Dependency Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Dependency Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Dependency Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 125 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing Dependency Management 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.29% 0.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £419 £595 -
25th Percentile £435 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £659 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.31% - -
75th Percentile £605 £688 -
90th Percentile £658 £695 -
England median daily rate £535 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.00 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Dependency Management 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 2,614 1,782 2,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.90% 90.92% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 1,143 1,593
10th Percentile £225 £282 £313
25th Percentile £371 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 114 258
10th Percentile £18.35 £16.61 £10.99
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.11 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.88 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +42.60% +32.04% -35.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £80.04 £52.78
England median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%

Dependency Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Dependency Management job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Dependency Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Dependency Management

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dependency Management in the North West over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dependency Management in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Dependency Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Dependency Management

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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 Dependency Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
Cheshire -18 6 £492 -25.31%
Manchester - 3 £499 - 5
Dependency Management
England

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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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Payments Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
2 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Release Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Release Train Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) PRINCE2
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) Biometrics
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
4 2 (22.22%) User Stories
5 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (11.11%) Co-Creation
5 1 (11.11%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) PSD2
2 1 (11.11%) SEPA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) ForeScout
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) IFS
2 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler