Data Pipeline Contracts in Manchester

Data Pipelines
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Pipeline skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Pipeline 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 41 76 88
Rank change year-on-year +35 +12 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 39 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.21% 1.32% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 1.51% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 21
10th Percentile £406 £316 £353
25th Percentile £438 £377 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% +8.89% -20.91%
75th Percentile £500 £535 £600
90th Percentile £525 £594 £700
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +3.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Pipeline 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 Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Pipeline in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Pipeline in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline 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 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (66.67%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 11 (28.21%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (28.21%) GitHub
4 9 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (20.51%) dbt
6 7 (17.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (5.13%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
10 2 (5.13%) GCP
10 2 (5.13%) Serverless
11 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (20.51%) Relational Database
3 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (12.82%) MySQL
4 5 (12.82%) Power BI
5 4 (10.26%) Airbyte
5 4 (10.26%) Big Data
5 4 (10.26%) ObjectStore
5 4 (10.26%) Tableau
6 3 (7.69%) Delta Lake
6 3 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (7.69%) GIS
6 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
6 3 (7.69%) Metadata
6 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
7 2 (5.13%) Data Vault
7 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) GitLab
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.56%) Mocha
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Data Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Digital Transformation
7 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.13%) GIS Developer
7 2 (5.13%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.13%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Kafka
2 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
2 5 (12.82%) React
2 5 (12.82%) RESTful
3 4 (10.26%) OAuth
3 4 (10.26%) OAuth2
3 4 (10.26%) OpenID
3 4 (10.26%) REST
3 4 (10.26%) SAML
4 3 (7.69%) Node.js
4 3 (7.69%) PySpark
5 2 (5.13%) .NET
5 2 (5.13%) ADO
5 2 (5.13%) GeoJSON
5 2 (5.13%) Google Maps API
5 2 (5.13%) Leaflet
5 2 (5.13%) MapLibre
6 1 (2.56%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.56%) Pandas
6 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Analytics
1 21 (53.85%) Visualisation
2 18 (46.15%) Containerisation
3 16 (41.03%) CI/CD
3 16 (41.03%) Digital Twin
3 16 (41.03%) ETL
4 12 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 10 (25.64%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
6 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.51%) Data Engineering
7 8 (20.51%) RBAC
8 7 (17.95%) DevOps
8 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.38%) Agile
9 6 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (15.38%) Data Security
9 6 (15.38%) Data Transformation
9 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.26%) SPARQL
6 2 (5.13%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 6 (15.38%) QA
3 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Istio
3 3 (7.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Databricks
2 3 (7.69%) Informatica
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Talend
3 2 (5.13%) Brio
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Mapbox