Knowledge Transfer Job Trends in the North West

Knowledge Transfer
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Knowledge Transfer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 188 180
Rank change year-on-year +19 -8 +113
Permanent jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 10 17 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.36% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 7
10th Percentile £59,375 £44,697 £36,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £45,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.51% -25.19% +64.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £53,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £56,750 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% +19.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Knowledge Transfer falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,116 4,694 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.01% 90.27% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,311 2,675
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,320 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Knowledge Transfer relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Knowledge Transfer job vacancy trend in the North West

Knowledge Transfer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Knowledge Transfer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the North West

Knowledge Transfer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Knowledge Transfer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +12 4 £66,250 +26.19% 3
Cheshire -9 4 £75,000 - 1
Merseyside - 2 - -
Knowledge Transfer
England

Knowledge Transfer
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
1 1 (10.00%) VoIP
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
1 4 (40.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Games
2 4 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 4 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 4 (40.00%) LLM
2 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 4 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (40.00%) WFM
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) PMI Certification
2 4 (40.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (10.00%) MCSA
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Anaplan
2 4 (40.00%) Genesys
2 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (40.00%) Verint
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Ubiquiti