Collaborative Working Contracts in Manchester

Collaborative Working
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 72 71
Rank change year-on-year +35 -1 +40
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 40 26 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.47% 1.83% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 2.10% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 24
10th Percentile £341 £309 £458
25th Percentile £375 £350 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -13.64% +1.38%
75th Percentile £518 £538 £600
90th Percentile £618 £590 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £473 £513
% change year-on-year +5.82% -7.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £21.10 £35.00
25th Percentile - £22.75 £35.31
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - -30.67% +158.62%
75th Percentile - £26.75 £41.56
90th Percentile - £26.90 £43.13
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £26.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% -30.67% +158.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Collaborative Working falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 798 1,236 1,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.26% 86.92% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 843 1,200
10th Percentile £303 £325 £317
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 75 50
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.44 £16.53
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -25.71% +93.83%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.35 £73.70 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £24.19 £35.52
% change year-on-year +31.79% -31.89% +54.23%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in Manchester

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in Manchester

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in Manchester

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in Manchester

Collaborative Working
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 Collaborative Working within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
Wigan - 2 - - 2
Salford - 1 £300 - 6
Collaborative Working
North West

Collaborative Working
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 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.00%) SAS
3 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Primavera
2 1 (2.50%) Maximo
2 1 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) IBM Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.00%) npm
5 2 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Calico
1 2 (5.00%) DHCP
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.50%) Power Query
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
1 2 (5.00%) GitLab
1 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Law
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) Military
6 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Aviation
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Developer
2 4 (10.00%) Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Integration Developer
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Analyst
3 2 (5.00%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Project Planner
3 2 (5.00%) SAS Architect
3 2 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (2.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Data Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 1 (2.50%) IT Support
4 1 (2.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Project Controller
4 1 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Technical Manager
4 1 (2.50%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.50%) HTML
1 1 (2.50%) Node.js
1 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) IoT
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.00%) Android
4 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.00%) VMS
5 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) Data Transformation
5 5 (12.50%) Agile
5 5 (12.50%) Analytics
5 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
7 3 (7.50%) Data Integration
7 3 (7.50%) ETL
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.50%) ITIL
7 3 (7.50%) Migration
7 3 (7.50%) Project Management
7 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
7 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.50%) Visualisation
8 2 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Degree
2 10 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) HL7
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.00%) Istio
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) WSUS
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) IBM
3 2 (5.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow