26 contracts found in Greater Manchester

Day rate: £550–£600/day (Inside IR35) Duration: 6 months (likely extension) Location: Manchester, 1-2 days/week in office Start: October   Codurance is a software craftsmanship consultancy. We work with clients on the engineering problems that actually matter to their business, and we do it properly - clean code, sound architecture, and engineering practices that hold up under pressure, not just in a demo. We're not a body-shop; our consultants are expected to bring technical judgement and push back on bad decisions, not just fill a seat.   We're hiring contract .NET Engineers to join a project team working on a large-scale modernisation programme for a client in the regulated financial services space - replacing a legacy platform that's been patched together for years with a modern, cloud-native architecture running on Kubernetes. It's meaty, high-stakes engineering with real constraints around compliance, data integrity,...

Location: Hybrid | Manchester Rate: £525 per day IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Clearance: BPSS Overview MS Dynamics and PowerApps Developers are required for a CRM transformation project with a government agency. The initiative will replace existing manual processes with a new Customer Relationship Management system, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. An Alpha phase will deliver core functionality across two business areas, followed by a Beta phase to deploy a production-ready CRM solution. You will play a hands-on role in shaping and delivering a secure, well-engineered platform that modernises how the agency works. Key Responsibilities Develop and configure CRM applications based on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Design, build and deploy PowerApps solutions and automated workflows using Power Automate Integrate CRM solutions with Azure services, ensuring DevOps practices are followed Collaborate with business stakeholders to...

We are GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company and leader in digital engineering. We help brands across the globe design and build innovative products, platforms, and digital experiences for the modern world. By integrating experience design, complex engineering, and data expertise – we help our clients imagine what’s possible and accelerate their transition into tomorrow’s digital businesses.   We are seeking an experienced and motivated Contract Technical Functional .Net Lead Developer - this is a contract role for 9-12months+. Inside IR 35. To start ASAP. This role is hybrid (1-2 days), and entails working directly with our client, on site.   The role involves leading end-to-end development and integrations across our global retail client's tech estate. You will be a proactiveTechno-Functional Lead expertise in the .NET ecosystem, and AI integration. This is a hybrid hands-on role (combining functional/technical ownership with leadership)...

Location: Remote with occasional travel to Manchester Rate: £600 per day IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Clearance: SC Mandatory Overview We are seeking a Security Architect (SFIA Level 4) to join a public sector transformation programme, working predominantly remotely with occasional travel to Manchester. The successful candidate will design and assure secure architectures across a mixed technology estate, embedding secure-by-design principles into new and existing systems. Working closely with enterprise architects, delivery teams and security assurance leads, you will translate policy and risk requirements into practical architectural patterns. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Security Architect to shape security outcomes on a high-profile public sector programme. Key Responsibilities Design and document security architectures, patterns and blueprints for new and existing systems Conduct risk assessments and threat...

Senior Freelance Web & Digital Designer Part Time, 2 Days a Week | Prestwich, Manchester We’re looking for a very experienced and genuinely creative freelance designer to join us for two days a week in our Prestwich office. This is a varied, hands-on role working across three very different brands under one roof. Each has its own audience, personality and creative requirements, so you’ll need to be comfortable moving between them and adapting your style accordingly. We already have established brands and platforms. We’re not looking for someone to come in and reinvent everything from scratch. We want someone with the creative eye and experience to look at what we have, identify where it could be better and help us continually raise the standard of our creative output. Most importantly, we want someone who brings ideas, not just someone who waits for a brief. About us We’re a small, ambitious group of businesses...

Splunk Consultant / Architect Location : Manchester, UK Employment Type: Contract / Fixed term contract   Key Technologies Splunk Enterprise Splunk Cloud ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) Linux   Required Skills & Experience Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud Splunk certification at Architect or Consultant level Extensive experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms Strong expertise in data onboarding, parsing, indexing, and transformation Good understanding of Linux infrastructure and administration Experience supporting enterprise environments through: Incident Management Problem Management Change Management Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills...

October 2026 start | Fully remote, occasional client site visits | £400-£600/day, dependent on experience | Outside IR35 TechAlign is an independent, vendor-neutral technology advisory firm working on mid-market transactions, technology and cyber due diligence, carve-out separation, and integration and value creation, primarily for lower-mid-market and mid-market private equity investors and their portfolio companies. As part of our integration and value creation work, we are often involved in leading the delivery of platform consolidation projects, tenant-to-tenant migrations, workload rationalisation and complex migration scenarios that offer plentiful opportunities for growth. Independence is why the firm exists: no vendor relationships, no commission, no incentive to recommend one platform over another. Every engagement is principal-led by people who've run this kind of work before, not just advised on it, and we look for associates that want to grow in a dynamic...

Day rate: £550–£600/day (Inside IR35) Duration: 6 months (likely extension) Location: Manchester, 1-2 days/week in office Start: October   Codurance is a software craftsmanship consultancy. We work with clients on the engineering problems that actually matter to their business, and we do it properly - clean code, sound architecture, and engineering practices that hold up under pressure, not just in a demo. We're not a body-shop; our consultants are expected to bring technical judgement and push back on bad decisions, not just fill a seat.   We're hiring contract .NET Engineers to join a project team working on a large-scale modernisation programme for a client in the regulated financial services space - replacing a legacy platform that's been patched together for years with a modern, cloud-native architecture running on Kubernetes. It's meaty, high-stakes engineering with real constraints around compliance, data integrity,...

Location: Remote with occasional travel to Manchester Rate: £600 per day IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Clearance: SC Mandatory Overview We are seeking a Security Architect (SFIA Level 4) to join a public sector transformation programme, working predominantly remotely with occasional travel to Manchester. The successful candidate will design and assure secure architectures across a mixed technology estate, embedding secure-by-design principles into new and existing systems. Working closely with enterprise architects, delivery teams and security assurance leads, you will translate policy and risk requirements into practical architectural patterns. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Security Architect to shape security outcomes on a high-profile public sector programme. Key Responsibilities Design and document security architectures, patterns and blueprints for new and existing systems Conduct risk assessments and threat...

Enterprise Data Architect & Governance Lead - 9-month engagement (UK Remote)   Company Description When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in global education. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educators and institutions to develop learning integrity solutions that recognize the enduring value of critical thinking in a rapidly changing world. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services in more than 185 countries around the world: Turnitin Feedback Studio, Clarity, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate. Protecting the value of an authentic education is at the heart of who we are. Experience a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified...

We are seeking an experienced Senior Microsoft 365 / SharePoint Engineer to support and enhance our Client Portal and estate.   The Client Portal squad currently consists of a portal developer, SharePoint developer, two business analysts, development manager and product manager. The team work closely with our business owners and wider portal stakeholders.   The successful candidate will take ownership of Microsoft SharePoint Online solutions, document management platforms, Power Platform workflows, and integrations with business applications including Salesforce and other enterprise platforms.   This role combines development, support, architecture and operational responsibilities and requires someone comfortable working directly with business stakeholders, development teams, support functions and third-party vendors.   Our product vision is to provide a modern, global, digital client interface that enhances our clients ' experience and...

UX Designer contract   Rate - £500pd inside IR35 Location - 1 day per week in either Manchester or Leeds Initial 6 months   Experience with Gov prototyping kit essential   Please apply for more information

Senior Freelance Web & Digital Designer Part Time, 2 Days a Week | Prestwich, Manchester We’re looking for a very experienced and genuinely creative freelance designer to join us for two days a week in our Prestwich office. This is a varied, hands-on role working across three very different brands under one roof. Each has its own audience, personality and creative requirements, so you’ll need to be comfortable moving between them and adapting your style accordingly. We already have established brands and platforms. We’re not looking for someone to come in and reinvent everything from scratch. We want someone with the creative eye and experience to look at what we have, identify where it could be better and help us continually raise the standard of our creative output. Most importantly, we want someone who brings ideas, not just someone who waits for a brief. About us We’re a small, ambitious group of businesses based in...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (PHP / Laravel) | Contract, Outside IR35 Senior Full Stack Engineer (PHP / Laravel) Contract, Manchester based. Outside IR35, starting early October. Full location detail below. What we're recruiting for We're hiring a Senior Full Stack PHP engineer to join a long-term team on a genuinely large-scale online marketplace. Very few platforms handle a product catalogue or transaction volume at this level. The roadmap includes agentic AI workflows built into the platform, retail media integrated directly into the marketplace, and infrastructure work targeting cost and performance at high volume. A lot of this is being attempted at volumes that have rarely been tested in a marketplace before, so the work leans research-led rather than routine. It's a fast-paced scale-up environment on a complex platform. You'll do well here if you're comfortable with ambiguity and shifting ground, and confident enough to advocate for the technical...

iOS Developer (Contract) Six months, outside IR35, immediate start. Four days remote, one day per week in Manchester. This is a chance to work on a mobile app used at national scale, inside a public sector organisation that takes engineering seriously. You'll be joining a modern setup with automated testing, ephemeral branch deployments and performance testing in AWS CodeBuild. If you like clean architecture and proper test coverage, this is the kind of environment where that work is valued rather than skipped. Mostly remote, one day a week in Manchester, and a clear six-month runway to get your teeth into. What you'll be doing: You'll help integrate internal government services into a high-traffic mobile app, building features end to end and holding a high bar on testing and quality as you go. What you'll need: Essential Strong Swift SwiftUI and UIKit MVVM-C architecture Automated testing across unit,...

Android Developer (Contract) Six months, outside IR35, immediate start. Four days remote, one day per week in Manchester. This is a chance to work on a mobile app used at national scale, inside a public sector organisation that takes engineering seriously. You'll be joining a modern setup with automated testing, ephemeral branch deployments and performance testing in AWS CodeBuild. If you like clean architecture and proper test coverage, this is the kind of environment where that work is valued rather than skipped. Mostly remote, one day a week in Manchester, and a clear six-month runway to get your teeth into. We have two of these roles to fill. What you'll be doing: You'll help integrate internal government services into a high-traffic mobile app, building features end to end and holding a high bar on testing and quality as you go. What you'll need: Essential Strong Kotlin Jetpack Compose MVVM and Clean Architecture...

Location: Manchester Work Pattern: Hybrid Duration: 7 months Rate: £640 per day IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Clearance: Active SC Clearance Overview We are seeking a Solutions Architect who can be responsible for business discovery, requirements analysis, process mapping, and translating business needs into end-to-end solution designs to support a Central Government Department. Working within an established digital service, you will analyse existing functionality and resource access controls, decomposing complex information and mapping it to strategic data mastery domains. You will engage proactively with stakeholders, Product Owners, and Business Analysts, translating business requirements into clear technical drawings and articulating findings to a wider group. This is an analytical, research-led role rather than a hands-on technical build, suited to someone comfortable conducting independent research and challenging existing practice. Key...

Rate: £420.00 per day Inside IR35 Location: Hybrid with occasional onsite attendance in Newcastle or Manchester Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance required Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Test Engineer (SFIA Level 4) to support the delivery of high-quality digital services within a Public Sector/Government environment. The successful candidate will contribute to the design, development and execution of automated testing solutions, ensuring robust quality assurance throughout the software development lifecycle. This role is suited to a hands-on test professional with strong automation experience and a passion for quality engineering and continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites. Create and execute functional, integration, regression and end-to-end automated tests. Work collaboratively within Agile delivery teams alongside Developers, Business...

Rate: £575 per day Inside IR35 Location: Hybrid with occasional onsite attendance in Newcastle or Manchester Clearance: Active SC Clearance or eligibility to obtain SC Clearance required Contract Type: Contract Overview We are seeking an experienced SFIA Level 5 Software Engineer to join a high-profile public sector delivery programme. The successful candidate will be a strong full-stack engineer with extensive experience across Java-based Back End technologies and modern web development frameworks. You will work within agile, multidisciplinary teams to design, develop, test, and deliver scalable digital services supporting critical government and public sector initiatives. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain high-quality software solutions across the full technology stack. Build and enhance Back End services using Java and Spring-based technologies. Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices architectures....

We are looking for an experienced Data Center Onsite Engineer to join a long-term contract engagement. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with strong infrastructure and data centre experience who enjoys working in critical environments and providing hands-on technical support. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the stable and efficient operation of data centre infrastructure, maintaining high availability, and supporting operational excellence across power, cooling, networking, and hardware systems. Key Responsibilities Manage and maintain physical data centre infrastructure, including power, cooling, racks, and cabling. Monitor environmental and operational conditions to ensure maximum uptime. Configure and maintain monitoring, automation, and alerting solutions. Detect, investigate, and escalate operational incidents and events. Support identity and access management integrations and enforce access control policies....