Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Pipelines
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Pipeline skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 65 90
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Pipeline 19 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.92% 1.63% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.86% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 12
10th Percentile £362 £368 £418
25th Percentile £400 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £738
90th Percentile £600 £596 -
North West median daily rate £488 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +5.41% -11.90% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
North West median hourly rate - - £65.00

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 889 1,019 1,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.71% 87.39% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 610 1,064
10th Percentile £311 £313 £278
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £689 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 34 61
10th Percentile £15.06 £15.94 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.44 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -2.50%
75th Percentile £35.50 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £87.45 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

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

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Pipeline in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Pipeline in Manchester

Data Pipeline
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Pipeline.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline
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 Pipeline within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Salford +3 1 £400 -11.11%
Stockport - 1 £400 -
Data Pipeline
North West

Data Pipeline
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 (42.11%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (31.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (21.05%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) Serverless
5 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) dbt
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.26%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Power BI
2 5 (26.32%) Big Data
2 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (15.79%) Delta Lake
4 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
5 2 (10.53%) Data Mining
5 2 (10.53%) Data Vault
5 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (10.53%) Tableau
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.26%) Looker
6 1 (5.26%) Metadata
6 1 (5.26%) Neo4j
6 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Data Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Lead
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Kafka
1 4 (21.05%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) pytest
3 1 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.26%) Matplotlib
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) Pandas
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.26%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.26%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Data Modelling
2 9 (47.37%) Data Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) ETL
3 6 (31.58%) Analytics
3 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Data Transformation
3 6 (31.58%) Machine Learning
3 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
4 5 (26.32%) Data Science
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Feature Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Control-M
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Veeam
4 1 (5.26%) VMware