Data Analyst Contracts in Manchester

Data Analyst
North West > Manchester

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Manchester is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 66 85
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 15 30 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.62% 1.98% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.06% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 28
10th Percentile £258 £100 £200
25th Percentile £266 £256 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £497 £488 £424
90th Percentile £575 £590 £449
North West median daily rate £413 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -13.16% +15.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% - -
North West median hourly rate £20.42 £14.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year +45.84% -33.49% +41.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Manchester

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Manchester

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Manchester

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
1 7 (46.67%) Power BI
1 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Data Management
3 4 (26.67%) ETL
4 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Tableau
4 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Epics
5 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (13.33%) Data Governance Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Master Data Management
5 2 (13.33%) Use Case
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight

Data Analyst 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 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (20.00%) Tableau
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (26.67%) Data Management
2 4 (26.67%) ETL
2 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Data Governance Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Epics
4 2 (13.33%) Master Data Management
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Use Case
4 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
5 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks