Senior Contracts in Manchester

Senior
North West > Manchester

The median Senior daily rate in Manchester is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 97 145 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 10.48% 9.56% 6.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.19% 9.96% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 93 97
10th Percentile - £308 £410
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.31% +1.02%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £644
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 3
10th Percentile £71.75 £27.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £72.50 £32.50 £28.13
Median hourly rate £77.50 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% +71.43% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £87.25 £82.20 £39.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £44.74 £37.50
% change year-on-year -32.05% +19.31% -7.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
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 Senior within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Salford -6 2 £350 -22.22% 11
Altrincham - 1 - - 23
Senior
North West

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 42 (43.30%) AWS
2 29 (29.90%) Python
3 27 (27.84%) Security Cleared
3 27 (27.84%) CI/CD
4 24 (24.74%) Software Engineering
5 23 (23.71%) Public Sector
6 22 (22.68%) Kubernetes
7 20 (20.62%) Agile
7 20 (20.62%) Node.js
7 20 (20.62%) Containerisation
8 18 (18.56%) TypeScript
9 17 (17.53%) SC Cleared
10 16 (16.49%) Java
10 16 (16.49%) Docker
10 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
11 15 (15.46%) JavaScript
11 15 (15.46%) SQL
12 14 (14.43%) Test Automation
12 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (14.43%) Microservices
13 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
14 12 (12.37%) RESTful
14 12 (12.37%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (12.37%) GitLab
14 12 (12.37%) DevOps
15 11 (11.34%) Jenkins
15 11 (11.34%) React
15 11 (11.34%) Serverless
15 11 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
15 11 (11.34%) Google

Senior Skill Set
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 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.09%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.06%) SAS
4 1 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.03%) CICS
4 1 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (1.03%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.03%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (43.30%) AWS
2 11 (11.34%) Azure
2 11 (11.34%) Serverless
3 7 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (6.19%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (6.19%) dbt
4 6 (6.19%) GCP
5 5 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.15%) GitHub
5 5 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.12%) Apigee
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.09%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Network Security
1 3 (3.09%) VPN
2 2 (2.06%) DWDM
2 2 (2.06%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.06%) Firewall
2 2 (2.06%) Internet
2 2 (2.06%) LAN
2 2 (2.06%) MPLS
2 2 (2.06%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.06%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.06%) WAN
2 2 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.06%) Wireless
3 1 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (1.03%) H.323
3 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.03%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.25%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.12%) Airbyte
5 3 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.06%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.06%) Metadata
6 2 (2.06%) MySQL
6 2 (2.06%) ObjectStore
6 2 (2.06%) Power BI
7 1 (1.03%) Big Data
7 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.03%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) GitLab
2 11 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.31%) JIRA
4 8 (8.25%) Git
5 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.12%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.12%) Jasmine
7 3 (3.09%) JUnit
8 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.06%) Grunt
8 2 (2.06%) gulp
8 2 (2.06%) Maven
8 2 (2.06%) Mocha
9 1 (1.03%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (1.03%) Gatling
9 1 (1.03%) Gradle
9 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.03%) XCTest
9 1 (1.03%) XCUITest
General
1 23 (23.71%) Public Sector
2 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Finance
4 5 (5.15%) Military
5 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Legal
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Games
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Law
8 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.62%) Node.js
2 12 (12.37%) RESTful
3 11 (11.34%) React
4 10 (10.31%) Kafka
5 5 (5.15%) REST
6 4 (4.12%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.12%) cloud-init
6 4 (4.12%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.12%) Swagger
7 3 (3.09%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.09%) HTML
7 3 (3.09%) OAuth
7 3 (3.09%) Spring
8 2 (2.06%) .NET
8 2 (2.06%) ADO
8 2 (2.06%) CSS
8 2 (2.06%) HTML5
8 2 (2.06%) jQuery
8 2 (2.06%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.25%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.15%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 6 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.12%) CentOS
3 4 (4.12%) Unix
4 2 (2.06%) Windows
5 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.84%) CI/CD
2 24 (24.74%) Software Engineering
3 20 (20.62%) Agile
3 20 (20.62%) Containerisation
4 14 (14.43%) Microservices
4 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (14.43%) Test Automation
5 12 (12.37%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (12.37%) DevOps
6 11 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (8.25%) Visualisation
9 7 (7.22%) Analytics
9 7 (7.22%) Mentoring
9 7 (7.22%) TDD
10 6 (6.19%) Digital Twin
10 6 (6.19%) Project Delivery
10 6 (6.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.90%) Python
2 18 (18.56%) TypeScript
3 16 (16.49%) Java
4 15 (15.46%) JavaScript
4 15 (15.46%) SQL
5 11 (11.34%) Bash
6 4 (4.12%) Go
6 4 (4.12%) SPARQL
7 2 (2.06%) C#
7 2 (2.06%) Clojure
7 2 (2.06%) Scala
8 1 (1.03%) JCL
8 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Degree
4 1 (1.03%) APMG
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) MCP
4 1 (1.03%) MCSA
4 1 (1.03%) MCSE
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.03%) PMP
4 1 (1.03%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) WCAG
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) GRC
4 1 (1.03%) NCSC
4 1 (1.03%) PMO
4 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.03%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 22 (22.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.25%) Terraform
3 5 (5.15%) Grafana
3 5 (5.15%) Packer
3 5 (5.15%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.06%) Ansible
5 1 (1.03%) CA Endevor
5 1 (1.03%) Consul
5 1 (1.03%) Graylog
5 1 (1.03%) Istio
5 1 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.03%) linkerd
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.03%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) Rancher
5 1 (1.03%) SCSM
5 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) Google
3 7 (7.22%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) Databricks
5 2 (2.06%) Aruba
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco
5 2 (2.06%) HP
5 2 (2.06%) IBM
5 2 (2.06%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.03%) Adobe
6 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.03%) Citrix
6 1 (1.03%) F5
6 1 (1.03%) New Relic
6 1 (1.03%) Remedy
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) Software AG
6 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.03%) Splunk
6 1 (1.03%) webMethods