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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 56 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 135 73 91
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.87% 3.69% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.13% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 53 66
10th Percentile £339 £415 £406
25th Percentile £400 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £573 £523
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +9.57% +4.50%
75th Percentile £550 £665 £585
90th Percentile £628 £703 £613
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £41.94 - -
25th Percentile £43.60 £27.14 £37.55
Median hourly rate £69.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +135.74% -27.41% -20.15%
75th Percentile £85.00 £51.95 £49.51
90th Percentile £90.00 £64.28 £61.06
England median hourly rate £72.50 £45.73 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.54% +7.60% +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 2,906 1,769 2,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.29% 89.48% 83.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 1,174 1,454
10th Percentile £300 £305 £308
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £560 £585
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 102 272
10th Percentile £17.24 £12.89 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.67 £19.39 £14.20
Median hourly rate £53.00 £32.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.63% +4.07% +0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.17 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 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 18 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 18 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 +6 102 £475 -7.32% 33
Cheshire -16 15 £398 -31.40% 4
Merseyside -9 10 £440 -37.21% 10
Lancashire -6 5 £463 -5.13% 18
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 14 (10.37%) Confluence
2 5 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.70%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.74%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.74%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.41%) Azure
2 33 (24.44%) Power Platform
3 19 (14.07%) AWS
4 16 (11.85%) dbt
5 12 (8.89%) Serverless
6 11 (8.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.15%) Power Automate
7 10 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (5.93%) Snowflake
9 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (5.19%) PowerApps
10 6 (4.44%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (4.44%) SaaS
11 5 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.70%) GCP
11 5 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (2.96%) GitHub
12 4 (2.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) Firewall
1 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.74%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (23.70%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (19.26%) Power BI
3 19 (14.07%) SQL Server
4 12 (8.89%) Snowflake Schema
5 10 (7.41%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.67%) Metadata
7 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.19%) Power Query
9 5 (3.70%) Looker
9 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (3.70%) Tableau
10 4 (2.96%) Data Vault
10 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.96%) MySQL
10 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.22%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (12.59%) JIRA
2 11 (8.15%) Git
3 6 (4.44%) GitLab
4 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.48%) JUnit
4 2 (1.48%) Mockito
5 1 (0.74%) Hudson
5 1 (0.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.74%) RStudio
5 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (31.85%) Finance
2 36 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 27 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.59%) Banking
5 12 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.44%) Retail
7 4 (2.96%) Marketing
8 3 (2.22%) Law
8 3 (2.22%) Legal
9 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (20.74%) Developer
2 26 (19.26%) Data Engineer
3 23 (17.04%) Analyst
4 18 (13.33%) Architect
5 16 (11.85%) Senior
6 11 (8.15%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (7.41%) Power BI Developer
8 9 (6.67%) Lead
9 8 (5.93%) Data Architect
10 7 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Snowflake Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
13 4 (2.96%) Salesforce Developer
13 4 (2.96%) SAP Analyst
13 4 (2.96%) SAP Test Analyst
13 4 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (2.96%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.93%) Kafka
2 7 (5.19%) .NET
3 6 (4.44%) YAML
4 5 (3.70%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (3.70%) RESTful
5 4 (2.96%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.96%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (2.96%) Middleware
5 4 (2.96%) REST
6 3 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.22%) CSS
6 3 (2.22%) Entity Framework
6 3 (2.22%) HTML
6 3 (2.22%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.22%) PySpark
6 3 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.22%) React
6 3 (2.22%) SOAP
6 3 (2.22%) Swagger
6 3 (2.22%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.89%) Data Structures
2 10 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.93%) Clustering
3 8 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.19%) CMDB
4 7 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.96%) Replication
6 4 (2.96%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.48%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.70%) Windows
2 3 (2.22%) Unix
2 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.11%) Analytics
2 38 (28.15%) ETL
3 35 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 32 (23.70%) Agile
5 31 (22.96%) Business Intelligence
6 28 (20.74%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (16.30%) Data Engineering
8 22 (16.30%) Data Governance
9 19 (14.07%) Migration
10 18 (13.33%) Data Integration
10 18 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (13.33%) Validation
11 17 (12.59%) Data Transformation
11 17 (12.59%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (11.85%) Data Analysis
12 16 (11.85%) Decision-Making
13 15 (11.11%) DevOps
14 14 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 66 (48.89%) SQL
2 27 (20.00%) Python
3 11 (8.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.67%) C#
4 9 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 8 (5.93%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.93%) PL/SQL
6 5 (3.70%) Java
7 4 (2.96%) Apex Code
7 4 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
9 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.19%) Degree
5 4 (2.96%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.48%) CISM
6 2 (1.48%) CISSP
6 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) IIBA
7 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (36.30%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.93%) GDPR
3 5 (3.70%) GRC
4 4 (2.96%) Solvency II
5 3 (2.22%) IFRS
5 3 (2.22%) IFRS 17
5 3 (2.22%) QA
6 2 (1.48%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.48%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.93%) Terraform
2 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.15%) Databricks
3 9 (6.67%) Oracle
3 9 (6.67%) SAP
4 8 (5.93%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.44%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.70%) BMC
7 3 (2.22%) IBM
7 3 (2.22%) Remedy
7 3 (2.22%) Teradata
8 2 (1.48%) Adobe
8 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.48%) Workday
9 1 (0.74%) EXASOL
9 1 (0.74%) Google
9 1 (0.74%) IDERA
9 1 (0.74%) Infor
9 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft