Data Scientist Contracts in Manchester

Data Scientist
North West > Manchester

The median Data Scientist daily rate in Manchester is £455, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 116
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £419 - £481
25th Percentile £433 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.17%
75th Percentile £475 - £609
90th Percentile £553 - £634
North West median daily rate £455 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.47% -17.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in Manchester

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in Manchester

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in Manchester

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) Data Science
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 3 (37.50%) LLM
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (37.50%) TensorFlow
4 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Statistical Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Data Mining
4 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) R
5 2 (25.00%) Tableau
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) Degree

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Mining
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) TensorFlow
2 2 (25.00%) LangChain
2 2 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (12.50%) Matplotlib
3 1 (12.50%) Pandas
3 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (12.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Science
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
4 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (37.50%) LLM
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Statistical Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
5 2 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (25.00%) MLOps
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks