Knowledge Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Knowledge Engineer
England > North West

The median Knowledge Engineer daily rate in the North West is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Knowledge Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.047% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 1,978 2,211 2,641
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 93.49% 92.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,233 1,803
10th Percentile £268 £271 £275
25th Percentile £375 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £594
90th Percentile £680 £675 £673
England median daily rate £510 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 162 165
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.49 £15.85
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £34.08
Median % change year-on-year -32.04% +8.57% +48.17%
75th Percentile £44.78 £54.94 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.03 £74.37 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Knowledge Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Knowledge Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Engineer in the North West

Knowledge Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 September 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 - 1 £600 -
Knowledge Engineer
England

Knowledge Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Knowledge Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Knowledge Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric

Knowledge Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python