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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 60 95
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Management 24 28 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.39% 2.34% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.70% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 14
10th Percentile £409 £380 £379
25th Percentile £431 £406 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £534
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.69% -0.23%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £655
90th Percentile £622 £680 £696
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -46.97% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +75.00%

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 894 1,037 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.87% 86.71% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 655 1,182
10th Percentile £300 £350 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £708 £675
North West median daily rate £454 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 48 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.98 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +11.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £86.00 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £34.21 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.53% -2.26% +60.70%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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
Stockport - 3 £400 -
Bolton - 2 - - 3
Oldham - 2 - -
Salford - 1 £400 - 3
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 (33.33%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP HR
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) ERwin
General
1 14 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Finance
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Local Government
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Analyst
1 8 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 8 (33.33%) CRM Coordinator
1 8 (33.33%) Technical Coordinator
2 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Kronos Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Security Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) HR Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) HR Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.17%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) Decision-Making
3 9 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 8 (33.33%) CRM
4 8 (33.33%) Customer Segmentation
4 8 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) Change Management
6 3 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (12.50%) Requirements Workshops
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Debt
7 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (8.33%) ETL
7 2 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
7 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.33%) Python
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) CIPD
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) SAP
2 3 (12.50%) Thycotic
3 2 (8.33%) Kronos
4 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Imperva
4 1 (4.17%) Informatica
4 1 (4.17%) Talend
4 1 (4.17%) Veeam
4 1 (4.17%) VMware