Data Design Contracts in the North West

Data Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 130 149
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Design 12 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.29% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £530 - £403
25th Percentile £555 £500 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £413
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +69.70% -32.65%
75th Percentile £694 £738 £420
90th Percentile £700 £742 £420
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in the North West

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Design in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Design in the North West

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in the North West

Data Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Design in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Design in the North West

Data Design
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 Data Design within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheshire +8 9 £675 - 8
Manchester +14 3 £530 -24.29% 9
Data Design
England

Data Design
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Bigtable
1 3 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) ER Studio
1 3 (25.00%) ERwin
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Legal
4 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Data Migration Expert
1 3 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Modeller
3 1 (8.33%) Supply Chain Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) ETL
2 6 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 6 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Mapping
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (8.33%) Data Governance
7 1 (8.33%) Data Management
7 1 (8.33%) DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) SAP
2 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) IDERA
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft