Tandem Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Tandem
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tandem over the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 82 104
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 +31
Contract jobs citing Tandem 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.27% 0.087% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.26% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £416 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% -5.45% +17.65%
75th Percentile £483 £530 -
90th Percentile £488 - -
North West median daily rate £438 £603 £550
% change year-on-year -27.39% +9.56% +57.14%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Tandem 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 409 382 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.13% 33.42% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 206 338
10th Percentile £299 £279 £230
25th Percentile £358 £361 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% -4.39%
75th Percentile £580 £582 £575
90th Percentile £650 £706 £679
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -8.16% -4.39% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.33 £28.69
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.56 £35.13
Median hourly rate £21.50 £32.50 £43.13
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% -24.64% +23.21%
75th Percentile £35.50 £43.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £60.63 £89.50 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% -23.53% +68.68%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tandem relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Tandem job vacancy trend in Manchester

Tandem
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Tandem.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Tandem

Tandem
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Attestation
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Key Management
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft