Data Management Contracts in the North West

Data Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 66 105
Rank change year-on-year +2 +39 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Management 61 70 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.11% 2.58% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 3.02% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 51 31
10th Percentile £322 £381 £363
25th Percentile £438 £456 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - +1.78%
75th Percentile £581 £534 £650
90th Percentile £700 £575 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £22.63 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +14.60% +3.53%
75th Percentile £29.90 - £66.00
90th Percentile £47.00 - £66.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year -25.00% +7.24% +6.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Management 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 1,766 2,317 2,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.96% 85.25% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,457 1,921
10th Percentile £300 £306 £315
25th Percentile £391 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £680 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 262 140
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.34
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.91
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +16 31 £500 -2.44% 66
Cheshire -18 14 £550 +7.84% 12
Lancashire +6 7 £565 - 30
Cumbria +9 5 - - 2
Merseyside - 4 £475 - 7
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (13.11%) IBM Domino
2 4 (6.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.64%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.87%) Azure
2 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.56%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (6.56%) SaaS
4 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.64%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.64%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.64%) OCI
6 1 (1.64%) PaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Network Security
2 3 (4.92%) LAN
2 3 (4.92%) SAN
2 3 (4.92%) WLAN
3 2 (3.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) Metadata
2 8 (13.11%) Tableau
3 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.20%) Power BI
5 4 (6.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.92%) Big Data
6 3 (4.92%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.28%) GIS
7 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.64%) HBase
8 1 (1.64%) Pentaho
8 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) ERwin
1 2 (3.28%) Git
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.95%) Finance
4 6 (9.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (6.56%) Legal
5 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.92%) Retail
7 2 (3.28%) Law
7 2 (3.28%) Local Government
7 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
8 1 (1.64%) Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Analyst
2 8 (13.11%) Coordinator
2 8 (13.11%) CRM Coordinator
2 8 (13.11%) Technical Coordinator
3 7 (11.48%) Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Lead
5 5 (8.20%) Data Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Associate Director
7 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Governance Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Industrial Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) ADO
2 2 (3.28%) PySpark
3 1 (1.64%) Kafka
3 1 (1.64%) RESTful
3 1 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.20%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.20%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.92%) Robotics
4 2 (3.28%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.64%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (26.23%) Decision-Making
3 13 (21.31%) Migration
4 12 (19.67%) Data Governance
4 12 (19.67%) Data Migration
5 11 (18.03%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (16.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 9 (14.75%) Data Architecture
7 9 (14.75%) Data Engineering
8 8 (13.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (13.11%) CRM
8 8 (13.11%) Customer Segmentation
8 8 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (13.11%) ETL
8 8 (13.11%) Strategic Thinking
9 7 (11.48%) Agile
9 7 (11.48%) Analytics
9 7 (11.48%) Data Modelling
10 6 (9.84%) Data Cleansing
10 6 (9.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) SQL
2 4 (6.56%) Python
3 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.64%) Korn
4 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) CIPD
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) ISEB
5 1 (1.64%) MCSA
5 1 (1.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.92%) Backup Exec
1 3 (4.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) SAP
3 5 (8.20%) Databricks
4 4 (6.56%) Veeam
4 4 (6.56%) VMware
5 3 (4.92%) Cisco
5 3 (4.92%) Symantec
5 3 (4.92%) Thycotic
6 2 (3.28%) Informatica
6 2 (3.28%) Kronos
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
7 1 (1.64%) Apple
7 1 (1.64%) Ariba
7 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.64%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.64%) Google
7 1 (1.64%) Imperva
7 1 (1.64%) Talend
7 1 (1.64%) Zscaler