Data Quality Contracts in Manchester

Data Quality
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality 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 58 59 87
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 21 37 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.27% 2.44% 1.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.33% 15.16% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 15
10th Percentile £387 £420 £355
25th Percentile £411 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +30.95% -1.18%
75th Percentile £559 £645 £513
90th Percentile £583 £715 £645
North West median daily rate £465 £510 £420
% change year-on-year -8.82% +21.43% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £14.27 -
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £14.27 -
% change year-on-year +72.34% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

Data Quality falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 244 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.79% 16.08% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 151 191
10th Percentile £360 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £594
90th Percentile £708 £713 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.84 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.11 £13.19 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £37.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.07% +65.03% +80.00%
75th Percentile £55.06 £68.78 £39.60
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.14 £63.84
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Manchester

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Manchester

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Manchester

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Manchester

Data Quality
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 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.76%) Apache
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (14.29%) IaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (14.29%) PaaS
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
5 2 (9.52%) dbt
5 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (23.81%) Power BI
3 4 (19.05%) Big Data
3 4 (19.05%) Data Mining
3 4 (19.05%) Hadoop
3 4 (19.05%) Metadata
3 4 (19.05%) MySQL
3 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (19.05%) Tableau
4 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (14.29%) Delta Lake
4 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (9.52%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.76%) HBase
6 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) ERwin
2 1 (4.76%) Flyway
2 1 (4.76%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Exchange Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.52%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
1 3 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (9.52%) ADO
2 2 (9.52%) PyTorch
2 2 (9.52%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (42.86%) ETL
2 8 (38.10%) Data Modelling
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) Data Management
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 5 (23.81%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (19.05%) Data Migration
6 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
6 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
6 4 (19.05%) Runbook
6 4 (19.05%) Validation
6 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
7 3 (14.29%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) R
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 4 (19.05%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) PMO
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Databricks
3 4 (19.05%) Informatica
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle
4 3 (14.29%) Talend
5 1 (4.76%) SAP