Data Modelling Contracts

Data Modelling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Modelling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Modelling over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 71 63
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,536 1,856 3,232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.57% 3.20% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.56% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 1,274 2,222
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £463 £476 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £676
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 12
10th Percentile £30.83 £19.00 £20.67
25th Percentile £35.64 £19.74 £39.88
Median hourly rate £46.75 £35.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.57% -38.60% +84.99%
75th Percentile £53.44 £65.25 £65.01
90th Percentile £64.25 £68.20 £74.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.41 £31.25 £19.13
% change year-on-year +13.32% +63.36% -18.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Modelling is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling.

Daily rate trend for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling.

Hourly rate trend for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
England +19 1,338 £550 -4.35% 507
London +26 868 £585 -2.50% 271
Work from Home +29 622 £550 -3.93% 251
UK excluding London +11 486 £525 -4.55% 247
North of England +35 155 £525 -4.55% 77
South East -26 98 £513 -2.38% 40
Midlands +39 89 £488 -15.22% 55
North West +50 84 £525 +5.00% 43
South West +32 75 £550 -16.67% 29
Yorkshire +10 66 £550 +4.76% 24
Scotland +15 60 £500 -5.66% 14
West Midlands +9 58 £425 -26.72% 44
East Midlands +47 30 £550 +57.14% 11
East of England -7 23 £525 +31.25% 19
North East 0 8 £415 -30.83% 10
Wales -5 4 £450 -18.03% 14

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 43 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 41 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.21%) Apache
4 33 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.76%) Confluence
6 26 (1.69%) SAS
7 7 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.065%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.065%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.065%) CMS
10 1 (0.065%) IIS
10 1 (0.065%) JBoss
10 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.065%) WildFly
Applications
1 65 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 26 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.46%) SPSS
5 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (2.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 33 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.59%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.46%) Siebel CRM
7 6 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
7 6 (0.39%) ION MarketView
7 6 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.39%) Unica
8 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.33%) Shopify
9 4 (0.26%) FastStats
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
10 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 391 (25.46%) Azure
2 311 (20.25%) Power Platform
3 213 (13.87%) AWS
4 116 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 83 (5.40%) GCP
6 74 (4.82%) Serverless
7 73 (4.75%) Snowflake
8 68 (4.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 58 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
11 39 (2.54%) Amazon S3
12 38 (2.47%) dbt
13 34 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (1.82%) PowerApps
15 27 (1.76%) Power Automate
16 24 (1.56%) Collibra
17 23 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (1.50%) GitHub
17 23 (1.50%) OCI
18 22 (1.43%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.30%) SAN
1 20 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
3 7 (0.46%) Internet
4 6 (0.39%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.33%) Firewall
5 5 (0.33%) Network Security
6 2 (0.13%) FTP
6 2 (0.13%) HTTP
6 2 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.065%) DNS
7 1 (0.065%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.065%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.065%) SSL
7 1 (0.065%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (25.39%) Data Warehouse
2 296 (19.27%) Power BI
3 142 (9.24%) SQL Server
4 133 (8.66%) Data Lake
4 133 (8.66%) Metadata
5 126 (8.20%) Big Data
6 122 (7.94%) NoSQL
7 114 (7.42%) Tableau
8 91 (5.92%) Relational Database
9 66 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 58 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 57 (3.71%) Data Vault
12 50 (3.26%) BigQuery
13 47 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 43 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
15 42 (2.73%) Metadata Repository
16 40 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
17 34 (2.21%) Star Schema
18 32 (2.08%) Hadoop
19 30 (1.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (4.10%) JIRA
2 58 (3.78%) ERwin
3 33 (2.15%) Git
4 19 (1.24%) ER Studio
5 17 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.72%) Eclipse
6 11 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.65%) Selenium
8 9 (0.59%) JMeter
8 9 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.46%) GitLab
10 6 (0.39%) MLflow
10 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.26%) Deequ
12 4 (0.26%) kappa
13 3 (0.20%) JUnit
13 3 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
14 2 (0.13%) Ant
General
1 391 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 363 (23.63%) Finance
3 277 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 85 (5.53%) Marketing
6 78 (5.08%) Banking
7 49 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 45 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
9 44 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 41 (2.67%) Front Office
11 37 (2.41%) Retail
12 34 (2.21%) Electronics
13 31 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 30 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (1.63%) Publishing
16 22 (1.43%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.98%) Back Office
19 14 (0.91%) Investment Banking
20 13 (0.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 364 (23.70%) Architect
2 264 (17.19%) Data Engineer
3 258 (16.80%) Data Architect
4 243 (15.82%) Developer
5 239 (15.56%) Analyst
6 147 (9.57%) Senior
7 120 (7.81%) Data Analyst
8 94 (6.12%) Data Modeller
9 86 (5.60%) Business Analyst
10 83 (5.40%) Consultant
11 79 (5.14%) Lead
12 50 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
13 45 (2.93%) Azure Data Engineer
13 45 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 39 (2.54%) Enterprise Architect
16 35 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
17 33 (2.15%) Data Scientist
17 33 (2.15%) Project Manager
18 32 (2.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (5.27%) JSON
2 74 (4.82%) PySpark
3 72 (4.69%) XML
4 47 (3.06%) REST
5 34 (2.21%) Web Services
6 33 (2.15%) Kafka
7 29 (1.89%) Apache Avro
8 21 (1.37%) Spring Boot
9 20 (1.30%) Middleware
10 19 (1.24%) .NET
10 19 (1.24%) JSON Schema
11 18 (1.17%) Spring
12 17 (1.11%) React
13 16 (1.04%) CSS
13 16 (1.04%) HTML
13 16 (1.04%) Node.js
14 15 (0.98%) Pandas
15 14 (0.91%) LDAP
16 12 (0.78%) GraphQL
16 12 (0.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.73%) Data Structures
2 73 (4.75%) Product Ownership
3 72 (4.69%) Reference Data
4 54 (3.52%) Algorithms
5 51 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 41 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 35 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.43%) Derivative
10 21 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (0.98%) CMDB
13 13 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
13 13 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.85%) Wiki
14 12 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (0.72%) Fixed Income
15 11 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.06%) Unix
2 42 (2.73%) Linux
3 30 (1.95%) Windows
4 20 (1.30%) Debian
4 20 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 12 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.065%) Android
6 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (27.67%) Business Intelligence
2 378 (24.61%) ETL
3 373 (24.28%) Analytics
4 317 (20.64%) Agile
5 303 (19.73%) Data Governance
6 243 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
7 234 (15.23%) Data Integration
8 233 (15.17%) Data Architecture
9 216 (14.06%) Data Analysis
10 194 (12.63%) Visualisation
11 187 (12.17%) Migration
12 178 (11.59%) Data Management
13 175 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
14 171 (11.13%) Data Engineering
15 145 (9.44%) Data Strategy
16 137 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 136 (8.85%) Data Migration
18 131 (8.53%) Data Visualisation
19 124 (8.07%) Computer Science
20 118 (7.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 623 (40.56%) SQL
2 361 (23.50%) Python
3 108 (7.03%) Java
4 53 (3.45%) Scala
5 47 (3.06%) C#
6 46 (2.99%) T-SQL
7 45 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 41 (2.67%) R
9 36 (2.34%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.21%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.17%) Perl
11 18 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.91%) ABAP
13 13 (0.85%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.59%) C
16 6 (0.39%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.39%) Go
17 5 (0.33%) Bash
17 5 (0.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 197 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 162 (10.55%) SC Cleared
3 153 (9.96%) Degree
4 75 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.33%) MCITP
11 5 (0.33%) MCTS
12 4 (0.26%) CBAP
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.13%) IBM Certification
15 1 (0.065%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (19.14%) Data Quality
2 78 (5.08%) QA
3 57 (3.71%) GDPR
4 17 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.78%) IFRS
6 9 (0.59%) EMIR
6 9 (0.59%) MiFID
6 9 (0.59%) SLA
7 7 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
8 6 (0.39%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.39%) IFRS 9
8 6 (0.39%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.33%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.20%) PMO
11 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.13%) GRC
11 2 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (1.63%) Docker
2 23 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.065%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.065%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.76%) Terraform
3 7 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.20%) Grafana
6 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.065%) Ansible
7 1 (0.065%) Control-M
7 1 (0.065%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.065%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.065%) Kibana
7 1 (0.065%) Rancher
Vendors
1 262 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 150 (9.77%) Databricks
3 135 (8.79%) Oracle
4 124 (8.07%) SAP
5 79 (5.14%) Sparx
6 51 (3.32%) Google
7 50 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 47 (3.06%) Informatica
9 32 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 20 (1.30%) VMware
11 15 (0.98%) IBM
12 14 (0.91%) Ab Initio
13 13 (0.85%) Guidewire
14 12 (0.78%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.78%) Talend
15 11 (0.72%) ION Trading
15 11 (0.72%) MarketAxess
15 11 (0.72%) Tradeweb
16 10 (0.65%) Palantir