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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 98 140 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 10.72% 9.52% 15.72%
As % of the General category 18.25% 19.50% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 81 190
10th Percentile £224 £350 £324
25th Percentile £396 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £600
90th Percentile £649 £650 £658
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 15
10th Percentile - - £14.26
25th Percentile - £12.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +21.05% -63.81%
75th Percentile - £27.00 £22.50
90th Percentile - £45.90 £25.60
North West median hourly rate £21.27 £16.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +32.94% -17.95% -37.10%

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 537 718 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 58.75% 48.81% 49.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 450 626
10th Percentile £293 £300 £286
25th Percentile £375 £388 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £700 £656 £675
North West median daily rate £465 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -5.10% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 62 31
10th Percentile - £12.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £16.74
Median hourly rate £13.70 £24.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.26% +23.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £61.25 £35.00 £26.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £57.50 £38.75
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £21.81 £23.15
% change year-on-year +34.24% -5.81% -6.46%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 - 4
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 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) Documentum
4 1 (1.02%) FileNet
4 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.04%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.02%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.02%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.35%) AWS
2 14 (14.29%) Azure
3 11 (11.22%) Power Platform
4 9 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.16%) Serverless
6 6 (6.12%) SaaS
7 5 (5.10%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.10%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (4.08%) Google Workspace
8 4 (4.08%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.06%) Google Sheets
10 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.02%) GCP
11 1 (1.02%) GitHub
11 1 (1.02%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) DHCP
1 2 (2.04%) DMZ
1 2 (2.04%) DNS
1 2 (2.04%) Firewall
1 2 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (2.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.02%) Internet
2 1 (1.02%) MPLS
2 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.02%) VPN
2 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.22%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.12%) Power BI
4 5 (5.10%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.04%) Big Data
6 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.02%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.02%) Dremio
7 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.02%) HBase
7 1 (1.02%) Metadata
7 1 (1.02%) Power Query
7 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.20%) Gradle
2 10 (10.20%) JUnit
2 10 (10.20%) Liquibase
2 10 (10.20%) Mockito
3 9 (9.18%) GitLab
4 5 (5.10%) Git
5 3 (3.06%) Hudson
6 2 (2.04%) gulp
6 2 (2.04%) Maven
7 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.02%) Grunt
7 1 (1.02%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.02%) JIRA
7 1 (1.02%) Mocha
7 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 17 (17.35%) Finance
2 12 (12.24%) Telecoms
3 11 (11.22%) Marketing
3 11 (11.22%) Military
3 11 (11.22%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.20%) Electronics
4 10 (10.20%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.06%) Local Government
7 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Back Office
8 1 (1.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.02%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 22 (22.45%) Developer
2 16 (16.33%) Senior
3 13 (13.27%) Analyst
4 7 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.14%) Lead
4 7 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Architect
6 5 (5.10%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.10%) Java Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) React Developer
6 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Software Developer
7 4 (4.08%) AWS Developer
7 4 (4.08%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (4.08%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.29%) Kafka
2 12 (12.24%) Node.js
2 12 (12.24%) React
3 11 (11.22%) Spring
3 11 (11.22%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.20%) OpenAPI
4 10 (10.20%) Swagger
5 2 (2.04%) Express.js
5 2 (2.04%) PySpark
6 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.02%) JAX-RS
6 1 (1.02%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (1.02%) Mongoose
6 1 (1.02%) Mustache
6 1 (1.02%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.02%) Sass
6 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.04%) NHS
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Windows
1 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
2 4 (4.08%) Linux
3 2 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.02%) VMS
4 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.59%) Agile
2 17 (17.35%) DevOps
3 16 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (16.33%) Microservices
3 16 (16.33%) Migration
4 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.31%) Software Engineering
5 12 (12.24%) CI/CD
6 11 (11.22%) Containerisation
6 11 (11.22%) TDD
7 10 (10.20%) Digital Marketing
7 10 (10.20%) Programme Management
8 8 (8.16%) Project Management
9 7 (7.14%) Data Modelling
10 6 (6.12%) Business Case
10 6 (6.12%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (6.12%) Decision-Making
10 6 (6.12%) Event-Driven
10 6 (6.12%) ITIL
10 6 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.39%) Java
2 17 (17.35%) SQL
3 10 (10.20%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.12%) Python
5 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.02%) Bash
7 1 (1.02%) C#
7 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.02%) R
7 1 (1.02%) Rust
7 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (45.92%) Security Cleared
2 37 (37.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.06%) Degree
5 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CIPD
6 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) NCSC
3 1 (1.02%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.04%) UAG
4 2 (2.04%) vSphere
5 1 (1.02%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Terraform
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.06%) Ansible
3 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.04%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.02%) Grafana
5 1 (1.02%) Graylog
5 1 (1.02%) Packer
5 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.02%) Puppet
5 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.02%) VxRail
5 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.31%) SAP
3 11 (11.22%) Google
4 6 (6.12%) VMware
5 5 (5.10%) Databricks
6 3 (3.06%) Oracle
7 2 (2.04%) HP
7 2 (2.04%) Informatica
7 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) Adobe
8 1 (1.02%) BMC
8 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.02%) Cisco
8 1 (1.02%) Citrix
8 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.02%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.02%) IBM
8 1 (1.02%) Meraki
8 1 (1.02%) Tenable
8 1 (1.02%) Zscaler