Benchmarking Contracts in the North West

Benchmarking
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking 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 107 - 153
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 13 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £165 - £433
25th Percentile £193 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £261 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
75th Percentile £324 - £656
90th Percentile £345 - £668
England median daily rate £447 £488 £625
% change year-on-year -8.31% -22.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.60 £15.79 £24.00
% change year-on-year +81.13% -34.21% +5.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Benchmarking 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the North West

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in the North West

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in the North West

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in the North West

Benchmarking
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 Benchmarking within the North West 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
Cheshire - 8 £336 -
Manchester - 3 £177 - 4
Lancashire - 1 - -
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) InVision
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
1 2 (15.38%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Google Workspace
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Axure RP
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Hudson
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Automotive
2 5 (38.46%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
3 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Programme Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Software Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) User Experience Researcher
3 1 (7.69%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) CSS
1 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) Ajax
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS3
2 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
2 1 (7.69%) HTML5
2 1 (7.69%) JAX-WS
2 1 (7.69%) JMS
2 1 (7.69%) jQuery
2 1 (7.69%) JSP
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Servlets
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
2 1 (7.69%) Struts
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Augmented Reality
1 5 (38.46%) e-Learning
1 5 (38.46%) Podcast
1 5 (38.46%) Self-Motivation
1 5 (38.46%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Android
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Business Case
1 7 (53.85%) Project Management
2 5 (38.46%) Coaching
2 5 (38.46%) Supplier Management
3 4 (30.77%) User Experience
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) Business Process Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Co-Creation
5 2 (15.38%) Data Collection
5 2 (15.38%) Human-Centred Design
5 2 (15.38%) Inclusive Design
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (15.38%) Task Model
5 2 (15.38%) User Research
5 2 (15.38%) User Stories
5 2 (15.38%) UX Research
5 2 (15.38%) Wireframes
5 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) IBM