Data Management Contracts in the North West

Data Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 106 133
Rank change year-on-year +35 +27 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Management 67 54 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.42% 1.69% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 1.87% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 32 27
10th Percentile £380 £363 £278
25th Percentile £450 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% -1.00%
75th Percentile £530 £652 £567
90th Percentile £593 £723 £695
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +8.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - £17.95
25th Percentile - - £20.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.54 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% +9.07% +123.82%
75th Percentile - £66.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £66.60 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £38.35 £36.88
% change year-on-year +4.30% +4.00% +38.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Management 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 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
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 Data Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +19 35 £513 -10.87% 27
Cheshire +15 26 £505 +1.00% 10
Cumbria - 2 £62 - 3
Lancashire +2 1 - - 6
Data Management
England

Data Management
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 6 (8.96%) Apache Spark
1 6 (8.96%) SAS
2 5 (7.46%) Apache
2 5 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.99%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Teamcenter
2 3 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.48%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.49%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (1.49%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.81%) Azure
2 15 (22.39%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (20.90%) Snowflake
4 13 (19.40%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.45%) AWS
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Stack
6 6 (8.96%) Collibra
6 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (8.96%) Power Automate
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.46%) Serverless
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.99%) GCP
9 1 (1.49%) IaaS
9 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) Power BI
2 11 (16.42%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (13.43%) Data Lake
4 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
5 6 (8.96%) Ataccama
5 6 (8.96%) Big Data
5 6 (8.96%) Metadata
5 6 (8.96%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (8.96%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (7.46%) Data Mining
7 3 (4.48%) GIS
8 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.99%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.49%) Navicat
9 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.49%) SAP BW
9 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Git
1 6 (8.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (7.46%) JIRA
3 4 (5.97%) ERwin
General
1 19 (28.36%) Pharmaceutical
2 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.91%) Manufacturing
4 10 (14.93%) Finance
5 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.96%) Retail
7 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.97%) Electronics
8 4 (5.97%) Marketing
8 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.99%) Banking
10 2 (2.99%) Publishing
11 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.49%) Aviation
11 1 (1.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (41.79%) Architect
2 15 (22.39%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (20.90%) Analyst
4 13 (19.40%) Data Analyst
4 13 (19.40%) Data Architect
5 10 (14.93%) Senior
6 9 (13.43%) Data Quality Analyst
6 9 (13.43%) QA Analyst
6 9 (13.43%) Quality Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Senior QA Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Senior Quality Analyst
8 5 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Developer
8 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (7.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) JSON
1 11 (16.42%) XML
2 6 (8.96%) REST
3 1 (1.49%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Reference Data
2 6 (8.96%) Data Structures
2 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.46%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.97%) Wiki
5 3 (4.48%) Life Science
6 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.49%) CMDB
6 1 (1.49%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
1 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) Agile
2 23 (34.33%) Data Governance
3 22 (32.84%) Data Architecture
4 18 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (22.39%) Data Modelling
5 15 (22.39%) DevOps
6 14 (20.90%) Computer Science
7 11 (16.42%) Analytics
7 11 (16.42%) Architectural Patterns
7 11 (16.42%) Data Protection
7 11 (16.42%) Data Strategy
8 10 (14.93%) Architecture Governance
8 10 (14.93%) Data Analysis
8 10 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (14.93%) ETL
8 10 (14.93%) Migration
8 10 (14.93%) Project Delivery
9 9 (13.43%) Architectural Design
9 9 (13.43%) Service Design
9 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.85%) SQL
2 13 (19.40%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) Java
4 5 (7.46%) C#
5 4 (5.97%) ABAP
6 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.49%) Groovy
7 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Degree
2 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.99%) PhD
5 1 (1.49%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (35.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (16.42%) QA
3 5 (7.46%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.49%) GxP
4 1 (1.49%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
4 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Control-M
1 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (35.82%) SAP
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.96%) Alteryx
3 6 (8.96%) Dataiku
3 6 (8.96%) Trillium
4 5 (7.46%) Informatica
4 5 (7.46%) Talend
5 4 (5.97%) Databricks
5 4 (5.97%) Siemens
5 4 (5.97%) Sparx
6 3 (4.48%) Oracle
7 2 (2.99%) Hyperion
7 2 (2.99%) Mapbox
8 1 (1.49%) F5
8 1 (1.49%) Google
8 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.49%) VMware