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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 42 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 98 89 86
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.93% 4.23% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.86% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 50 58
10th Percentile £344 £357 £398
25th Percentile £384 £419 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £647
90th Percentile £625 £713 £729
England median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 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 - - -
90th Percentile £58.33 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £50.40 £52.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.06% -28.00%

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 2,194 1,833 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.04% 87.16% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 1,042 1,617
10th Percentile £213 £268 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 94 153
10th Percentile £16.49 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.51 £21.05 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.03 £29.62 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.54% -22.07% +15.61%
75th Percentile £57.30 £46.18 £46.91
90th Percentile £70.00 £69.28 £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +7 67 £463 -2.63% 26
Cheshire -33 14 £465 -11.43% 17
Lancashire -15 7 £410 - 15
Merseyside -11 6 £500 +1.01% 12
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 16 (16.33%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.14%) SAS
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (5.10%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.02%) Finacle
3 1 (1.02%) Maximo
3 1 (1.02%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (1.02%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.41%) Azure
1 20 (20.41%) Power Platform
2 19 (19.39%) AWS
3 18 (18.37%) GCP
4 16 (16.33%) Snowflake
5 12 (12.24%) dbt
6 8 (8.16%) Prefect
7 5 (5.10%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.08%) Serverless
8 4 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (3.06%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.04%) Dataform
10 2 (2.04%) GitHub
10 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) Firewall
1 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.51%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (18.37%) Power BI
3 14 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 7 (7.14%) Metadata
5 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.10%) Power Query
5 5 (5.10%) Redis
5 5 (5.10%) Tableau
6 4 (4.08%) Big Data
6 4 (4.08%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 4 (4.08%) Cognos Report Studio
6 4 (4.08%) Looker
6 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.06%) Cognos Transformer
7 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.06%) OLAP
7 3 (3.06%) OLAP Cube
7 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Git
2 4 (4.08%) JIRA
3 3 (3.06%) GitLab
4 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
1 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Finance
3 10 (10.20%) Banking
4 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.06%) Games
7 3 (3.06%) Law
7 3 (3.06%) Local Government
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (30.61%) Architect
2 19 (19.39%) Developer
3 18 (18.37%) Analyst
3 18 (18.37%) Data Architect
3 18 (18.37%) Data Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Senior
5 8 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Cognos Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Operations Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Payments Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.08%) SAP Test Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.14%) Spring
1 7 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 6 (6.12%) REST
3 3 (3.06%) Node.js
3 3 (3.06%) OAuth
3 3 (3.06%) OAuth2
3 3 (3.06%) OpenID
4 2 (2.04%) PySpark
4 2 (2.04%) pytest
5 1 (1.02%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.02%) LangChain
5 1 (1.02%) RESTful
5 1 (1.02%) SOAP
5 1 (1.02%) XML
5 1 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 10 (10.20%) Clustering
3 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Data Fabric
5 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.06%) NHS
5 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.04%) FMCG
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
7 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
1 4 (4.08%) Windows
1 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.71%) Analytics
2 27 (27.55%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (26.53%) Data Governance
4 24 (24.49%) ETL
5 18 (18.37%) Data Architecture
5 18 (18.37%) Data Engineering
5 18 (18.37%) Data Science
6 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (16.33%) Mentoring
8 15 (15.31%) Agile
8 15 (15.31%) Translating Business Requirements
9 14 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 13 (13.27%) CI/CD
10 13 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (12.24%) Data Integration
11 12 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (11.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.84%) SQL
2 23 (23.47%) Python
3 9 (9.18%) Java
4 8 (8.16%) PL/SQL
5 6 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (4.08%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.02%) LookML
8 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.18%) Degree
4 6 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.08%) CISM
5 4 (4.08%) CISSP
5 4 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.08%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) IIBA
6 1 (1.02%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (32.65%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) ISO 20022
3 6 (6.12%) GDPR
4 4 (4.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (4.08%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.04%) CRD IV
5 2 (2.04%) FINREP
5 2 (2.04%) IFRS
5 2 (2.04%) QA
6 1 (1.02%) GMP
6 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (8.16%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Control-M
1 2 (2.04%) Terraform
2 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.20%) Google
3 6 (6.12%) Cognos
3 6 (6.12%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.12%) SAP
4 5 (5.10%) Oracle
5 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.06%) Informatica
7 2 (2.04%) Databricks
7 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.04%) IBM
7 2 (2.04%) Pega
7 2 (2.04%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.02%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.02%) Capita
8 1 (1.02%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.02%) Sage
8 1 (1.02%) SnapLogic