Technology Strategy Contracts in the North West

Technology Strategy
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 145 160
Rank change year-on-year +48 +15 -36
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 40 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.45% 0.25% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.27% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 7 15
10th Percentile £363 £538 £466
25th Percentile £550 £600 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +3.17% +32.63%
75th Percentile £672 £694 £769
90th Percentile £738 £740 £875
England median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technology Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the North West

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the North West

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the North West

Technology Strategy
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 Technology Strategy within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +28 19 £500 -20.00% 19
Cumbria - 18 £669 - 1
Cheshire +7 3 £725 +7.41%
Technology Strategy
England

Technology Strategy
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 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Snowflake
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) IaaS
4 1 (2.50%) PaaS
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Network Security
2 3 (7.50%) Intranet
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) NAS
3 1 (2.50%) SAN
3 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
1 3 (7.50%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (72.50%) Architect
2 10 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 10 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (20.00%) Domain Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Security Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (2.50%) Clustering
2 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) NHS
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (90.00%) IT Strategy
2 20 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 15 (37.50%) Information Security
3 15 (37.50%) Risk Management
4 10 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 10 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 10 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 10 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 10 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 10 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 9 (22.50%) TOGAF
6 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
7 6 (15.00%) Architectural Design
7 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (15.00%) Migration
8 5 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) Bash
2 3 (7.50%) Go
2 3 (7.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (25.00%) NIST
3 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.50%) IASME
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (7.50%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Ansible
1 3 (7.50%) HP Fortify
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Citrix
4 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) Meraki
4 1 (2.50%) Mitel
4 1 (2.50%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam