Data Transformation Contracts in Manchester

Data Transformation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Transformation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Transformation 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 63 92 115
Rank change year-on-year +29 +23 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 16 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.73% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile - - £414
25th Percentile £375 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +8.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £500
90th Percentile £498 £643 £526
North West median daily rate £401 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -19.80% +14.29% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Transformation 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 Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in Manchester

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in Manchester

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in Manchester

Data Transformation
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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Slack
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
2 4 (25.00%) Power BI
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Dremio
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (12.50%) Tableau
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data
5 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.25%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Law
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
1 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (37.50%) ETL
2 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Validation
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Data Science
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) HL7
2 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (18.75%) QA
4 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Databricks
2 3 (18.75%) Informatica
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Talend
3 2 (12.50%) Brio
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) SAP