45%) React
5 14 (6.57%) REST
6 12 (5.63%) Kafka
7 11 (5.16%) Jest
8 10 (4.69%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.69%) Playwright
9 7 (3.29%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (3.29%) CSS
9 7 (3.29%) HTML
9 7 (3.29%) JAX-RS
10 6 (2.82%) OAuth
10 6 (2.82%) RESTful
11 4 (1.88%) Nunjucks
12 3 (1.41%) Hibernate
12 3 (1.41%) Vue
13 2 (0.94%) HTML5
13 2 (0.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.57%) Cloud Native
1 14 (6.57%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.35%) NHS
4 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.88%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.88%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.94%) BYOD
6 2 (0.94%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (0.94%) Graphic Design
6 2 (0.94%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.94%) Replication
6 2 (0.94%) VSAM
7 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.47%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.39%) Linux
2 12 (5.63%) Unix
3 7 (3.29%) Mac OS X
4 5 (2.35%) Windows
5 3 (1.41%) AIX
5 3 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.41%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.94%) Solaris
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.09%) Agile
2 46 (21.60%) Microservices
3 42 (19.72%) CI/CD
4 41 (19.25%) DevOps
5 38 (17.84%) Test Automation
6 31 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (12.68%) User Experience
8 25 (11.74%) Migration
9 24 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (8.92%) TDD
10 19 (8.92%) User Research
11 18 (8.45%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.98%) Analytics
13 15 (7.04%) Decision-Making
13 15 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (7.04%) Validation
14 14 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (6.57%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.82%) Java
2 31 (14.55%) JavaScript
3 21 (9.86%) TypeScript
4 14 (6.57%) Python
5 13 (6.10%) SQL
6 4 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.94%) C#
7 2 (0.94%) COBOL
7 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.94%) Ruby
8 1 (0.47%) ABAP
8 1 (0.47%) Bicep
8 1 (0.47%) Go
8 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.47%) ProC
8 1 (0.47%) Scala
8 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (41.31%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.76%) Degree
5 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.47%) CCA
7 1 (0.47%) CCNA
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CISM
7 1 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.62%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 13 (6.10%) WCAG
4 9 (4.23%) QA
5 5 (2.35%) GDPR
6 3 (1.41%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) CRD IV
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) FINREP
7 1 (0.47%) IFRS
System Software
1 24 (11.27%) Docker
2 15 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.94%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) GPFS
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) NFS
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.33%) Terraform
3 6 (2.82%) Grafana
4 4 (1.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.41%) Ansible
5 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.47%) vRealize
7 1 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.16%) Google
2 11 (5.16%) Virgin Media
3 9 (4.23%) Oracle
4 8 (3.76%) SAP
5 4 (1.88%) Adobe
5 4 (1.88%) VMware
6 3 (1.41%) Cisco
6 3 (1.41%) IBM
6 3 (1.41%) Splunk
7 2 (0.94%) Arista
7 2 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (0.94%) Blue Prism
7 2 (0.94%) F5
7 2 (0.94%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.94%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.47%) AlienVault
8 1 (0.47%) Qualys
8 1 (0.47%) Veeam