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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 41 58
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 96 91 82
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.80% 4.22% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.87% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 51 57
10th Percentile £344 £358 £358
25th Percentile £392 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £650
90th Percentile £625 £713 £730
England median daily rate £527 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.48% -6.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +40.75% -34.03%
75th Percentile £55.60 - -
90th Percentile £63.79 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £57.30 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +9.14% +5.00% -27.27%

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 2,229 1,869 2,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.14% 86.73% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 1,053 1,606
10th Percentile £213 £266 £302
25th Percentile £358 £390 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £555 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 102 162
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.00 £16.03
25th Percentile £21.06 £21.05 £18.13
Median hourly rate £33.75 £30.95 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% -22.63% +54.98%
75th Percentile £56.27 £51.91 £48.05
90th Percentile £69.61 £69.59 £64.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%

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 December 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 25 December 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 25 December 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 +3 67 £463 -2.63% 71
Cheshire -32 14 £465 -11.43% 29
Merseyside -7 6 £500 +1.01% 21
Lancashire -13 5 £410 - 28
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 15 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.29%) SAS
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (5.21%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.04%) Finacle
3 1 (1.04%) Maximo
3 1 (1.04%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (1.04%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.92%) Power Platform
2 20 (20.83%) Azure
3 19 (19.79%) AWS
4 18 (18.75%) GCP
5 15 (15.63%) Snowflake
6 11 (11.46%) dbt
7 7 (7.29%) Prefect
8 5 (5.21%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (4.17%) Serverless
10 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.08%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (2.08%) GitHub
11 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Firewall
1 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (20.83%) Power BI
3 13 (13.54%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (7.29%) BigQuery
4 7 (7.29%) Metadata
4 7 (7.29%) Power Query
5 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.21%) Redis
5 5 (5.21%) Tableau
6 4 (4.17%) Big Data
6 4 (4.17%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Cognos Report Studio
6 4 (4.17%) Looker
6 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.13%) Cognos Transformer
7 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.13%) OLAP
7 3 (3.13%) OLAP Cube
7 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (4.17%) JIRA
3 3 (3.13%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (19.79%) Finance
4 11 (11.46%) Banking
5 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.13%) Games
8 3 (3.13%) Law
8 3 (3.13%) Local Government
8 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Military
9 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Architect
2 19 (19.79%) Developer
3 18 (18.75%) Data Architect
4 17 (17.71%) Data Engineer
5 16 (16.67%) Analyst
6 8 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.29%) Data Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Senior
8 6 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Cognos Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Payments Architect
10 4 (4.17%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.17%) Salesforce Architect
11 3 (3.13%) SAP Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) SAP Test Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Software Integration Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) Spring
1 7 (7.29%) Spring Boot
2 6 (6.25%) REST
3 3 (3.13%) Node.js
3 3 (3.13%) OAuth
3 3 (3.13%) OAuth2
3 3 (3.13%) OpenID
4 2 (2.08%) PySpark
4 2 (2.08%) pytest
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.04%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.04%) LangChain
5 1 (1.04%) RESTful
5 1 (1.04%) SOAP
5 1 (1.04%) XML
5 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Data Structures
2 9 (9.38%) Clustering
3 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.13%) Data Fabric
5 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.13%) NHS
5 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.08%) FMCG
6 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.08%) Linux
1 2 (2.08%) Windows
1 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Analytics
2 29 (30.21%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (28.13%) Data Governance
4 24 (25.00%) ETL
5 18 (18.75%) Data Architecture
6 17 (17.71%) Data Engineering
6 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (15.63%) Agile
7 15 (15.63%) Data Science
7 15 (15.63%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.63%) Translating Business Requirements
8 14 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (14.58%) Mentoring
9 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 12 (12.50%) Data Integration
10 12 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (12.50%) Visualisation
11 11 (11.46%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (42.71%) SQL
2 22 (22.92%) Python
3 9 (9.38%) Java
4 7 (7.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (7.29%) PL/SQL
5 4 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.04%) LookML
7 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) Degree
4 6 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.13%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.08%) CISM
7 2 (2.08%) CISSP
7 2 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.04%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.04%) IIBA
8 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (32.29%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.29%) GDPR
2 7 (7.29%) ISO 20022
3 4 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.08%) CRD IV
4 2 (2.08%) FINREP
4 2 (2.08%) IFRS
4 2 (2.08%) QA
5 1 (1.04%) GMP
5 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Control-M
1 2 (2.08%) Terraform
2 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Google
3 6 (6.25%) Cognos
3 6 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.21%) Oracle
4 5 (5.21%) SAP
5 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.13%) Informatica
7 2 (2.08%) Databricks
7 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.08%) IBM
7 2 (2.08%) Pega
7 2 (2.08%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.04%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.04%) Capita
8 1 (1.04%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.04%) Sage
8 1 (1.04%) SnapLogic