Commercial Awareness Contracts in the North West

Commercial Awareness
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Commercial Awareness over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 135 134
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 +38
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 4 3 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.11% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.13% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £210 £434
25th Percentile £394 £225 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £250 £541
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% -53.81% -5.87%
75th Percentile £431 £275 £632
90th Percentile - £290 £635
England median daily rate £544 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.73 £89.78
% change year-on-year +161.88% -70.23% +89.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Commercial Awareness 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 2,345 2,862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.15% 86.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,495 2,036
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 £662 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 245 141
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.31 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.11 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.99% -38.58% +71.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.88 £49.52
90th Percentile £84.33 £57.50 £65.75
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Commercial Awareness in the North West

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the North West

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the North West

Commercial Awareness
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 Commercial Awareness within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Lancashire - 2 - - 15
Manchester +14 1 - - 34
Cumbria +3 1 £413 - 2
Commercial Awareness
England

Commercial Awareness
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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Network Services Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Scorecard
2 2 (50.00%) Service Design
2 2 (50.00%) Software License Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (50.00%) Transition Management
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) TOWER Software
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens