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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 69 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 -28 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 146 64 92
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.68% 2.91% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 3.28% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 49 53
10th Percentile £364 £355 £357
25th Percentile £436 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £604 £538 £556
90th Percentile £668 £670 £597
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £53.05 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +139.15% -27.41% -37.96%
75th Percentile £85.00 £36.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.75 £39.83 -
England median hourly rate £62.40 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +43.45% +7.87% -27.01%

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 3,284 1,949 2,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.80% 88.55% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,853 1,287 1,107
10th Percentile £300 £261 £294
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £656
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 143 111
10th Percentile £14.33 £13.91 £16.50
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £29.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +88.90% -37.64% +18.60%
75th Percentile £72.71 £47.12 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.25 £73.56
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +16 114 £525 +16.67% 124
Cheshire +10 16 £513 +9.68% 17
Merseyside -4 12 £441 -32.15% 14
Lancashire -26 2 - - 11
Cumbria -28 1 - - 1
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 8 (5.48%) Confluence
2 5 (3.42%) Apache
2 5 (3.42%) SAS
3 4 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.37%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.68%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.03%) Power Platform
2 34 (23.29%) Azure
3 33 (22.60%) AWS
4 13 (8.90%) GCP
5 11 (7.53%) dbt
5 11 (7.53%) SaaS
6 9 (6.16%) Serverless
6 9 (6.16%) Snowflake
7 8 (5.48%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (4.79%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.79%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.42%) Firewall
1 5 (3.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (21.23%) Power BI
2 29 (19.86%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (10.27%) Data Lake
4 13 (8.90%) Metadata
5 10 (6.85%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.48%) Looker
7 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.79%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.79%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (4.79%) Star Schema
9 6 (4.11%) DataStage
9 6 (4.11%) Db2
9 6 (4.11%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (4.11%) Tableau
10 5 (3.42%) Power Query
10 5 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.90%) Git
2 9 (6.16%) JIRA
3 6 (4.11%) GitLab
4 5 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.05%) JUnit
5 3 (2.05%) Mockito
5 3 (2.05%) Toad
6 1 (0.68%) MSTest
6 1 (0.68%) NUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 49 (33.56%) Finance
3 32 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.70%) Banking
5 14 (9.59%) Retail
6 10 (6.85%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.79%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.79%) Marketing
8 5 (3.42%) Law
9 4 (2.74%) Military
10 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.68%) Automotive
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.68%) Publishing
12 1 (0.68%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (16.44%) Analyst
2 23 (15.75%) Developer
3 20 (13.70%) Architect
3 20 (13.70%) Data Engineer
4 19 (13.01%) Senior
5 13 (8.90%) Data Architect
6 11 (7.53%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.16%) Data Analyst
8 9 (6.16%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Data Manager
10 7 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (4.79%) Consultant
11 6 (4.11%) Data Business Analyst
11 6 (4.11%) Lead
11 6 (4.11%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (4.11%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (4.11%) Technical Analyst
12 5 (3.42%) ServiceNow Specialist
12 5 (3.42%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.64%) REST
2 10 (6.85%) Terraform
3 9 (6.16%) Kafka
3 9 (6.16%) SOAP
4 8 (5.48%) PySpark
5 6 (4.11%) OAuth
5 6 (4.11%) RESTful
6 5 (3.42%) Spring
6 5 (3.42%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.74%) .NET
7 4 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (2.05%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (2.05%) Spring MVC
8 3 (2.05%) Spring Security
9 2 (1.37%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle Streams
9 2 (1.37%) Pandas
9 2 (1.37%) React
9 2 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.64%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (8.90%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.16%) CMDB
3 9 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.48%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.79%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.42%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.05%) Replication
9 2 (1.37%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.37%) Clustering
9 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.11%) Unix
2 2 (1.37%) Linux
2 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.56%) Analytics
2 43 (29.45%) Agile
3 40 (27.40%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (26.71%) CI/CD
5 38 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
5 38 (26.03%) ETL
6 37 (25.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (24.66%) Migration
8 30 (20.55%) AI
9 29 (19.86%) Validation
10 27 (18.49%) Data Engineering
11 26 (17.81%) Data Governance
11 26 (17.81%) Data Integration
12 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (15.75%) Data Architecture
14 20 (13.70%) Data Transformation
14 20 (13.70%) DevOps
15 18 (12.33%) Performance Tuning
16 15 (10.27%) Data Migration
16 15 (10.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 87 (59.59%) SQL
2 38 (26.03%) Python
3 10 (6.85%) Java
3 10 (6.85%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (4.79%) C#
5 7 (4.79%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.11%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (3.42%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (2.74%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.05%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.37%) Bash
10 2 (1.37%) R
10 2 (1.37%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.64%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.59%) Degree
4 5 (3.42%) CISSP
4 5 (3.42%) GCFA
4 5 (3.42%) GCIH
5 4 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) IIBA
6 1 (0.68%) ISEB
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (38.36%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.85%) GDPR
2 10 (6.85%) QA
3 5 (3.42%) GRC
3 5 (3.42%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.05%) IFRS
4 3 (2.05%) IFRS 17
4 3 (2.05%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (4.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.11%) Ansible
3 5 (3.42%) CASB
3 5 (3.42%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.37%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.37%) Nagios
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) Databricks
3 13 (8.90%) Oracle
4 11 (7.53%) Salesforce
5 10 (6.85%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.79%) Teradata
7 6 (4.11%) IBM
8 5 (3.42%) Cribl.io
8 5 (3.42%) Google
8 5 (3.42%) SAP
8 5 (3.42%) Splunk
9 4 (2.74%) Adobe
9 4 (2.74%) Informatica
10 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.68%) Ariba
11 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.68%) BMC
11 1 (0.68%) Infor
11 1 (0.68%) Remedy
11 1 (0.68%) Talend