Data Analytics Contracts in Manchester

Data Analytics
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data 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 68 84 108
Rank change year-on-year +16 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 11 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.79% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.91% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £380 £509 £358
25th Percentile £425 £522 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +35.29% -41.38%
75th Percentile £475 £621 £575
90th Percentile £513 £731 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £588 £463
% change year-on-year -23.40% +27.03% -22.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +303.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data 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%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in Manchester

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in Manchester

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in Manchester

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in Manchester

Data 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 Data 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 - 4
Data Analytics
North West

Data 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Tableau
3 2 (18.18%) Dremio
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Mixpanel
4 1 (9.09%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Low-Code
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
2 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
2 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Data Science
3 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (27.27%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Brio
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Hotjar
3 1 (9.09%) SAP