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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 43 59
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 128 92 82
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.99% 4.74% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 5.26% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 64 62
10th Percentile £333 £419 £413
25th Percentile £399 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £561 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +6.90% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £588
90th Percentile £600 £702 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £39.46 - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £67.50 £66.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £70.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +3.70% +33.66%
75th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £79.00 £54.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +46.30% +11.34% +9.30%

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 2,676 1,750 2,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.36% 90.25% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,662 1,125 1,526
10th Percentile £264 £286 £306
25th Percentile £375 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £589
90th Percentile £653 £665 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 109 245
10th Percentile £20.61 £16.21 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% +52.38% -40.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.78 £57.50
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 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
Manchester +3 97 £488 -2.50% 48
Cheshire -25 19 £465 -19.83% 15
Lancashire -7 6 £463 - 32
Merseyside -24 2 £413 -34.00% 9
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 12 (9.38%) Confluence
2 9 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.91%) SAS
4 2 (1.56%) Apache
4 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.34%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.78%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.34%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Maximo
3 1 (0.78%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 40 (31.25%) Azure
2 25 (19.53%) Power Platform
3 22 (17.19%) AWS
4 13 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (10.16%) GCP
5 12 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (9.38%) dbt
6 10 (7.81%) Power Automate
6 10 (7.81%) Serverless
6 10 (7.81%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.91%) Azure Functions
8 5 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.91%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.13%) PaaS
9 4 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.13%) Prefect
10 3 (2.34%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) Firewall
1 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.78%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (15.63%) Power BI
3 18 (14.06%) SQL Server
4 13 (10.16%) Snowflake Schema
5 10 (7.81%) Data Lake
6 9 (7.03%) Metadata
7 8 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (5.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.47%) Tableau
9 6 (4.69%) Power Query
9 6 (4.69%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.91%) Data Vault
10 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
11 4 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.13%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 4 (3.13%) Hadoop
11 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.34%) Big Data
12 3 (2.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (12.50%) JIRA
2 10 (7.81%) Git
3 7 (5.47%) GitLab
4 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.56%) JUnit
4 2 (1.56%) Mockito
5 1 (0.78%) Hudson
5 1 (0.78%) Postman
5 1 (0.78%) RStudio
5 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (27.34%) Finance
2 34 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 32 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.94%) Banking
5 12 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.69%) Retail
7 4 (3.13%) Law
8 3 (2.34%) Games
8 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.56%) Legal
9 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Marketing
10 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (22.66%) Data Engineer
2 27 (21.09%) Developer
3 21 (16.41%) Analyst
4 18 (14.06%) Architect
5 14 (10.94%) Senior
6 8 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.25%) Lead
7 7 (5.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (5.47%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (4.69%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.91%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.13%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.13%) Salesforce Developer
10 4 (3.13%) SAP Test Analyst
10 4 (3.13%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.25%) REST
2 6 (4.69%) Kafka
2 6 (4.69%) RESTful
2 6 (4.69%) Spring
2 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
2 6 (4.69%) YAML
3 5 (3.91%) .NET
4 4 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (3.13%) Middleware
5 3 (2.34%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.34%) Entity Framework
5 3 (2.34%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (2.34%) Node.js
5 3 (2.34%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.34%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.34%) PySpark
5 3 (2.34%) React
5 3 (2.34%) SOAP
5 3 (2.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Clustering
1 11 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.81%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.47%) CMDB
6 6 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.13%) Replication
8 4 (3.13%) Taxonomies
9 3 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.34%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.56%) FMCG
10 2 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.69%) Windows
2 4 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.34%) Linux
3 3 (2.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.81%) ETL
2 36 (28.13%) Analytics
3 31 (24.22%) CI/CD
4 29 (22.66%) Agile
5 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (17.97%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (17.97%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (17.19%) Data Engineering
7 22 (17.19%) Data Governance
8 17 (13.28%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (11.72%) Data Analysis
9 15 (11.72%) Data Integration
10 14 (10.94%) Translating Business Requirements
11 13 (10.16%) Data Science
11 13 (10.16%) DevOps
11 13 (10.16%) Microservices
11 13 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (9.38%) Decision-Making
12 12 (9.38%) Migration
12 12 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (46.09%) SQL
2 29 (22.66%) Python
3 11 (8.59%) Java
4 9 (7.03%) T-SQL
5 8 (6.25%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.91%) C#
8 4 (3.13%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.91%) Degree
5 4 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.34%) CISM
6 3 (2.34%) CISSP
6 3 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) IIBA
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (35.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.47%) GDPR
3 5 (3.91%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.13%) GRC
4 4 (3.13%) QA
5 2 (1.56%) CRD IV
5 2 (1.56%) FINREP
5 2 (1.56%) IFRS
5 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.78%) NCSC
6 1 (0.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.69%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.25%) Terraform
2 3 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.56%) SCCM
4 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.03%) SAP
2 9 (7.03%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.47%) Databricks
3 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.69%) Oracle
5 5 (3.91%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.91%) BMC
5 5 (3.91%) Google
6 3 (2.34%) Cognos
6 3 (2.34%) IBM
6 3 (2.34%) Remedy
7 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.56%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.56%) Teradata
8 1 (0.78%) EXASOL
8 1 (0.78%) IDERA
8 1 (0.78%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.78%) Workday
8 1 (0.78%) Zscaler