IT Asset Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

IT Asset Management (ITAM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring IT Asset Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 106 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 +39
Contract jobs citing IT Asset Management 9 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.37% 0.76% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.89% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 1
10th Percentile £303 £216 -
25th Percentile £365 £273 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £360 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -40.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £436 £430 -
90th Percentile £539 £505 -
England median daily rate £413 £498 £575
% change year-on-year -17.09% -13.48% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £16.70
25th Percentile - £29.50 £20.28
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £20.58
Median % change year-on-year - +50.63% -
75th Percentile - £32.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.00 £31.00 £20.58
% change year-on-year -54.84% +50.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

IT Asset 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 2,171 1,916 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.54% 85.27% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,062 1,637
10th Percentile £213 £291 £276
25th Percentile £358 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £568 £575 £600
90th Percentile £664 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 113 152
10th Percentile £15.56 £16.01 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%
75th Percentile £46.71 £51.91 £46.35
90th Percentile £69.35 £69.44 £64.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

IT Asset Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

IT Asset Management job vacancy trend in the North West

IT Asset Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

IT Asset Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Asset Management in the North West over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Asset Management in the North West

IT Asset Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

IT Asset Management
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 IT Asset Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Cheshire -21 6 £384 +6.67% 6
Manchester -16 3 £285 +4.40% 3
IT Asset Management
England

IT Asset Management
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (33.33%) LDAP
2 3 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Team
2 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (22.22%) CMDB
4 1 (11.11%) Fat Client
4 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (11.11%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) ITSM
2 6 (66.67%) Service Management
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Analytics
3 5 (55.56%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 4 (44.44%) SIAM
4 4 (44.44%) Time Management
5 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
5 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 2 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft