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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 43 60
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 126 93 83
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.97% 4.80% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 5.30% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 64 62
10th Percentile £342 £419 £413
25th Percentile £400 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.03% +9.05% -2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £665 £597
90th Percentile £615 £703 £661
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +51.58% -30.03%
75th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £57.47
90th Percentile £90.00 - £64.24
England median hourly rate £77.90 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.36% +20.18% -14.08%

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 2,643 1,755 2,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.30% 90.51% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,638 1,132 1,535
10th Percentile £263 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £393 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £665 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 111 244
10th Percentile £20.95 £16.25 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.20
Median hourly rate £50.50 £32.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.81% +52.38% -40.00%
75th Percentile £72.35 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.41 £52.78
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +10 96 £490 -2.05% 42
Cheshire -27 17 £465 -19.83% 12
Lancashire -11 7 £463 - 26
Merseyside -23 2 £413 -34.00% 14
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 12 (9.52%) Confluence
2 10 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.97%) SAS
4 3 (2.38%) Apache
5 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.79%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.79%) Maximo
4 1 (0.79%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 40 (31.75%) Azure
2 24 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 22 (17.46%) AWS
4 14 (11.11%) GCP
5 13 (10.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (10.32%) dbt
6 12 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (8.73%) Snowflake
8 10 (7.94%) Power Automate
8 10 (7.94%) Serverless
9 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.97%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.97%) Prefect
10 5 (3.97%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (3.17%) PaaS
11 4 (3.17%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Firewall
1 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.79%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.40%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (15.08%) Power BI
3 17 (13.49%) SQL Server
4 13 (10.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 10 (7.94%) Data Lake
5 10 (7.94%) Metadata
6 8 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (5.56%) Tableau
8 6 (4.76%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.76%) Power Query
8 6 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.97%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.97%) Data Vault
10 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.17%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
10 4 (3.17%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.38%) Data Mining
11 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (12.70%) JIRA
2 11 (8.73%) Git
3 7 (5.56%) GitLab
4 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.59%) JUnit
4 2 (1.59%) Mockito
5 1 (0.79%) Hudson
5 1 (0.79%) Postman
5 1 (0.79%) RStudio
5 1 (0.79%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (25.40%) Finance
1 32 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.52%) Banking
5 6 (4.76%) Retail
6 4 (3.17%) Law
7 3 (2.38%) Games
7 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Legal
8 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (24.60%) Data Engineer
2 24 (19.05%) Developer
3 21 (16.67%) Analyst
4 19 (15.08%) Architect
5 13 (10.32%) Senior
6 8 (6.35%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.56%) Lead
8 6 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) SAP Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) SAP Test Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) REST
2 6 (4.76%) Kafka
2 6 (4.76%) RESTful
2 6 (4.76%) Spring
2 6 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 6 (4.76%) YAML
3 5 (3.97%) .NET
4 4 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (3.17%) Middleware
5 3 (2.38%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.38%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (2.38%) OAuth
5 3 (2.38%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.38%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.38%) PySpark
5 3 (2.38%) React
5 3 (2.38%) SOAP
5 3 (2.38%) Swagger
5 3 (2.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Clustering
1 11 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 9 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.35%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.56%) CMDB
5 6 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.97%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.17%) Replication
7 4 (3.17%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.38%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.59%) FMCG
9 2 (1.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.97%) Windows
2 4 (3.17%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.38%) Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.75%) Analytics
1 40 (31.75%) ETL
2 32 (25.40%) CI/CD
3 29 (23.02%) Agile
4 26 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (18.25%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (17.46%) Data Engineering
6 22 (17.46%) Data Governance
7 21 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 15 (11.90%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (11.11%) Data Integration
9 14 (11.11%) Data Science
9 14 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
10 13 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (10.32%) Data Analysis
10 13 (10.32%) DevOps
10 13 (10.32%) Microservices
11 12 (9.52%) Decision-Making
11 12 (9.52%) Migration
11 12 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (44.44%) SQL
2 30 (23.81%) Python
3 11 (8.73%) Java
4 8 (6.35%) T-SQL
5 7 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.97%) C#
7 5 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.17%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.17%) Degree
4 4 (3.17%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.38%) CISM
5 3 (2.38%) CISSP
5 3 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (34.92%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.56%) GDPR
3 5 (3.97%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.17%) GRC
5 3 (2.38%) QA
6 2 (1.59%) CRD IV
6 2 (1.59%) FINREP
6 2 (1.59%) IFRS
6 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.59%) PMO
7 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.79%) NCSC
7 1 (0.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.35%) Terraform
2 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.59%) SCCM
4 1 (0.79%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.14%) SAP
2 9 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.76%) Databricks
5 5 (3.97%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.97%) Google
6 4 (3.17%) BMC
6 4 (3.17%) Oracle
7 3 (2.38%) Cognos
8 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.59%) Remedy
8 2 (1.59%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.79%) IBM
9 1 (0.79%) IDERA
9 1 (0.79%) Informatica
9 1 (0.79%) Siemens
9 1 (0.79%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.79%) Workday
9 1 (0.79%) Zscaler