Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in the North West

Commercial Awareness
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 113 140
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +40
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 5 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.23% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.20% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £434
25th Percentile £513 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% -10.84%
75th Percentile £538 £475 £477
90th Percentile - - £481
England median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.14 - -
Median hourly rate £29.27 £37.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% - -
75th Percentile £43.20 - -
90th Percentile £50.28 - -
England median hourly rate £34.89 £28.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +24.59% -53.33% +471.43%

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 1,927 1,980 2,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.56% 83.40% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 1,095 1,702
10th Percentile £270 £294 £270
25th Percentile £368 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% -2.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £595
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 109 163
10th Percentile £13.64 £16.45 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £28.50 £17.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%
75th Percentile £47.12 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £66.35 £73.75 £69.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the North West over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 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
Cumbria - 2 - - 2
Lancashire -3 1 - - 16
Manchester -8 1 - - 22
Cheshire - 1 £525 - 9
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Controller
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP BW Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Budget Management
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) SFIA
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Content Curation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) DAMA
3 1 (20.00%) DAMA DMBOK
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Instructional Design
3 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP