Data Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 87 97
Rank change year-on-year +29 +10 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 25 21 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.15% 1.28% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% 1.39% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 39
10th Percentile £319 £463 £375
25th Percentile £422 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £544 £663 £575
90th Percentile £595 £738 £630
North West median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,090 1,515 2,415
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 92.66% 96.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 1,123 1,892
10th Percentile £315 £274 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 63 70
10th Percentile £15.79 £15.72 £10.65
25th Percentile £22.00 £16.74 £16.01
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.50 £21.07
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -7.43% +25.76%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.88 £69.00
90th Percentile £72.70 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Data 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 Manchester region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 8 (32.00%) ETL
3 7 (28.00%) Azure
4 6 (24.00%) Python
4 6 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (20.00%) Oracle
5 5 (20.00%) AWS
6 4 (16.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (16.00%) Smartphone
7 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) PySpark
7 3 (12.00%) Databricks
7 3 (12.00%) Terraform
8 2 (8.00%) SOLID
8 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
8 2 (8.00%) Data Science
8 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.00%) Data Hub
8 2 (8.00%) dbt
8 2 (8.00%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
8 2 (8.00%) ETL Development
8 2 (8.00%) Data Governance
8 2 (8.00%) Machine Learning
8 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (8.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (8.00%) dbt
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) Data Hub
2 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (4.00%) Banking
1 1 (4.00%) Military
1 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.00%) Retail
1 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) PySpark
2 1 (4.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) ETL
2 6 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (16.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (8.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (8.00%) Data Science
5 2 (8.00%) Data Security
5 2 (8.00%) ETL Development
5 2 (8.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (8.00%) SOLID
5 2 (8.00%) Workflow
6 1 (4.00%) Architecture Governance
6 1 (4.00%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (4.00%) Fintech
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (4.00%) Matrix Organization
6 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GxP
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Informatica