Data Lineage Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Lineage
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 82 89
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 1 2 13
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.075% 0.19% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.21% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £263
25th Percentile £575 - £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £463 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Lineage 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 1,172 942 1,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.25% 90.93% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 601 966
10th Percentile £306 £294 £313
25th Percentile £380 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 32 72
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.08 £20.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +34.60% -43.01%
75th Percentile £64.38 £34.56 £49.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £72.44
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £31.52 £29.22
% change year-on-year +35.42% +7.87% -22.08%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Data Lineage
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Implementation Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft