Data Lineage Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Lineage
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 117 136
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 2 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.087% 0.084% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.10% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.25%
75th Percentile £475 - £394
90th Percentile £505 - £458
England median daily rate £550 £518 £548
% change year-on-year +6.28% -5.48% -8.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Lineage 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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,048 1,982 2,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.93% 83.45% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,072 1,722
10th Percentile £250 £294 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £678 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 110 169
10th Percentile £14.13 £18.95 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.30 £26.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%
75th Percentile £44.61 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.08 £71.71 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lineage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Lineage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Lineage

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage in the North West over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in the North West

Data Lineage
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lineage within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Manchester -3 1 £500 - 1
Cheshire - 1 £325 - 1
Data Lineage
England

Data Lineage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Alation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Collibra
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Stewardship
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft