Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Discovery
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 85 91
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 4 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.26% 0.10% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.11% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £566 £263 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £275 £431
Median % change year-on-year +111.82% -36.23% +15.00%
75th Percentile £608 £288 £575
90th Percentile £613 - -
North West median daily rate £583 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +41.21% -13.16% +18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Discovery 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 1,291 877 1,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.44% 90.88% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 596 959
10th Percentile £303 £313 £313
25th Percentile £390 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £678 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 33 77
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.93 £12.46
25th Percentile £22.76 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £71.88 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.40 £64.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £23.45
% change year-on-year +41.69% +35.44% -37.13%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Discovery job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Data Discovery
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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Varonis
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Sophos