IT Strategy Contracts in Manchester

IT/Technology Strategy
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 85 91
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +43
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 11 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.09% 0.25% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.29% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 18
10th Percentile £516 £510 £391
25th Percentile £519 £525 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% -15.64%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £615 £590 £748
North West median daily rate £532 £669 £500
% change year-on-year -20.44% +33.80% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

IT 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 894 1,037 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.87% 86.71% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 655 1,182
10th Percentile £300 £350 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £708 £675
North West median daily rate £454 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 48 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.98 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +11.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £86.00 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £34.21 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.53% -2.26% +60.70%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Manchester

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in Manchester

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in Manchester

IT 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 (9.09%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Service Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Service Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Architect
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Java Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Java Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) SAS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) Blazor
2 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) Coaching
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (18.18%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
3 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
3 1 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
3 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
3 1 (9.09%) Microservices
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Gigya