Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Modelling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 82 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 635 407 549
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 3.49% 2.73% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.13% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 257 403
10th Percentile £374 £356 £400
25th Percentile £425 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +4.36%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £669 £693 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £565
% change year-on-year -1.50% -5.66% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 14
10th Percentile £36.27 £21.86 £33.28
25th Percentile £41.94 £25.26 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.50 £27.50 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +130.91% -41.29% -33.09%
75th Percentile £73.38 £65.00 £51.19
90th Percentile £80.50 £99.86 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £50.40 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.59% -15.00% -24.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in the UK excluding London

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Modelling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Modelling in the UK excluding London

Data Modelling
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 Modelling within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Midlands +20 164 £525 +10.53% 69
North of England -27 156 £475 -5.00% 88
South East +22 132 £550 -6.78% 166
West Midlands +29 131 £540 +13.68% 43
North West -15 94 £475 -5.47% 48
Scotland +37 88 £475 +3.26% 16
Yorkshire -23 57 £495 -1.00% 32
East of England 0 45 £550 +4.76% 37
South West -12 35 £525 - 29
East Midlands -8 33 £440 +9.94% 26
Wales -2 17 £600 +20.00% 12
Northern Ireland 0 8 £658 -
North East -25 4 £475 -4.52% 8
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Data Modelling
UK

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 50 (7.87%) SAS
2 35 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.68%) Apache
5 7 (1.10%) Confluence
6 5 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.47%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 23 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (1.26%) SAP MDG
5 7 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (1.10%) SAP HCM
5 7 (1.10%) SAP Payroll
5 7 (1.10%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.94%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.47%) Oracle BRM
9 3 (0.47%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.47%) SAP MDG-F
9 3 (0.47%) SAP MDG-M
9 3 (0.47%) SAP MDG-S
10 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.31%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 143 (22.52%) Azure
2 133 (20.94%) Power Platform
3 115 (18.11%) AWS
4 56 (8.82%) GCP
4 56 (8.82%) Snowflake
5 42 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 35 (5.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 28 (4.41%) dbt
8 27 (4.25%) Amazon S3
8 27 (4.25%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (3.78%) GitHub
9 24 (3.78%) Serverless
10 23 (3.62%) OCI
11 21 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.99%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 18 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (2.68%) PowerApps
15 13 (2.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 9 (1.42%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.79%) Firewall
2 4 (0.63%) Internet
3 3 (0.47%) Broadband
3 3 (0.47%) GPRS
3 3 (0.47%) GSM
3 3 (0.47%) MQTT
3 3 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.16%) Modbus
4 1 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (20.31%) Data Warehouse
2 123 (19.37%) Power BI
3 57 (8.98%) Relational Database
4 51 (8.03%) Metadata
5 38 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (5.67%) Pentaho
7 33 (5.20%) SQL Server
8 30 (4.72%) Tableau
9 27 (4.25%) Power Query
10 25 (3.94%) Big Data
10 25 (3.94%) Data Lake
11 21 (3.31%) MySQL
11 21 (3.31%) NoSQL
12 19 (2.99%) Oracle Database
13 18 (2.83%) Hadoop
13 18 (2.83%) RDBMS
13 18 (2.83%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (2.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 80 (12.60%) Git
2 60 (9.45%) JIRA
3 52 (8.19%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.20%) ERwin
5 8 (1.26%) GitLab
6 7 (1.10%) Selenium
7 6 (0.94%) JUnit
7 6 (0.94%) PyCharm
8 5 (0.79%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.79%) JMeter
8 5 (0.79%) MSTest
8 5 (0.79%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.63%) Jaeger
10 3 (0.47%) Maven
10 3 (0.47%) Storybook
11 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.31%) Mockito
11 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 257 (40.47%) Social Skills
2 155 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (21.26%) Finance
4 62 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 51 (8.03%) Banking
6 26 (4.09%) Marketing
7 21 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.05%) Retail
11 10 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Billing
14 4 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.63%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.47%) Electronics
15 3 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 149 (23.46%) Architect
2 96 (15.12%) Analyst
3 92 (14.49%) Data Engineer
4 91 (14.33%) Developer
5 64 (10.08%) Data Architect
6 55 (8.66%) Data Analyst
7 42 (6.61%) Lead
7 42 (6.61%) Senior
8 37 (5.83%) Consultant
9 33 (5.20%) Business Analyst
10 32 (5.04%) Data Modeller
11 28 (4.41%) Salesforce Architect
11 28 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (2.36%) Enterprise Architect
14 14 (2.20%) Power BI Developer
15 13 (2.05%) SAP Consultant
15 13 (2.05%) ServiceNow Architect
15 13 (2.05%) Technical Architect
16 12 (1.89%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.55%) REST
2 53 (8.35%) SOAP
3 28 (4.41%) Lightning Web Components
4 27 (4.25%) Visualforce
5 22 (3.46%) PySpark
6 21 (3.31%) Spring Boot
6 21 (3.31%) Web Services
7 19 (2.99%) Middleware
8 17 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (2.68%) Spring
9 16 (2.52%) RESTful
10 14 (2.20%) Kafka
10 14 (2.20%) React
10 14 (2.20%) XML
11 13 (2.05%) HTML
12 12 (1.89%) Node.js
13 11 (1.73%) CSS
13 11 (1.73%) Pandas
14 10 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
15 8 (1.26%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 29 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.15%) CMDB
8 16 (2.52%) Replication
9 15 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (2.20%) Clustering
11 13 (2.05%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.57%) NHS
12 10 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.94%) Taxonomies
15 5 (0.79%) FMCG
15 5 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.98%) Linux
2 26 (4.09%) Unix
3 6 (0.94%) Windows
4 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Debian
5 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (32.28%) Business Intelligence
2 197 (31.02%) Agile
3 195 (30.71%) Analytics
4 178 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
5 172 (27.09%) ETL
6 149 (23.46%) Data Governance
7 125 (19.69%) Migration
8 112 (17.64%) DevOps
9 105 (16.54%) Data Pipeline
10 102 (16.06%) Data Architecture
11 99 (15.59%) CI/CD
12 96 (15.12%) Visualisation
13 95 (14.96%) Data Integration
14 85 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 80 (12.60%) Decision-Making
16 76 (11.97%) Data Analysis
17 72 (11.34%) Scrum
18 69 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 65 (10.24%) Data Engineering
20 63 (9.92%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 274 (43.15%) SQL
2 168 (26.46%) Python
3 41 (6.46%) Java
4 34 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 31 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (4.25%) Apex Code
7 19 (2.99%) Bash
8 18 (2.83%) PL/SQL
9 13 (2.05%) ABAP
10 12 (1.89%) R
11 11 (1.73%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.57%) C#
12 10 (1.57%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.42%) VBA
14 7 (1.10%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.10%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.79%) Scala
16 4 (0.63%) Rust
16 4 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 104 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 76 (11.97%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.34%) Degree
4 34 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.94%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.63%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.63%) OCP
11 4 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.31%) OCA
13 2 (0.31%) PMP
13 2 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (23.78%) Data Quality
2 55 (8.66%) GDPR
3 26 (4.09%) QA
4 16 (2.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.42%) GRC
8 7 (1.10%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.63%) PMO
10 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.47%) FINREP
11 3 (0.47%) GMP
11 3 (0.47%) HL7
11 3 (0.47%) NIST
12 2 (0.31%) Basel III
12 2 (0.31%) GxP
12 2 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (11.50%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 60 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.46%) Terraform
3 19 (2.99%) Ansible
3 19 (2.99%) Kibana
4 10 (1.57%) Grafana
4 10 (1.57%) Puppet
5 7 (1.10%) logstash
6 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.63%) Kiali
8 2 (0.31%) Consul
8 2 (0.31%) Control-M
8 2 (0.31%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 104 (16.38%) Oracle
2 84 (13.23%) Microsoft
3 53 (8.35%) Databricks
4 52 (8.19%) Salesforce
5 49 (7.72%) SAP
6 40 (6.30%) Talend
7 36 (5.67%) ServiceNow
8 34 (5.35%) Denodo
9 21 (3.31%) Splunk
10 15 (2.36%) Google
10 15 (2.36%) Informatica
11 8 (1.26%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.26%) IBM
12 7 (1.10%) Cognos
13 6 (0.94%) Teradata
14 5 (0.79%) Computacenter
14 5 (0.79%) Pega
14 5 (0.79%) Virgin Media
15 4 (0.63%) Sparx
15 4 (0.63%) StreamSets