Blog Contracts in the North West

Blogs
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blog 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 118 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Blog 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% - 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% - 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £230
25th Percentile £204 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 - £563
75th Percentile £211 - £638
90th Percentile - - £645
England median daily rate £575 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +27.78% -12.20% -10.87%

All Generic Skills
North West

Blog falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Blog in the North West

Blog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Blog in the North West

Blog
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 Blog 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
Manchester - 2 £208 - 29
Blog
England

Blog
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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft