Knowledge Transfer Contracts in the North West

Knowledge Transfer
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Knowledge Transfer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 115 101
Rank change year-on-year +19 -14 +33
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 29 18 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.50% 0.68% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 0.79% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 36
10th Percentile £414 £388 £320
25th Percentile £513 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £665 £593 £581
90th Percentile £675 £988 £700
England median daily rate £550 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +1.10% -1.09% +7.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Knowledge Transfer 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 1,750 2,271 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.30% 85.70% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,445 1,933
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 255 138
10th Percentile £17.01 £10.97 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.00 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.75% +51.88%
75th Percentile £62.25 £46.18 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.73 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Transfer 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 Knowledge Transfer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer 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 Knowledge Transfer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Transfer 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 Knowledge Transfer within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 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 +31 20 £625 +31.58% 41
Merseyside - 5 £575 - 12
Cheshire -4 2 £626 +51.64% 28
Cumbria - 1 - - 5
Knowledge Transfer
England

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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 1 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (3.45%) SAS
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (13.79%) Kondor
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (3.45%) SAP PS
3 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Siebel EIM
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 20 (68.97%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Finance
3 9 (31.03%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (27.59%) Banking
5 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Migration Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Data Migration Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Siebel Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) SAP PS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) SOAP
2 4 (13.79%) REST
3 3 (10.34%) JMS
3 3 (10.34%) Web Services
4 2 (6.90%) Node.js
5 1 (3.45%) Middleware
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (13.79%) Derivative
2 4 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
4 1 (3.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (48.28%) Migration
3 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
4 8 (27.59%) Data Mapping
4 8 (27.59%) Data Migration
4 8 (27.59%) ETL
4 8 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (27.59%) Validation
5 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
6 3 (10.34%) EAI
6 3 (10.34%) Project Management
6 3 (10.34%) SDLC
7 2 (6.90%) Agile
7 2 (6.90%) Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (6.90%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (6.90%) Security Operations
7 2 (6.90%) Use Case
8 1 (3.45%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) SQL
2 12 (41.38%) PL/SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Basel III
1 4 (13.79%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.79%) Sybase
4 3 (10.34%) Siebel
4 3 (10.34%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) SAP