Knowledge Discovery Contract Job Trends in the North West

Knowledge Discovery (including Knowledge Extraction)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 176 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Discovery 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
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 - -
England median daily rate £600 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,212 1,893 1,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.55% 88.42% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 1,259 1,126
10th Percentile £295 £297 £294
25th Percentile £401 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £492
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -7.43% -1.70%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £587
90th Percentile £675 £680 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 131 108
10th Percentile £15.48 £13.51 £16.43
25th Percentile £24.18 £17.34 £27.94
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.90% -40.84% +21.43%
75th Percentile £72.28 £45.95 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.25 £72.40
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

Knowledge Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Knowledge Discovery job vacancy trend in the North West

Knowledge Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Discovery in the North West

Knowledge Discovery
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 Knowledge Discovery within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 September 2026. 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 £750 - 6
Knowledge Discovery
England

Knowledge Discovery
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 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