Contingency Planning Contracts in the North of England

Contingency Planning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Contingency Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contingency Planning 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 150 174 215
Rank change year-on-year +24 +41 +15
Contract jobs citing Contingency Planning 16 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.23% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.27% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 5
10th Percentile £361 £608 -
25th Percentile £433 £619 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.96% +6.00% +92.31%
75th Percentile £625 £709 £675
90th Percentile £700 £749 -
England median daily rate £537 £600 £602
% change year-on-year -10.50% -0.25% +11.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +12.68% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Contingency Planning 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%

Contingency Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Contingency Planning in the North of England

Contingency Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Contingency Planning in the North of England

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contingency Planning in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contingency Planning in the North of England

Contingency Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Contingency Planning in the North of England

Contingency Planning
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 Contingency Planning 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 +20 8 £447 -31.23% 8
Yorkshire +9 6 £550 -18.52% 3
Contingency Planning
England

Contingency Planning
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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 3 (18.75%) Security Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Security Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cutover Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Product Owner
3 2 (12.50%) Product Owner
3 2 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Cutover Manager
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
1 4 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) PMI
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) SDLC
4 5 (31.25%) Project Management
5 4 (25.00%) Budget Control
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
5 4 (25.00%) PRINCE
5 4 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 4 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Ariba
1 2 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) HP