DAMA DMBOK Contract Job Trends in Manchester

DAMA International Guide to Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring DAMA DMBOK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DAMA DMBOK 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
North West median daily rate £525 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £68.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

DAMA DMBOK 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 1,680 890 1,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.00% 89.72% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 576 584
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £419 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £465 £486
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -4.37% -2.75%
75th Percentile £618 £588 £588
90th Percentile £708 £678 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 68 36
10th Percentile £20.20 £15.71 £15.96
25th Percentile £34.00 £19.02 £24.51
Median hourly rate £60.50 £22.63 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +167.34% -37.14% +84.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 £35.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.13 £83.75
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +87.39% -40.84% +28.79%

DAMA DMBOK
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DAMA DMBOK in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DAMA DMBOK in Manchester

DAMA DMBOK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Collibra
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Governance Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DAMA
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lineage
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Stewardship
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) R
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP