Big Data Contracts in Manchester

Big Data
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data 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 68 90 111
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing Big Data 11 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.50% 2.32% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £463 £545 £432
25th Percentile £513 £556 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +23.68% -20.03%
75th Percentile £713 £619 £513
90th Percentile - £630 £558
North West median daily rate £600 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% +7.37% -18.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
North West median hourly rate - - £37.50

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 200 259 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 21.60% 17.07% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 201 226
10th Percentile £378 £363 £351
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £656
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile - £35.45 £35.92
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.36% +5.77% +348.28%
75th Percentile £40.75 £74.63 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £78.45 £65.80
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Manchester

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Manchester

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Manchester

Big Data
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 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Hadoop
2 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
3 2 (18.18%) Data Vault
3 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Metadata
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) Tableau
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Accumulo
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (9.09%) HBase
4 1 (9.09%) Pentaho
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) ERwin
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Data Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (9.09%) Matplotlib
3 1 (9.09%) Pandas
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
3 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
1 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Data Security
2 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
2 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) Secure Coding
3 2 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cloudera
1 3 (27.27%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Talend