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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 166 144 143
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 8.39% 14.30% 12.17%
As % of the General category 15.78% 23.34% 21.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 112 71
10th Percentile £363 £215 £363
25th Percentile £418 £399 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £645 £545 £638
90th Percentile £736 £625 £700
North West median daily rate £550 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +22.22% -8.72% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile - £14.66 £22.25
Median hourly rate £66.66 £15.50 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +330.06% -46.55% +72.11%
75th Percentile - £16.38 £29.75
90th Percentile - £16.89 £29.90
North West median hourly rate £25.49 £20.07 £18.62
% change year-on-year +27.01% +7.77% +10.52%

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 1,052 617 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 53.16% 61.27% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 400 382
10th Percentile £275 £304 £294
25th Percentile £401 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -5.10% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £598
90th Percentile £713 £673 £688
North West median daily rate £500 £458 £490
% change year-on-year +9.29% -6.63% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 53 24
10th Percentile £18.35 £13.00 £15.94
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.20 £20.15
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -30.37% +84.87%
75th Percentile £70.94 £35.50 £59.13
90th Percentile £77.88 £65.00 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £25.94 £35.00
% change year-on-year +34.94% -25.89% +57.30%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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
Heywood - 3 £375 -
Rochdale - 1 £500 -
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 13 (7.83%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.01%) Confluence
4 4 (2.41%) SharePoint 2013
5 3 (1.81%) Apache
5 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.81%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.60%) CMS
7 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.60%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.60%) Navisworks
1 1 (0.60%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.60%) Revit
1 1 (0.60%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.60%) Primavera
3 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.11%) AWS
2 29 (17.47%) Azure
3 18 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (7.83%) SaaS
5 10 (6.02%) Google Workspace
6 9 (5.42%) GCP
7 8 (4.82%) GitHub
7 8 (4.82%) Serverless
8 7 (4.22%) Google Drive
9 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (3.01%) AWS KMS
10 5 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.41%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.41%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.81%) Asana
12 3 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.81%) Slack
12 3 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) DNS
2 3 (1.81%) DKIM
2 3 (1.81%) DMARC
3 2 (1.20%) BIG-IP
3 2 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.20%) Firewall
3 2 (1.20%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.60%) BGP
4 1 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.60%) NAS
4 1 (0.60%) Network Security
4 1 (0.60%) OSPF
4 1 (0.60%) SAN
4 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.60%) VPN
4 1 (0.60%) WAN
4 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.82%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.61%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.81%) Metadata
3 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.81%) Power BI
3 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.20%) DocumentDB
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.60%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (7.83%) GitLab
2 12 (7.23%) Cucumber
3 11 (6.63%) Selenium
4 9 (5.42%) JIRA
5 8 (4.82%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.22%) REST Assured
7 6 (3.61%) Git
8 4 (2.41%) JUnit
9 3 (1.81%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.81%) Gatling
9 3 (1.81%) Mockito
10 2 (1.20%) JDeveloper
10 2 (1.20%) Maven
10 2 (1.20%) TestNG
10 2 (1.20%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.60%) Gradle
11 1 (0.60%) JMeter
11 1 (0.60%) MSI
11 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.07%) Military
3 13 (7.83%) Finance
4 6 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.61%) Local Government
5 4 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.20%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (18.67%) Architect
2 27 (16.27%) Lead
3 26 (15.66%) Senior
4 25 (15.06%) Developer
5 12 (7.23%) Administrator
6 11 (6.63%) Analyst
7 10 (6.02%) Designer
7 10 (6.02%) Lead Developer
7 10 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.02%) Technical Architect
7 10 (6.02%) Test Engineer
8 9 (5.42%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.42%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.42%) Security Architect
9 8 (4.82%) Content Designer
10 7 (4.22%) Consultant
10 7 (4.22%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.61%) Lead Architect
11 6 (3.61%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.84%) Node.js
2 16 (9.64%) Terraform
3 13 (7.83%) REST
4 10 (6.02%) Spring Boot
5 9 (5.42%) Kafka
5 9 (5.42%) Spring
6 7 (4.22%) OAuth
7 5 (3.01%) Playwright
8 4 (2.41%) AWS CDK
8 4 (2.41%) Django
8 4 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (1.81%) Nunjucks
9 3 (1.81%) React
9 3 (1.81%) RESTful
10 2 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.20%) JAX-RS
10 2 (1.20%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.20%) OpenID
10 2 (1.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.22%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.22%) NHS
3 7 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.81%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.81%) Freedom of Information
4 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.60%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.60%) PKI
6 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.63%) Linux
2 6 (3.61%) Unix
3 5 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.20%) CentOS
5 1 (0.60%) AIX
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.60%) Solaris
5 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (28.31%) Agile
2 43 (25.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (21.08%) CI/CD
4 26 (15.66%) Test Automation
5 24 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (14.46%) DevOps
6 23 (13.86%) Microservices
7 22 (13.25%) Migration
8 21 (12.65%) Mentoring
9 19 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (10.84%) Software Engineering
11 16 (9.64%) Decision-Making
12 15 (9.04%) Architectural Patterns
13 13 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (7.83%) User Experience
14 12 (7.23%) AI
14 12 (7.23%) Containerisation
14 12 (7.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 12 (7.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.27%) Java
2 21 (12.65%) JavaScript
3 18 (10.84%) Python
4 8 (4.82%) SQL
4 8 (4.82%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.41%) Bash
6 3 (1.81%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 89 (53.61%) Security Cleared
2 65 (39.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CISM
6 1 (0.60%) CISSP
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.05%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.83%) QA
3 8 (4.82%) WCAG
4 6 (3.61%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.01%) PMO
6 4 (2.41%) GDPR
7 2 (1.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.60%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.60%) NIST
8 1 (0.60%) SLA
8 1 (0.60%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 18 (10.84%) Docker
2 10 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.41%) Ansible
3 3 (1.81%) Grafana
3 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.20%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.20%) Packer
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
5 1 (0.60%) Consul
5 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.60%) Istio
5 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.60%) linkerd
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.60%) Rancher
5 1 (0.60%) SCCM
5 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.02%) Google
3 8 (4.82%) Oracle
4 5 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.20%) Databricks
5 2 (1.20%) F5
5 2 (1.20%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.20%) SAP
5 2 (1.20%) Splunk
5 2 (1.20%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.60%) Apple
6 1 (0.60%) Arista
6 1 (0.60%) Aruba
6 1 (0.60%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.60%) Citrix
6 1 (0.60%) Commvault
6 1 (0.60%) ESET
6 1 (0.60%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.60%) Okta
6 1 (0.60%) Veeam