Educational Technology Contract Job Trends in the North West

Educational Technology (Edtech)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Educational Technology in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Educational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 117 142
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 -
Contract jobs citing Educational Technology 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% 0.13% 0.073%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.44% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £389
25th Percentile £413 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £513
75th Percentile £438 - £603
90th Percentile - - £646
England median daily rate £445 £394 £375
% change year-on-year +13.09% +4.93% -21.05%

All Generic Skills
North West

Educational Technology 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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 876 675 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.90% 29.11% 29.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 348 570
10th Percentile £216 £293 £248
25th Percentile £358 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £524
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.44% +4.75%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £672
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 30 37
10th Percentile £16.19 £19.97 £16.15
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -25.71% +94.44%
75th Percentile £56.27 £45.89 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £88.05 £67.30
England median hourly rate £29.00 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.20% +2.62% +47.54%

Educational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Educational Technology job vacancy trend in the North West

Educational Technology
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Educational Technology
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 Educational Technology within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 November 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 -1 1 £425 - 19
Educational Technology
England

Educational Technology
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG