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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 43 72
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 80 80 76
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.41% 3.45% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 4.14% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 44 54
10th Percentile £348 £356 £333
25th Percentile £400 £412 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £568 £552 £633
90th Percentile £674 £648 £693
England median daily rate £541 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.68% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.14 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £35.61 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -12.68% -34.03%
75th Percentile £48.77 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £61.06 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £48.00 £40.33 £48.50
% change year-on-year +19.03% -16.86% -24.81%

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 2,082 1,933 2,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.82% 83.39% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,045 1,721
10th Percentile £243 £294 £275
25th Percentile £363 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £678 £654 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 105 173
10th Percentile £14.20 £20.53 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £28.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +13.59% +34.50%
75th Percentile £49.84 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.11 £71.26 £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

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 October 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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +5 49 £463 +2.78% 57
Cheshire -34 10 £467 -11.00% 23
Merseyside +8 9 £500 +73.16% 14
Lancashire -5 7 £475 - 21
Cumbria +8 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 10 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.75%) SAS
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.25%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.25%) Finacle
4 1 (1.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (1.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.25%) Power Platform
2 14 (17.50%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) AWS
4 11 (13.75%) GCP
4 11 (13.75%) Snowflake
5 8 (10.00%) dbt
6 5 (6.25%) Prefect
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.00%) Serverless
7 4 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.25%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Firewall
1 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (23.75%) Power BI
3 8 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (8.75%) Metadata
4 7 (8.75%) Power Query
5 5 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.75%) Big Data
7 3 (3.75%) Cognos Framework Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Cognos Report Studio
7 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.75%) Looker
7 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.75%) Siebel EIM
7 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.50%) Cognos Transformer
8 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.50%) OLAP
8 2 (2.50%) OLAP Cube
8 2 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) GitLab
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.25%) Finance
3 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (11.25%) Banking
6 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (6.25%) Retail
7 4 (5.00%) Local Government
8 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Law
8 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Architect
2 17 (21.25%) Data Architect
2 17 (21.25%) Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Analyst
3 12 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Senior
5 5 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) Information Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Lead
6 4 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (3.75%) Cognos Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Consultant
7 3 (3.75%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Power BI Consultant
7 3 (3.75%) SAP Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) SAP Test Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.75%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) SOAP
2 3 (3.75%) JMS
2 3 (3.75%) Web Services
3 2 (2.50%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.50%) Node.js
3 2 (2.50%) PySpark
3 2 (2.50%) pytest
3 2 (2.50%) REST
3 2 (2.50%) RESTful
3 2 (2.50%) Spring
3 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.25%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.25%) OAuth
4 1 (1.25%) Playwright
4 1 (1.25%) Puppeteer
4 1 (1.25%) React
4 1 (1.25%) Vue
4 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.25%) Clustering
2 5 (6.25%) Data Fabric
3 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.75%) NHS
3 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.25%) FMCG
5 1 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Analytics
2 27 (33.75%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (33.75%) Data Governance
3 15 (18.75%) Data Architecture
3 15 (18.75%) Data Engineering
4 14 (17.50%) ETL
5 13 (16.25%) Agile
5 13 (16.25%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
5 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
8 10 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (12.50%) Data Science
8 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 10 (12.50%) Migration
8 10 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (11.25%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) SQL
2 15 (18.75%) Python
3 8 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.75%) Java
4 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) LookML
6 1 (1.25%) Scala
6 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 6 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.75%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) CISSP
6 1 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (28.75%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.50%) GDPR
3 4 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.50%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.25%) GMP
6 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Terraform
2 2 (2.50%) Control-M
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) Oracle
3 7 (8.75%) Google
4 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.25%) SAP
5 4 (5.00%) Databricks
6 3 (3.75%) Cognos
6 3 (3.75%) Siebel
7 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.50%) Informatica
7 2 (2.50%) Pega
7 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.25%) Capita
8 1 (1.25%) EXASOL
8 1 (1.25%) IBM
8 1 (1.25%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.25%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.25%) Zscaler