Digital Strategy Contracts in Manchester

Digital Strategy
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Digital Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 95 117
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 +18
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 0.066% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.076% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £533 - -
25th Percentile £608 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +31.58% -22.45%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £488
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £700 £663 £488
% change year-on-year +5.66% +35.90% -20.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Digital Strategy 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 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Digital Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Strategy in Manchester

Digital Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Digital Strategy in Manchester

Digital Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Strategy in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Strategy in Manchester

Digital Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Strategy in Manchester

Digital Strategy
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 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) HBase
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) HR Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Payroll Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Due Diligence
1 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle