Onboarding Job Trends in the North West

Onboarding
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 142 136
Rank change year-on-year +59 -6 +100
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 106 65 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.67% 1.29% 1.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.78% 4.19% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 75 32 34
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £27,375
25th Percentile £26,250 £41,188 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,400 £52,500 £46,279
Median % change year-on-year -38.29% +13.44% +8.89%
75th Percentile £46,250 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £78,250 £69,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -21.26%

All Generic Skills
North West

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,804 1,553 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.20% 30.82% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 939 780 1,133
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,670
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in the North West

Onboarding
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Onboarding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the North West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in the North West

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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 +43 58 £30,000 -47.83% 55
Merseyside +17 28 £30,780 -46.47% 6
Cheshire -13 13 £37,500 -6.25% 18
Lancashire +9 6 £36,200 -31.05% 22
Cumbria - 1 £72,500 - 3
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
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 18 (16.98%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.72%) WordPress
4 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (10.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.70%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (15.09%) Azure
3 14 (13.21%) Entra ID
4 13 (12.26%) AWS
5 10 (9.43%) SaaS
6 8 (7.55%) OneDrive
6 8 (7.55%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (4.72%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.89%) Dagster
10 2 (1.89%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.89%) PaaS
10 2 (1.89%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.89%) Prefect
10 2 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.55%) DHCP
1 8 (7.55%) DNS
1 8 (7.55%) Firewall
2 7 (6.60%) VPN
3 6 (5.66%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.66%) Wireless
4 1 (0.94%) ISDN
4 1 (0.94%) PSTN
4 1 (0.94%) SMS
4 1 (0.94%) VoIP
4 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.66%) Power BI
2 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 59 (55.66%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Legal
3 14 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.55%) French Language
6 7 (6.60%) Finance
7 6 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Advertising
8 3 (2.83%) Billing
8 3 (2.83%) Law
8 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Hungarian Language
9 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.94%) Marketing
10 1 (0.94%) Retail
10 1 (0.94%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (16.98%) Support Engineer
2 15 (14.15%) IT Support
3 14 (13.21%) Analyst
4 11 (10.38%) Consultant
4 11 (10.38%) HR Advisor
5 9 (8.49%) IT Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Recruitment Consultant
6 8 (7.55%) Recruitment Resourcer
6 8 (7.55%) Resourcer
6 8 (7.55%) Sales Consultant
6 8 (7.55%) Senior
6 8 (7.55%) Trainee
6 8 (7.55%) Trainee Consultant
6 8 (7.55%) Trainee Recruitment Consultant
6 8 (7.55%) Trainee Resourcer
7 6 (5.66%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.72%) HTML
2 2 (1.89%) .NET
2 2 (1.89%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.89%) Blazor
2 2 (1.89%) Entity Framework
2 2 (1.89%) Middleware
2 2 (1.89%) RESTful
3 1 (0.94%) Node.js
3 1 (0.94%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.94%) OpenID
3 1 (0.94%) REST
3 1 (0.94%) SAML
3 1 (0.94%) Swagger
3 1 (0.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Driving Licence
2 9 (8.49%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (7.55%) Augmented Reality
3 8 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.55%) Virtual Reality
4 5 (4.72%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.77%) PropTech
6 3 (2.83%) EPoS
6 3 (2.83%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.89%) CCTV
7 2 (1.89%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.94%) iPhone
8 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.15%) Windows
2 8 (7.55%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.72%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.83%) Android
5 2 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.89%) VMS
6 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.28%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (25.47%) Client Onboarding
3 22 (20.75%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (18.87%) CRM
5 16 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (15.09%) Customer Service
6 13 (12.26%) AI
6 13 (12.26%) Data Entry
7 12 (11.32%) Decision-Making
8 9 (8.49%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (8.49%) FinOps
8 9 (8.49%) Software Licensing
8 9 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (7.55%) Knowledge Management
9 8 (7.55%) Migration
9 8 (7.55%) Process Improvement
9 8 (7.55%) Task Automation
10 7 (6.60%) CI/CD
10 7 (6.60%) Customer Experience
10 7 (6.60%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.55%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.72%) SQL
3 2 (1.89%) C#
3 2 (1.89%) Python
4 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (8.49%) AWS Certification
2 7 (6.60%) Degree
3 5 (4.72%) A+ Certification
4 3 (2.83%) AAT
4 3 (2.83%) ACCA
4 3 (2.83%) CIMA
5 2 (1.89%) CIPD
5 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.09%) GDPR
2 7 (6.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.83%) QA
5 1 (0.94%) GxP
5 1 (0.94%) IASME
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.66%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.09%) ServiceNow
3 15 (14.15%) Workday
4 10 (9.43%) Apple
5 9 (8.49%) Adobe
6 3 (2.83%) HubSpot
6 3 (2.83%) Sage
7 2 (1.89%) Siemens
7 2 (1.89%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.94%) LexisNexis
8 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) SAP
8 1 (0.94%) Spotify