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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 71 45
Rank change year-on-year +21 -26 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 151 64 82
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.83% 2.98% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 3.36% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 45 52
10th Percentile £367 £386 £367
25th Percentile £433 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £602 £575 £585
90th Percentile £648 £665 £600
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £51.10 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £85.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +190.40% -27.41% -
75th Percentile - £51.95 £49.51
90th Percentile £87.00 £64.28 £61.06
England median hourly rate £61.00 £43.50 £43.91
% change year-on-year +40.23% -0.94% -12.18%

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 3,274 1,905 2,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.99% 88.56% 84.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,931 1,245 1,195
10th Percentile £297 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £561 £588
90th Percentile £676 £663 £683
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 126 127
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £14.78
25th Percentile £25.05 £17.44 £22.86
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.08% -37.63% +18.60%
75th Percentile £73.12 £52.06 £55.79
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.98 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +18 118 £525 +5.00% 122
Cheshire +6 19 £475 +7.41% 15
Merseyside -15 11 £441 -32.15% 9
Cumbria -20 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 15 (9.93%) Confluence
2 4 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.65%) SAS
3 3 (1.99%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.31%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.32%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.66%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.66%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.81%) Azure
2 38 (25.17%) AWS
3 36 (23.84%) Power Platform
4 12 (7.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.28%) dbt
5 11 (7.28%) GCP
5 11 (7.28%) SaaS
5 11 (7.28%) Serverless
6 10 (6.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (6.62%) Power Automate
7 9 (5.96%) Snowflake
8 8 (5.30%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (3.31%) Copilot Studio
10 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (3.31%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) Firewall
1 5 (3.31%) Network Security
2 1 (0.66%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.19%) Power BI
2 31 (20.53%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (10.60%) SQL Server
4 15 (9.93%) Data Lake
5 12 (7.95%) Metadata
5 12 (7.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.96%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (5.30%) DynamoDB
7 8 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (5.30%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.64%) Looker
8 7 (4.64%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.64%) Power Query
8 7 (4.64%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (4.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.97%) DataStage
9 6 (3.97%) Db2
9 6 (3.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (3.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (11.26%) JIRA
2 12 (7.95%) Git
3 6 (3.97%) GitLab
4 5 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.99%) JUnit
5 3 (1.99%) Mockito
5 3 (1.99%) Toad
6 1 (0.66%) Hudson
General
1 64 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 52 (34.44%) Finance
3 34 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (17.22%) Banking
5 14 (9.27%) Retail
6 13 (8.61%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.64%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.64%) Marketing
8 5 (3.31%) Law
9 4 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.65%) Legal
10 2 (1.32%) Military
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Automotive
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.66%) Publishing
11 1 (0.66%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (16.56%) Analyst
1 25 (16.56%) Developer
2 22 (14.57%) Architect
3 19 (12.58%) Data Engineer
4 17 (11.26%) Senior
5 16 (10.60%) Data Architect
6 14 (9.27%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 9 (5.96%) Power BI Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.64%) Lead
9 7 (4.64%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.97%) Consultant
10 6 (3.97%) Data Business Analyst
10 6 (3.97%) DBA
10 6 (3.97%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.31%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.61%) REST
2 12 (7.95%) Terraform
3 9 (5.96%) Kafka
3 9 (5.96%) SOAP
4 7 (4.64%) PySpark
5 5 (3.31%) .NET
5 5 (3.31%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (3.31%) OAuth
5 5 (3.31%) RESTful
6 4 (2.65%) Spring
6 4 (2.65%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.99%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.99%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.99%) Spring Security
8 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.32%) Oracle Streams
8 2 (1.32%) React
9 1 (0.66%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.66%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.92%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (10.60%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.62%) CMDB
4 9 (5.96%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.96%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.30%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.31%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (3.31%) Replication
7 4 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.99%) Clustering
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.97%) Unix
2 3 (1.99%) Windows
3 2 (1.32%) Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.10%) Analytics
2 47 (31.13%) Agile
3 42 (27.81%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (27.15%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (25.83%) ETL
6 38 (25.17%) CI/CD
7 37 (24.50%) Migration
8 36 (23.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (19.21%) Data Integration
9 29 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (17.88%) Data Governance
11 24 (15.89%) AI
11 24 (15.89%) Data Architecture
12 21 (13.91%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (13.25%) Data Transformation
13 20 (13.25%) Validation
14 19 (12.58%) Data Engineering
15 18 (11.92%) Translating Business Requirements
16 17 (11.26%) Data Analysis
16 17 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 82 (54.30%) SQL
2 32 (21.19%) Python
3 11 (7.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (7.28%) T-SQL
4 9 (5.96%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.64%) C#
5 7 (4.64%) Java
6 6 (3.97%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.97%) PL/SQL
6 6 (3.97%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.31%) Apex Code
7 5 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (3.31%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (1.99%) Scala
9 1 (0.66%) Bash
9 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.61%) Degree
4 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.31%) CISSP
4 5 (3.31%) GCFA
4 5 (3.31%) GCIH
5 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) IIBA
8 1 (0.66%) ISEB
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (39.07%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.95%) GDPR
3 8 (5.30%) GRC
3 8 (5.30%) QA
4 5 (3.31%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.99%) IFRS
5 3 (1.99%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.99%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.32%) PMO
7 1 (0.66%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (3.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.31%) Ansible
2 5 (3.31%) CASB
2 5 (3.31%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.32%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (1.32%) Nagios
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.58%) Databricks
3 15 (9.93%) Oracle
4 13 (8.61%) ServiceNow
5 11 (7.28%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.64%) Teradata
7 6 (3.97%) IBM
7 6 (3.97%) SAP
8 5 (3.31%) Cribl.io
8 5 (3.31%) Splunk
9 4 (2.65%) Adobe
9 4 (2.65%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.99%) BMC
10 3 (1.99%) Informatica
10 3 (1.99%) Remedy
11 2 (1.32%) Google
11 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.32%) Workday
12 1 (0.66%) IFS
12 1 (0.66%) Talend