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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 40 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 122 96 85
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.24% 4.52% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 5.06% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 61 59
10th Percentile £336 £406 £360
25th Percentile £397 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £645 £600
90th Percentile £638 £703 £690
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £34.50 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +40.75% -32.09%
75th Percentile £69.81 - -
90th Percentile £77.05 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £69.22 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.19% +16.93% -28.40%

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 2,462 1,897 2,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.55% 89.31% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,559 1,158 1,605
10th Percentile £213 £279 £303
25th Percentile £359 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 111 255
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.25 £11.38
25th Percentile £24.26 £23.23 £14.18
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +37.65% -37.04%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £45.88
90th Percentile £75.96 £80.59 £54.20
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +5 89 £458 -3.68% 56
Cheshire -36 15 £479 -16.60% 7
Lancashire -16 8 £463 - 27
Merseyside -17 5 £413 -34.00% 4
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 17 (13.93%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.10%) Confluence
3 4 (3.28%) SAS
4 3 (2.46%) Apache
4 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.10%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (4.10%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.23%) Azure
2 22 (18.03%) Power Platform
3 19 (15.57%) AWS
4 17 (13.93%) dbt
5 16 (13.11%) Snowflake
6 15 (12.30%) GCP
7 12 (9.84%) Serverless
8 9 (7.38%) Prefect
9 8 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.56%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.74%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (4.92%) PowerApps
12 5 (4.10%) Azure Functions
12 5 (4.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.28%) PaaS
14 3 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.46%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) Firewall
1 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.59%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (13.11%) Power BI
3 15 (12.30%) Snowflake Schema
4 9 (7.38%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.74%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.92%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.92%) Power Query
7 6 (4.92%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.10%) Big Data
8 5 (4.10%) Metadata
8 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.10%) Redis
8 5 (4.10%) Tableau
9 4 (3.28%) Data Vault
9 4 (3.28%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (11.48%) Git
2 9 (7.38%) JIRA
3 8 (6.56%) GitLab
4 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.64%) JUnit
4 2 (1.64%) Mockito
4 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.82%) Postman
5 1 (0.82%) RStudio
5 1 (0.82%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (19.67%) Finance
4 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.56%) Banking
5 8 (6.56%) Retail
6 3 (2.46%) Games
6 3 (2.46%) Law
6 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Local Government
7 2 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (23.77%) Data Engineer
2 28 (22.95%) Architect
3 25 (20.49%) Developer
4 22 (18.03%) Analyst
5 13 (10.66%) Data Architect
6 11 (9.02%) Senior
7 7 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.92%) Lead
8 6 (4.92%) SAP Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) SAP Test Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Snowflake Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Test Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.38%) REST
2 7 (5.74%) Spring
2 7 (5.74%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.92%) YAML
4 5 (4.10%) RESTful
5 4 (3.28%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (3.28%) Kafka
5 4 (3.28%) Middleware
5 4 (3.28%) PySpark
6 3 (2.46%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.46%) Node.js
6 3 (2.46%) OAuth
6 3 (2.46%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.46%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.46%) OpenID
6 3 (2.46%) SOAP
6 3 (2.46%) Swagger
6 3 (2.46%) Visualforce
7 2 (1.64%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Clustering
1 13 (10.66%) Data Structures
2 9 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.74%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.92%) CMDB
4 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.92%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.28%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.46%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.64%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.64%) FMCG
7 2 (1.64%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.64%) Replication
8 1 (0.82%) NHS
8 1 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.28%) Linux
1 4 (3.28%) Windows
1 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.97%) Analytics
2 33 (27.05%) ETL
3 29 (23.77%) CI/CD
4 23 (18.85%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (18.85%) Data Engineering
5 22 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (17.21%) Data Governance
7 20 (16.39%) Data Science
8 19 (15.57%) Agile
9 18 (14.75%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (13.93%) Translating Business Requirements
11 16 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (13.11%) Decision-Making
11 16 (13.11%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.11%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (11.48%) Data Architecture
13 13 (10.66%) DevOps
14 12 (9.84%) Data Integration
14 12 (9.84%) Microservices
15 11 (9.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.98%) SQL
2 28 (22.95%) Python
3 12 (9.84%) Java
4 11 (9.02%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (5.74%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.28%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.46%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.64%) C#
9 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (12.30%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.74%) Degree
5 6 (4.92%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.28%) CISM
6 4 (3.28%) CISSP
6 4 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.82%) IIBA
9 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (31.97%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.38%) GDPR
3 7 (5.74%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.28%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.64%) CRD IV
5 2 (1.64%) FINREP
5 2 (1.64%) IFRS
5 2 (1.64%) QA
6 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.82%) GRC
6 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.82%) NCSC
6 1 (0.82%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (8.20%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.92%) Terraform
2 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.64%) Control-M
3 2 (1.64%) SCCM
4 1 (0.82%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.02%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.56%) Google
3 8 (6.56%) SAP
4 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.92%) Oracle
6 5 (4.10%) Databricks
7 4 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.46%) Cognos
8 3 (2.46%) Informatica
9 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.64%) BMC
9 2 (1.64%) Pega
9 2 (1.64%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.64%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.82%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.82%) IDERA
10 1 (0.82%) Sage
10 1 (0.82%) Siemens
10 1 (0.82%) SnapLogic