Situational Awareness Contract Job Trends in the North West

Situational Awareness
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Situational Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Situational Awareness 1 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.027% 0.32% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £358 -
25th Percentile £513 £369 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £384 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.72% - -
75th Percentile £538 £402 -
90th Percentile - £420 -
England median daily rate £575 £422 £558
% change year-on-year +36.18% -24.26% +6.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Situational Awareness 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 3,124 1,956 1,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.82% 88.59% 84.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,817 1,265 1,211
10th Percentile £275 £279 £310
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £664 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 126 169
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.17 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.25 £27.90 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +62.17% -18.44% -2.26%
75th Percentile £73.00 £57.57 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.38 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

Situational Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Situational Awareness job vacancy trend in the North West

Situational Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Situational Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Situational Awareness

Situational Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Situational Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Situational Awareness

Situational Awareness
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 Situational Awareness within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. 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
Cheshire -15 1 £525 +33.59% 1
Situational Awareness
England

Situational Awareness
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk