W3C Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term W3C in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited W3C over the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing W3C 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.078% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £568 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

W3C 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 428 366 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.49% 35.16% 25.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 220 306
10th Percentile £232 £200 £249
25th Percentile £350 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £550
90th Percentile £624 £700 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -1.10% -9.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 23
10th Percentile £19.75 £20.05 £12.40
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.25 £18.83
Median hourly rate £46.25 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +25.00% -58.40%
75th Percentile £69.06 £33.75 £40.63
90th Percentile £90.00 - £77.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £27.50 £26.66
% change year-on-year +65.31% +3.15% -23.83%

W3C
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing W3C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

W3C job vacancy trend in Manchester

W3C
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing W3C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing W3C

W3C
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing W3C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing W3C

W3C
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) ArangoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Stardog
1 1 (100.00%) TigerGraph
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) NetworkX
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Graph Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Understanding
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SHACL
1 1 (100.00%) SPARQL