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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 60 60
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 151 72 80
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.13% 3.37% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 3.82% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 52 58
10th Percentile £363 £413 £409
25th Percentile £413 £467 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £586 £650 £585
90th Percentile £638 £703 £600
England median daily rate £523 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.79% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £42.44 - -
25th Percentile £57.88 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £80.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +173.32% -27.41% -20.15%
75th Percentile £85.00 £51.95 £49.51
90th Percentile £90.00 £64.28 £61.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +35.42% +15.66% -22.79%

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 3,063 1,886 2,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.76% 88.21% 84.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,811 1,240 1,426
10th Percentile £298 £280 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £585
90th Percentile £675 £669 £675
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 118 265
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.02 £15.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.90 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.22% +6.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £67.14
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +11 117 £500 -2.44% 49
Cheshire -12 16 £402 -30.69% 7
Merseyside -10 11 £441 -37.00% 5
Lancashire -6 3 £463 -5.13% 24
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 (11.26%) Confluence
2 4 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.65%) SAS
3 3 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.31%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.32%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (1.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.66%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.66%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.14%) Azure
2 35 (23.18%) Power Platform
3 27 (17.88%) AWS
4 16 (10.60%) dbt
5 12 (7.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (7.95%) Serverless
6 11 (7.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (7.28%) Power Automate
7 10 (6.62%) GCP
8 8 (5.30%) SaaS
8 8 (5.30%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.64%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.97%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.65%) GitHub
12 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.19%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (18.54%) Power BI
3 19 (12.58%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.61%) Data Lake
5 12 (7.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (7.28%) Metadata
6 11 (7.28%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (5.30%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.64%) Looker
8 7 (4.64%) Power Query
8 7 (4.64%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.97%) Data Vault
9 6 (3.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (3.31%) Tableau
11 4 (2.65%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (13.25%) JIRA
2 12 (7.95%) Git
3 6 (3.97%) GitLab
4 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) JUnit
4 2 (1.32%) Mockito
5 1 (0.66%) Hudson
5 1 (0.66%) Postman
5 1 (0.66%) RStudio
5 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (32.45%) Finance
2 45 (29.80%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.25%) Banking
5 14 (9.27%) Retail
6 13 (8.61%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.31%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.31%) Marketing
8 4 (2.65%) Legal
9 3 (1.99%) Law
10 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Automotive
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Military
11 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (18.54%) Developer
2 27 (17.88%) Analyst
3 25 (16.56%) Data Engineer
4 21 (13.91%) Architect
5 18 (11.92%) Senior
6 13 (8.61%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (6.62%) Data Architect
7 10 (6.62%) Power BI Developer
8 9 (5.96%) Lead
9 8 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.30%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.97%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.97%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.31%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.65%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) ServiceNow Specialist
12 4 (2.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.30%) Kafka
1 8 (5.30%) REST
2 7 (4.64%) .NET
2 7 (4.64%) SOAP
3 6 (3.97%) RESTful
3 6 (3.97%) YAML
4 5 (3.31%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (3.31%) PySpark
5 4 (2.65%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.65%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (2.65%) Middleware
5 4 (2.65%) OAuth
6 3 (1.99%) CSS
6 3 (1.99%) Entity Framework
6 3 (1.99%) HTML
6 3 (1.99%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.99%) React
6 3 (1.99%) Swagger
6 3 (1.99%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Data Structures
1 14 (9.27%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (7.95%) CMDB
3 11 (7.28%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.28%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.97%) Clustering
5 6 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.65%) Replication
6 4 (2.65%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.99%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.99%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.99%) Unix
1 3 (1.99%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (32.45%) Analytics
2 43 (28.48%) Agile
3 41 (27.15%) ETL
4 38 (25.17%) CI/CD
5 36 (23.84%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (21.85%) Data Pipeline
7 27 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (17.22%) Migration
8 26 (17.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (16.56%) Data Governance
10 23 (15.23%) Data Engineering
11 21 (13.91%) Data Integration
12 20 (13.25%) Data Analysis
13 19 (12.58%) Data Transformation
13 19 (12.58%) Decision-Making
13 19 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (12.58%) Validation
14 18 (11.92%) AI
14 18 (11.92%) Translating Business Requirements
15 17 (11.26%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.02%) SQL
2 29 (19.21%) Python
3 11 (7.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.96%) C#
4 9 (5.96%) T-SQL
5 8 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.97%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.31%) Java
8 4 (2.65%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.99%) Scala
9 3 (1.99%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (10.60%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.30%) Degree
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.32%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) IIBA
6 1 (0.66%) ISEB
6 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.76%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.96%) GDPR
3 8 (5.30%) QA
4 6 (3.97%) GRC
5 4 (2.65%) Solvency II
6 3 (1.99%) IFRS
6 3 (1.99%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.62%) Terraform
2 3 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.26%) Databricks
3 13 (8.61%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.95%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.96%) Oracle
5 9 (5.96%) SAP
6 6 (3.97%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.31%) BMC
8 3 (1.99%) Adobe
8 3 (1.99%) IBM
8 3 (1.99%) Remedy
8 3 (1.99%) Teradata
9 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.32%) Informatica
9 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.32%) Workday
10 1 (0.66%) EXASOL
10 1 (0.66%) IDERA
10 1 (0.66%) IFS
10 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft