Strategic Thinking Contracts in Manchester

Strategic Thinking
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 101 126
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -42
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 6 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.40% 0.75% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.81% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 15
10th Percentile £530 £488 £548
25th Percentile £538 £552 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £738
90th Percentile £620 £700 £754
North West median daily rate £600 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Strategic Thinking 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 1,310 1,723 2,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.22% 91.80% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 1,266 1,815
10th Percentile £315 £315 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% +9.44%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £578
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 74 57 51
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.72% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.56 £35.50 £20.75
% change year-on-year -39.28% +71.13% +12.14%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Manchester

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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 2 (33.33%) nginx
1 2 (33.33%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) cloud-init
2 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (16.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) CentOS
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Consul
1 2 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (33.33%) Graphite
1 2 (33.33%) HAProxy
1 2 (33.33%) Istio
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) linkerd
1 2 (33.33%) Packer
1 2 (33.33%) Podman
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Puppet
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
1 2 (33.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) PagerDuty
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce