Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends in the North West

Collaborative Working
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 75 79
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 +38
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 42 45 70
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.83% 1.91% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.29% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 51
10th Percentile £275 £218 £450
25th Percentile £388 £324 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -6.99%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £606
90th Percentile £638 £656 £638
England median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £26.88 - £32.25
25th Percentile £35.31 - £35.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £40.00
75th Percentile £75.31 - £42.81
90th Percentile £85.63 - £43.38
England median hourly rate £20.51 £30.22 £40.25
% change year-on-year -32.13% -24.93% +109.09%

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 2,037 1,967 2,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.68% 83.52% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 1,056 1,722
10th Percentile £250 £294 £274
25th Percentile £363 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £678 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 110 169
10th Percentile £14.13 £18.95 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.30 £26.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +15.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £44.44 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.05 £71.71 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the North West

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Collaborative Working

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 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the North West

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working in the North West over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 October 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 +4 29 £450 -8.16% 74
Cumbria +12 6 £435 +16.00% 4
Merseyside 0 3 £325 +14.51% 5
Cheshire -24 3 £463 +12.12% 28
Lancashire +4 1 £500 +1.42% 49
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) Azure
2 3 (7.14%) AWS
2 3 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (4.76%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (2.38%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.38%) Firebase
4 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.38%) OCI
4 1 (2.38%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.38%) Vercel
4 1 (2.38%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) LAN
2 1 (2.38%) NetScaler
2 1 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) WAN
2 1 (2.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) GitLab
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Hudson
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Local Government
3 4 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Automotive
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) French Language
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Publishing
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Security Analyst
3 4 (9.52%) Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 3 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (7.14%) SAP Test Analyst
4 3 (7.14%) Test Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.38%) Citrix Technical Architect
6 1 (2.38%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) SAP Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) React
2 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.76%) Kafka
2 2 (4.76%) LangChain
2 2 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (2.38%) BAPI
3 1 (2.38%) CrewAI
3 1 (2.38%) CSS
3 1 (2.38%) D3.js
3 1 (2.38%) Flask
3 1 (2.38%) Gradio
3 1 (2.38%) HTML
3 1 (2.38%) JSON
3 1 (2.38%) Material-UI
3 1 (2.38%) Node.js
3 1 (2.38%) React Native
3 1 (2.38%) RESTful
3 1 (2.38%) SAPUI5
3 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.38%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (11.90%) Data Structures
2 5 (11.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.38%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) Life Science
5 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
3 6 (14.29%) Coaching
3 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 6 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 5 (11.90%) Agile
4 5 (11.90%) Change Control
4 5 (11.90%) Information Security
4 5 (11.90%) Remediation Plan
4 5 (11.90%) Risk Assessment
4 5 (11.90%) Security Operations
5 4 (9.52%) Project Delivery
5 4 (9.52%) Project Management
5 4 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.14%) Defect Management
6 3 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) Java
3 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.38%) ABAP
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Degree
2 8 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.38%) APMG
5 1 (2.38%) MCP
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) SAP
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) F5
3 2 (4.76%) Google
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco
4 1 (2.38%) Citrix
4 1 (2.38%) Meraki
4 1 (2.38%) Netlify
4 1 (2.38%) NGA Human Resources
4 1 (2.38%) OpenAI