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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 46 72
Rank change year-on-year -14 +26 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 88 89 75
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.59% 3.81% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 4.54% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 47 52
10th Percentile £344 £357 £328
25th Percentile £397 £416 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £577 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £705 £711
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £30.10 - -
25th Percentile £34.54 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £52.66 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% +14.04% -34.03%
75th Percentile £55.60 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £63.79 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.33 £49.75
% change year-on-year +30.19% -18.94% -26.30%

All Process and 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 2,160 1,962 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.24% 84.06% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 1,061 1,660
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £598
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 114 159
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +55.56%
75th Percentile £46.71 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.29 £70.90 £64.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 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
Manchester +2 56 £463 +2.78% 62
Cheshire -37 14 £488 -4.88% 14
Merseyside -1 8 £500 +1.01% 9
Lancashire -12 6 £455 - 24
Cumbria +8 1 - - 2
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 11 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.68%) SAS
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (5.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.14%) Finacle
3 1 (1.14%) Maximo
3 1 (1.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (1.14%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 19 (21.59%) Azure
3 18 (20.45%) AWS
4 15 (17.05%) GCP
5 12 (13.64%) Snowflake
6 9 (10.23%) dbt
7 6 (6.82%) Prefect
8 4 (4.55%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.55%) Serverless
8 4 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.27%) GitHub
10 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
1 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.14%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (22.73%) Power BI
3 9 (10.23%) Power Query
3 9 (10.23%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (5.68%) BigQuery
4 5 (5.68%) Metadata
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.55%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 4 (4.55%) Cognos Report Studio
5 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.41%) Big Data
6 3 (3.41%) Cognos Transformer
6 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.41%) Looker
6 3 (3.41%) OLAP
6 3 (3.41%) OLAP Cube
6 3 (3.41%) Redis
6 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) GitLab
2 3 (3.41%) JIRA
3 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.14%) Finance
3 20 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.77%) Banking
5 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.55%) Local Government
6 4 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Retail
7 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Law
7 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.14%) Games
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) Architect
2 21 (23.86%) Developer
3 16 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 13 (14.77%) Analyst
4 13 (14.77%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.68%) Senior
9 4 (4.55%) Cognos Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Payments Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Business Analyst
10 3 (3.41%) Lead
10 3 (3.41%) SAP Analyst
10 3 (3.41%) SAP Test Analyst
10 3 (3.41%) Snowflake Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) Spring
1 7 (7.95%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.41%) REST
2 3 (3.41%) SOAP
3 2 (2.27%) JMS
3 2 (2.27%) Node.js
3 2 (2.27%) PySpark
3 2 (2.27%) pytest
3 2 (2.27%) Web Services
4 1 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.14%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.14%) OAuth
4 1 (1.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.14%) OpenID
4 1 (1.14%) RESTful
4 1 (1.14%) Vue
4 1 (1.14%) XML
4 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.82%) Clustering
4 3 (3.41%) Data Fabric
4 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.41%) NHS
4 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.27%) FMCG
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.23%) Analytics
2 29 (32.95%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (30.68%) Data Governance
4 16 (18.18%) Data Architecture
4 16 (18.18%) ETL
4 16 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
5 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.91%) Data Engineering
7 13 (14.77%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (14.77%) Decision-Making
7 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (13.64%) Agile
8 12 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 12 (13.64%) Data Science
8 12 (13.64%) Data Transformation
8 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 11 (12.50%) Visualisation
10 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.36%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.32%) SQL
2 16 (18.18%) Python
3 9 (10.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 7 (7.95%) Java
6 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.14%) LookML
9 1 (1.14%) Scala
9 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) Degree
4 7 (7.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) CISM
7 1 (1.14%) CISSP
7 1 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.14%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.95%) ISO 20022
3 6 (6.82%) GDPR
4 4 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.41%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.27%) QA
7 1 (1.14%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Control-M
1 2 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Google
3 7 (7.95%) Oracle
4 6 (6.82%) SAP
5 5 (5.68%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.55%) Cognos
6 4 (4.55%) Databricks
7 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.27%) IBM
8 2 (2.27%) Informatica
8 2 (2.27%) Pega
8 2 (2.27%) Siebel
9 1 (1.14%) Capita
9 1 (1.14%) EXASOL
9 1 (1.14%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.14%) Sage
9 1 (1.14%) Zscaler