Active Listening Contracts in the North West

Active Listening
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Active Listening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Listening over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 154 177
Rank change year-on-year +22 +23 -46
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.032% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.035% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £453 £308 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £315 £463
Median % change year-on-year +50.79% -31.89% -1.70%
75th Percentile £503 £323 £469
90th Percentile £531 - -
England median daily rate £506 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.57% -2.33% +20.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £10.00 £9.87
% change year-on-year +525.00% +1.32% -46.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Active Listening 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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,345 2,862 3,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,036 2,606
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 141 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £22.41 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £36.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +71.43% +15.93%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Active Listening in the North West

Active Listening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Active Listening in the North West

Active Listening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Active Listening in the North West

Active Listening
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 Active Listening within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester - 6 £475 - 4
Active Listening
England

Active Listening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) SpeedCurve
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GoCD
1 1 (16.67%) Pa11y
1 1 (16.67%) TestCafe
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Test Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Load Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana