Shadow IT Contracts in Manchester

Shadow IT
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Shadow IT in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Shadow IT over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Shadow IT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £535 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £528 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Shadow IT falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 260 367 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.79% 25.56% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 240 394
10th Percentile £220 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £625
90th Percentile £665 £750 £688
North West median daily rate £453 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.11% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 24
10th Percentile £24.25 £13.10 £16.69
25th Percentile £40.13 £15.92 £16.85
Median hourly rate £62.50 £25.25 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +147.52% -8.51% +78.06%
75th Percentile £75.00 £57.50 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £25.25 £31.49
% change year-on-year +25.78% -19.82% +61.49%

Shadow IT
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%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft