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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 80 89
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 10 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.09% 1.09% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.27% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 15
10th Percentile £456 £374 £451
25th Percentile £469 £419 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -12.73% +12.82%
75th Percentile £584 £530 £713
90th Percentile £606 £595 £725
North West median daily rate £500 £510 £548
% change year-on-year -1.96% -6.85% +12.31%
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 £27.50 £67.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -59.26% +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 811 1,262 1,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.73% 85.79% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 828 1,175
10th Percentile £308 £321 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £456 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 80 48
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.49 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.48 £13.97 £16.85
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% +15.56% +23.29%
75th Percentile £74.38 £57.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £86.20 £72.70 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
% change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%

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 24 June 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 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) dbt
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Big Data
1 3 (30.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (20.00%) Data Vault
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) Dremio
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) ETL Architect
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) ADO
3 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (10.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 4 (40.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (30.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Data Security
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Hitachi