Data Science Contracts in Manchester

Data Science
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science 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 66 86 106
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Science 13 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.40% 0.66% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.76% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 11
10th Percentile £412 - £463
25th Percentile £426 £325 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £350 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -46.15% +36.84%
75th Percentile £488 £375 £725
90th Percentile £664 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £650
% change year-on-year -2.56% -25.00% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
North West median hourly rate £25.43 - £49.57
% change year-on-year - - -5.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Science 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 Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Manchester

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Manchester

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Manchester

Data Science
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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Tableau
2 4 (30.77%) Power BI
3 3 (23.08%) Data Mining
3 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) Big Data
4 2 (15.38%) MySQL
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (7.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Data Scientist
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Technologist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
2 2 (15.38%) LangChain
2 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
2 2 (15.38%) Regular Expression
3 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Matplotlib
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.69%) Shiny
3 1 (7.69%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
2 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
2 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
3 5 (38.46%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (30.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (30.77%) ETL
4 4 (30.77%) Natural Language Processing
4 4 (30.77%) Predictive Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Brio
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft