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 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 100 135 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 10.53% 9.32% 15.83%
As % of the General category 18.02% 18.57% 31.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 77 198
10th Percentile £215 £360 £325
25th Percentile £378 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £545 £588 £600
90th Percentile £649 £650 £679
North West median daily rate £465 £493 £513
% change year-on-year -5.68% -3.80% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 14
10th Percentile - £22.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £25.50 £15.20
Median hourly rate £17.15 £27.00 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year -36.48% +60.24% -75.93%
75th Percentile £17.23 - £19.94
90th Percentile - £64.80 £23.50
North West median hourly rate £21.27 £16.50 £17.93
% change year-on-year +28.91% -7.95% -28.30%

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 common skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 555 727 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 58.42% 50.17% 50.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 461 640
10th Percentile £272 £305 £299
25th Percentile £375 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £460 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -6.65% -1.45% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 58 35
10th Percentile - £12.74 £14.00
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.66 £16.31
Median hourly rate £17.30 £25.25 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +42.49% -11.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.56 £27.28
90th Percentile £76.00 £59.00 £53.75
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £23.45 £24.08
% change year-on-year +24.82% -2.60% -1.73%

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 4 July 2025.

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
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 4 July 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
Wigan - 1 £150 - 3
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 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.00%) Documentum
3 1 (1.00%) FileNet
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.00%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.00%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.00%) AWS
2 11 (11.00%) Azure
3 10 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.00%) SaaS
4 8 (8.00%) Serverless
5 7 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.00%) Google Workspace
6 6 (6.00%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.00%) Google Sheets
9 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.00%) GCP
10 1 (1.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) DMZ
2 2 (2.00%) DHCP
2 2 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (1.00%) Internet
3 1 (1.00%) MPLS
3 1 (1.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.00%) VPN
3 1 (1.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.00%) Power BI
5 2 (2.00%) Big Data
5 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.00%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.00%) HBase
6 1 (1.00%) MySQL
6 1 (1.00%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.00%) Gradle
2 10 (10.00%) JUnit
2 10 (10.00%) Liquibase
2 10 (10.00%) Mockito
3 9 (9.00%) GitLab
4 4 (4.00%) Git
5 3 (3.00%) Hudson
6 2 (2.00%) JIRA
6 2 (2.00%) Maven
7 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.00%) ERwin
7 1 (1.00%) gulp
7 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (18.00%) Finance
2 12 (12.00%) Military
2 12 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Marketing
4 10 (10.00%) Electronics
4 10 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 10 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Local Government
7 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) Legal
9 1 (1.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 22 (22.00%) Developer
2 16 (16.00%) Senior
3 13 (13.00%) Analyst
4 8 (8.00%) Lead
4 8 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) Architect
5 5 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 5 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) React Developer
5 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 4 (4.00%) AWS Developer
6 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Developer
6 4 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (4.00%) SAP Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) Kafka
2 12 (12.00%) React
3 11 (11.00%) Node.js
3 11 (11.00%) Spring
3 11 (11.00%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 10 (10.00%) Swagger
5 2 (2.00%) Express.js
5 2 (2.00%) PySpark
6 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.00%) Dropwizard
6 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.00%) JAX-RS
6 1 (1.00%) Jest
6 1 (1.00%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.00%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.00%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.00%) Sequelize
6 1 (1.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.00%) NHS
5 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Linux
1 3 (3.00%) Windows
1 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.00%) Unix
2 1 (1.00%) VMS
2 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.00%) Agile
2 17 (17.00%) DevOps
2 17 (17.00%) Microservices
3 16 (16.00%) Software Engineering
4 15 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (15.00%) Migration
4 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (11.00%) Containerisation
7 10 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
7 10 (10.00%) Programme Management
7 10 (10.00%) TDD
8 8 (8.00%) Project Management
9 7 (7.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (6.00%) Analytics
10 6 (6.00%) Coaching
10 6 (6.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (6.00%) Test Management
10 6 (6.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (6.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.00%) Java
2 16 (16.00%) SQL
3 10 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.00%) Python
5 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.00%) Bash
6 1 (1.00%) C#
6 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.00%) R
6 1 (1.00%) Rust
6 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.00%) Degree
6 1 (1.00%) CIPD
6 1 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.00%) NCSC
3 1 (1.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.00%) UAG
4 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (5.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.00%) Ansible
2 3 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.00%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.00%) Grafana
4 1 (1.00%) Graylog
4 1 (1.00%) Packer
4 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.00%) Puppet
4 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.00%) VxRail
4 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.00%) SAP
3 13 (13.00%) Google
4 5 (5.00%) VMware
5 4 (4.00%) Databricks
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.00%) HP
7 2 (2.00%) Informatica
7 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.00%) Adobe
8 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.00%) BMC
8 1 (1.00%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.00%) Citrix
8 1 (1.00%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.00%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.00%) Meraki
8 1 (1.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.00%) Tenable
8 1 (1.00%) Zscaler