Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Modelling
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 16 45
Rank change year-on-year -52 +29 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 6 47 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.04% 11.78% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 13.28% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 32 8
10th Percentile £346 £429 -
25th Percentile £348 £498 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £518 £400
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +29.38% -15.79%
75th Percentile £365 £554 £525
90th Percentile £367 £587 £578
South Yorkshire median daily rate £363 £518 £400
% change year-on-year -29.95% +29.38% -15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 551 354 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.49% 88.72% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 185 252
10th Percentile £291 £361 £400
25th Percentile £382 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £592
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -11.24% +12.67%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £688
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £14.77 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in Sheffield

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) Power Query
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) DataStage
2 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Flink
2 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Finance Modeller
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Extraction
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) VBA
4 1 (16.67%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Talend