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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 63 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 150 67 79
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.07% 3.09% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 3.52% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 48 57
10th Percentile £365 £421 £412
25th Percentile £413 £467 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.20%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £585
90th Percentile £638 £715 £620
England median daily rate £523 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.42% -3.64% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £53.05 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £85.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +190.40% -27.41% -20.15%
75th Percentile - £51.95 £49.51
90th Percentile £90.00 £64.28 £61.06
England median hourly rate £69.72 £48.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +45.25% +19.03% -26.68%

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 3,074 1,905 2,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.33% 87.87% 84.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,813 1,234 1,315
10th Percentile £295 £272 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £570 £585
90th Percentile £675 £670 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 123 213
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £55.72 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.81% -4.17% +2.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 £58.94 £48.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.75 £69.58
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +16 117 £500 -2.44% 42
Cheshire -9 14 £475 -18.10% 8
Merseyside -11 12 £441 -37.00% 6
Lancashire -6 3 £463 -5.13% 21
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 (10.67%) Confluence
2 5 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.67%) SAS
4 3 (2.00%) Apache
5 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.33%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.67%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (31.33%) Azure
2 34 (22.67%) Power Platform
3 31 (20.67%) AWS
4 16 (10.67%) dbt
5 13 (8.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (8.00%) GCP
6 12 (8.00%) Serverless
7 10 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 10 (6.67%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.00%) PowerApps
8 6 (4.00%) SaaS
9 5 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.33%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.00%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (18.67%) Power BI
3 21 (14.00%) SQL Server
4 16 (10.67%) Data Lake
5 12 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (7.33%) Metadata
6 11 (7.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.67%) Looker
8 7 (4.67%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.67%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.67%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.00%) Data Vault
9 6 (4.00%) Delta Lake
9 6 (4.00%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.00%) MySQL
9 6 (4.00%) Power Query
9 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (12.67%) JIRA
2 14 (9.33%) Git
3 3 (2.00%) GitLab
4 2 (1.33%) JUnit
4 2 (1.33%) Mockito
4 2 (1.33%) Toad
5 1 (0.67%) Hudson
5 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) RStudio
5 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 44 (29.33%) Finance
3 26 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.00%) Banking
5 11 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.33%) Retail
6 7 (4.67%) Marketing
7 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.67%) Legal
9 3 (2.00%) Law
10 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Military
11 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (17.33%) Developer
2 24 (16.00%) Data Engineer
3 22 (14.67%) Analyst
4 20 (13.33%) Architect
5 18 (12.00%) Senior
6 13 (8.67%) Data Architect
7 11 (7.33%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.33%) Lead
8 10 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.33%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (4.00%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.00%) DBA
10 6 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow Specialist
12 4 (2.67%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.33%) Kafka
2 9 (6.00%) REST
3 7 (4.67%) .NET
4 6 (4.00%) PySpark
4 6 (4.00%) RESTful
4 6 (4.00%) SOAP
5 5 (3.33%) OAuth
6 4 (2.67%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.67%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (2.67%) YAML
7 3 (2.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.00%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.00%) React
7 3 (2.00%) Spring
7 3 (2.00%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.33%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.33%) Oracle Streams
8 2 (1.33%) Spring MVC
8 2 (1.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 14 (9.33%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.00%) CMDB
4 9 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (4.00%) Clustering
6 6 (4.00%) Replication
7 5 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.33%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.67%) Unix
2 3 (2.00%) Windows
3 2 (1.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (33.33%) Analytics
2 41 (27.33%) Agile
3 39 (26.00%) ETL
4 37 (24.67%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (24.67%) CI/CD
4 37 (24.67%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (20.67%) Migration
6 26 (17.33%) Data Governance
6 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (16.67%) Data Integration
8 23 (15.33%) Data Engineering
9 19 (12.67%) AI
9 19 (12.67%) Data Transformation
9 19 (12.67%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (12.00%) Data Analysis
10 18 (12.00%) Data Architecture
10 18 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
10 18 (12.00%) Validation
11 17 (11.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 78 (52.00%) SQL
2 29 (19.33%) Python
3 11 (7.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.00%) C#
4 9 (6.00%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.67%) PL/SQL
6 5 (3.33%) Java
6 5 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.00%) Scala
9 2 (1.33%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.67%) Degree
5 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.67%) IIBA
7 1 (0.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (35.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.00%) GDPR
3 8 (5.33%) QA
4 5 (3.33%) GRC
5 4 (2.67%) Solvency II
6 3 (2.00%) IFRS
6 3 (2.00%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.33%) PMO
8 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (8.00%) Terraform
2 5 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.33%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (1.33%) Nagios
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.33%) Databricks
3 13 (8.67%) Oracle
4 10 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 10 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.67%) SAP
6 5 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.33%) Teradata
7 4 (2.67%) Adobe
7 4 (2.67%) IBM
8 3 (2.00%) BMC
8 3 (2.00%) Informatica
8 3 (2.00%) Remedy
9 2 (1.33%) Google
9 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.33%) Workday
10 1 (0.67%) EXASOL
10 1 (0.67%) IDERA
10 1 (0.67%) IFS
10 1 (0.67%) Talend