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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 46 67
Rank change year-on-year -14 +21 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 87 87 77
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.59% 3.76% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 4.48% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 54
10th Percentile £344 £357 £333
25th Percentile £400 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £646
90th Percentile £652 £703 £709
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.14 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £35.61 £52.66 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.39% +14.04% -34.03%
75th Percentile £48.77 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £61.06 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.33 £49.75
% change year-on-year +30.19% -18.94% -26.30%

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 2,134 1,940 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.04% 83.91% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,402 1,048 1,666
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £677 £650 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 111 160
10th Percentile £15.21 £16.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +57.30%
75th Percentile £45.46 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.14 £70.90 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%

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 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +7 54 £463 +2.78% 60
Cheshire -30 13 £488 -4.88% 14
Merseyside -2 8 £500 +1.01% 5
Lancashire -16 7 £475 - 26
Cumbria +10 2 - - 2
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 11 (12.64%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.60%) SAS
3 2 (2.30%) Apache
3 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (5.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.15%) Finacle
3 1 (1.15%) Maximo
3 1 (1.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (1.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.29%) Power Platform
2 20 (22.99%) Azure
3 18 (20.69%) AWS
4 15 (17.24%) GCP
5 12 (13.79%) Snowflake
6 9 (10.34%) dbt
7 6 (6.90%) Prefect
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.60%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.60%) Serverless
8 4 (4.60%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.30%) GitHub
10 2 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Firewall
1 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (22.99%) Power BI
3 9 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
4 8 (9.20%) Power Query
5 5 (5.75%) BigQuery
5 5 (5.75%) Metadata
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.60%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.45%) Big Data
7 3 (3.45%) Cognos Framework Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Cognos Report Studio
7 3 (3.45%) Looker
7 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.45%) Tableau
8 2 (2.30%) Cognos Transformer
8 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.30%) OLAP
8 2 (2.30%) Redis
8 2 (2.30%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Git
2 3 (3.45%) GitLab
2 3 (3.45%) JIRA
3 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.44%) Finance
3 18 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.94%) Banking
5 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.75%) Retail
7 4 (4.60%) Local Government
7 4 (4.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Law
8 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Architect
2 19 (21.84%) Developer
3 16 (18.39%) Data Architect
4 13 (14.94%) Analyst
4 13 (14.94%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior
8 4 (4.60%) Lead
8 4 (4.60%) Payments Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Salesforce Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Cognos Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Consultant
9 3 (3.45%) SAP Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) SAP Test Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) Spring
1 7 (8.05%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.45%) SOAP
3 2 (2.30%) JMS
3 2 (2.30%) PySpark
3 2 (2.30%) pytest
3 2 (2.30%) REST
3 2 (2.30%) Web Services
4 1 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.15%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.15%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.15%) Node.js
4 1 (1.15%) RESTful
4 1 (1.15%) Vue
4 1 (1.15%) XML
4 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.90%) Clustering
4 3 (3.45%) Data Fabric
4 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.45%) NHS
4 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.30%) FMCG
5 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) Analytics
2 28 (32.18%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (31.03%) Data Governance
4 16 (18.39%) Data Architecture
5 15 (17.24%) ETL
6 14 (16.09%) Data Engineering
6 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (16.09%) Translating Business Requirements
7 13 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (14.94%) Decision-Making
7 13 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 12 (13.79%) Data Science
8 12 (13.79%) Mentoring
9 11 (12.64%) Agile
9 11 (12.64%) Data Transformation
9 11 (12.64%) Visualisation
10 10 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.49%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.68%) SQL
2 15 (17.24%) Python
3 9 (10.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (9.20%) PL/SQL
5 7 (8.05%) Java
6 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.30%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.15%) LookML
8 1 (1.15%) Scala
8 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (8.05%) Degree
5 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.15%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) CISM
6 1 (1.15%) CISSP
6 1 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.15%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.05%) ISO 20022
3 6 (6.90%) GDPR
4 4 (4.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (4.60%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.15%) GMP
6 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Control-M
1 2 (2.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) Google
3 7 (8.05%) Oracle
4 5 (5.75%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.75%) SAP
5 4 (4.60%) Databricks
6 3 (3.45%) Cognos
6 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.30%) Informatica
7 2 (2.30%) Pega
7 2 (2.30%) Siebel
8 1 (1.15%) Capita
8 1 (1.15%) EXASOL
8 1 (1.15%) IBM
8 1 (1.15%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.15%) Zscaler