Data Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £469, 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 35 74 82
Rank change year-on-year +39 +8 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 46 22 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.97% 1.45% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.31% 1.51% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 27
10th Percentile £375 £170 £405
25th Percentile £409 £344 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £509 £540 £650
90th Percentile £651 £588 £685
North West median daily rate £463 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

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

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

1 25 (54.35%) SQL
1 25 (54.35%) Python
2 21 (45.65%) ETL
3 20 (43.48%) Data Modelling
4 19 (41.30%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (34.78%) AWS
5 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (32.61%) Databricks
6 15 (32.61%) Analytics
7 14 (30.43%) Azure
7 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
8 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
9 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
10 11 (23.91%) Data Engineering
10 11 (23.91%) PL/SQL
10 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
11 10 (21.74%) Validation
12 9 (19.57%) Migration
12 9 (19.57%) Oracle
12 9 (19.57%) Data Migration
12 9 (19.57%) Data Quality
13 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (17.39%) Relational Database
13 8 (17.39%) Docker
13 8 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
13 8 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
13 8 (17.39%) dbt
13 8 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (15.22%) Legacy Systems

Data Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (10.87%) Apache Spark
3 4 (8.70%) Apache
4 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) AWS
2 14 (30.43%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (17.39%) dbt
4 7 (15.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.17%) GCP
9 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.87%) Delta Lake
3 5 (10.87%) Power BI
4 4 (8.70%) Airbyte
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.70%) MySQL
5 3 (6.52%) Big Data
5 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.52%) Metadata
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.35%) Dremio
6 2 (4.35%) Looker
6 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Git
1 3 (6.52%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.17%) Flyway
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Liquibase
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Automotive
4 1 (2.17%) Games
4 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) PySpark
1 4 (8.70%) REST
2 3 (6.52%) Kafka
3 2 (4.35%) ADO
4 1 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.17%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.35%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.17%) IoT
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) ETL
2 20 (43.48%) Data Modelling
3 19 (41.30%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (32.61%) Analytics
6 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
6 11 (23.91%) Data Engineering
7 10 (21.74%) Validation
8 9 (19.57%) Data Migration
8 9 (19.57%) Migration
9 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
10 7 (15.22%) Data Mapping
10 7 (15.22%) Data Transformation
10 7 (15.22%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (13.04%) Agile
11 6 (13.04%) Data Ingestion
11 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
12 5 (10.87%) Knowledge Transfer
13 4 (8.70%) Digital Twin
13 4 (8.70%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) Python
1 25 (54.35%) SQL
2 11 (23.91%) PL/SQL
3 4 (8.70%) SPARQL
4 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.52%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Databricks
2 9 (19.57%) Oracle
3 6 (13.04%) Informatica
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) Talend
5 1 (2.17%) Brio
82 Data Engineer jobs in the North West