Dagger Contract Job Trends in the North West

Dagger
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Dagger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dagger 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.081% - 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £520 £525 -
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £55.38 - £76.38
25th Percentile £57.81 - £76.56
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £78.75
75th Percentile £67.81 - £81.56
90th Percentile £69.13 - £82.13
England median hourly rate £63.75 - £78.75

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Dagger falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 510 354 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.76% 16.33% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 228 450
10th Percentile £325 £354 £367
25th Percentile £380 £402 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £664 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 31
10th Percentile £50.25 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £76.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Dagger
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dagger relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Dagger job vacancy trend in the North West

Dagger
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Dagger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Dagger

Dagger
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Dagger.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Dagger

Dagger
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Dagger in the North West over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Dagger in the North West

Dagger
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dagger within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Manchester - 2 - - 2
Dagger
England

Dagger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Android Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (50.00%) OkHttp
2 1 (50.00%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Android Development
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana