Software Engineering Contracts in Manchester

Software Engineering
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 60 27
Rank change year-on-year +32 -33 +5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 74 48 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 5.13% 2.69% 7.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 2.97% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 127
10th Percentile - £369 £400
25th Percentile £456 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +29.63%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £625
90th Percentile £680 £718 £680
North West median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +29.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.21% -32.14% +54.70%
75th Percentile £72.50 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £74.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £57.95
% change year-on-year +18.26% -29.96% +28.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,246 1,616 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.41% 90.58% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,191 1,814
10th Percentile £325 £318 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 51 54
10th Percentile £12.46 £16.00 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.71 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.70 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +51.30% +13.15%
75th Percentile £61.25 £43.13 £50.94
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.46 £35.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year -24.41% +53.85% +30.34%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
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 1 (1.35%) Apache
1 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (16.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (5.41%) Simulink
2 4 (5.41%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.14%) AWS
2 13 (17.57%) Azure
3 6 (8.11%) Serverless
4 5 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.41%) GCP
5 4 (5.41%) npm
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Batch
6 1 (1.35%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub
6 1 (1.35%) PaaS
6 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) MySQL
2 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.70%) SQLite
4 1 (1.35%) Big Data
4 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.35%) Flink
4 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) Cypress.io
2 4 (5.41%) JUnit
3 2 (2.70%) GitLab
3 2 (2.70%) GoCD
4 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.35%) Maven
4 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.35%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (10.81%) Finance
2 7 (9.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.41%) Automotive
4 4 (5.41%) Legal
5 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.35%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Games
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Military
7 1 (1.35%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 42 (56.76%) Software Engineer
2 17 (22.97%) Developer
3 12 (16.22%) Software Developer
4 7 (9.46%) Senior
5 6 (8.11%) Java Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Full Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.05%) Lead
7 3 (4.05%) Lead Developer
8 2 (2.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.70%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) PHP Software Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) React
2 13 (17.57%) HTML
2 13 (17.57%) Node.js
3 10 (13.51%) Spring
4 9 (12.16%) AngularJS
4 9 (12.16%) RESTful
5 8 (10.81%) Spring Boot
6 5 (6.76%) AWS CDK
6 5 (6.76%) Jest
7 3 (4.05%) REST
8 2 (2.70%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.70%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (2.70%) JPA
8 2 (2.70%) Kafka
8 2 (2.70%) RxJava
8 2 (2.70%) SOAP
8 2 (2.70%) XML
9 1 (1.35%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.35%) Play Framework
9 1 (1.35%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.05%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.35%) Online Gambling
3 1 (1.35%) Online Games
3 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.35%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) Agile
2 17 (22.97%) Code Quality
3 14 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (17.57%) Test Automation
5 12 (16.22%) Conversational UI
6 11 (14.86%) CI/CD
6 11 (14.86%) DevOps
6 11 (14.86%) Front End Development
7 9 (12.16%) Microservices
8 8 (10.81%) Design Patterns
8 8 (10.81%) SDLC
9 7 (9.46%) Data Security
10 6 (8.11%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.11%) Decision-Making
10 6 (8.11%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (8.11%) Prototyping
11 5 (6.76%) Critical Thinking
11 5 (6.76%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) Java
1 23 (31.08%) Python
2 20 (27.03%) JavaScript
3 17 (22.97%) SQL
3 17 (22.97%) TypeScript
4 13 (17.57%) C#
5 7 (9.46%) PHP
6 5 (6.76%) C
7 4 (5.41%) MATLAB
8 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.35%) Bash
10 1 (1.35%) C++
10 1 (1.35%) Fortran
10 1 (1.35%) Go
10 1 (1.35%) Perl
10 1 (1.35%) Rust
10 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) Degree
2 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
2 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.35%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
2 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (9.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Terraform
2 7 (9.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.05%) Ansible
4 1 (1.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) PayPal
2 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.35%) Google
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle