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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 77 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 15 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.48% 0.50% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 0.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 0
10th Percentile £375 £408 -
25th Percentile £394 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - -
75th Percentile £506 £716 -
90th Percentile £536 £766 -
North West median daily rate £463 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -11.90% -8.70% +4.55%

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 903 1,043 1,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.88% 86.84% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 659 1,148
10th Percentile £304 £336 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £703 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 47 57
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.97 £15.29
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.43 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +11.43%
75th Percentile £58.87 £62.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £87.00 £67.60
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £35.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -21.79% +14.20% +40.71%

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 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in Manchester

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Transformation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford - 1 £400 -
Stockport - 1 £400 -
Data Transformation
North West

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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (20.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (13.33%) Big Data
4 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (13.33%) Dremio
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.67%) Metadata
5 1 (6.67%) Parquet
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Law
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Integration Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (26.67%) ETL
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Workshops
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) HL7
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Databricks
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) VMware