Taxonomies Contract Job Trends in the North West

Taxonomy
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Taxonomies in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Taxonomies over the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.41% - 0.037%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £334 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £44.50 - £50.28
% change year-on-year - - -3.31%

All Generic Skills
North West

Taxonomies 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 858 690 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.44% 29.50% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 355 567
10th Percentile £214 £294 £248
25th Percentile £358 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £672
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 35 35
10th Percentile £16.06 £19.63 £17.01
25th Percentile £21.03 £21.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -29.16% +97.67%
75th Percentile £57.67 £41.00 £51.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.50 £69.45
England median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -37.78% +0.56% +27.86%

Taxonomies
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Taxonomies job vacancy trend in the North West

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Taxonomies in the North West over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Taxonomies in the North West

Taxonomies
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Taxonomies
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 Taxonomies within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 November 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 - 6 £369 - 1
Cheshire - 1 £375 - 1
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 1
Taxonomies
England

Taxonomies
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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Looker
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Browser DevTools
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Author
1 2 (20.00%) Documentation Author
1 2 (20.00%) Technical Author
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Learning Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Information Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Instructional Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (10.00%) Logistics
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Workday