Impact Analysis Contracts in the North West

Impact Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Impact Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Impact Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 132 146
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Impact Analysis 14 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.70% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.13% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £358 £410 £413
25th Percentile £372 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £487 £475 £538
90th Percentile £515 £490 £545
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £41.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £53.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Impact Analysis 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 1,794 2,351 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.30% 84.14% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,434 1,884
10th Percentile £305 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £558 £585 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 265 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £18.90 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.88 £27.50 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +15.93% -9.15% +28.56%
75th Percentile £63.30 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.21 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.03
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.82% +36.41%

Impact Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Impact Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Impact Analysis in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Impact Analysis in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Impact Analysis in the North West over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Impact Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Impact Analysis in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Impact Analysis in the North West

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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 Impact Analysis within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Cumbria - 6 £480 -
Manchester +24 5 £358 -28.40% 3
Cheshire - 3 £447 - 1
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England

Impact Analysis
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) CICS
1 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (14.29%) DB2
1 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
1 2 (14.29%) SOAtest
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) General Ledger
3 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Engagement Manager
2 5 (35.71%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Service Transition Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Service Continuity Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Test Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) J2EE
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
1 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (14.29%) VSAM
3 1 (7.14%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Project Management
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Business Impact Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Service Design
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) API Testing
4 2 (14.29%) BCP
4 2 (14.29%) Business Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Runbook
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) COBOL
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JCL
1 2 (14.29%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Ab Initio
1 2 (14.29%) Informatica
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) Parasoft