Rational DOORS Contracts in the North West

IBM Rational DOORS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Rational DOORS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rational DOORS over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 123 150
Rank change year-on-year +8 +27 +30
Contract jobs citing Rational DOORS 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.66% 1.80% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £600
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £625 £571
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.46% +11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £55.74 - -
25th Percentile £61.09 £37.55 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.33 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +73.59% -0.65% -26.63%
75th Percentile £71.88 £52.12 £43.39
90th Percentile £73.00 £68.35 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £66.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +1.54% +23.47%

All Development Application Skills
North West

Rational DOORS falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 301 278 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.06% 9.90% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 199 252
10th Percentile £332 £350 £325
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £523
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% -6.41% +4.50%
75th Percentile £514 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £659
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 9
10th Percentile £64.65 £30.86 £37.79
25th Percentile £70.12 £37.55 £37.80
Median hourly rate £73.75 £45.88 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.75% -0.65% -38.43%
75th Percentile £77.81 £67.13 £52.13
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.45 £56.38
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +24.50%

Rational DOORS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Rational DOORS in the North West

Rational DOORS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Rational DOORS in the North West

Rational DOORS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Rational DOORS in the North West

Rational DOORS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Rational DOORS in the North West over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Rational DOORS in the North West

Rational DOORS
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 Rational DOORS within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 - 2 - - 2
Cheshire - 2 £675 - 2
Cumbria - 1 - - 3
Rational DOORS
England

Rational DOORS
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 (20.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) FlexRay
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Automotive
1 2 (40.00%) German Language
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JavaFX
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Swing
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (40.00%) Change Control
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) UML
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) RIBA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian