Intel Contract Job Trends in the North West

Intel
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Intel products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intel over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Intel Corporation.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Intel 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.025% - 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.060% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £556
25th Percentile - - £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £740
Median % change year-on-year - - +208.33%
75th Percentile - - £868
90th Percentile - - £932
England median daily rate £560 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +14.87% -11.36% +129.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £100.00
England median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £87.50
% change year-on-year - -8.57% +25.00%

All Vendors
North West

Intel falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,668 1,076 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 42.49% 50.23% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 691 511
10th Percentile £263 £304 £276
25th Percentile £400 £380 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £662 £671 £675
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 79 44
10th Percentile £14.86 £13.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £17.44 £24.48
Median hourly rate £29.96 £22.63 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +32.39% -36.58% +1.94%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.12 £46.18
90th Percentile £87.50 £67.25 £58.74
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.65%

Intel
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Intel job vacancy trend in the North West

Intel
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Intel
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Intel
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 Intel within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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 - 1 - - 6
Intel
England

Intel
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5