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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 97 132
Rank change year-on-year -14 +35 +37
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 15 22 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.69% 0.92% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.08% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 10
10th Percentile £423 £601 £360
25th Percentile £463 £659 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £669 £675
Median % change year-on-year -24.36% -0.89% +13.58%
75th Percentile £588 £680 £725
90th Percentile £726 £738 £800
England median daily rate £650 £690 £650
% change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £64.79
25th Percentile - - £64.79
Median hourly rate - - £73.79
75th Percentile - - £78.29
90th Percentile - - £78.82
England median hourly rate £58.90 £30.12 £73.79
% change year-on-year +95.53% -59.18% +13.53%

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 1,914 2,031 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.96% 84.66% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 1,233 1,848
10th Percentile £279 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £668 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 180 169
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% -0.76% +51.52%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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
Cheshire -10 8 £506 -30.21% 5
Manchester +14 7 £494 -1.25% 24
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 (6.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Maximo
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) BGP
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
1 4 (26.67%) MPLS
1 4 (26.67%) Network Security
1 4 (26.67%) OSPF
1 4 (26.67%) VLAN
1 4 (26.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Designer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Designer
2 4 (26.67%) Solutions Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Architect
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Payments Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Product Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SAS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) Blazor
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) IT Strategy
2 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
3 7 (46.67%) TOGAF
4 5 (33.33%) Service Design
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) High Availability
5 4 (26.67%) ITSM
5 4 (26.67%) Network Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Network Design
5 4 (26.67%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (26.67%) Use Case
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Coaching
7 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) CCIE
2 4 (26.67%) CCNP
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (26.67%) JNCIE
2 4 (26.67%) Master's Degree
3 3 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
1 4 (26.67%) F5
1 4 (26.67%) Fortinet
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow