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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 43 57
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 124 88 83
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.89% 4.47% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.95% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 61 63
10th Percentile £341 £419 £413
25th Percentile £399 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £588
90th Percentile £600 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.64% -2.95% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £39.46 - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £67.50 £66.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £70.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +3.70% +33.66%
75th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £79.00 £54.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +46.30% +11.34% +9.30%

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 2,666 1,778 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.68% 90.35% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,656 1,149 1,519
10th Percentile £275 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £653 £660 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 108 246
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.97 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.66 £13.36
Median hourly rate £51.02 £31.88 £21.56
Median % change year-on-year +60.04% +47.90% -38.41%
75th Percentile £74.01 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.96 £57.50
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +3 95 £492 -1.60% 43
Cheshire -18 17 £447 -22.93% 9
Lancashire -6 6 £463 - 27
Merseyside -26 2 £413 -34.00% 10
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 (10.48%) Confluence
2 8 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.03%) SAS
4 2 (1.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.81%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Maximo
3 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.81%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.84%) Azure
2 26 (20.97%) Power Platform
3 19 (15.32%) AWS
4 13 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (8.87%) dbt
7 10 (8.06%) GCP
7 10 (8.06%) Power Automate
7 10 (8.06%) Serverless
8 9 (7.26%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.03%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (3.23%) PaaS
11 4 (3.23%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.42%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) Firewall
1 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.81%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (16.94%) Power BI
3 18 (14.52%) SQL Server
4 12 (9.68%) Snowflake Schema
5 10 (8.06%) Data Lake
6 9 (7.26%) Metadata
7 8 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (5.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (4.84%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.84%) Tableau
10 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.03%) Power Query
11 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.23%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.23%) Data Vault
11 4 (3.23%) DynamoDB
11 4 (3.23%) Hadoop
11 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.42%) Big Data
12 3 (2.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (13.71%) JIRA
2 9 (7.26%) Git
3 6 (4.84%) GitLab
4 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.61%) JUnit
4 2 (1.61%) Mockito
5 1 (0.81%) Hudson
5 1 (0.81%) Postman
5 1 (0.81%) RStudio
5 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (27.42%) Finance
2 32 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.68%) Banking
3 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.84%) Retail
5 4 (3.23%) Law
6 3 (2.42%) Games
6 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Legal
7 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Marketing
8 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (22.58%) Data Engineer
2 26 (20.97%) Developer
3 21 (16.94%) Analyst
4 15 (12.10%) Architect
5 14 (11.29%) Senior
6 9 (7.26%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.45%) Lead
8 7 (5.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.65%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (4.03%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Salesforce Developer
11 4 (3.23%) SAP Analyst
11 4 (3.23%) SAP Test Analyst
11 4 (3.23%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.45%) REST
2 6 (4.84%) Kafka
2 6 (4.84%) RESTful
2 6 (4.84%) YAML
3 5 (4.03%) .NET
4 4 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (3.23%) Middleware
5 3 (2.42%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.42%) Entity Framework
5 3 (2.42%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (2.42%) Node.js
5 3 (2.42%) OAuth
5 3 (2.42%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.42%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.42%) PySpark
5 3 (2.42%) React
5 3 (2.42%) SOAP
5 3 (2.42%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Clustering
1 10 (8.06%) Data Structures
2 9 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.65%) CMDB
4 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.23%) Replication
6 4 (3.23%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.61%) FMCG
8 2 (1.61%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.84%) Windows
2 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.42%) Linux
3 3 (2.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.87%) ETL
2 34 (27.42%) Analytics
3 30 (24.19%) Agile
4 29 (23.39%) CI/CD
5 28 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (18.55%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (17.74%) Data Governance
9 21 (16.94%) Data Engineering
10 16 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (12.10%) Data Analysis
11 15 (12.10%) Data Integration
12 13 (10.48%) DevOps
12 13 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (9.68%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (9.68%) Decision-Making
13 12 (9.68%) Migration
13 12 (9.68%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (9.68%) Validation
14 11 (8.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.97%) SQL
2 28 (22.58%) Python
3 9 (7.26%) T-SQL
4 8 (6.45%) Java
5 7 (5.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (5.65%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.03%) C#
8 4 (3.23%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.03%) Degree
5 4 (3.23%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.42%) CISM
6 3 (2.42%) CISSP
6 3 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) IIBA
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (37.10%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.65%) GDPR
3 4 (3.23%) GRC
3 4 (3.23%) QA
4 2 (1.61%) CRD IV
4 2 (1.61%) FINREP
4 2 (1.61%) IFRS
4 2 (1.61%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.61%) PMO
5 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.81%) NCSC
5 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (3.23%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.45%) Terraform
2 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.61%) SCCM
4 1 (0.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) SAP
2 9 (7.26%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.65%) Databricks
3 7 (5.65%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.84%) Oracle
5 5 (4.03%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.03%) BMC
6 3 (2.42%) Cognos
6 3 (2.42%) Google
6 3 (2.42%) IBM
6 3 (2.42%) Remedy
7 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.61%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.61%) Teradata
8 1 (0.81%) EXASOL
8 1 (0.81%) IDERA
8 1 (0.81%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.81%) Workday
8 1 (0.81%) Zscaler