Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in Manchester

Data-Driven Decision Making
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making 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 59 83 117
Rank change year-on-year +24 +34 +18
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 20 13 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.16% 0.86% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 0.98% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 1
10th Percentile £378 £401 -
25th Percentile £419 £425 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £300
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +66.67% -27.27%
75th Percentile £463 £575 £325
90th Percentile £478 - -
North West median daily rate £455 £518 £363
% change year-on-year -12.08% +42.76% -12.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +3.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data-Driven Decision Making 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-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Manchester

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Manchester

Data-Driven Decision Making
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-Driven Decision Making within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 2 - - 6
Oldham - 2 - -
Stockport - 2 - - 6
Data-Driven Decision Making
North West

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 8 (40.00%) IBM Domino
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
2 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) dbt
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) Tableau
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Looker
4 1 (5.00%) Mixpanel
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (55.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Coordinator
1 8 (40.00%) CRM Coordinator
1 8 (40.00%) Technical Coordinator
2 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Planning Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAS Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Decision-Making
2 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (50.00%) Data Management
4 8 (40.00%) CRM
4 8 (40.00%) Customer Segmentation
4 8 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 7 (35.00%) Analytics
6 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (20.00%) Data Science
7 4 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (20.00%) ETL
7 4 (20.00%) Project Management
8 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
8 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 2 (10.00%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Brio
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Hotjar
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow