Software Engineering Contracts in Manchester

Software Engineering
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 75 21
Rank change year-on-year +47 -54 +14
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 82 43 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 5.53% 2.31% 8.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 2.52% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 26 148
10th Percentile £456 £394 £400
25th Percentile £463 £441 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +6.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £620
90th Percentile £700 £694 £654
North West median daily rate £550 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% +26.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £52.05 £42.88 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -33.93% +53.85%
75th Percentile £72.34 £48.44 -
90th Percentile £73.35 £48.63 -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £42.80 £51.79
% change year-on-year +12.16% -17.37% +19.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,295 1,705 2,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.26% 91.72% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 1,254 1,817
10th Percentile £325 £318 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 58 49
10th Percentile £12.42 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.40 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +141.29% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.89 £25.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 -4 1 - - 3
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 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.88%) Simulink
2 4 (4.88%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.02%) AWS
2 12 (14.63%) Azure
3 6 (7.32%) Serverless
4 5 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.88%) npm
5 4 (4.88%) PaaS
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.66%) IaaS
6 3 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) GCP
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Batch
8 1 (1.22%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.22%) GitHub
8 1 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.88%) MySQL
3 3 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.44%) SQLite
5 1 (1.22%) Big Data
5 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (10.98%) GitLab
2 5 (6.10%) Git
3 4 (4.88%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.88%) JUnit
4 2 (2.44%) GoCD
5 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.22%) JIRA
5 1 (1.22%) Maven
5 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (14.63%) Finance
2 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.32%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.88%) Automotive
5 4 (4.88%) Legal
6 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Electronics
6 3 (3.66%) Marketing
6 3 (3.66%) Retail
6 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.22%) Games
7 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.22%) Military
7 1 (1.22%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 44 (53.66%) Software Engineer
2 21 (25.61%) Developer
3 12 (14.63%) Software Developer
4 11 (13.41%) Senior
5 7 (8.54%) Java Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Lead
7 5 (6.10%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
9 3 (3.66%) AWS Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Full Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Lead Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 2 (2.44%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) PHP Software Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.95%) Node.js
1 18 (21.95%) RESTful
2 16 (19.51%) React
3 14 (17.07%) HTML
4 9 (10.98%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.32%) Spring
6 5 (6.10%) Jest
7 4 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.66%) Kafka
9 2 (2.44%) AWS CDK
9 2 (2.44%) CSS
9 2 (2.44%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.44%) Jetpack Compose
9 2 (2.44%) JPA
9 2 (2.44%) REST
9 2 (2.44%) RxJava
9 2 (2.44%) SOAP
9 2 (2.44%) XML
10 1 (1.22%) Android Jetpack
10 1 (1.22%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.10%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.44%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.22%) Online Gambling
3 1 (1.22%) Online Games
3 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.22%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Android
1 2 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.39%) Agile
2 17 (20.73%) Design Patterns
3 16 (19.51%) CI/CD
3 16 (19.51%) Microservices
4 15 (18.29%) Code Quality
5 13 (15.85%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (14.63%) Conversational UI
6 12 (14.63%) Front End Development
6 12 (14.63%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.20%) DevOps
8 8 (9.76%) Full Stack Development
9 7 (8.54%) Data Security
9 7 (8.54%) SDLC
10 6 (7.32%) Decision-Making
10 6 (7.32%) Prototyping
10 6 (7.32%) TDD
10 6 (7.32%) Test Strategy
11 5 (6.10%) Critical Thinking
11 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (6.10%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) JavaScript
1 21 (25.61%) Python
2 19 (23.17%) Java
3 16 (19.51%) SQL
4 14 (17.07%) C#
5 13 (15.85%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.54%) PHP
7 4 (4.88%) C
7 4 (4.88%) MATLAB
8 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.44%) Rust
10 1 (1.22%) Bash
10 1 (1.22%) C++
10 1 (1.22%) Fortran
10 1 (1.22%) Go
10 1 (1.22%) Perl
10 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Degree
2 7 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.44%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.22%) SLA
3 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.51%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (14.63%) PayPal
2 3 (3.66%) SAP
3 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.22%) Google
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft