Dataform Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google Cloud Dataform
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Dataform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dataform 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% - 0.076%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £100
75th Percentile £659 - -
90th Percentile £714 - -
England median daily rate £381 £318 £100
% change year-on-year +19.89% +218.00% -83.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

Dataform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 864 675 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.62% 31.26% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 444 708
10th Percentile £214 £250 £265
25th Percentile £358 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -5.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £561 £577
90th Percentile £636 £644 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 52
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £28.31
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +2.46% -19.13%
75th Percentile £69.25 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.37 £75.95 £51.42
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%

Dataform
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dataform in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dataform in the North West

Dataform
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 Dataform within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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 - 5 £550 -
Dataform
England

Dataform
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Automotive
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architect
1 4 (80.00%) GCP Architect
1 4 (80.00%) GCP Data Architect
2 3 (60.00%) BigQuery Architect
3 2 (40.00%) ETL Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Innovation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Control
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) FinOps
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) LookML
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
2 3 (60.00%) Hitachi