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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 81 92
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 10 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.11% 0.97% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.12% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 11
10th Percentile - £468 £391
25th Percentile £450 £522 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +10.09% -19.38%
75th Percentile £706 £638 £725
90th Percentile £725 £649 -
North West median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -3.77%
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 803 1,248 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.93% 86.49% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 848 1,195
10th Percentile £312 £321 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 51
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -6.14% +51.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
% change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%

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 31 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) HBase
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Mixpanel
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ERwin
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (10.00%) Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Content Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Engagement Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Engagement Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Workstream Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Web Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Infographics
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Hotjar
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle