Data Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 78 98
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 25 36 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.77% 1.98% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 2.06% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 39
10th Percentile £170 £405 £378
25th Percentile £209 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £529 £650 £594
90th Percentile £588 £700 £703
North West median daily rate £425 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £67.50 - £19.25
% change year-on-year - - -53.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,349 1,751 2,558
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.61% 96.26% 97.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 1,300 1,989
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 41 66
10th Percentile £12.05 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £27.50 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +51.81% +11.61%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.50 £30.54 £23.22
% change year-on-year -9.95% +31.51% +29.01%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (44.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) Data Modelling
3 10 (40.00%) ETL
4 9 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (32.00%) SQL
5 8 (32.00%) Azure
5 8 (32.00%) Data Lake
6 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
6 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
6 7 (28.00%) Data Engineering
7 6 (24.00%) AWS
7 6 (24.00%) Java
8 5 (20.00%) Data Integration
8 5 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (16.00%) Databricks
9 4 (16.00%) PySpark
9 4 (16.00%) Scala
9 4 (16.00%) Kafka
9 4 (16.00%) Analytics
9 4 (16.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (16.00%) Apache Spark
10 3 (12.00%) Physical Data Model
10 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
10 3 (12.00%) HBase
10 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
10 3 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
10 3 (12.00%) Data Security

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (16.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (32.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (12.00%) HBase
4 3 (12.00%) MySQL
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.00%) Azkaban
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata
6 1 (4.00%) Power BI
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.00%) Spark SQL
6 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) RStudio
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Advertising
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Kafka
1 4 (16.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (44.00%) Data Modelling
3 10 (40.00%) ETL
4 7 (28.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 5 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (16.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.00%) DAMA
7 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (12.00%) Data Security
7 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
7 3 (12.00%) Physical Data Model
7 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
8 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
8 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) Scala
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Facebook
4 1 (4.00%) Isilon
4 1 (4.00%) Micro Focus
4 1 (4.00%) Novell
4 1 (4.00%) OpenText
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Twitter