Thought Leadership Contracts in the North West

Thought Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 124 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Thought Leadership 11 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £692 £523 -
25th Percentile £704 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £762 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.48% - -
75th Percentile £858 £613 -
90th Percentile £875 £628 -
England median daily rate £537 £530 £588
% change year-on-year +1.32% -9.79% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £44.50 - -
25th Percentile £44.88 - -
Median hourly rate £49.00 £16.85 -
Median % change year-on-year +190.80% - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
England median hourly rate £49.00 £34.68 £78.00
% change year-on-year +41.31% -55.54% +71.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Thought Leadership 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,026 2,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.84% 84.00% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,277 1,214 1,778
10th Percentile £291 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £670 £680 £663
England median daily rate £510 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 164 158
10th Percentile £13.23 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £55.25 £52.05 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.00 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the North West

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Thought Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Thought Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the North West

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DemandTrendContract 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 Thought Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +7 8 £850 +61.90% 62
Cheshire -21 2 £761 +21.68% 5
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
1 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Security Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Applications Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Designer
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cyberattack
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) e-Learning
2 2 (18.18%) Learning Management System
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
1 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (45.45%) Data Security
2 4 (36.36%) Application Security
2 4 (36.36%) Attestation
2 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (36.36%) User Experience
3 3 (27.27%) Coaching
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Content Development
4 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
4 2 (18.18%) Instructional Design
4 2 (18.18%) UX Design
5 1 (9.09%) Human-Centred Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft