Software Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 98 62
Rank change year-on-year +42 -36 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 45 20 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.95% 1.05% 3.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.09% 1.08% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 75
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile £456 £469 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +29.41% +3.03%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £500
90th Percentile £645 £675 £640
North West median daily rate £549 £609 £425
% change year-on-year -9.82% +43.24% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £52.05 £42.88 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% - -
75th Percentile £72.34 £48.44 -
90th Percentile £73.35 £48.63 -
North West median hourly rate £48.22 £40.59 £48.56
% change year-on-year +18.79% -16.42% +11.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,457 1,844 2,489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.67% 96.75% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 1,378 1,965
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £394 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £691 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 57 62
10th Percentile £12.02 £14.15 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £24.15 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £47.50 £22.90
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.60 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.83%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (53.33%) AWS
3 15 (33.33%) RESTful
4 12 (26.67%) Java
4 12 (26.67%) Design Patterns
5 11 (24.44%) Node.js
6 10 (22.22%) React
6 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 9 (20.00%) Microservices
7 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
7 9 (20.00%) Terraform
7 9 (20.00%) MongoDB
8 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
8 8 (17.78%) Python
9 7 (15.56%) PHP
9 7 (15.56%) GitLab
9 7 (15.56%) Front End Development
10 6 (13.33%) SDLC
10 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 6 (13.33%) Agile
10 6 (13.33%) Azure
10 6 (13.33%) Finance
11 5 (11.11%) Data Security
11 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
11 5 (11.11%) Serverless
11 5 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
12 4 (8.89%) Test Strategy
12 4 (8.89%) Critical Thinking

Software Engineer 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:

Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Simulink
1 4 (8.89%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (11.11%) Serverless
4 4 (8.89%) npm
5 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Batch
6 1 (2.22%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.89%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) GitLab
2 4 (8.89%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) GoCD
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) JUnit
General
1 6 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (8.89%) Automotive
2 4 (8.89%) Legal
2 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.22%) Games
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) RESTful
2 11 (24.44%) Node.js
3 10 (22.22%) React
4 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.89%) Jest
6 2 (4.44%) Kafka
6 2 (4.44%) SOAP
6 2 (4.44%) Spring
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.22%) CSS
7 1 (2.22%) HTML
7 1 (2.22%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (2.22%) Next.js
7 1 (2.22%) RxJava
7 1 (2.22%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.22%) web3js
7 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.22%) Online Gambling
2 1 (2.22%) Online Games
2 1 (2.22%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (26.67%) Design Patterns
3 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.00%) Microservices
5 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
6 7 (15.56%) Front End Development
7 6 (13.33%) Agile
7 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 6 (13.33%) SDLC
8 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.11%) Data Security
9 4 (8.89%) Critical Thinking
9 4 (8.89%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (8.89%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 4 (8.89%) Incident Management
9 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (8.89%) Test Strategy
9 4 (8.89%) Validation
9 4 (8.89%) Verification and Validation
10 3 (6.67%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Java
2 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (17.78%) Python
4 7 (15.56%) PHP
5 4 (8.89%) C
5 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.89%) MATLAB
6 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.44%) SQL
8 1 (2.22%) Bash
8 1 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Fortran
8 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.22%) Perl
8 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.22%) QA
1 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft