Data Engineering Contracts in Manchester

Data Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering 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 63 86 94
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 16 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.73% 0.66% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 0.76% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 18
10th Percentile - £419 £415
25th Percentile £419 £476 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -11.30% +22.34%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £694
90th Percentile £600 £619 £725
North West median daily rate £488 £510 £575
% change year-on-year -4.41% -11.30% +22.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +92.86% -
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £67.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -62.33% +92.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Engineering 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 Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Manchester

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Manchester

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Manchester

Data Engineering
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 4 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (31.25%) dbt
4 4 (25.00%) AWS
4 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (25.00%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
2 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (18.75%) Delta Lake
2 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
2 3 (18.75%) Looker
3 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
3 2 (12.50%) Data Vault
3 2 (12.50%) Dremio
3 2 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (12.50%) Tableau
4 1 (6.25%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (18.75%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Analytics Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
2 2 (12.50%) ADO
3 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (6.25%) Shiny
3 1 (6.25%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Analytics
1 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (43.75%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) Data Transformation
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Data Science
4 4 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (25.00%) Runbook
5 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
6 2 (12.50%) Agile
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Data Management
6 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Project Management
6 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Databricks
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Brio
4 1 (6.25%) Hitachi
4 1 (6.25%) Pega
4 1 (6.25%) SAP