Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Data Modelling
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 3 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.38% - 6.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% - 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile £381 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £394 - £641
90th Percentile - - £650
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 84 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 65.87% 90.32% 86.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 101
10th Percentile £277 £285 £172
25th Percentile £377 £406 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +6.06%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £825
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 53
10th Percentile £21.60 - £13.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £14.41 £15.16
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.81 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +69.82% -73.78% +0.36%
75th Percentile £71.50 £20.11 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.68 £23.04 £68.89
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -11.77% +23.81% -14.63%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in Dorset

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Data Modelling
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Bournemouth - 3 £388 - 3
Data Modelling
South West

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) CockroachDB
2 1 (33.33%) Flink
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Django Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Python Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Python/Django Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Django
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks