Collaborative Engineering Contract Job Trends in the North West

Collaborative Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Collaborative Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 122 132
Rank change year-on-year -38 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.031% 0.051% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.057% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.40% - -
England median daily rate £438 £625 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.22
Median hourly rate - - £48.56
75th Percentile - - £51.91
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £48.56

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Collaborative Engineering 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 2,665 1,765 2,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.52% 90.42% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,655 1,143 1,533
10th Percentile £275 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £590
90th Percentile £653 £661 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 106 246
10th Percentile £19.75 £16.16 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.78 £13.36
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.25 £21.56
Median % change year-on-year +58.14% +49.62% -38.41%
75th Percentile £74.01 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.33 £57.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

Collaborative Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Collaborative Engineering job vacancy trend in the North West

Collaborative Engineering
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 Collaborative Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. 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 - 1 £360 - 1
Collaborative Engineering
England

Collaborative Engineering
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) ESLint
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flutter
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Banking
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xamarin