Digital Strategy Contracts in the North West

Digital Strategy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Digital Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 123 148
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 +31
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.084% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.099% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £404 £621 £466
25th Percentile £488 £634 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £663 £488
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +35.90% -27.78%
75th Percentile £549 £684 £497
90th Percentile £638 £694 £499
England median daily rate £520 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -13.33% +17.07% -3.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Digital Strategy 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 1,935 2,016 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.07% 84.67% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,233 1,853
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% - +0.40%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 181 170
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -4.41% +49.45%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.08
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Strategy in the North West

Digital Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Digital Strategy in the North West

Digital Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Strategy in the North West

Digital Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Strategy in the North West

Digital Strategy
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 Digital Strategy within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 August 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 +9 3 £513 -18.00% 15
Cheshire -17 2 £550 -21.43% 2
Lancashire - 1 £700 - 13
Merseyside - 1 £350 - 1
Digital Strategy
England

Digital Strategy
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Change Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Change Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Business Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Head of IT
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Next.js
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) B2B
2 2 (28.57%) B2C
2 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Journey Map
2 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Product Management
2 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
2 2 (28.57%) Service Design
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft