Software Engineering Contracts in Manchester

Software Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 27 66
Rank change year-on-year +5 +39 -29
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 77 71 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 8.11% 4.90% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.21% 5.69% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 26 29
10th Percentile £379 £456 £369
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -2.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £675
90th Percentile £716 £688 £738
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 1
10th Percentile £71.05 - -
25th Percentile £72.63 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £80.75 £68.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.88% +9.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90.31 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £93.13 £74.30 -
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £48.00 £43.39
% change year-on-year +55.21% +10.64% -33.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Software Engineering 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 836 1,248 1,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.00% 86.13% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 819 1,195
10th Percentile £306 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 78 52
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.50 £14.07
25th Percentile £19.62 £14.15 £16.79
Median hourly rate £49.00 £26.76 £21.60
Median % change year-on-year +83.11% +23.87% +18.37%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £82.20 £76.45 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year - -1.77% +26.72%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 4 July 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 £550 - 9
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.16%) AWS
2 13 (16.88%) Serverless
3 9 (11.69%) Azure
4 8 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (9.09%) GCP
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (5.19%) Apigee
7 4 (5.19%) GitHub
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.90%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.60%) dbt
9 2 (2.60%) SaaS
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon Neptune
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (12.99%) Relational Database
2 9 (11.69%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Big Data
4 3 (3.90%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.60%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Accumulo
6 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.30%) Power BI
6 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Jenkins
2 11 (14.29%) Gradle
2 11 (14.29%) JUnit
2 11 (14.29%) Liquibase
3 10 (12.99%) GitLab
3 10 (12.99%) Mockito
4 6 (7.79%) JIRA
5 4 (5.19%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.60%) Git
8 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.30%) Maven
8 1 (1.30%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.30%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (1.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.30%) Selenium
8 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.30%) XCTest
8 1 (1.30%) XCUITest
General
1 16 (20.78%) Public Sector
2 15 (19.48%) Finance
3 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Telecoms
4 10 (12.99%) Electronics
4 10 (12.99%) Manufacturing
4 10 (12.99%) Marketing
5 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Retail
7 3 (3.90%) Legal
7 3 (3.90%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Automotive
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (58.44%) Software Engineer
2 24 (31.17%) Senior
3 19 (24.68%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (20.78%) Developer
5 10 (12.99%) Lead
5 10 (12.99%) Lead Software Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Architect
6 8 (10.39%) Java Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.79%) React Developer
7 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) AWS Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.87%) React
2 19 (24.68%) Kafka
3 17 (22.08%) Node.js
4 14 (18.18%) Spring
5 13 (16.88%) Spring Boot
6 11 (14.29%) OpenAPI
6 11 (14.29%) Swagger
7 6 (7.79%) AWS CDK
8 5 (6.49%) .NET
8 5 (6.49%) RESTful
9 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.90%) OAuth
9 3 (3.90%) Playwright
9 3 (3.90%) Puppeteer
10 2 (2.60%) Android Jetpack
10 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.60%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (2.60%) Jetpack Compose
10 2 (2.60%) Lambda Expressions
11 1 (1.30%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.19%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.60%) IoT
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) Replication
4 2 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Android
3 2 (2.60%) HPUX
3 2 (2.60%) Solaris
3 2 (2.60%) Windows
4 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) Agile
2 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 23 (29.87%) Containerisation
3 23 (29.87%) DevOps
3 23 (29.87%) Microservices
4 18 (23.38%) TDD
5 15 (19.48%) Migration
6 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (12.99%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (12.99%) Programme Management
9 9 (11.69%) Event-Driven
10 8 (10.39%) Clean Code
10 8 (10.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (10.39%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.39%) Test Automation
11 7 (9.09%) DevSecOps
12 6 (7.79%) Build Automation
12 6 (7.79%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 31 (40.26%) TypeScript
2 29 (37.66%) Java
3 23 (29.87%) SQL
4 13 (16.88%) JavaScript
4 13 (16.88%) Python
5 5 (6.49%) Bash
6 3 (3.90%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.60%) Scala
8 1 (1.30%) C#
8 1 (1.30%) PHP
8 1 (1.30%) SPARQL
8 1 (1.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.19%) Degree
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Terraform
3 4 (5.19%) Grafana
4 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.60%) Kibana
6 1 (1.30%) Ansible
6 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Google
1 10 (12.99%) SAP
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) PagerDuty
4 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.60%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.60%) IBM
4 2 (2.60%) Splunk
4 2 (2.60%) Sun
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.30%) SendGrid
5 1 (1.30%) Unisys
5 1 (1.30%) VMware