Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Architecture
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 67 79
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 16 17 27
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.55% 1.47% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.69% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 22
10th Percentile £475 £412 £463
25th Percentile £506 £419 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £502 £731
90th Percentile £678 £533 £738
North West median daily rate £575 £463 £625
% change year-on-year +24.32% -26.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Architecture 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 932 1,003 1,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 90.22% 86.99% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 572 1,084
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £589
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 34 59
10th Percentile £16.37 £18.17 £15.38
25th Percentile £19.07 £28.75 £16.27
Median hourly rate £22.57 £36.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.32% +84.62% -25.71%
75th Percentile £32.44 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £73.60 £70.75
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +40.00%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in Manchester

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) GCP
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.25%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) BigQuery
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
2 3 (18.75%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Redis
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Power Query
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Automotive
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Architect
1 12 (75.00%) Data Architect
2 5 (31.25%) GCP Architect
2 5 (31.25%) GCP Data Architect
3 4 (25.00%) BigQuery Architect
4 3 (18.75%) ETL Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Data Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
2 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) NHS
4 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Data Modelling
2 8 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 7 (43.75%) AI
3 7 (43.75%) ETL
4 6 (37.50%) Analytics
4 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (31.25%) Data Integration
6 4 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (18.75%) CRM
7 3 (18.75%) Data Management
7 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) Digital Innovation
7 3 (18.75%) Metadata Management
8 2 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
8 2 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) Hitachi
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) Informatica
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Pega
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft