Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Commercial Awareness
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 71 93
Rank change year-on-year -39 +22 -2
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.23% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.13% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £220
25th Percentile £513 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.14%
75th Percentile £569 - £388
90th Percentile £588 - £440
North West median daily rate £525 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -35.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £29.27 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Commercial Awareness 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 1,475 797 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.95% 88.95% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 545 846
10th Percentile £306 £312 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £668 £694
North West median daily rate £474 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -0.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 27 79
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.17 £12.48
25th Percentile £37.00 £24.70 £13.81
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +130.77% -5.80%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.38 £60.63
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.20 £72.90
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £30.40 £26.39
% change year-on-year +80.92% +15.20% -24.60%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Commercial Awareness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in Manchester

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Commercial Officer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) Excel Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Qualitative Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (25.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Paid Search
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) R
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft