Unit4 Business World Contract Job Trends in the North West

Unit4 Financials Business World Edition (formerly Agresso)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Unit4 Business World skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 130 123
Rank change year-on-year -46 -7 -
Contract jobs citing Unit4 Business World 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.076% 0.18% 0.041%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.15% 2.00% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £423 -
25th Percentile £388 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £463 £519 £525
90th Percentile - £538 -
England median daily rate £475 £463 £388
% change year-on-year +2.70% +19.35% -22.50%

All Business Application Skills
North West

Unit4 Business World falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 261 200 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 6.63% 9.06% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 116 89
10th Percentile £275 £413 £408
25th Percentile £467 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.67%
75th Percentile £659 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £726 £678
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 15
10th Percentile £28.50 - £35.36
25th Percentile £28.88 - £36.45
Median hourly rate £57.75 £12.82 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +350.47% -68.21% -27.80%
75th Percentile £71.91 £30.15 £43.10
90th Percentile £84.13 £56.39 £45.71
England median hourly rate £40.00 £44.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -10.61% -0.56% -20.34%

Unit4 Business World
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit4 Business World relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Unit4 Business World job vacancy trend in the North West

Unit4 Business World
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Unit4 Business World.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Unit4 Business World

Unit4 Business World
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Unit4 Business World.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Unit4 Business World

Unit4 Business World
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 Unit4 Business World within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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 - 3 £425 -
Unit4 Business World
England

Unit4 Business World
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) HR Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Support Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Support
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft