IT Strategy Contracts in Manchester

IT/Technology Strategy
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for IT Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IT Strategy over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 106 112
Rank change year-on-year +23 +6 -20
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 18 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.18% 0.63% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.68% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile £313 £402 £425
25th Percentile £375 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £676
90th Percentile £668 £686 £721
North West median daily rate £575 £575 £615
% change year-on-year - -6.50% +26.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

IT Strategy 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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,325 1,758 2,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.00% 92.24% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,289 1,790
10th Percentile £313 £313 £260
25th Percentile £406 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £665 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 64 50
10th Percentile £12.40 £15.31 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.10 £35.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.14% +129.51% -3.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.66 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.80 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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
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 IT Strategy within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £325 -
IT Strategy
North West

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Telephony Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Integration Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Technology Strategy
2 7 (38.89%) Business Strategy
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (27.78%) Information Security
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
4 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
5 4 (22.22%) Business Continuity
5 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (16.67%) Information Management
6 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
1 3 (16.67%) Go
1 3 (16.67%) Python
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (16.67%) IASME
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) HP Fortify
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Mitel
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft