Dataform Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Google Cloud Dataform
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Dataform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dataform 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.34% - 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £100
75th Percentile £659 - -
90th Percentile £714 - -
North West median daily rate £550 - £100

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

Dataform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 499 401 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 42.18% 37.34% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 276 498
10th Percentile £313 £325 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £679 £650
North West median daily rate £445 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 15
10th Percentile £19.13 £34.80 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £43.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.33 £58.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -37.37% +227.31% -72.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £67.40 £78.25
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £28.31
% change year-on-year +37.93% +2.46% -19.13%

Dataform
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dataform in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dataform in Manchester

Dataform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Looker
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Automotive
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) BigQuery Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architect
1 3 (75.00%) GCP Architect
1 3 (75.00%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (50.00%) ETL Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Innovation
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Control
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) FinOps
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) LookML
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Hitachi