Active Listening Contracts in the North of England

Active Listening
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Active Listening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Listening over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 177 217
Rank change year-on-year +19 +40 +15
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 8 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.17% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.20% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £444 £334
25th Percentile - £463 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile - £492 £569
90th Percentile - £522 £603
England median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £47.38 - -
25th Percentile £49.06 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £10.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +525.00% +2.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Active Listening 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Listening in the North of England

Active Listening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Active Listening in the North of England

Active Listening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Listening in the North of England

Active Listening
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Listening within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West +18 7 - - 17
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 12
Active Listening
England

Active Listening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
1 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Functional Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Change Management
2 6 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Product Management
4 4 (50.00%) Business Change Management
4 4 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
6 2 (25.00%) Coaching
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (12.50%) Analytics
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Line Management
7 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 1 (12.50%) Runbook
7 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (12.50%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Brocade
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas