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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 59 55
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 141 71 85
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.00% 3.55% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 3.97% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 52 60
10th Percentile £348 £425 £411
25th Percentile £403 £467 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £585
90th Percentile £638 £703 £600
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile £41.94 - -
25th Percentile £44.42 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £72.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +145.99% -27.41% -20.15%
75th Percentile £85.00 £51.95 £49.51
90th Percentile £89.50 £64.28 £61.06
England median hourly rate £69.22 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.85% +23.53% +17.24%

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 2,940 1,790 2,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.48% 89.46% 83.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,727 1,197 1,435
10th Percentile £300 £303 £306
25th Percentile £400 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -7.07% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £585
90th Percentile £675 £664 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 102 266
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.06 £14.15
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% +10.34% -4.20%
75th Percentile £75.75 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.17 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +13 107 £495 -3.41% 37
Cheshire -11 15 £398 -31.40% 4
Merseyside -13 10 £440 -37.21% 10
Lancashire -4 5 £463 -5.13% 17
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 (11.35%) Confluence
2 4 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.42%) SAS
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.71%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 40 (28.37%) Azure
2 35 (24.82%) Power Platform
3 22 (15.60%) AWS
4 16 (11.35%) dbt
5 12 (8.51%) Serverless
6 11 (7.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (7.80%) Power Automate
7 10 (7.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (6.38%) Snowflake
9 8 (5.67%) GCP
10 7 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (4.96%) PowerApps
10 7 (4.96%) SaaS
11 6 (4.26%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.84%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (2.84%) GitHub
13 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) Firewall
1 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (23.40%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (19.86%) Power BI
3 19 (13.48%) SQL Server
4 12 (8.51%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (7.09%) Metadata
6 10 (7.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (5.67%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.96%) Power Query
9 6 (4.26%) Looker
9 6 (4.26%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (3.55%) Tableau
11 4 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.84%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (13.48%) JIRA
2 10 (7.09%) Git
3 6 (4.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.42%) JUnit
4 2 (1.42%) Mockito
5 1 (0.71%) Hudson
5 1 (0.71%) Postman
5 1 (0.71%) RStudio
5 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (31.21%) Finance
2 41 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.18%) Banking
5 12 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.09%) Retail
7 5 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.84%) Legal
8 4 (2.84%) Marketing
9 3 (2.13%) Law
10 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (19.86%) Developer
2 27 (19.15%) Analyst
3 25 (17.73%) Data Engineer
4 19 (13.48%) Architect
5 18 (12.77%) Senior
6 12 (8.51%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (7.09%) Power BI Developer
8 9 (6.38%) Data Architect
8 9 (6.38%) Lead
9 8 (5.67%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.26%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.55%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (3.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Snowflake Engineer
13 4 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (2.84%) Data Manager
13 4 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (2.84%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.67%) Kafka
2 7 (4.96%) .NET
3 6 (4.26%) RESTful
3 6 (4.26%) YAML
4 5 (3.55%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (2.84%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.84%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (2.84%) Middleware
5 4 (2.84%) REST
6 3 (2.13%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.13%) CSS
6 3 (2.13%) Entity Framework
6 3 (2.13%) HTML
6 3 (2.13%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.13%) PySpark
6 3 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.13%) React
6 3 (2.13%) SOAP
6 3 (2.13%) Swagger
6 3 (2.13%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.51%) Data Structures
2 11 (7.80%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.67%) CMDB
5 7 (4.96%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.96%) Clustering
5 7 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.96%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.84%) Replication
7 4 (2.84%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.13%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.55%) Windows
2 3 (2.13%) Unix
2 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.62%) Analytics
2 40 (28.37%) ETL
3 37 (26.24%) Agile
4 36 (25.53%) CI/CD
5 35 (24.82%) Business Intelligence
6 28 (19.86%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (15.60%) Data Governance
10 21 (14.89%) Data Engineering
10 21 (14.89%) Data Integration
10 21 (14.89%) Migration
11 19 (13.48%) Data Analysis
12 18 (12.77%) Data Transformation
13 17 (12.06%) Decision-Making
13 17 (12.06%) Validation
14 16 (11.35%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (10.64%) DevOps
15 15 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 12 (8.51%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 68 (48.23%) SQL
2 27 (19.15%) Python
3 11 (7.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.38%) C#
4 9 (6.38%) T-SQL
5 8 (5.67%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.96%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.55%) Java
8 4 (2.84%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.71%) Scala
10 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.26%) Degree
5 3 (2.13%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.42%) CISM
6 2 (1.42%) CISSP
6 2 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (35.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.67%) GDPR
3 6 (4.26%) GRC
4 4 (2.84%) Solvency II
5 3 (2.13%) IFRS
5 3 (2.13%) IFRS 17
5 3 (2.13%) QA
6 2 (1.42%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Terraform
2 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.22%) Databricks
3 10 (7.09%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.38%) Oracle
4 9 (6.38%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.67%) SAP
6 6 (4.26%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.55%) BMC
8 3 (2.13%) IBM
8 3 (2.13%) Remedy
8 3 (2.13%) Teradata
9 2 (1.42%) Adobe
9 2 (1.42%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.42%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.42%) Workday
10 1 (0.71%) Ariba
10 1 (0.71%) EXASOL
10 1 (0.71%) IDERA
10 1 (0.71%) IFS
10 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft