Data Modeller Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Modeller
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Modeller daily rate in the UK excluding London is £548, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 375 433
Rank change year-on-year +78 +58 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Data Modeller 39 24 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 16
10th Percentile £453 £413 £369
25th Percentile £466 £419 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £500 £537
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -6.89% -10.50%
75th Percentile £590 £594 £549
90th Percentile £631 £600 £594
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Modeller
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Modeller in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modeller in the UK excluding London

Data Modeller
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Modeller in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Modeller in the UK excluding London

Data Modeller
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modeller in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modeller in the UK excluding London

Data Modeller
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Modeller in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Modeller in the UK excluding London

Data Modeller
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modeller within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South East +56 17 £550 -8.33% 3
North of England +22 12 £475 +11.76% 2
North West +14 6 £469 +10.29% 2
Scotland +15 5 £592 - 2
Midlands +24 4 £558 +11.50% 1
West Midlands +16 4 £558 +11.50% 1
North East - 4 £463 -
East of England +32 3 £525 -8.70% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £650 -
Data Modeller
UK

Data Modeller Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Modeller contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Modeller in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 27 (69.23%) ERwin
3 24 (61.54%) SQL
4 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
5 15 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (35.90%) Finance
6 14 (35.90%) Data Architecture
7 13 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
8 12 (30.77%) PowerDesigner
9 11 (28.21%) Data Management
9 11 (28.21%) Analytics
9 11 (28.21%) Data Structures
9 11 (28.21%) Sparx
9 11 (28.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 11 (28.21%) Logical Data Model
10 10 (25.64%) Relational Database
10 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (25.64%) Azure
10 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
10 10 (25.64%) ETL
11 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (23.08%) Metadata
12 8 (20.51%) Migration
12 8 (20.51%) Big Data
12 8 (20.51%) ER Studio
13 7 (17.95%) Databricks
13 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
13 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (17.95%) Degree
14 6 (15.38%) Agile

Data Modeller Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (15.38%) Confluence
2 5 (12.82%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.26%) AWS
3 4 (10.26%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.56%) Collibra
6 1 (2.56%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (25.64%) Relational Database
3 9 (23.08%) Metadata
4 8 (20.51%) Big Data
5 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
6 6 (15.38%) Data Lake
7 5 (12.82%) Power BI
7 5 (12.82%) RDBMS
8 3 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (7.69%) Bigtable
8 3 (7.69%) Data Vault
8 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
9 2 (5.13%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (5.13%) MySQL
9 2 (5.13%) OLAP
9 2 (5.13%) Oracle OLAP
9 2 (5.13%) Star Schema
9 2 (5.13%) Tableau
10 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (69.23%) ERwin
2 12 (30.77%) PowerDesigner
3 8 (20.51%) ER Studio
General
1 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Finance
3 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Military
8 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (5.13%) FpML
1 2 (5.13%) JSON
1 2 (5.13%) XML
2 1 (2.56%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.69%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.13%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 14 (35.90%) Data Architecture
3 13 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
4 11 (28.21%) Analytics
4 11 (28.21%) Data Management
4 11 (28.21%) Logical Data Model
5 10 (25.64%) ETL
6 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (20.51%) Migration
8 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (15.38%) Agile
9 6 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
9 6 (15.38%) Architecture Roadmap
9 6 (15.38%) BPMN
9 6 (15.38%) Data Migration
9 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
10 5 (12.82%) Data Analysis
10 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (12.82%) UML
11 4 (10.26%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.13%) IFRS
1 2 (5.13%) IFRS 9
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Sparx
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.95%) Databricks
4 5 (12.82%) Oracle
4 5 (12.82%) SAP
5 4 (10.26%) IDERA
6 3 (7.69%) IBM
7 2 (5.13%) Workday