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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 42 65
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 124 93 79
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.15% 4.62% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 5.12% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 61 57
10th Percentile £343 £419 £358
25th Percentile £409 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.94% +9.05% -0.46%
75th Percentile £576 £665 £600
90th Percentile £629 £703 £693
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile £36.98 £65.25 -
25th Percentile - £65.63 -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £67.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.87% +46.17% -32.09%
75th Percentile £71.50 £70.63 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.75 £59.72
England median hourly rate £69.44 £56.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.90% +22.35% -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 2,541 1,815 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.01% 90.25% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,611 1,134 1,605
10th Percentile £220 £275 £307
25th Percentile £367 £390 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 115 264
10th Percentile £19.18 £16.95 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.23 £13.67
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.53
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% +36.00% -36.92%
75th Percentile £66.00 £59.95 £45.00
90th Percentile £75.85 £79.35 £52.78
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 91 £475 -10.59% 44
Cheshire -33 16 £465 -18.95% 11
Lancashire -11 8 £463 - 20
Merseyside -22 4 £413 -34.00% 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 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.65%) Confluence
3 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.23%) SAS
4 3 (2.42%) Apache
5 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.81%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (4.03%) Salesforce CRM
1 5 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Maximo
2 1 (0.81%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.84%) Azure
2 24 (19.35%) Power Platform
3 20 (16.13%) AWS
4 16 (12.90%) GCP
5 15 (12.10%) dbt
6 14 (11.29%) Snowflake
7 11 (8.87%) Serverless
8 10 (8.06%) Power Automate
9 9 (7.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.84%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (4.84%) PowerApps
11 6 (4.84%) Prefect
11 6 (4.84%) SuccessFactors
12 5 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.23%) PaaS
14 3 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
15 2 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) Firewall
1 4 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (14.52%) Power BI
3 14 (11.29%) SQL Server
4 13 (10.48%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.65%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.84%) Big Data
7 6 (4.84%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.84%) Metadata
7 6 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.84%) Power Query
7 6 (4.84%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.84%) Tableau
8 5 (4.03%) Data Vault
9 4 (3.23%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.23%) Redis
9 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Git
2 10 (8.06%) JIRA
3 8 (6.45%) GitLab
4 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.61%) JUnit
4 2 (1.61%) Mockito
5 1 (0.81%) Postman
5 1 (0.81%) RStudio
5 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
1 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.16%) Finance
3 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.26%) Banking
5 7 (5.65%) Retail
6 4 (3.23%) Law
7 3 (2.42%) Games
7 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Legal
8 2 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (21.77%) Architect
1 27 (21.77%) Developer
2 26 (20.97%) Data Engineer
3 22 (17.74%) Analyst
4 13 (10.48%) Data Architect
4 13 (10.48%) Senior
5 8 (6.45%) Lead
6 7 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.84%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (4.03%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (4.03%) SAP Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) SAP Test Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.23%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.45%) REST
2 7 (5.65%) Spring
2 7 (5.65%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.84%) RESTful
3 6 (4.84%) YAML
4 5 (4.03%) Kafka
5 4 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (3.23%) Middleware
6 3 (2.42%) .NET
6 3 (2.42%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.42%) Entity Framework
6 3 (2.42%) Node.js
6 3 (2.42%) OAuth
6 3 (2.42%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.42%) OpenID
6 3 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.42%) React
6 3 (2.42%) SOAP
6 3 (2.42%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.29%) Data Structures
2 10 (8.06%) Clustering
3 9 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.65%) CMDB
4 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.03%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.23%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.61%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.61%) FMCG
8 2 (1.61%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.61%) Replication
9 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.23%) Linux
1 4 (3.23%) Windows
1 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.45%) Analytics
2 36 (29.03%) ETL
3 28 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 26 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (18.55%) Agile
6 23 (18.55%) Data Governance
7 19 (15.32%) Data Engineering
8 18 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (13.71%) Data Science
9 17 (13.71%) Decision-Making
9 17 (13.71%) Translating Business Requirements
10 16 (12.90%) Mentoring
11 15 (12.10%) Data Integration
12 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.29%) Data Architecture
12 14 (11.29%) DevOps
12 14 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (10.48%) Data Analysis
13 13 (10.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 51 (41.13%) SQL
2 27 (21.77%) Python
3 12 (9.68%) Java
4 8 (6.45%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (5.65%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.03%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.42%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.42%) C#
9 1 (0.81%) Scala
9 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (7.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.84%) Degree
4 5 (4.03%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.23%) CISM
5 4 (3.23%) CISSP
5 4 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) IIBA
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.06%) GDPR
3 7 (5.65%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.42%) QA
6 2 (1.61%) CRD IV
6 2 (1.61%) FINREP
6 2 (1.61%) GRC
6 2 (1.61%) IFRS
7 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (6.45%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.03%) Terraform
2 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.61%) SCCM
4 1 (0.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.87%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.45%) Google
3 8 (6.45%) SAP
4 7 (5.65%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.03%) Databricks
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle
6 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.42%) Cognos
6 3 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.61%) BMC
7 2 (1.61%) Informatica
7 2 (1.61%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.81%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.81%) IBM
8 1 (0.81%) IDERA
8 1 (0.81%) Pega
8 1 (0.81%) Sage
8 1 (0.81%) Siemens
8 1 (0.81%) Workday