Thought Leadership Contracts in Manchester

Thought Leadership
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 92 117
Rank change year-on-year +14 +25 +19
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.22% 0.27% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.30% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% - -
North West median daily rate £613 £577 £525
% change year-on-year +6.24% +9.81% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £81.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Thought Leadership 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 827 1,316 1,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.41% 87.21% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 894 1,270
10th Percentile £300 £316 £318
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £564 £594 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 74 59
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.43 £16.41
25th Percentile £21.75 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.10 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% -32.72% +140.65%
75th Percentile £68.13 £57.50 £46.27
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £21.56 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% -38.41% +70.82%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in Manchester

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in Manchester

Thought Leadership
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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (50.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) HBase
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Active Listening
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle