Trade-off Analysis Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Trade-off Analysis
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Trade-off Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Trade-off Analysis 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.051% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Trade-off Analysis 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 1,633 894 1,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.40% 89.85% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 958 581 592
10th Percentile £313 £306 £313
25th Percentile £414 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £499
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -5.96% -0.25%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £594
90th Percentile £700 £678 £688
North West median daily rate £500 £453 £489
% change year-on-year +10.38% -7.36% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 66 34
10th Percentile £19.40 £15.28 £15.94
25th Percentile £31.82 £19.07 £22.84
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.63 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +143.04% -41.60% +106.67%
75th Percentile £73.38 £35.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £77.40 £64.38 £87.45
North West median hourly rate £45.97 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +82.78% -40.83% +21.43%

Trade-off Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Trade-off Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Trade-off Analysis job vacancy trend in Manchester

Trade-off Analysis
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture