Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Modelling
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 7 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.21% 4.85% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 5.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile - £464 -
25th Percentile £558 £509 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% - -
75th Percentile £573 £553 -
90th Percentile - £661 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £565 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.62% -4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Data Modelling 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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 190 150 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 87.16% 90.91% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 94 109
10th Percentile £265 £296 £235
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +2.68% -
75th Percentile £592 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £668 £630
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £482 £470 £479
% change year-on-year +2.50% -1.88% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 25
10th Percentile - £15.85 £15.51
25th Percentile £14.64 £17.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -8.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £33.75 £57.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £44.15 £62.00 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Excel Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Ontologist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Linked Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Validation
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Model Validation
4 2 (28.57%) B2B
4 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Conversion
4 2 (28.57%) Data Deduplication
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) VBA
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow