Regulatory Change Contract Job Trends in the North West

Regulatory Change
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Regulatory Change skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 121 137
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 +31
Contract jobs citing Regulatory Change 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.24% 0.092% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.11% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £317 £361 £356
25th Percentile £338 £369 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £384 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -16.92% -12.11%
75th Percentile £525 £403 £534
90th Percentile £533 £412 £559
England median daily rate £483 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -9.81% -10.83% -6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Regulatory Change 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 2,213 1,874 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.38% 86.48% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 1,055 1,596
10th Percentile £213 £265 £295
25th Percentile £358 £390 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 108 157
10th Percentile £16.41 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.63 £21.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -11.97% +33.81%
75th Percentile £51.76 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.78 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Regulatory Change
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Regulatory Change job vacancy trend in the North West

Regulatory Change
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Regulatory Change.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Regulatory Change

Regulatory Change
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Change in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regulatory Change in the North West

Regulatory Change
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Regulatory Change.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Regulatory Change

Regulatory Change
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 Regulatory Change within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Manchester - 4 £525 - 8
Cheshire -18 2 £353 -8.13% 3
Regulatory Change
England

Regulatory Change
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) AML Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Finance Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Manual Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PMI
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) AS400
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) iSeries
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Fintech
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (33.33%) MBA
1 2 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 2 (33.33%) PMP
1 2 (33.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Basel III
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft