Contingency Planning Contracts in the North West

Contingency Planning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Contingency Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contingency Planning 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 112 132 155
Rank change year-on-year +20 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Contingency Planning 8 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.18% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.21% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £339 £605 £614
25th Percentile £375 £613 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -31.23% +1.96% +17.51%
75th Percentile £537 £725 £666
90th Percentile £630 £755 £671
England median daily rate £537 £600 £602
% change year-on-year -10.50% -0.25% +11.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +12.68% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Contingency Planning 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%

Contingency Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Contingency Planning in the North West

Contingency Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contingency Planning in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Contingency Planning in the North West

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Contingency Planning in the North West

Contingency Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contingency Planning in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Contingency Planning in the North West

Contingency Planning
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 Contingency Planning 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
Cheshire - 5 £464 - 2
Manchester +17 3 £447 -31.23% 1
Contingency Planning
England

Contingency Planning
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Planning Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) SDLC
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Project Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Budget Control
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) HP