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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 152 70 78
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.15% 3.25% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 3.71% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 51 57
10th Percentile £363 £413 £412
25th Percentile £413 £469 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £584 £655 £585
90th Percentile £638 £703 £620
England median daily rate £523 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.42% -3.64% -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 £59.15 £48.00 £40.41
% change year-on-year +23.23% +18.78% -26.52%

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 3,070 1,889 2,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.72% 87.78% 84.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 1,239 1,400
10th Percentile £300 £280 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £564 £582
90th Percentile £675 £671 £672
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 121 256
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.50 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £15.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £29.27 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +81.07% +7.41% -7.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £67.05
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +11 116 £500 -4.76% 29
Cheshire -5 17 £439 -24.40% 3
Merseyside -15 12 £441 -37.00% 4
Lancashire -7 3 £463 -5.13% 15
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 16 (10.53%) Confluence
2 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.63%) SAS
3 3 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.32%) SAP MDG
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 45 (29.61%) Azure
2 36 (23.68%) Power Platform
3 28 (18.42%) AWS
4 16 (10.53%) dbt
5 12 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (7.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (7.24%) Power Automate
6 11 (7.24%) Serverless
7 10 (6.58%) GCP
8 8 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.61%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.95%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.95%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.95%) SaaS
11 5 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.63%) GitHub
12 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.71%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (19.08%) Power BI
3 21 (13.82%) SQL Server
4 15 (9.87%) Data Lake
5 12 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (7.24%) Metadata
6 11 (7.24%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (5.92%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.61%) Looker
8 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.61%) Power Query
8 7 (4.61%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.95%) Data Vault
9 6 (3.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.29%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (3.29%) Tableau
11 4 (2.63%) DataStage
11 4 (2.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (12.50%) JIRA
2 12 (7.89%) Git
3 5 (3.29%) GitLab
4 2 (1.32%) JUnit
4 2 (1.32%) Mockito
4 2 (1.32%) Toad
5 1 (0.66%) Hudson
5 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.66%) Postman
5 1 (0.66%) RStudio
5 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 46 (30.26%) Finance
3 30 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.16%) Banking
5 13 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.24%) Retail
7 7 (4.61%) Marketing
8 5 (3.29%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.63%) Legal
10 3 (1.97%) Law
11 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Automotive
12 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Military
12 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (19.08%) Developer
2 25 (16.45%) Analyst
2 25 (16.45%) Data Engineer
3 19 (12.50%) Architect
4 18 (11.84%) Senior
5 12 (7.89%) Business Analyst
6 11 (7.24%) Data Architect
7 10 (6.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (6.58%) Power BI Developer
7 10 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.92%) Lead
9 8 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.95%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.95%) DBA
10 6 (3.95%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.63%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.63%) Senior Architect
12 4 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.26%) Kafka
1 8 (5.26%) REST
2 7 (4.61%) .NET
2 7 (4.61%) SOAP
3 6 (3.95%) PySpark
3 6 (3.95%) RESTful
3 6 (3.95%) YAML
4 5 (3.29%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (2.63%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (2.63%) OAuth
6 3 (1.97%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.97%) CSS
6 3 (1.97%) Entity Framework
6 3 (1.97%) HTML
6 3 (1.97%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.97%) React
6 3 (1.97%) Swagger
6 3 (1.97%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (8.55%) Data Structures
3 11 (7.24%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.92%) CMDB
4 9 (5.92%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.61%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.95%) Clustering
6 6 (3.95%) Replication
7 5 (3.29%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) Unix
2 3 (1.97%) 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 51 (33.55%) Analytics
2 42 (27.63%) Agile
3 40 (26.32%) ETL
4 37 (24.34%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (24.34%) CI/CD
5 36 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
6 29 (19.08%) Migration
6 29 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (17.11%) Data Governance
9 24 (15.79%) Data Integration
10 23 (15.13%) Data Engineering
11 20 (13.16%) Validation
12 19 (12.50%) Data Analysis
12 19 (12.50%) Data Transformation
12 19 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
12 19 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
13 18 (11.84%) AI
14 16 (10.53%) Data Architecture
14 16 (10.53%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 75 (49.34%) SQL
2 29 (19.08%) Python
3 12 (7.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.92%) C#
4 9 (5.92%) T-SQL
5 8 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.61%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.29%) Java
8 4 (2.63%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.97%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.26%) Degree
5 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) IIBA
6 1 (0.66%) ISEB
6 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.58%) GDPR
3 8 (5.26%) QA
4 6 (3.95%) GRC
5 4 (2.63%) Solvency II
6 3 (1.97%) IFRS
6 3 (1.97%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.92%) Terraform
2 2 (1.32%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.32%) Nagios
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 24 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.84%) Databricks
3 13 (8.55%) Oracle
4 12 (7.89%) Salesforce
5 10 (6.58%) ServiceNow
6 8 (5.26%) SAP
7 5 (3.29%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.29%) Teradata
8 4 (2.63%) Adobe
8 4 (2.63%) IBM
9 3 (1.97%) BMC
9 3 (1.97%) Remedy
10 2 (1.32%) Informatica
10 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.32%) Workday
11 1 (0.66%) EXASOL
11 1 (0.66%) IDERA
11 1 (0.66%) IFS
11 1 (0.66%) Infor
11 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft