WFM Contracts in the North West

Workforce Management (WFM)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for WFM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WFM over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 - 179
Rank change year-on-year - - -43
Contract jobs citing WFM 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.074% - 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £361 - £416
25th Percentile £377 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 - £445
75th Percentile £439 - £476
90th Percentile £457 - £490
England median daily rate £445 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -17.30% - +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

WFM 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 2,328 2,877 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.70% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,043 2,606
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.67% +82.66% +10.08%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.44
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for WFM in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for WFM in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WFM in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for WFM in the North West

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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 WFM within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 - 1 £350 - 6
Cheshire - 1 £463 - 1
WFM
England

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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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) H.323
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IVR
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Workforce Optimisation
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Avaya
1 1 (50.00%) Kronos
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Verint