Unisys Contract Job Trends in the North West

Unisys
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Unisys products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unisys over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 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 Unisys Corporation.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unisys 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.099% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile £412 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - -
75th Percentile £481 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
England median daily rate £435 - £913
% change year-on-year - - +234.86%

All Vendors
North West

Unisys 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 1,677 1,142 1,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 41.44% 50.98% 42.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 741 523
10th Percentile £250 £298 £320
25th Percentile £400 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £604 £588
90th Percentile £650 £708 £674
England median daily rate £519 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +2.27% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 87 53
10th Percentile £14.06 £13.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.87 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -35.34% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £45.61 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.55 £68.35 £55.79
England median hourly rate £25.28 £25.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.98% -28.46% -21.35%

Unisys
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Unisys job vacancy trend in the North West

Unisys
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Unisys
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unisys in the North West over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unisys in the North West

Unisys
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 Unisys within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 October 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 - 4 £435 - 2
Unisys
England

Unisys
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 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Canary Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker