Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Synthetic Data
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.18% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £705 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 - -
75th Percentile £715 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £655 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Synthetic Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 393 371 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.69% 31.05% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 193 346
10th Percentile £300 £294 £225
25th Percentile £358 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £663 £687 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £489 £514
% change year-on-year -7.98% -4.82% +3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 12
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.09
25th Percentile £19.75 £29.50 £26.71
Median hourly rate £23.33 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.23% -18.75% +29.72%
75th Percentile £36.06 £47.50 £59.69
90th Percentile £60.63 £95.80 £78.25
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £43.13
% change year-on-year +39.88% -24.64% +93.82%

Synthetic Data
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform