Technology Strategy Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Technology Strategy
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Technology Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 80 102
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +22
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 7 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.70% 0.17% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.20% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £414 - £388
25th Percentile £419 - £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.58% -14.29% +13.82%
75th Percentile £567 - £725
90th Percentile £600 - £763
North West median daily rate £484 £618 £645
% change year-on-year -21.73% -4.22% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Technology 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 892 1,025 1,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.83% 87.16% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 588 1,068
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £393 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £594
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 36 63
10th Percentile £15.71 £15.96 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.02 £24.51 £16.46
Median hourly rate £22.63 £36.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +84.62% -3.13%
75th Percentile £35.50 £63.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £83.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £31.77
% change year-on-year -40.84% +33.77% +35.83%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Technology Strategy job vacancy trend in Manchester

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Technology Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Technology Strategy

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in Manchester

Technology Strategy
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Architect
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Java Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Life and Pensions Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Pensions Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Design Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Transition Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) Blazor
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) IT Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Register
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Gigya
2 1 (14.29%) VMware