Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Modelling
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 69 42
Rank change year-on-year +8 -27 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 142 64 95
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.59% 2.93% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 3.31% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 47 56
10th Percentile £367 £352 £357
25th Percentile £438 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £604 £544 £561
90th Percentile £639 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £50.13 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £72.50 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +147.69% -27.41% -37.96%
75th Percentile £83.13 £36.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £39.83 -
England median hourly rate £62.45 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +43.56% +7.87% -19.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,264 1,933 2,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.63% 88.59% 83.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 1,284 1,108
10th Percentile £296 £269 £294
25th Percentile £402 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -7.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £576
90th Percentile £675 £680 £675
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 136 109
10th Percentile £14.74 £13.68 £16.45
25th Percentile £21.17 £17.30 £28.50
Median hourly rate £46.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.76% -40.84% +21.43%
75th Percentile £71.91 £47.12 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £66.13 £73.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the North West over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in the North West

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Modelling in the North West over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Modelling in the North West

Data Modelling
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 Modelling within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 October 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
Manchester +14 109 £525 +10.53% 150
Cheshire +5 17 £513 +14.65% 19
Merseyside -8 12 £441 -37.00% 16
Lancashire -27 2 - - 29
Cumbria -27 1 - - 1
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (5.63%) Confluence
2 6 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.52%) Apache
3 5 (3.52%) SAS
4 4 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.41%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.70%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.06%) Azure
2 34 (23.94%) AWS
2 34 (23.94%) Power Platform
3 12 (8.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (7.75%) GCP
4 11 (7.75%) SaaS
5 10 (7.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (7.04%) dbt
5 10 (7.04%) Serverless
6 9 (6.34%) Amazon S3
6 9 (6.34%) Snowflake
7 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.63%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.23%) PowerApps
10 5 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) Firewall
1 5 (3.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.42%) Power BI
2 27 (19.01%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (10.56%) Data Lake
4 13 (9.15%) Metadata
5 11 (7.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (6.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (6.34%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (4.93%) Looker
8 7 (4.93%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.93%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (4.93%) Star Schema
9 6 (4.23%) DataStage
9 6 (4.23%) Db2
9 6 (4.23%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.45%) Git
2 9 (6.34%) JIRA
3 7 (4.93%) GitLab
4 5 (3.52%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.11%) JUnit
5 3 (2.11%) Mockito
5 3 (2.11%) Toad
General
1 56 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 46 (32.39%) Finance
3 30 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.79%) Banking
5 14 (9.86%) Retail
6 11 (7.75%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.93%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.93%) Marketing
8 6 (4.23%) Law
9 4 (2.82%) Military
10 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.70%) Automotive
12 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Publishing
12 1 (0.70%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (16.20%) Analyst
2 22 (15.49%) Developer
3 21 (14.79%) Architect
3 21 (14.79%) Data Engineer
4 17 (11.97%) Senior
5 15 (10.56%) Data Architect
6 11 (7.75%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.63%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.93%) Consultant
10 6 (4.23%) Data Business Analyst
10 6 (4.23%) Lead
10 6 (4.23%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Systems Analyst
10 6 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (3.52%) DBA
11 5 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.56%) REST
2 10 (7.04%) Terraform
3 9 (6.34%) PySpark
3 9 (6.34%) SOAP
4 7 (4.93%) Kafka
5 5 (3.52%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (3.52%) OAuth
5 5 (3.52%) RESTful
6 4 (2.82%) Spring
6 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.11%) .NET
7 3 (2.11%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (2.11%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.11%) Spring Security
8 2 (1.41%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle Streams
8 2 (1.41%) React
8 2 (1.41%) Vue
8 2 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (9.15%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.34%) CMDB
4 8 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.63%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.52%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (2.82%) Replication
8 3 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.41%) Clustering
9 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.23%) Unix
2 2 (1.41%) Linux
2 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.62%) Analytics
2 41 (28.87%) Data Pipeline
3 40 (28.17%) Agile
4 37 (26.06%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (26.06%) CI/CD
5 36 (25.35%) Migration
6 35 (24.65%) ETL
6 35 (24.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (19.01%) Data Integration
8 25 (17.61%) AI
8 25 (17.61%) Validation
9 24 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (16.20%) Data Architecture
10 23 (16.20%) Data Governance
11 22 (15.49%) Data Engineering
12 21 (14.79%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (13.38%) Data Transformation
14 16 (11.27%) DevOps
15 15 (10.56%) Data Migration
16 14 (9.86%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 85 (59.86%) SQL
2 36 (25.35%) Python
3 10 (7.04%) T-SQL
4 9 (6.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.34%) Java
5 8 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.63%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.23%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.23%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.52%) Apex Code
7 5 (3.52%) C#
7 5 (3.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (3.52%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (1.41%) Bash
8 2 (1.41%) Scala
8 2 (1.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.86%) Degree
4 5 (3.52%) CISSP
4 5 (3.52%) GCFA
4 5 (3.52%) GCIH
5 4 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) IIBA
7 1 (0.70%) ISEB
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (39.44%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.75%) GDPR
3 8 (5.63%) QA
4 5 (3.52%) GRC
4 5 (3.52%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.11%) IFRS
5 3 (2.11%) IFRS 17
5 3 (2.11%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (4.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.23%) Ansible
3 5 (3.52%) CASB
3 5 (3.52%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.41%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.41%) Nagios
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.08%) Databricks
3 13 (9.15%) Oracle
4 11 (7.75%) Salesforce
5 10 (7.04%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.93%) Teradata
7 6 (4.23%) IBM
8 5 (3.52%) Cribl.io
8 5 (3.52%) Splunk
9 4 (2.82%) Adobe
9 4 (2.82%) Informatica
10 3 (2.11%) Google
10 3 (2.11%) SAP
11 2 (1.41%) BMC
11 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.41%) Remedy
12 1 (0.70%) Ariba
12 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.70%) Infor
12 1 (0.70%) Sybase