Public Sector Contracts in Manchester

Public Sector
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 163 307 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 10.61% 16.16% 10.71%
As % of the General category 21.94% 33.15% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 200 197
10th Percentile £348 £324 £229
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -4.76% +8.47%
75th Percentile £632 £595 £625
90th Percentile £721 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £525 £525 £494
% change year-on-year - +6.28% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 6
10th Percentile - £16.85 £16.86
25th Percentile £12.00 £18.09 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.71 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £26.88 £25.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £33.30 £26.00 £31.00
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £17.81
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.30% -12.05%

All General Skills
Manchester

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 743 926 1,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.37% 48.74% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 642 880
10th Percentile £302 £304 £236
25th Percentile £381 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £469
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +10.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 40 31
10th Percentile £12.27 £14.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.31 £19.06 £14.82
Median hourly rate £21.73 £22.85 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +26.96% -22.53%
75th Percentile £31.50 £37.30 £20.07
90th Percentile £59.75 £45.05 £25.00
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £25.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -30.51% +27.50% -11.11%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Manchester

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Manchester

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Manchester

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Manchester

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in Manchester

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 26 April 2024. 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 +3 7 - - 1
Oldham -4 2 £338 -35.71%
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 1 £150 +11.11%
Stockport -1 1 £583 -10.38%
Public Sector
North West

Public Sector
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.23%) nginx
2 2 (1.23%) Traefik
3 1 (0.61%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) IIS
3 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.66%) Azure
2 18 (11.04%) AWS
3 13 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.52%) IaaS
5 8 (4.91%) PaaS
6 7 (4.29%) SaaS
7 5 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.84%) GCP
8 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.84%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.84%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.23%) Kong
10 1 (0.61%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.29%) Firewall
2 6 (3.68%) VPN
3 3 (1.84%) InfiniBand
3 3 (1.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.61%) DKIM
5 1 (0.61%) H.323
5 1 (0.61%) HTTP
5 1 (0.61%) LAN
5 1 (0.61%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.52%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.68%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.68%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (3.07%) Metadata
5 5 (3.07%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.23%) Power BI
7 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.61%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.61%) MySQL
8 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.52%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) JUnit
3 5 (3.07%) GitLab
3 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.45%) ERwin
5 2 (1.23%) JIRA
6 1 (0.61%) Mocha
General
1 26 (15.95%) Finance
2 18 (11.04%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.36%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.75%) Electronics
5 11 (6.75%) Manufacturing
5 11 (6.75%) Marketing
6 5 (3.07%) Legal
6 5 (3.07%) Police
7 4 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.45%) Retail
8 3 (1.84%) Military
9 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (20.25%) Architect
2 24 (14.72%) Developer
3 22 (13.50%) Analyst
4 18 (11.04%) Senior
5 15 (9.20%) Lead
6 12 (7.36%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.13%) Lead Architect
7 10 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.13%) Technical Architect
8 9 (5.52%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.91%) Consultant
9 8 (4.91%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.29%) Product Manager
10 7 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.29%) ServiceNow Developer
10 7 (4.29%) Technical Leader
11 6 (3.68%) Administrator
11 6 (3.68%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (3.68%) Project Manager
12 5 (3.07%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.98%) Node.js
2 9 (5.52%) Spring
3 8 (4.91%) REST
3 8 (4.91%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.29%) React
5 6 (3.68%) Hibernate
5 6 (3.68%) JPA
6 4 (2.45%) PySpark
6 4 (2.45%) RESTful
7 2 (1.23%) .NET
7 2 (1.23%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.23%) CSS
7 2 (1.23%) HTML
7 2 (1.23%) JSON
7 2 (1.23%) XML
8 1 (0.61%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.61%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.61%) Django
8 1 (0.61%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.29%) Digital Signage
3 6 (3.68%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.45%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (2.45%) Wiki
6 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.23%) Clustering
7 2 (1.23%) CMDB
7 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) PKI
7 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.75%) Windows
2 7 (4.29%) Android
2 7 (4.29%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.07%) Linux
4 3 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.22%) Agile
2 24 (14.72%) DevOps
3 19 (11.66%) CI/CD
4 18 (11.04%) Microservices
4 18 (11.04%) Roadmaps
5 14 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (8.59%) Design Patterns
5 14 (8.59%) Mentoring
5 14 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (7.98%) Data Protection
6 13 (7.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 13 (7.98%) Project Management
7 12 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (7.36%) Data Modelling
7 12 (7.36%) Migration
7 12 (7.36%) Programme Management
8 11 (6.75%) Change Management
8 11 (6.75%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (6.75%) Service Management
8 11 (6.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.75%) Java
2 7 (4.29%) Python
3 6 (3.68%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.45%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.45%) SQL
5 3 (1.84%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.23%) Bash
6 2 (1.23%) Go
6 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.23%) Ruby
7 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) Degree
4 6 (3.68%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.68%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.23%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) CISM
6 2 (1.23%) CISSP
6 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) CCNA
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.61%) MCSE
7 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.91%) GDPR
2 6 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.45%) NCSC
4 3 (1.84%) SLA
5 2 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.91%) Docker
3 3 (1.84%) Firmware
3 3 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (6.75%) Terraform
2 9 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.84%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (1.23%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) Consul
4 2 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.23%) Graphite
4 2 (1.23%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.23%) Istio
4 2 (1.23%) linkerd
4 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.23%) Packer
4 2 (1.23%) Podman
4 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.23%) Puppet
4 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.75%) SAP
2 11 (6.75%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.45%) Databricks
3 4 (2.45%) Dell
3 4 (2.45%) Logitech
3 4 (2.45%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.45%) Sparx
4 3 (1.84%) Isilon
4 3 (1.84%) VMware
5 2 (1.23%) BMC
5 2 (1.23%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.23%) Splunk
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe
6 1 (0.61%) Aruba
6 1 (0.61%) Avaya
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) Meraki
6 1 (0.61%) Remedy
6 1 (0.61%) Verint