Technology Strategy Contracts in the North West

Technology Strategy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Technology Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 97 149
Rank change year-on-year -17 +52 +2
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 6 40 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 1.45% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.68% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 29 7
10th Percentile - £363 £538
25th Percentile £463 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £666 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +2.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £763 £672 £694
90th Percentile £808 £738 £740
England median daily rate £663 £636 £650
% change year-on-year +4.25% -2.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technology Strategy 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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +1 3 £825 +65.00% 39
Cheshire 0 3 £475 -34.48% 3
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 (16.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Maximo
2 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Aviation
3 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Product Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) ITSM
4 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Network Design
4 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Service Design
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Use Case
5 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) JNCIE
2 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) SAP