ISO/IEC 20000 Contracts in the North West

ISO/IEC 20000 (supersedes BS 15000)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring ISO/IEC 20000 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 20000 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 136 145
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000 2 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% 0.036% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.74% 0.21% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £531
25th Percentile £625 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -39.13% -
75th Percentile £675 - £588
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £575 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -0.43% +5.00% +23.94%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

ISO/IEC 20000 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 271 480 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.77% 17.42% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 265 293
10th Percentile £271 £325 £289
25th Percentile £375 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
75th Percentile £587 £598 £588
90th Percentile £700 £694 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 71 32
10th Percentile £13.50 - £24.44
25th Percentile £16.20 £10.95 £30.23
Median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%
75th Percentile £65.31 £26.66 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.33 £43.75 £66.05
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

ISO/IEC 20000
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 20000 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 20000 in the North West

ISO/IEC 20000
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000 in the North West.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 20000 in the North West

ISO/IEC 20000
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 20000 in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 20000 in the North West

ISO/IEC 20000
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 ISO/IEC 20000 within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +18 2 £650 +85.71% 2
ISO/IEC 20000
England

ISO/IEC 20000
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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Service Continuity Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Business Impact Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Service Catalogue