ACF2 Contract Job Trends in the North West

CA ACF2
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ACF2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ACF2 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.042% - 0.071%
As % of the System Software category 0.33% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - £588

All System Software Skills
North West

ACF2 falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 299 243 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.54% 10.39% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 138 311
10th Percentile £200 £213 £200
25th Percentile £328 £389 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £646 £647 £645
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 34
10th Percentile - £16.73 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.09 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +19.41% -7.80%
75th Percentile £36.46 £24.18 £40.14
90th Percentile £72.16 £37.00 £58.97
England median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +17.14% +84.21%

ACF2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ACF2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

ACF2 job vacancy trend in the North West

ACF2
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ACF2 within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Manchester - 1 - - 2
ACF2
England

ACF2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor