Re-Platforming Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Re-Platforming
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Re-Platforming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 79 92
Rank change year-on-year -25 +13 +20
Contract jobs citing Re-Platforming 4 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.28% 0.78% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.85% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £451 £433 £362
25th Percentile £451 £463 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% -11.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £470 £517 £681
90th Percentile £480 £607 £760
North West median daily rate £452 £489 £538
% change year-on-year -7.57% -9.02% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Re-Platforming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,236 940 1,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.49% 91.09% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 618 941
10th Percentile £311 £294 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £574 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £669
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 32 74
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.76 £23.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £32.50 £25.10
Median % change year-on-year +63.08% +29.51% -36.47%
75th Percentile £66.25 £42.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £78.13 £64.50 £77.25
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £25.30
% change year-on-year +38.46% +28.46% -32.53%

Re-Platforming
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Re-Platforming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Re-Platforming job vacancy trend in Manchester

Re-Platforming
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Re-Platforming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Re-Platforming

Re-Platforming
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:

General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes