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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 65 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 -25 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 141 66 98
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.61% 3.04% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 3.44% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 49 60
10th Percentile £375 £355 £357
25th Percentile £440 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £604 £540 £561
90th Percentile £648 £675 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
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 £65.00
90th Percentile - £39.83 -
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 3,228 1,919 2,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.62% 88.43% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 1,275 1,125
10th Percentile £295 £283 £294
25th Percentile £402 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -6.67% -2.50%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £577
90th Percentile £675 £680 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 132 108
10th Percentile £14.94 £13.54 £16.43
25th Percentile £23.33 £17.30 £29.25
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.10% -40.83% +28.79%
75th Percentile £71.91 £47.12 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.25 £72.40
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 £550 +17.33% 132
Cheshire +8 17 £513 +15.88% 19
Merseyside -14 12 £441 -37.00% 17
Cumbria -27 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 10 (7.09%) Confluence
2 6 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.84%) Apache
3 4 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.84%) SAS
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.42%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.24%) Azure
2 36 (25.53%) AWS
3 33 (23.40%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.80%) dbt
5 11 (7.80%) GCP
5 11 (7.80%) SaaS
6 10 (7.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (7.09%) Serverless
7 9 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 8 (5.67%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.67%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (3.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (3.55%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) Firewall
1 5 (3.55%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.57%) Power BI
2 28 (19.86%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (10.64%) Data Lake
4 12 (8.51%) Metadata
5 11 (7.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (7.09%) SQL Server
7 9 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (5.67%) Relational Database
8 8 (5.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (4.96%) DynamoDB
9 7 (4.96%) Looker
9 7 (4.96%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (4.96%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (4.96%) Star Schema
10 6 (4.26%) DataStage
10 6 (4.26%) Db2
10 6 (4.26%) Power Query
10 6 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (3.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (8.51%) Git
2 11 (7.80%) JIRA
3 6 (4.26%) GitLab
4 5 (3.55%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.13%) JUnit
5 3 (2.13%) Mockito
5 3 (2.13%) Toad
General
1 59 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 47 (33.33%) Finance
3 28 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (15.60%) Banking
5 14 (9.93%) Retail
6 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.96%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.96%) Marketing
8 6 (4.26%) Law
9 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Military
10 2 (1.42%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Automotive
11 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Publishing
11 1 (0.71%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (17.02%) Developer
2 22 (15.60%) Analyst
3 21 (14.89%) Architect
3 21 (14.89%) Data Engineer
4 16 (11.35%) Senior
5 15 (10.64%) Data Architect
6 11 (7.80%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (5.67%) Power BI Developer
9 8 (5.67%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Data Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Consultant
11 6 (4.26%) Data Business Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Technical Analyst
12 5 (3.55%) Lead
12 5 (3.55%) Salesforce Developer
12 5 (3.55%) ServiceNow Specialist
12 5 (3.55%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.93%) REST
2 10 (7.09%) Terraform
3 9 (6.38%) PySpark
3 9 (6.38%) SOAP
4 8 (5.67%) Kafka
5 5 (3.55%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (3.55%) OAuth
5 5 (3.55%) RESTful
6 4 (2.84%) .NET
6 4 (2.84%) Spring
6 4 (2.84%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.13%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (2.13%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.13%) Spring Security
8 2 (1.42%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.42%) Oracle Streams
8 2 (1.42%) React
8 2 (1.42%) Vue
8 2 (1.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.77%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (10.64%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.38%) CMDB
3 9 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.67%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.67%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.55%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (2.84%) Replication
8 3 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.42%) Clustering
9 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Licensing
10 1 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.26%) Unix
2 2 (1.42%) Linux
2 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.88%) Analytics
2 42 (29.79%) Data Pipeline
3 38 (26.95%) Agile
4 37 (26.24%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (26.24%) CI/CD
5 35 (24.82%) ETL
6 34 (24.11%) Migration
6 34 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (18.44%) AI
7 26 (18.44%) Data Integration
8 24 (17.02%) Data Governance
8 24 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (16.31%) Data Architecture
10 22 (15.60%) Data Engineering
11 21 (14.89%) Validation
12 20 (14.18%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (13.48%) Data Transformation
14 15 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (10.64%) Translating Business Requirements
15 14 (9.93%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 82 (58.16%) SQL
2 35 (24.82%) Python
3 11 (7.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (7.09%) T-SQL
5 9 (6.38%) Java
6 8 (5.67%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.67%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.26%) C#
7 6 (4.26%) PL/SQL
7 6 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.55%) Apex Code
8 5 (3.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (3.55%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (1.42%) Bash
9 2 (1.42%) Scala
9 2 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.22%) Degree
4 5 (3.55%) CISSP
4 5 (3.55%) GCFA
4 5 (3.55%) GCIH
5 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.71%) IIBA
8 1 (0.71%) ISEB
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (39.01%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.80%) GDPR
3 7 (4.96%) GRC
3 7 (4.96%) QA
4 5 (3.55%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.13%) IFRS
5 3 (2.13%) IFRS 17
5 3 (2.13%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (4.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (4.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.55%) Ansible
2 5 (3.55%) CASB
2 5 (3.55%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.42%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (1.42%) Nagios
3 2 (1.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.18%) Databricks
3 13 (9.22%) Oracle
4 12 (8.51%) ServiceNow
5 11 (7.80%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.96%) Teradata
7 6 (4.26%) IBM
8 5 (3.55%) Cribl.io
8 5 (3.55%) Splunk
9 4 (2.84%) Adobe
10 3 (2.13%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.13%) Google
10 3 (2.13%) Informatica
10 3 (2.13%) SAP
11 2 (1.42%) BMC
11 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.42%) Remedy
12 1 (0.71%) Ariba
12 1 (0.71%) Infor
12 1 (0.71%) Sybase