Sitecore Contract Job Trends in the North West

Sitecore
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Sitecore products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sitecore over the 6 months leading up to 28 March 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 Sitecore.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 123 128
Rank change year-on-year -38 +5 +29
Contract jobs citing Sitecore 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.032% 0.051% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.075% 0.096% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £313 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £513
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -36.59% +20.59%
75th Percentile - £338 £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £553 £550 £350
% change year-on-year +0.55% +57.14% -26.32%

All Vendors
North West

Sitecore 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 1,328 1,040 1,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 42.87% 53.06% 40.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 673 707
10th Percentile £212 £250 £278
25th Percentile £370 £393 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -0.77% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £665 £677
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 52 152
10th Percentile £19.13 £21.24 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.63 £25.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +102.37% -52.41%
75th Percentile £61.89 £62.04 £26.42
90th Percentile £76.26 £86.00 £46.15
England median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%

Sitecore
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Sitecore job vacancy trend in the North West

Sitecore
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Sitecore
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Sitecore
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 Sitecore within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 March 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 £450 - 2
Sitecore
England

Sitecore
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%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer - E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google