Storytelling Contract Job Trends in the North West

Storytelling
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Storytelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 117 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Storytelling 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.36% 0.097% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £342 £463 -
25th Percentile £358 £486 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £528 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% - -
75th Percentile £527 £566 -
90th Percentile £621 £586 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -16.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Storytelling 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 2,204 1,808 2,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.74% 87.89% 87.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,028 1,593
10th Percentile £213 £274 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 91 155
10th Percentile £16.32 £16.00 £14.01
25th Percentile £21.60 £21.05 £18.70
Median hourly rate £41.77 £30.40 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.39% -24.47% +11.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.59 £47.67
90th Percentile £69.61 £73.56 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Storytelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Storytelling job vacancy trend in the North West

Storytelling
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Storytelling
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storytelling in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Storytelling in the North West

Storytelling
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 Storytelling within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Manchester +1 8 £359 -21.21% 8
Merseyside - 1 £413 - 5
Storytelling
England

Storytelling
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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (33.33%) Quicktime
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Figma
3 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 2 (22.22%) Looker
3 1 (11.11%) Power Query
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Browser DevTools
General
1 2 (22.22%) Legal
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Performance Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Service Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Video Editing
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) AI
1 3 (33.33%) Analytics
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Content Development
1 3 (33.33%) Data Science
1 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (11.11%) Interaction Design
3 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Runbook
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) QA
3 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) PERC
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
2 2 (22.22%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Facebook
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft