Knowledge Discovery Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Knowledge Discovery (including Knowledge Extraction)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Knowledge Discovery 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 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Discovery 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £565 - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile £795 - -
North West median daily rate £750 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Knowledge Discovery 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%

Knowledge Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Knowledge Discovery job vacancy trend in Manchester

Knowledge Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Discovery in Manchester

Knowledge Discovery
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 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Project Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Search
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) AI Transformation
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Information Management
4 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google