Culture of Ownership Contract Job Trends in the North West

Culture of Ownership (Ownership Culture)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Culture of Ownership in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Culture of Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Culture of Ownership 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.077% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £709 - -
25th Percentile £716 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 - -
75th Percentile £766 - -
90th Percentile £769 - -
England median daily rate £744 £775 -
% change year-on-year -3.99% - -

All Generic Skills
North West

Culture of Ownership falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,278 725 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.90% 32.72% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 484 397
10th Percentile £350 £300 £305
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -7.25% -
75th Percentile £600 £580 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 40 29
10th Percentile £17.68 £22.14 £11.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.88 £16.85
Median hourly rate £43.96 £43.86 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +41.47% -22.50%
75th Percentile £71.50 £67.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £77.63 £93.90
England median hourly rate £42.40 £32.71 £48.00
% change year-on-year +29.62% -31.85% +9.50%

Culture of Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Culture of Ownership job vacancy trend in the North West

Culture of Ownership
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 Culture of Ownership within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. 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 - 3 £744 -
Culture of Ownership
England

Culture of Ownership
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 3 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Next.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes