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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 210 100 132
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 12.04% 11.19% 9.22%
As % of the General category 22.27% 19.23% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 73 77
10th Percentile £358 £315 £325
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -0.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £572 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £648 £650
North West median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.00
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £27.00
90th Percentile - - £39.60
North West median hourly rate £25.38 £21.27 £16.00
% change year-on-year +19.32% +32.94% -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 943 520 684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 54.07% 58.17% 47.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 340 447
10th Percentile £295 £248 £300
25th Percentile £377 £383 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £546 £575
90th Percentile £638 £666 £653
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 34 62
10th Percentile £17.83 - £12.27
25th Percentile £24.19 £13.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.06 £17.97 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +128.53% -24.52% +19.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £76.75 £59.75
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £28.75 £19.18
% change year-on-year +23.48% +49.90% -26.23%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 - - 1
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 16 (7.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (7.62%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.86%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) CICS
3 2 (0.95%) CMS
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.48%) Quicktime
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.95%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (23.33%) AWS
2 48 (22.86%) Azure
3 26 (12.38%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (8.57%) Serverless
5 14 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
6 13 (6.19%) GitHub
7 12 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.24%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.24%) SaaS
9 10 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.76%) GCP
10 9 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.29%) Google Workspace
11 8 (3.81%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.81%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.33%) Google Drive
12 7 (3.33%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.81%) Firewall
2 6 (2.86%) DNS
3 5 (2.38%) VPN
4 3 (1.43%) BGP
4 3 (1.43%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.43%) DKIM
4 3 (1.43%) DMARC
4 3 (1.43%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (1.43%) OSPF
4 3 (1.43%) VXLAN
4 3 (1.43%) WAN
4 3 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.95%) DHCP
5 2 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.95%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.48%) LAN
6 1 (0.48%) SNMP
6 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.86%) DocumentDB
4 5 (2.38%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.90%) Metadata
5 4 (1.90%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.43%) MySQL
6 3 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.95%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.95%) DataStage
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.95%) Power BI
7 2 (0.95%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.48%) MS Access
8 1 (0.48%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 28 (13.33%) GitLab
2 12 (5.71%) Git
3 11 (5.24%) JIRA
4 10 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.29%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.29%) Selenium
6 8 (3.81%) JUnit
6 8 (3.81%) Mocha
7 7 (3.33%) CircleCI
7 7 (3.33%) Jenkins
7 7 (3.33%) Mockito
8 5 (2.38%) Postman
9 4 (1.90%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.95%) Gatling
10 2 (0.95%) JDeveloper
10 2 (0.95%) JMeter
10 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.95%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.48%) Serenity BDD
General
1 38 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.57%) Finance
2 18 (8.57%) Military
3 13 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.86%) Legal
4 6 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (1.90%) Local Government
6 2 (0.95%) Digital Economy
6 2 (0.95%) General Ledger
6 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.48%) Banking
7 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 59 (28.10%) Developer
2 34 (16.19%) Senior
3 33 (15.71%) Lead
4 28 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 15 (7.14%) Analyst
5 15 (7.14%) Architect
5 15 (7.14%) Designer
6 14 (6.67%) Lead Developer
7 13 (6.19%) Software Developer
7 13 (6.19%) Test Engineer
8 12 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.76%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.76%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (3.81%) Content Designer
11 8 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.81%) Lead Architect
11 8 (3.81%) Lead Software Developer
11 8 (3.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.81%) Node.js
2 27 (12.86%) Spring
3 26 (12.38%) Spring Boot
4 16 (7.62%) REST
5 13 (6.19%) Kafka
5 13 (6.19%) React
6 12 (5.71%) Playwright
7 11 (5.24%) Jest
8 6 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.86%) CSS
8 6 (2.86%) HTML
8 6 (2.86%) JAX-RS
8 6 (2.86%) OAuth
9 5 (2.38%) RESTful
10 4 (1.90%) Nunjucks
11 3 (1.43%) Vue
12 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.95%) GraphQL
12 2 (0.95%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.38%) NHS
6 5 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (1.43%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.95%) BYOD
9 2 (0.95%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.95%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.95%) Replication
9 2 (0.95%) VSAM
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.00%) Linux
2 11 (5.24%) Unix
3 6 (2.86%) Mac OS X
4 5 (2.38%) Windows
5 4 (1.90%) AIX
6 3 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.95%) Solaris
8 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (38.57%) Agile
2 50 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 43 (20.48%) Microservices
4 41 (19.52%) Test Automation
5 39 (18.57%) DevOps
6 34 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (12.86%) User Experience
8 26 (12.38%) Migration
9 21 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (9.05%) User Research
11 18 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (8.10%) Containerisation
12 17 (8.10%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.10%) UX Design
13 16 (7.62%) Roadmaps
14 15 (7.14%) BDD
14 15 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.24%) Java
2 32 (15.24%) JavaScript
3 22 (10.48%) TypeScript
4 17 (8.10%) Python
5 13 (6.19%) SQL
6 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.95%) COBOL
8 2 (0.95%) Ruby
8 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
9 1 (0.48%) C#
9 1 (0.48%) Go
9 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.48%) ProC
9 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 51 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.81%) Degree
5 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.95%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CCA
7 1 (0.48%) CCNA
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CISM
7 1 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 17 (8.10%) WCAG
3 11 (5.24%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.81%) QA
5 6 (2.86%) PMO
6 5 (2.38%) GDPR
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 26 (12.38%) Docker
2 17 (8.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) GPFS
4 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.48%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.48%) NFS
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (12.86%) Kubernetes
1 27 (12.86%) Terraform
2 7 (3.33%) Ansible
3 6 (2.86%) Grafana
4 4 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.95%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.48%) Argo
7 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.48%) Packer
7 1 (0.48%) vRealize
7 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.76%) Google
3 9 (4.29%) Oracle
4 8 (3.81%) Virgin Media
5 5 (2.38%) SAP
6 4 (1.90%) VMware
7 3 (1.43%) Cisco
7 3 (1.43%) F5
7 3 (1.43%) IBM
7 3 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.95%) Adobe
8 2 (0.95%) Arista
8 2 (0.95%) Aruba
8 2 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (0.95%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.95%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.95%) Splunk
9 1 (0.48%) Ekahau
9 1 (0.48%) Tanium