Onboarding Contracts in the North West

Onboarding
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding 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 77 106 109
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 +33
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 43 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.18% 1.13% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.68% 4.18% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 35
10th Percentile £375 £306 £140
25th Percentile £469 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.27% -12.28%
75th Percentile £603 £606 £670
90th Percentile £734 £646 £695
England median daily rate £513 £525 £553
% change year-on-year -2.24% -5.06% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.45 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% - -
75th Percentile £23.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.45 £22.98 £39.50
% change year-on-year -15.36% -41.84% +97.50%

All Generic Skills
North West

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the North West

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the North West

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the North West

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the North West

Onboarding
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 Onboarding 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 +21 21 £500 -3.85% 102
Lancashire +8 9 £570 -2.98% 50
Cheshire 0 8 £573 -2.55% 15
Merseyside - 1 - - 12
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
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 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.30%) Google Workspace
5 3 (6.98%) Figma
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (4.65%) dbt
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) VPN
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Big Data
1 2 (4.65%) Data Mining
1 2 (4.65%) Data Vault
1 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
1 2 (4.65%) Tableau
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.30%) JIRA
3 3 (6.98%) Maven
3 3 (6.98%) Selenium
4 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.33%) Git
5 1 (2.33%) JMeter
5 1 (2.33%) Postman
5 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.95%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Legal
5 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Marketing
7 2 (4.65%) Automotive
8 1 (2.33%) Games
8 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (13.95%) Architect
1 6 (13.95%) Tester
2 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Automation Tester
3 3 (6.98%) Content Designer
3 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Designer
3 3 (6.98%) Developer
3 3 (6.98%) Lead
3 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.98%) UX Designer
4 2 (4.65%) Automation Developer
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (4.65%) HR Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Payroll Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Senior
5 1 (2.33%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) Kafka
2 2 (4.65%) Playwright
2 2 (4.65%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) Ajax
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.33%) SAML
3 1 (2.33%) SOAP
3 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.98%) Social Media
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.33%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Agile
2 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
2 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
3 8 (18.60%) DevOps
3 8 (18.60%) User Experience
4 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
4 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
4 6 (13.95%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (11.63%) RBAC
5 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
5 5 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (11.63%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (9.30%) Analytics
6 4 (9.30%) Customer Service
6 4 (9.30%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) Python
2 3 (6.98%) Bash
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.33%) R
4 1 (2.33%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) APMG
3 2 (4.65%) CCNA
3 2 (4.65%) CCNP
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) BitLocker
3 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Virgin Media
2 7 (16.28%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.63%) CyberArk
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.30%) CheckPoint
4 4 (9.30%) Citrix
4 4 (9.30%) Google
4 4 (9.30%) Zscaler
5 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.98%) Infoblox
5 3 (6.98%) SAP
6 2 (4.65%) Splunk
7 1 (2.33%) Salesforce