Senior Contracts in Manchester

Senior
North West > Manchester

The median Senior daily rate in Manchester is £512 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 19 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 139 126 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.64% 7.06% 6.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.09% 7.36% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 97 136
10th Percentile £303 £420 £378
25th Percentile £425 £463 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £628
90th Percentile £659 £700 £669
North West median daily rate £509 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.00% -0.47% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 6
10th Percentile £27.50 £18.78 -
25th Percentile £36.88 £20.37 £65.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £28.75 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.70% -61.41% -
75th Percentile £70.13 £36.25 £81.00
90th Percentile £81.90 £38.50 -
North West median hourly rate £44.74 £37.50 £54.47
% change year-on-year +19.31% -31.15% +60.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,378 1,713 2,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.02% 97.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 1,280 1,990
10th Percentile £313 £313 £229
25th Percentile £400 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +13.37%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 43 63
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.87 £11.44
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +33.33% +20.15%
75th Percentile £63.13 £44.38 £34.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.54 £23.22
% change year-on-year +7.71% +31.51% +29.37%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Salford -1 2 - - 8
Stockport +1 1 £550 +4.76% 10
Bolton - 1 £200 - 6
Oldham - 1 £400 - 1
Senior
North West

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 27 (19.42%) Agile
2 25 (17.99%) AWS
3 23 (16.55%) Social Skills
4 21 (15.11%) Java
5 18 (12.95%) DevOps
5 18 (12.95%) CI/CD
6 17 (12.23%) Azure
7 16 (11.51%) Microsoft
7 16 (11.51%) Degree
7 16 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (10.07%) Test Automation
8 14 (10.07%) React
9 13 (9.35%) Mentoring
9 13 (9.35%) Security Cleared
9 13 (9.35%) Project Management
9 13 (9.35%) Python
10 12 (8.63%) Finance
10 12 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (8.63%) Public Sector
11 11 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (7.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (7.19%) VMware
12 10 (7.19%) Terraform
13 9 (6.47%) Node.js
13 9 (6.47%) Microservices
13 9 (6.47%) Docker
13 9 (6.47%) Kubernetes
13 9 (6.47%) Active Directory
13 9 (6.47%) Cisco

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.16%) Confluence
3 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Revit
2 2 (1.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.72%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.44%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.72%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.72%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.99%) AWS
2 17 (12.23%) Azure
3 11 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.32%) GCP
5 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.60%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.88%) Serverless
7 3 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.44%) GitHub
8 2 (1.44%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.72%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.72%) Figma
9 1 (0.72%) Firebase
9 1 (0.72%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.72%) IaaS
9 1 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.76%) Network Security
2 3 (2.16%) Wireless
3 2 (1.44%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.44%) HTTP
3 2 (1.44%) SAN
3 2 (1.44%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.72%) DNS
4 1 (0.72%) Internet
4 1 (0.72%) NAS
4 1 (0.72%) NFC
4 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.88%) Big Data
2 4 (2.88%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.88%) SQLite
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (2.16%) HBase
3 3 (2.16%) MySQL
3 3 (2.16%) Power BI
3 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.72%) Presto
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Git
2 5 (3.60%) GitLab
3 4 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.88%) JIRA
3 4 (2.88%) Selenium
4 3 (2.16%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.16%) Gatling
5 2 (1.44%) JMeter
5 2 (1.44%) Postman
5 2 (1.44%) TestCafe
5 2 (1.44%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.72%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.72%) GoCD
6 1 (0.72%) Gradle
6 1 (0.72%) JUnit
6 1 (0.72%) Mockito
6 1 (0.72%) Pa11y
6 1 (0.72%) Storybook
6 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (16.55%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (8.63%) Finance
2 12 (8.63%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.04%) Legal
4 6 (4.32%) Banking
5 4 (2.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.44%) Automotive
6 2 (1.44%) Electronics
6 2 (1.44%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.44%) Military
6 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Marketing
7 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.72%) Police
7 1 (0.72%) Retail
7 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.07%) React
2 9 (6.47%) Node.js
3 7 (5.04%) Kafka
4 6 (4.32%) Redux
4 6 (4.32%) Vue
5 5 (3.60%) GraphQL
5 5 (3.60%) Next.js
6 4 (2.88%) HTML
6 4 (2.88%) XML
7 3 (2.16%) .NET
7 3 (2.16%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.16%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.16%) CSS
7 3 (2.16%) RESTful
7 3 (2.16%) Spring
8 2 (1.44%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.44%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.44%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (1.44%) Web Services
9 1 (0.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.16%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.44%) Derivative
5 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.44%) Life Science
5 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.44%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.44%) Robotics
5 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.76%) Windows
2 7 (5.04%) Windows 10
2 7 (5.04%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.60%) Unix
3 5 (3.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (2.88%) Android
4 4 (2.88%) Linux
5 3 (2.16%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (19.42%) Agile
2 18 (12.95%) CI/CD
2 18 (12.95%) DevOps
3 16 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (10.07%) Test Automation
5 13 (9.35%) Mentoring
5 13 (9.35%) Project Management
6 11 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (6.47%) E-Commerce
7 9 (6.47%) Microservices
8 8 (5.76%) Front End Development
8 8 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (5.76%) ITIL
8 8 (5.76%) User Experience
9 7 (5.04%) Containerisation
9 7 (5.04%) Roadmaps
9 7 (5.04%) Software Engineering
9 7 (5.04%) TDD
10 6 (4.32%) Design Patterns
10 6 (4.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.11%) Java
2 13 (9.35%) Python
3 7 (5.04%) TypeScript
4 6 (4.32%) SQL
5 5 (3.60%) Bash
5 5 (3.60%) Kotlin
5 5 (3.60%) Scala
6 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.16%) C#
7 3 (2.16%) Go
7 3 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.44%) Groovy
8 2 (1.44%) Perl
8 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.72%) ABAP
9 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (11.51%) Degree
2 13 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.32%) CCNA
4 6 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.88%) MCSE
7 3 (2.16%) CISM
7 3 (2.16%) CISSP
8 2 (1.44%) CCNP
8 2 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.44%) MCITP
8 2 (1.44%) RIBA
8 2 (1.44%) VCAP
9 1 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.44%) GRC
3 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) NIST
4 1 (0.72%) PMO
4 1 (0.72%) QA
4 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.47%) Active Directory
1 9 (6.47%) Docker
2 4 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (7.19%) Terraform
2 9 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.16%) Grafana
4 3 (2.16%) Kibana
5 2 (1.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.19%) VMware
3 9 (6.47%) Cisco
4 6 (4.32%) SAP
5 3 (2.16%) Dell
6 2 (1.44%) 3PAR
6 2 (1.44%) Adobe
6 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.44%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.44%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (1.44%) Juniper
6 2 (1.44%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (1.44%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.44%) Veeam
7 1 (0.72%) Google
7 1 (0.72%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.72%) Splunk