Enterprise Search Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Enterprise Search
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Enterprise Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Search 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £545 - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile £755 - -
North West median daily rate £650 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Enterprise Search 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 1,651 889 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.47% 89.71% 87.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 579 610
10th Percentile £313 £311 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £580 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £689
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £492
% change year-on-year +9.89% -7.43% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 65 34
10th Percentile £21.00 £15.06 £15.94
25th Percentile £33.64 £19.07 £21.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +154.09% -35.34% +79.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £35.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £67.50 £87.45
North West median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.90% -40.84% +21.43%

Enterprise Search
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Enterprise Search job vacancy trend in Manchester

Enterprise Search
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Enterprise Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Enterprise Search

Enterprise Search
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Search in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Search in Manchester

Enterprise Search
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 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Spanner
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Discovery
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Information Management
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) AI Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Discovery
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google