Data Design Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Design
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 152 174
Rank change year-on-year -71 +22 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Design 9 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.41% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile - £530 £500
25th Percentile £331 £555 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £575 £702
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% -18.09% +70.18%
75th Percentile £493 £694 £739
90th Percentile £579 £710 £750
England median daily rate £581 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -3.17% -5.88% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
England median hourly rate - - £46.18

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Design 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,131 2,925 4,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.94% 90.33% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 1,890 2,508
10th Percentile £300 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 156 353
10th Percentile £16.75 £14.83 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.78 £12.40
Median hourly rate £50.50 £28.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.65% +64.29% -36.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.34 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.73 £82.00 £52.61
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Design job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Design

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in the North of England

Data Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Design

Data Design
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Design within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Yorkshire -52 5 £338 -51.79% 4
North West -53 4 £518 -8.81% 2
Data Design
England

Data Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Data Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Data Modeller
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Test Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Metadata Management
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
5 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (22.22%) ETL Development
5 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce