CRD IV Contract Job Trends in the North West

Capital Requirements Directive IV (CDR 4)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CRD IV skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CRD IV 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.082% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 - -
75th Percentile £443 - -
90th Percentile £445 - -
England median daily rate £447 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

CRD IV falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 358 320 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.65% 13.58% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 180 210
10th Percentile £310 £312 £280
25th Percentile £360 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £671 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 24
10th Percentile £39.54 £14.03 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.99 £17.59 £17.22
Median hourly rate £57.81 £23.14 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year +149.86% -18.25% -45.50%
75th Percentile £66.29 £29.13 £67.34
90th Percentile £71.98 £36.55 £77.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -25.64% +73.33%

CRD IV
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

CRD IV job vacancy trend in the North West

CRD IV
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 CRD IV within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 November 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 - 2 £434 - 1
CRD IV
England

CRD IV
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 2 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) FINREP
1 2 (100.00%) IFRS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos