Collaborative Working Contracts in the North West

Collaborative Working
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working 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 52 98 110
Rank change year-on-year +46 +12 +5
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 70 39 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.56% 1.42% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 1.64% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 36
10th Percentile £363 £283 £422
25th Percentile £384 £356 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.64% +8.75%
75th Percentile £588 £534 £588
90th Percentile £638 £586 £624
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £16.52 £21.10 -
25th Percentile - £22.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £17.44 £26.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% -28.28% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £26.75 £38.75
90th Percentile - £26.90 -
England median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -57.00% -1.96% +163.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Collaborative Working 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%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the North West

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the North West

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the North West

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the North West

Collaborative Working
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 Working 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 +27 41 £488 +2.63% 142
Cheshire +9 14 £575 +32.95% 26
Cumbria +6 7 £373 +39.95% 4
Merseyside - 5 - - 9
Lancashire - 3 £518 - 77
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
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 11 (15.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.86%) SAS
3 2 (2.86%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.43%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.86%) Primavera
2 2 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.43%) Maximo
3 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.43%) Shopify
3 1 (1.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) Azure
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.86%) AWS
5 5 (7.14%) GCP
6 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.29%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (4.29%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.29%) Google Gemini
8 2 (2.86%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.86%) npm
8 2 (2.86%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.86%) Serverless
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.43%) DHCP
1 8 (11.43%) DNS
2 3 (4.29%) BGP
2 3 (4.29%) EIGRP
2 3 (4.29%) IPv4
2 3 (4.29%) MPLS
2 3 (4.29%) OSPF
2 3 (4.29%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.29%) WAN
3 2 (2.86%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) Power BI
2 3 (4.29%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.43%) Power Query
3 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) GitLab
2 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 27 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.86%) Finance
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.14%) Law
6 5 (7.14%) Legal
6 5 (7.14%) Military
7 4 (5.71%) Banking
7 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (4.29%) Retail
8 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Aviation
10 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 9 (12.86%) Analyst
3 8 (11.43%) Senior
4 6 (8.57%) Developer
5 5 (7.14%) IT Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) IT Support
5 5 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) Architect
6 4 (5.71%) Integration Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) IP Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (2.86%) SAS Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Technical Support
8 2 (2.86%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) PyTorch
1 3 (4.29%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (1.43%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.43%) HTML
3 1 (1.43%) Node.js
3 1 (1.43%) OLE
3 1 (1.43%) React
3 1 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.43%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) IoT
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.29%) Windows
2 8 (11.43%) VMS
2 8 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.00%) Linux
4 3 (4.29%) Android
4 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (41.43%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (18.57%) Agile
3 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
3 12 (17.14%) DevOps
4 11 (15.71%) ITIL
4 11 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
6 8 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 7 (10.00%) ITSM
8 6 (8.57%) Data Transformation
8 6 (8.57%) Migration
9 5 (7.14%) Analytics
9 5 (7.14%) Business Analysis
9 5 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 5 (7.14%) Risk Management
10 4 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (5.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.43%) Python
2 7 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.86%) Scala
3 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.43%) ABAP
4 1 (1.43%) Java
4 1 (1.43%) R
4 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Degree
2 8 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.71%) A+ Certification
5 4 (5.71%) MCP
6 3 (4.29%) CCNP
6 3 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.43%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) HL7
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (18.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (11.43%) WSUS
3 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.71%) Terraform
5 2 (2.86%) Ansible
5 2 (2.86%) Istio
5 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.86%) SCCM
5 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) VMware
3 5 (7.14%) SAP
4 3 (4.29%) BMC
4 3 (4.29%) Cisco
4 3 (4.29%) Huawei
4 3 (4.29%) Remedy
5 2 (2.86%) IBM
5 2 (2.86%) Tanium
6 1 (1.43%) Apple
6 1 (1.43%) Ariba
6 1 (1.43%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow