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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 41 61
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 121 94 81
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.06% 4.63% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 5.14% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 61 56
10th Percentile £342 £413 £356
25th Percentile £411 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -0.42%
75th Percentile £577 £645 £600
90th Percentile £643 £703 £694
England median daily rate £525 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £36.98 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +40.75% -32.09%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £60.30
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.00 £66.88
England median hourly rate £69.44 £57.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.77% +24.51% -28.40%

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 2,539 1,830 2,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.14% 90.10% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 1,134 1,600
10th Percentile £213 £283 £306
25th Percentile £368 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £659 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 117 265
10th Percentile £18.67 £16.18 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.98 £13.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.45
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% +36.46% -37.47%
75th Percentile £65.13 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £75.83 £78.74 £55.54
England median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 89 £475 -9.52% 52
Cheshire -39 15 £479 -16.60% 8
Lancashire -11 8 £463 - 25
Merseyside -22 4 £413 -29.79% 3
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 12 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.13%) Confluence
3 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.31%) SAS
4 3 (2.48%) Apache
5 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (4.13%) Salesforce CRM
1 5 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Maximo
2 1 (0.83%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 35 (28.93%) Azure
2 22 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 19 (15.70%) AWS
4 16 (13.22%) GCP
5 15 (12.40%) dbt
6 14 (11.57%) Snowflake
7 10 (8.26%) Serverless
8 9 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (7.44%) Power Automate
9 8 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.96%) PowerApps
10 6 (4.96%) Prefect
10 6 (4.96%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (4.13%) Azure Functions
11 5 (4.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.31%) PaaS
13 2 (1.65%) IaaS
13 2 (1.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Firewall
1 4 (3.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.79%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (13.22%) Power BI
3 13 (10.74%) Snowflake Schema
4 12 (9.92%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.79%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.96%) Big Data
6 6 (4.96%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.96%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.13%) Data Vault
7 5 (4.13%) Metadata
7 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.13%) Power Query
7 5 (4.13%) Tableau
8 4 (3.31%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.31%) Redis
8 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.48%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Git
2 8 (6.61%) GitLab
2 8 (6.61%) JIRA
3 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.65%) JUnit
3 2 (1.65%) Mockito
4 1 (0.83%) Postman
4 1 (0.83%) RStudio
4 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (23.14%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 24 (19.83%) Finance
4 11 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.61%) Banking
6 7 (5.79%) Retail
7 4 (3.31%) Law
8 3 (2.48%) Games
8 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (22.31%) Architect
2 26 (21.49%) Data Engineer
3 25 (20.66%) Developer
4 21 (17.36%) Analyst
5 12 (9.92%) Data Architect
6 11 (9.09%) Senior
7 8 (6.61%) Lead
8 7 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.96%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Data Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) SAP Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) SAP Test Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) Test Analyst
11 4 (3.31%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.44%) REST
2 7 (5.79%) Spring
2 7 (5.79%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.13%) Kafka
3 5 (4.13%) RESTful
3 5 (4.13%) YAML
4 4 (3.31%) HTML5 Canvas
4 4 (3.31%) Middleware
5 3 (2.48%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (2.48%) Node.js
5 3 (2.48%) OAuth
5 3 (2.48%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.48%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.48%) OpenID
5 3 (2.48%) SOAP
5 3 (2.48%) Swagger
5 3 (2.48%) Visualforce
6 2 (1.65%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.65%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Data Structures
2 10 (8.26%) Clustering
3 9 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.79%) CMDB
4 7 (5.79%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.13%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.31%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.65%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.65%) FMCG
9 2 (1.65%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.65%) Replication
10 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.31%) Linux
1 4 (3.31%) Windows
1 4 (3.31%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.23%) Analytics
2 34 (28.10%) ETL
3 26 (21.49%) CI/CD
4 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (17.36%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (17.36%) Data Governance
6 20 (16.53%) Agile
7 19 (15.70%) Data Engineering
8 18 (14.88%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (14.05%) Data Science
9 17 (14.05%) Decision-Making
10 16 (13.22%) Translating Business Requirements
11 15 (12.40%) Mentoring
12 14 (11.57%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (10.74%) Data Architecture
13 13 (10.74%) DevOps
14 12 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
14 12 (9.92%) Data Integration
14 12 (9.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 50 (41.32%) SQL
2 27 (22.31%) Python
3 12 (9.92%) Java
4 8 (6.61%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.79%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (4.13%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.31%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.48%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.65%) C#
11 1 (0.83%) Scala
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (11.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.96%) Degree
5 5 (4.13%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.31%) CISM
6 4 (3.31%) CISSP
6 4 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) IIBA
8 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (33.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.26%) GDPR
3 7 (5.79%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.65%) CRD IV
5 2 (1.65%) FINREP
5 2 (1.65%) IFRS
5 2 (1.65%) QA
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) NCSC
6 1 (0.83%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (6.61%) Docker
2 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.31%) Terraform
2 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.65%) SCCM
4 1 (0.83%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.61%) Google
3 8 (6.61%) SAP
4 7 (5.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.13%) Databricks
6 4 (3.31%) Oracle
7 3 (2.48%) Cognos
7 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.65%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.65%) BMC
8 2 (1.65%) Informatica
8 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.65%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.83%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.83%) IBM
9 1 (0.83%) Pega
9 1 (0.83%) Sage
9 1 (0.83%) Siemens
9 1 (0.83%) SnapLogic