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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 71 45
Rank change year-on-year +17 -26 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 150 63 82
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.86% 2.84% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 3.20% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 46 52
10th Percentile £375 £407 £413
25th Percentile £438 £451 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% +0.50%
75th Percentile £604 £597 £585
90th Percentile £650 £724 £645
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.23% - -6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £52.08 - -
25th Percentile £63.63 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £80.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +173.32% -27.41% -38.90%
75th Percentile £85.00 £51.95 £49.51
90th Percentile £86.50 £64.28 £61.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £41.23 £40.50
% change year-on-year +57.65% +1.80% -35.71%

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 3,205 1,967 2,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.52% 88.76% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,874 1,275 1,225
10th Percentile £284 £299 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% -9.10% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £671 £680
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 131 162
10th Percentile £16.21 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.19 £18.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -28.14% +13.80%
75th Percentile £72.28 £53.75 £52.35
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +25 116 £525 +5.00% 41
Cheshire -6 17 £494 -14.32% 4
Merseyside -17 12 £441 -32.15% 4
Lancashire -11 1 - - 16
Cumbria -17 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 15 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (2.67%) SAS
3 3 (2.00%) Apache
3 3 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.33%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.67%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.33%) Azure
2 35 (23.33%) AWS
2 35 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (8.00%) GCP
5 11 (7.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (7.33%) dbt
5 11 (7.33%) SaaS
6 10 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 9 (6.00%) Power Automate
7 9 (6.00%) Serverless
8 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
9 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) Firewall
1 5 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.33%) Power BI
2 31 (20.67%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (10.67%) SQL Server
4 15 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 12 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (6.67%) Metadata
7 9 (6.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (4.67%) Looker
9 7 (4.67%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.67%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (4.00%) DynamoDB
10 6 (4.00%) MySQL
10 6 (4.00%) Power Query
10 6 (4.00%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (4.00%) Star Schema
11 5 (3.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (11.33%) JIRA
2 11 (7.33%) Git
3 6 (4.00%) GitLab
4 5 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.00%) JUnit
5 3 (2.00%) Mockito
5 3 (2.00%) Toad
6 1 (0.67%) Hudson
General
1 60 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (33.33%) Finance
3 31 (20.67%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (16.00%) Banking
5 14 (9.33%) Retail
6 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.67%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.67%) Marketing
8 5 (3.33%) Law
9 4 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.67%) Legal
10 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Military
11 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Publishing
11 1 (0.67%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (16.67%) Analyst
2 24 (16.00%) Developer
3 22 (14.67%) Architect
4 19 (12.67%) Data Engineer
5 17 (11.33%) Senior
6 16 (10.67%) Data Architect
7 14 (9.33%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Power BI Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Lead
11 7 (4.67%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.67%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
12 6 (4.00%) DBA
12 6 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
13 5 (3.33%) Consultant
13 5 (3.33%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.33%) SIEM Engineer
13 5 (3.33%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.00%) REST
2 10 (6.67%) Terraform
3 9 (6.00%) Kafka
3 9 (6.00%) SOAP
4 5 (3.33%) .NET
4 5 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (3.33%) OAuth
4 5 (3.33%) RESTful
5 4 (2.67%) PySpark
5 4 (2.67%) Spring
5 4 (2.67%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (2.00%) Spring MVC
6 3 (2.00%) Spring Security
7 2 (1.33%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle Streams
8 1 (0.67%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.67%) Node.js
8 1 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.33%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (10.67%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.00%) CMDB
4 10 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 9 (6.00%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.33%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.00%) Replication
8 5 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.00%) Clustering
10 3 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.67%) Unix
2 3 (2.00%) Windows
3 2 (1.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.00%) Analytics
2 45 (30.00%) Agile
3 42 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
4 39 (26.00%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (24.67%) CI/CD
5 37 (24.67%) Migration
6 36 (24.00%) ETL
7 34 (22.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (18.00%) Data Governance
9 26 (17.33%) Data Integration
9 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (15.33%) Data Architecture
11 21 (14.00%) AI
12 20 (13.33%) Data Transformation
13 19 (12.67%) Translating Business Requirements
13 19 (12.67%) Validation
14 18 (12.00%) Data Engineering
14 18 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (11.33%) Data Analysis
15 17 (11.33%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (52.00%) SQL
2 30 (20.00%) Python
3 11 (7.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (7.33%) T-SQL
4 9 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.67%) C#
6 5 (3.33%) Apex Code
6 5 (3.33%) Java
6 5 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (3.33%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.67%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.00%) Scala
9 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) Degree
4 5 (3.33%) CISSP
4 5 (3.33%) GCFA
4 5 (3.33%) GCIH
5 4 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) IIBA
8 1 (0.67%) ISEB
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (36.67%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.00%) GDPR
3 8 (5.33%) GRC
3 8 (5.33%) QA
4 5 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.00%) IFRS
5 3 (2.00%) IFRS 17
5 3 (2.00%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.33%) PMO
7 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (3.33%) Ansible
1 5 (3.33%) CASB
1 5 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.33%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (1.33%) Nagios
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.67%) Databricks
3 13 (8.67%) Oracle
3 13 (8.67%) ServiceNow
4 11 (7.33%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.67%) SAP
6 5 (3.33%) Cribl.io
6 5 (3.33%) Splunk
6 5 (3.33%) Teradata
7 4 (2.67%) Adobe
7 4 (2.67%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.67%) IBM
8 3 (2.00%) BMC
8 3 (2.00%) Informatica
8 3 (2.00%) Remedy
9 2 (1.33%) Google
9 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.33%) Workday
10 1 (0.67%) IFS
10 1 (0.67%) Talend