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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 44 71
Rank change year-on-year -24 +27 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 67 88 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.08% 3.66% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 4.38% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 55 61
10th Percentile £355 £357 £400
25th Percentile £400 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -8.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £635
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
England median daily rate £549 £550 £598
% change year-on-year -0.23% -7.95% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.14 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £29.27 £40.33 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% -37.96% -
75th Percentile £36.67 £48.58 -
90th Percentile £39.83 £58.43 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £40.33 £50.00
% change year-on-year +7.87% -19.35% -11.50%

All Process and 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 1,924 2,010 2,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.58% 83.51% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,275 1,154 1,686
10th Percentile £296 £294 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 109 164
10th Percentile £13.61 £16.45 £15.83
25th Percentile £17.39 £28.50 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +59.09%
75th Percentile £49.84 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.06 £72.10 £66.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025. 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 -8 42 £481 +6.94% 36
Merseyside +7 8 £700 +91.78% 2
Cheshire -34 8 £442 -15.76% 6
Lancashire -2 6 £475 - 30
Cumbria +6 2 - - 1
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.48%) SAS
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.49%) Finacle
2 1 (1.49%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.39%) Power Platform
2 14 (20.90%) AWS
3 13 (19.40%) Azure
4 9 (13.43%) GCP
5 6 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (8.96%) dbt
6 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.97%) Apigee
8 3 (4.48%) Prefect
8 3 (4.48%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.99%) GitHub
9 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
1 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (20.90%) Power BI
3 7 (10.45%) Metadata
4 5 (7.46%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.46%) Power Query
4 5 (7.46%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.97%) Siebel EIM
6 3 (4.48%) Big Data
6 3 (4.48%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.48%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Cognos Report Studio
6 3 (4.48%) Looker
6 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) CircleCI
2 4 (5.97%) Git
2 4 (5.97%) GitLab
2 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.99%) ERwin
3 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (29.85%) Finance
3 14 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
5 8 (11.94%) Banking
6 5 (7.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (5.97%) Retail
8 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.48%) Local Government
8 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Architect
2 12 (17.91%) Data Engineer
2 12 (17.91%) Developer
3 10 (14.93%) Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) Data Architect
5 8 (11.94%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Information Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Siebel Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Cognos Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Lead
7 3 (4.48%) Power BI Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Programme Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Governance Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Power BI Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) RESTful
1 5 (7.46%) SOAP
2 4 (5.97%) JMS
2 4 (5.97%) Kafka
2 4 (5.97%) OAuth
2 4 (5.97%) Web Services
3 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.48%) Node.js
3 3 (4.48%) PySpark
4 2 (2.99%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.99%) Playwright
4 2 (2.99%) Puppeteer
4 2 (2.99%) pytest
4 2 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.99%) React
4 2 (2.99%) REST
4 2 (2.99%) Swagger
4 2 (2.99%) YAML
5 1 (1.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.97%) Data Fabric
4 3 (4.48%) Clustering
4 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) NHS
5 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.85%) Analytics
1 20 (29.85%) Data Governance
2 17 (25.37%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (22.39%) Agile
3 15 (22.39%) Data Engineering
4 13 (19.40%) CI/CD
4 13 (19.40%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
6 10 (14.93%) Migration
7 9 (13.43%) ETL
7 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (11.94%) Change Management
8 8 (11.94%) Data Transformation
8 8 (11.94%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (10.45%) Data Science
9 7 (10.45%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.45%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 30 (44.78%) SQL
2 18 (26.87%) Python
3 7 (10.45%) PL/SQL
4 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (5.97%) Java
6 2 (2.99%) Bash
6 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.49%) LookML
7 1 (1.49%) Scala
7 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) Degree
4 6 (8.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.48%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.99%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.49%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) CISM
7 1 (1.49%) CISSP
7 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) GMP
System Software
1 9 (13.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Control-M
3 2 (2.99%) Grafana
3 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Databricks
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 7 (10.45%) Google
4 4 (5.97%) SAP
4 4 (5.97%) Siebel
5 3 (4.48%) Cognos
6 2 (2.99%) Informatica
6 2 (2.99%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.49%) Capita
7 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.49%) EXASOL
7 1 (1.49%) IBM
7 1 (1.49%) Pega
7 1 (1.49%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) Talend
7 1 (1.49%) Zscaler