Data Lake Contracts in Manchester

Data Lakes
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake 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 70 72 92
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 9 24 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.97% 1.58% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.50% 9.27% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 19
10th Percentile £440 £369 £454
25th Percentile £445 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% -8.37%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £653
90th Percentile £700 £575 £700
North West median daily rate £497 £480 £619
% change year-on-year +3.62% -22.42% +8.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
North West median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 200 259 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 21.60% 17.07% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 201 226
10th Percentile £378 £363 £351
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £656
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile - £35.45 £35.92
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.36% +5.77% +348.28%
75th Percentile £40.75 £74.63 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £78.45 £65.80
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Manchester

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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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) Big Data
2 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (22.22%) Delta Lake
3 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
4 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (11.11%) HBase
4 1 (11.11%) Pentaho
4 1 (11.11%) SAP BW
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) ERwin
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modeller
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Inmon Methodology
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (11.11%) Metadata Management
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (11.11%) SIPOC
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Hitachi
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Pega
3 1 (11.11%) Talend