IT Strategy Contracts in the North West

IT/Technology Strategy
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for IT Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IT Strategy over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 145 138
Rank change year-on-year +56 -7 -15
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 48 15 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.74% 0.47% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 0.52% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 15 24
10th Percentile £475 £406 £416
25th Percentile £550 £434 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £608
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.23% +27.89%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £675
90th Percentile £704 £688 £676
England median daily rate £589 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -8.63% +3.20% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

IT Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the North West

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the North West

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the North West

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the North West

IT 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 IT Strategy within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 +22 18 £500 -16.67% 16
Cumbria - 18 £669 -
Cheshire +17 12 £570 -15.56% 2
IT Strategy
England

IT 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (6.25%) IaaS
3 3 (6.25%) PaaS
3 3 (6.25%) SaaS
3 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.08%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) Network Security
2 3 (6.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
1 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (64.58%) Architect
2 13 (27.08%) Analyst
3 11 (22.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 10 (20.83%) Security Architect
4 10 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (16.67%) Domain Architect
5 8 (16.67%) Test Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Security Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.08%) NHS
2 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
2 28 (58.33%) Business Strategy
3 15 (31.25%) Information Security
3 15 (31.25%) Risk Management
4 13 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (27.08%) Roadmaps
5 12 (25.00%) Business Continuity
5 12 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 11 (22.92%) Data Protection
6 11 (22.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (22.92%) TOGAF
7 10 (20.83%) Cryptography
7 10 (20.83%) Penetration Testing
7 10 (20.83%) Security Architecture
7 10 (20.83%) Service Delivery
7 10 (20.83%) Strategic Thinking
7 10 (20.83%) Use Case
7 10 (20.83%) Zachman Framework
8 9 (18.75%) Cyber Resilience
8 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) Bash
1 3 (6.25%) Go
1 3 (6.25%) Python
1 3 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (37.50%) NIST
2 13 (27.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.25%) IASME
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Ansible
1 3 (6.25%) HP Fortify
1 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (2.08%) Mitel
3 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft