Analytics Contracts in Manchester

Analytics
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 42 51
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytics 62 56 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.70% 3.69% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 4.24% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 47
10th Percentile £346 £111 £403
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £631
90th Percentile £614 £622 £685
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £13.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £14.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -60.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £14.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +64.71% +21.43% +89.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Analytics 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Manchester

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in Manchester

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Manchester

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in Manchester

Analytics
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Salford - 2 £450 - 5
Stockport -2 1 £501 +21.45% 30
Bury - 1 - - 16
Analytics
North West

Analytics
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 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.45%) SAS
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.23%) Shopify
3 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.42%) AWS
1 17 (27.42%) Azure
2 9 (14.52%) GitHub
2 9 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 7 (11.29%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (11.29%) dbt
4 7 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
6 5 (8.06%) IaaS
7 4 (6.45%) Google Analytics
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.84%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.84%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.23%) Serverless
10 1 (1.61%) GCP
10 1 (1.61%) Google Ads
10 1 (1.61%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) Network Security
2 5 (8.06%) Firewall
2 5 (8.06%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (4.84%) DNS
4 1 (1.61%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (12.90%) Power BI
3 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.06%) Tableau
5 4 (6.45%) Airbyte
6 3 (4.84%) Big Data
6 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.84%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.84%) SAP HANA
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.23%) Data Vault
7 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.23%) Dremio
7 2 (3.23%) MySQL
7 2 (3.23%) ObjectStore
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) GitLab
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.61%) ERwin
3 1 (1.61%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.61%) Mocha
General
1 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.06%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.45%) Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Legal
6 2 (3.23%) Marketing
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.61%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Data Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Architect
3 7 (11.29%) Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Senior
4 6 (9.68%) Data Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) SAP Architect
7 3 (4.84%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.84%) SAS Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) Kafka
2 4 (6.45%) OAuth
2 4 (6.45%) OAuth2
2 4 (6.45%) OpenID
2 4 (6.45%) REST
2 4 (6.45%) SAML
3 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.84%) Middleware
3 3 (4.84%) React
3 3 (4.84%) RESTful
4 1 (1.61%) CSS
4 1 (1.61%) HTML
4 1 (1.61%) Jest
4 1 (1.61%) Node.js
4 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.61%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.23%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.23%) Replication
2 2 (3.23%) Social Media
3 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.61%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.61%) IoT
3 1 (1.61%) MISP
3 1 (1.61%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Windows
1 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (32.26%) Visualisation
3 16 (25.81%) ETL
4 15 (24.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (22.58%) Digital Twin
6 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
6 13 (20.97%) Containerisation
7 12 (19.35%) Decision-Making
8 11 (17.74%) Data Analytics
9 10 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (16.13%) Data Modelling
9 10 (16.13%) Data Security
9 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (14.52%) Agile
10 9 (14.52%) Continuous Deployment
10 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (12.90%) Data Engineering
12 7 (11.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.19%) Python
2 12 (19.35%) SQL
3 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.45%) SPARQL
5 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.61%) Bash
7 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.61%) R
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) QA
2 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) GDPR
4 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.61%) GRC
5 1 (1.61%) PMO
5 1 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (8.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (20.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.29%) Terraform
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.84%) Istio
4 3 (4.84%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.61%) Nessus
5 1 (1.61%) OpenVAS
5 1 (1.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) Databricks
3 5 (8.06%) Google
3 5 (8.06%) SAP
3 5 (8.06%) VMware
4 3 (4.84%) Concur
4 3 (4.84%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.84%) Splunk
5 2 (3.23%) Brio
6 1 (1.61%) Adobe
6 1 (1.61%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.61%) F5
6 1 (1.61%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) Informatica
6 1 (1.61%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Qualys
6 1 (1.61%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow