Benchmarking Contracts in the North West

Benchmarking
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 140 179
Rank change year-on-year +28 +39 -17
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 10 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.42% 0.11% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.12% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £276 £670 -
25th Percentile £428 £681 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +16.67% +42.52%
75th Percentile £800 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £514 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -20.96% +8.33% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £33.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.65 £22.50 £16.74
% change year-on-year +54.00% +34.41% -18.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Benchmarking 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,991 2,449 3,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.83% 88.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 1,680 2,611
10th Percentile £294 £270 £281
25th Percentile £399 £405 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £656 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 163 139
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £24.19 £17.88 £15.77
Median hourly rate £35.36 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +59.09% +21.45%
75th Percentile £52.20 £46.18 £45.78
90th Percentile £70.90 £63.75 £69.48
England median hourly rate £36.90 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.08% +27.14% +67.54%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in the North West

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in the North West

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in the North West over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in the North West

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in the North West

Benchmarking
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 Benchmarking within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Cheshire - 5 £525 - 2
Manchester +19 4 £800 +14.29% 3
Merseyside - 1 £200 -
Benchmarking
England

Benchmarking
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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Aareon QL
1 1 (10.00%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (10.00%) NEC Housing
1 1 (10.00%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (20.00%) Veeva
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (20.00%) Spotfire
3 1 (10.00%) PowerPivot
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Automotive
2 3 (30.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (20.00%) Publishing
4 1 (10.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Report Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Augmented Reality
1 3 (30.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (30.00%) Podcast
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (10.00%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Focus Group
1 4 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (30.00%) Business Case
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Coaching
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Information Management
3 2 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
1 3 (30.00%) VBA
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (20.00%) GxP
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Informatica
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) SnapLogic
2 1 (10.00%) Aareon
2 1 (10.00%) Capita
2 1 (10.00%) Civica
2 1 (10.00%) NEC
2 1 (10.00%) Orchard