Data Analyst Contracts in Manchester

Data Analyst
North West > Manchester

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Manchester is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 67 87
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 15 28 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.68% 1.96% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.05% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 22
10th Percentile £263 £100 £200
25th Percentile £292 £256 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £360
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +18.06% -12.73%
75th Percentile £494 £488 £431
90th Percentile £575 £548 £438
North West median daily rate £413 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +106.90%
North West median hourly rate £22.93 £14.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +63.77% -53.33% +106.90%

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 831 1,367 1,728
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 95.53% 96.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 952 1,285
10th Percentile £300 £307 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -1.75% +2.56%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £474 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.82% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 84 44
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.97
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.83 £28.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% +9.62% +40.54%
75th Percentile £66.25 £63.13 £42.19
90th Percentile £78.38 £73.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £31.50 £30.54
% change year-on-year -8.73% +3.14% +31.51%

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 29 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
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 Data Analyst within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 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 £400 - 1
Stockport - 2 £400 - 13
Data Analyst
North West

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 8 (53.33%) Data Governance
2 7 (46.67%) Power BI
2 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Data Management
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) ETL
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
5 3 (20.00%) Tableau
5 3 (20.00%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Epics
6 2 (13.33%) Data Governance Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (13.33%) Veeam
6 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) Use Case

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:

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) 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%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Data Governance
2 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Data Management
4 4 (26.67%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Data Governance Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
6 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) Epics
6 2 (13.33%) Master Data Management
6 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (13.33%) Use Case
6 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
7 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
7 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Veeam
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks