iGaming Contract Job Trends in the North West

iGaming
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iGaming in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iGaming over the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing iGaming 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.15% - -
As % of the General category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £525 - -
England median daily rate £450 - -

All General Skills
North West

iGaming falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,996 1,340 1,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.04% 61.38% 56.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 865 756
10th Percentile £230 £270 £294
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -6.63% -2.00%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £576
90th Percentile £680 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 110 78
10th Percentile £14.32 £12.82 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.65 £15.50 £18.01
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.94% -25.89% +57.30%
75th Percentile £55.00 £49.28 £47.17
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.23 £62.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +32.46%

iGaming
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

iGaming job vacancy trend in the North West

iGaming
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

iGaming
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 iGaming within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 September 2026. 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 - 6 £450 - 18
iGaming
England

iGaming
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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) Vue
4 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript