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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 61 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 20 35 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.23% 2.43% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.15% 15.15% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 11
10th Percentile £386 £418 £325
25th Percentile £406 £453 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £488
90th Percentile £585 £713 £638
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -9.00% +8.11% +15.63%
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 132 231 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.73% 16.05% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 145 179
10th Percentile £363 £340 £340
25th Percentile £402 £425 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £595 £634 £600
90th Percentile £700 £694 £650
North West median daily rate £468 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -6.40% +3.09% +4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 5
10th Percentile £22.46 £12.84 £18.47
25th Percentile £37.01 £13.19 £21.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £37.13 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.32% +23.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76.25 £68.78 £39.60
90th Percentile £83.75 £72.14 £63.84
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +149.22% -66.69% -6.32%

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 30 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
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 Quality within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 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
Salford - 1 £400 -
Stockport - 1 £400 - 23
Data Quality
North West

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 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (10.00%) dbt
5 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) Big Data
2 4 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (20.00%) Metadata
2 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Tableau
3 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (15.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (10.00%) Data Vault
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) HBase
5 1 (5.00%) Parquet
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) ERwin
2 1 (5.00%) Flyway
2 1 (5.00%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Risk Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
1 3 (15.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) ADO
3 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (45.00%) ETL
2 8 (40.00%) Data Management
2 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 4 (20.00%) Data Transformation
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
6 4 (20.00%) Runbook
6 4 (20.00%) Validation
7 3 (15.00%) Data Security
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Quality Management
7 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) R
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Databricks
3 4 (20.00%) Informatica
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (15.00%) Talend
5 1 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam
5 1 (5.00%) VMware