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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 42 56
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 127 90 85
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.58% 4.37% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 4.91% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 56 58
10th Percentile £335 £396 £346
25th Percentile £387 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +1.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £568 £650 £600
90th Percentile £629 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £32.01 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +40.75% -34.03%
75th Percentile £55.60 - -
90th Percentile £77.55 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £69.44 £57.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.77% +24.51% -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 2,404 1,833 2,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.66% 89.02% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 1,099 1,618
10th Percentile £219 £264 £306
25th Percentile £358 £380 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £571 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 104 224
10th Percentile £16.46 £18.04 £12.57
25th Percentile £22.89 £23.36 £15.92
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £27.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.23% +15.14% -26.72%
75th Percentile £63.40 £56.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.00 £79.66 £53.75
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +12 94 £458 -5.67% 56
Cheshire -35 16 £479 -13.00% 5
Lancashire -15 8 £463 - 28
Merseyside -16 4 £413 -34.00% 5
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 (13.39%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.51%) SAS
3 6 (4.72%) Confluence
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.57%) Apache
5 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.94%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (3.94%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Finacle
3 1 (0.79%) Maximo
3 1 (0.79%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.41%) Azure
2 22 (17.32%) AWS
2 22 (17.32%) Power Platform
3 17 (13.39%) dbt
3 17 (13.39%) GCP
4 15 (11.81%) Snowflake
5 11 (8.66%) Serverless
6 9 (7.09%) Prefect
7 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.51%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (4.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.72%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.94%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.15%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.15%) PaaS
11 3 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.36%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) Firewall
1 4 (3.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.77%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (13.39%) Power BI
3 15 (11.81%) Snowflake Schema
4 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.30%) Metadata
5 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.51%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.72%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.72%) Power Query
7 6 (4.72%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.72%) Tableau
8 5 (3.94%) Big Data
8 5 (3.94%) Redis
9 4 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.15%) Cognos Framework Manager
9 4 (3.15%) Cognos Report Studio
9 4 (3.15%) Data Vault
9 4 (3.15%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (11.02%) Git
2 10 (7.87%) JIRA
3 8 (6.30%) GitLab
4 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.57%) JUnit
4 2 (1.57%) Mockito
4 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.79%) Postman
5 1 (0.79%) RStudio
5 1 (0.79%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (25.20%) Finance
2 31 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (24.41%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.87%) Banking
5 8 (6.30%) Retail
6 5 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.36%) Games
7 3 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.36%) Law
7 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.57%) Local Government
8 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (25.20%) Architect
2 27 (21.26%) Developer
3 26 (20.47%) Data Engineer
4 25 (19.69%) Analyst
5 17 (13.39%) Data Architect
6 12 (9.45%) Senior
7 8 (6.30%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.72%) SAP Analyst
9 6 (4.72%) SAP Test Analyst
9 6 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Snowflake Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Test Analyst
10 5 (3.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.94%) Lead
10 5 (3.94%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.15%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.09%) REST
2 7 (5.51%) Spring
2 7 (5.51%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.72%) YAML
4 5 (3.94%) RESTful
5 4 (3.15%) Kafka
5 4 (3.15%) Middleware
5 4 (3.15%) PySpark
6 3 (2.36%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (2.36%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.36%) Node.js
6 3 (2.36%) OAuth
6 3 (2.36%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.36%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.36%) OpenID
6 3 (2.36%) SOAP
6 3 (2.36%) Swagger
6 3 (2.36%) Visualforce
7 2 (1.57%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Data Structures
2 13 (10.24%) Clustering
3 9 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.72%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.94%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.15%) CMDB
6 4 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.15%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.36%) NHS
7 3 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.57%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.57%) FMCG
8 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.57%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Linux
1 4 (3.15%) Windows
1 4 (3.15%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.07%) Analytics
2 34 (26.77%) ETL
3 29 (22.83%) CI/CD
3 29 (22.83%) Data Governance
4 27 (21.26%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (18.90%) Agile
7 22 (17.32%) Data Engineering
8 20 (15.75%) Data Science
9 19 (14.96%) Decision-Making
10 18 (14.17%) Translating Business Requirements
11 17 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (13.39%) Data Architecture
11 17 (13.39%) Mentoring
11 17 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (12.60%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (12.60%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (11.02%) Data Integration
14 13 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (9.45%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (40.16%) SQL
2 30 (23.62%) Python
3 12 (9.45%) Java
4 11 (8.66%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (5.51%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.15%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.36%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.57%) C#
9 1 (0.79%) LookML
9 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.45%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (7.87%) Degree
5 6 (4.72%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.15%) CISM
6 4 (3.15%) CISSP
6 4 (3.15%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (3.15%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) IIBA
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.79%) PMP
9 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (32.28%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.09%) GDPR
3 7 (5.51%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.15%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.57%) CRD IV
5 2 (1.57%) FINREP
5 2 (1.57%) IFRS
5 2 (1.57%) QA
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) Docker
2 4 (3.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.72%) Terraform
2 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.57%) Control-M
3 2 (1.57%) SCCM
4 1 (0.79%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.66%) Salesforce
3 9 (7.09%) Google
4 8 (6.30%) SAP
5 7 (5.51%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.72%) Cognos
6 6 (4.72%) Oracle
7 5 (3.94%) Databricks
8 4 (3.15%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.36%) Informatica
10 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.57%) BMC
10 2 (1.57%) IBM
10 2 (1.57%) Pega
10 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.57%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.79%) IDERA
11 1 (0.79%) Sage
11 1 (0.79%) Siemens
11 1 (0.79%) SnapLogic