Sage Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Sage
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring knowledge or experience of Sage products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sage over the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sage Group PLC.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 85 90
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Sage 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.14% 0.19% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.42% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £350 -
25th Percentile - £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +33.33% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £675 £431
90th Percentile - £750 £472
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -9.09% +33.33% -8.33%

All Vendors
Manchester

Sage falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 547 474 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 38.28% 45.93% 37.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 316 404
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £388 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £471 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -5.28% +2.05%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.10% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 44
10th Percentile £16.44 - £11.85
25th Percentile £19.75 £31.25 £12.82
Median hourly rate £22.68 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -30.22% +83.41% -52.75%
75th Percentile £30.00 £33.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £31.74 £60.00 £56.70
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £16.94
% change year-on-year -8.92% +91.91% -49.82%

Sage
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Sage job vacancy trend in Manchester

Sage
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Sage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Sage

Sage
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Sage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Sage

Sage
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 Sage within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 March 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 £500 -
Sage
North West

Sage
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Intacct
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft