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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 65 44
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 143 67 88
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.67% 3.07% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 3.45% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 49 55
10th Percentile £370 £355 £357
25th Percentile £431 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% -10.28%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £575
90th Percentile £642 £675 £600
England median daily rate £523 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -3.91% -1.14% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £50.13 - -
25th Percentile £59.38 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £80.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +173.32% -27.41% -37.96%
75th Percentile £85.00 £36.67 £48.58
90th Percentile - £39.83 £58.43
England median hourly rate £55.00 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +26.44% +7.87% -19.35%

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 3,220 1,942 2,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.71% 88.92% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 1,285 1,158
10th Percentile £295 £299 £294
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £679 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 134 109
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.61 £16.45
25th Percentile £24.19 £17.39 £28.50
Median hourly rate £47.12 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.36% -40.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £73.00 £49.84 £58.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.06 £71.02
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +14 110 £525 +10.53% 136
Cheshire +9 19 £513 +15.88% 16
Merseyside -13 12 £441 -37.00% 15
Cumbria -25 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 13 (9.09%) Confluence
2 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.80%) Apache
3 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.80%) SAS
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (2.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.40%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.17%) AWS
1 36 (25.17%) Azure
2 32 (22.38%) Power Platform
3 11 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (7.69%) GCP
3 11 (7.69%) SaaS
4 10 (6.99%) dbt
4 10 (6.99%) Serverless
5 9 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (5.59%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.59%) Power Automate
6 8 (5.59%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.50%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) Firewall
1 5 (3.50%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.58%) Power BI
2 27 (18.88%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (10.49%) Data Lake
4 12 (8.39%) Metadata
4 12 (8.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.59%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.59%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (4.90%) DynamoDB
8 7 (4.90%) Looker
8 7 (4.90%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.90%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (4.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (4.90%) Star Schema
9 6 (4.20%) DataStage
9 6 (4.20%) Db2
9 6 (4.20%) Power Query
9 6 (4.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (10.49%) JIRA
2 12 (8.39%) Git
3 6 (4.20%) GitLab
4 5 (3.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.10%) JUnit
5 3 (2.10%) Mockito
5 3 (2.10%) Toad
6 1 (0.70%) Hudson
General
1 61 (42.66%) Social Skills
2 51 (35.66%) Finance
3 29 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (17.48%) Banking
5 14 (9.79%) Retail
6 10 (6.99%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.90%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.90%) Marketing
8 4 (2.80%) Law
9 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Military
10 2 (1.40%) Legal
10 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Automotive
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (16.78%) Analyst
1 24 (16.78%) Developer
2 21 (14.69%) Architect
3 19 (13.29%) Data Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) Senior
5 15 (10.49%) Data Architect
6 13 (9.09%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (5.59%) Power BI Developer
9 8 (5.59%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.90%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (4.20%) Consultant
11 6 (4.20%) Data Business Analyst
11 6 (4.20%) DBA
11 6 (4.20%) Systems Analyst
12 5 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) SIEM Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.79%) REST
2 10 (6.99%) Terraform
3 9 (6.29%) SOAP
4 8 (5.59%) Kafka
4 8 (5.59%) PySpark
5 5 (3.50%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (3.50%) OAuth
5 5 (3.50%) RESTful
6 4 (2.80%) .NET
6 4 (2.80%) Spring
6 4 (2.80%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.10%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (2.10%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.10%) Spring Security
8 2 (1.40%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.40%) Oracle Streams
8 2 (1.40%) React
8 2 (1.40%) Vue
8 2 (1.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (10.49%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.29%) CMDB
3 9 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.59%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.50%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (3.50%) Replication
7 3 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.10%) Clustering
7 3 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Unix
2 3 (2.10%) Windows
3 2 (1.40%) Linux
3 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.66%) Analytics
2 42 (29.37%) Agile
3 40 (27.97%) Data Pipeline
4 37 (25.87%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (25.17%) CI/CD
5 36 (25.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (23.78%) ETL
6 34 (23.78%) Migration
7 26 (18.18%) AI
7 26 (18.18%) Data Integration
8 25 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (16.78%) Data Governance
10 23 (16.08%) Data Architecture
11 21 (14.69%) Performance Tuning
12 20 (13.99%) Validation
13 19 (13.29%) Data Engineering
13 19 (13.29%) Data Transformation
14 16 (11.19%) Translating Business Requirements
15 15 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (10.49%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 79 (55.24%) SQL
2 33 (23.08%) Python
3 11 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 9 (6.29%) Java
4 9 (6.29%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.20%) C#
6 6 (4.20%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.50%) Apex Code
7 5 (3.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (3.50%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (1.40%) Bash
8 2 (1.40%) Scala
8 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.09%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.50%) CISSP
4 5 (3.50%) GCFA
4 5 (3.50%) GCIH
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.70%) IIBA
8 1 (0.70%) ISEB
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (37.06%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.69%) GDPR
3 7 (4.90%) GRC
3 7 (4.90%) QA
4 5 (3.50%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.10%) IFRS
5 3 (2.10%) IFRS 17
5 3 (2.10%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.40%) PMO
7 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (4.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.50%) Ansible
2 5 (3.50%) CASB
2 5 (3.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.40%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (1.40%) Nagios
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.29%) Databricks
3 13 (9.09%) Oracle
4 12 (8.39%) ServiceNow
5 11 (7.69%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.90%) Teradata
7 6 (4.20%) IBM
8 5 (3.50%) Cribl.io
8 5 (3.50%) Splunk
9 4 (2.80%) Adobe
9 4 (2.80%) SAP
10 3 (2.10%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.10%) BMC
10 3 (2.10%) Google
10 3 (2.10%) Informatica
10 3 (2.10%) Remedy
11 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.70%) Ariba
12 1 (0.70%) Infor
12 1 (0.70%) Sybase