Rational DOORS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

IBM Rational DOORS
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Rational DOORS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rational DOORS 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.50% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £494 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 - -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

Rational DOORS falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 188 154 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.71% 14.26% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 108 163
10th Percentile £344 £322 £363
25th Percentile £400 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £581 £543 £619
90th Percentile £638 £620 £681
North West median daily rate £427 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -5.11% -12.62% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £73.00 - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £57.50 £47.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.82% +3.05% +1.38%

Rational DOORS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rational DOORS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Rational DOORS job vacancy trend in Manchester

Rational DOORS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Rational DOORS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Rational DOORS

Rational DOORS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rational DOORS in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rational DOORS in Manchester

Rational DOORS
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Rational DOORS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Rational DOORS

Rational DOORS
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 Rational DOORS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Cheadle - 5 £550 -
Rational DOORS
North West

Rational DOORS
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:

Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Software Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) UML
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
3 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (33.33%) FMEA
4 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
5 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) C
2 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) IEC 61508
1 3 (50.00%) ISO 26262
2 2 (33.33%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Podman
1 3 (50.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) SAP