Data Management Contracts in Manchester

Data Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management 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 50 61 87
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Management 29 35 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.13% 2.31% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 2.65% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 20
10th Percentile £442 £348 £351
25th Percentile £487 £450 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% +17.95%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £691
90th Percentile - £730 £725
North West median daily rate £540 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £27.44 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -21.59% +14.60% +9.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Manchester

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in Manchester

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Manchester

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in Manchester

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton - 2 - - 7
Oldham - 2 - -
Stockport - 2 - - 1
Data Management
North West

Data Management
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 (27.59%) IBM Domino
2 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP HR
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.79%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (10.34%) Delta Lake
3 3 (10.34%) Power BI
3 3 (10.34%) Tableau
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.45%) EDRMS
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.45%) HBase
5 1 (3.45%) Pentaho
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) ERwin
1 2 (6.90%) Git
General
1 14 (48.28%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Finance
3 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Analyst
1 8 (27.59%) Coordinator
1 8 (27.59%) CRM Coordinator
1 8 (27.59%) Technical Coordinator
2 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Security Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) SharePoint Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) ADO
1 2 (6.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (41.38%) Decision-Making
3 10 (34.48%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 8 (27.59%) CRM
4 8 (27.59%) Customer Segmentation
4 8 (27.59%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (17.24%) Data Governance
5 5 (17.24%) ETL
5 5 (17.24%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Analytics
7 3 (10.34%) Data Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Data Integration
7 3 (10.34%) Data Privacy
7 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) CIPD
2 1 (3.45%) ISEB
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) Thycotic
4 2 (6.90%) Informatica
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.45%) Imperva
5 1 (3.45%) Kronos
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Talend