Data Consultant Contracts in Manchester

Data Consultant
North West > Manchester

The median Data Consultant daily rate in Manchester is £555, 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 75 91 116
Rank change year-on-year +16 +25 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 0.33% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.34% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £471 - £628
25th Percentile £501 £513 £642
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £681
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -22.94% +43.42%
75th Percentile £611 £538 £717
90th Percentile £644 - £729
North West median daily rate £555 £513 £681
% change year-on-year +8.29% -24.77% +36.25%

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 Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Consultant in Manchester

Data Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Consultant in Manchester

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Consultant in Manchester

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

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

1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills

Data Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (25.00%) Data Science
1 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle