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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 42 61
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 133 86 77
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.29% 4.35% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 4.79% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 60 55
10th Percentile £344 £419 £405
25th Percentile £400 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +9.05% -1.40%
75th Percentile £577 £665 £594
90th Percentile £645 £703 £678
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.91% -2.68% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £36.98 - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +51.58% -32.09%
75th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £90.00 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £73.12 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.41% +16.93% -23.67%

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 2,626 1,794 2,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.76% 90.70% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 1,150 1,590
10th Percentile £230 £275 £313
25th Percentile £374 £390 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £685
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 114 258
10th Percentile £18.89 £16.61 £10.99
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.78 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £23.56
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% +34.32% -36.85%
75th Percentile £71.50 £59.98 £45.00
90th Percentile £83.88 £80.04 £51.91
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 +12 98 £463 -7.50% 44
Cheshire -29 18 £465 -19.83% 18
Lancashire -11 7 £463 - 17
Merseyside -25 4 £413 -34.00% 10
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 (9.02%) Confluence
2 11 (8.27%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.76%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.01%) SAS
5 3 (2.26%) Apache
6 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (3.76%) Salesforce CRM
1 5 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Maximo
2 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.75%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 38 (28.57%) Azure
2 25 (18.80%) Power Platform
3 22 (16.54%) AWS
4 16 (12.03%) dbt
4 16 (12.03%) GCP
5 14 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 11 (8.27%) Power Automate
6 11 (8.27%) Serverless
7 9 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.51%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.51%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.51%) Prefect
9 6 (4.51%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (3.01%) PaaS
12 3 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) Firewall
1 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.06%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (14.29%) Power BI
3 16 (12.03%) SQL Server
4 13 (9.77%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (6.02%) Power Query
6 7 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.51%) Big Data
7 6 (4.51%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.51%) Data Vault
7 6 (4.51%) Metadata
7 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.76%) Tableau
9 4 (3.01%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.01%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (12.03%) JIRA
2 12 (9.02%) Git
3 8 (6.02%) GitLab
4 2 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.50%) JUnit
4 2 (1.50%) Mockito
5 1 (0.75%) Hudson
5 1 (0.75%) Postman
5 1 (0.75%) RStudio
5 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (22.56%) Finance
4 13 (9.77%) Banking
4 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.26%) Retail
6 4 (3.01%) Law
7 3 (2.26%) Games
7 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Legal
8 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (21.80%) Developer
2 28 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 26 (19.55%) Architect
4 23 (17.29%) Analyst
5 13 (9.77%) Senior
6 12 (9.02%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.02%) Lead
8 7 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.76%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) SAP Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) SAP Test Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Test Analyst
10 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) REST
2 7 (5.26%) Spring
2 7 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.51%) Kafka
3 6 (4.51%) RESTful
3 6 (4.51%) YAML
4 5 (3.76%) .NET
5 4 (3.01%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (3.01%) Middleware
6 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.26%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.26%) Entity Framework
6 3 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.26%) OAuth
6 3 (2.26%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.26%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.26%) React
6 3 (2.26%) SOAP
6 3 (2.26%) Swagger
6 3 (2.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Data Structures
2 12 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.27%) Clustering
4 9 (6.77%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.26%) CMDB
5 7 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.76%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (3.01%) Taxonomies
9 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.26%) FMCG
9 3 (2.26%) Replication
9 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Windows
1 4 (3.01%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.26%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.08%) Analytics
2 39 (29.32%) ETL
3 30 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (21.80%) CI/CD
5 28 (21.05%) Agile
6 26 (19.55%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (18.80%) Data Governance
8 20 (15.04%) Data Engineering
9 19 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (13.53%) Decision-Making
10 18 (13.53%) Translating Business Requirements
11 16 (12.03%) Data Integration
11 16 (12.03%) Data Science
12 15 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (11.28%) Mentoring
12 15 (11.28%) Microservices
12 15 (11.28%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (10.53%) Data Analysis
13 14 (10.53%) DevOps
14 13 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 54 (40.60%) SQL
2 24 (18.05%) Python
3 12 (9.02%) Java
4 9 (6.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (6.02%) PL/SQL
6 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.76%) C#
7 5 (3.76%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.26%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
10 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.51%) Degree
5 5 (3.76%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.26%) CISM
6 3 (2.26%) CISSP
6 3 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) IIBA
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (34.59%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.52%) GDPR
3 7 (5.26%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.01%) GRC
4 4 (3.01%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.26%) QA
6 2 (1.50%) CRD IV
6 2 (1.50%) FINREP
6 2 (1.50%) IFRS
6 2 (1.50%) PMO
7 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.75%) NCSC
7 1 (0.75%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.26%) Terraform
2 3 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.50%) SCCM
4 1 (0.75%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.27%) Salesforce
3 10 (7.52%) SAP
4 9 (6.77%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.02%) Google
6 5 (3.76%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.76%) Databricks
7 4 (3.01%) Oracle
8 3 (2.26%) BMC
8 3 (2.26%) Cognos
9 2 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.50%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.75%) IBM
10 1 (0.75%) IDERA
10 1 (0.75%) Informatica
10 1 (0.75%) Sage
10 1 (0.75%) Siemens
10 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.75%) Workday
10 1 (0.75%) Zscaler