Semantic Kernel Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic Kernel over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.099% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 193 252 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.05% 20.84% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 173 306
10th Percentile £339 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% -4.48%
75th Percentile £545 £688 £600
90th Percentile £612 £850 £675
North West median daily rate £445 £495 £520
% change year-on-year -10.01% -4.90% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £70.63 £63.25 £62.00
25th Percentile £71.56 £64.38 £63.13
Median hourly rate £76.25 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84.06 £73.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £73.90 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -34.03%

Semantic Kernel
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI