Data Strategy Contracts in Manchester

Data Strategy
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Strategy 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 67 77 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 12 19 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.30% 1.25% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.44% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 16
10th Percentile £450 £516 £403
25th Percentile £450 £544 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £485
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +28.87% -28.25%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £688
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
North West median daily rate £613 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -7.62% +2.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.10
25th Percentile - - £42.75
Median hourly rate - - £50.50
75th Percentile - - £58.25
90th Percentile - - £62.90
North West median hourly rate - - £50.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Strategy 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 Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in Manchester

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in Manchester

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in Manchester

Data Strategy
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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) HBase
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Mixpanel
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) Pentaho
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Principal Data Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Engagement Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Engagement Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Workstream Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Web Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Storytelling
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Hitachi
3 1 (8.33%) Hotjar
3 1 (8.33%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Pega
3 1 (8.33%) SAP