Physical Data Model Contracts

Physical Data Model
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Physical Data Model skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Physical Data Model over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 483 617
Rank change year-on-year +32 +134 -34
Contract jobs citing Physical Data Model 75 100 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 77 55
10th Percentile £359 £443 £443
25th Percentile £450 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £756
90th Percentile £676 £743 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -15.45% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Physical Data Model 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,620 37,484 53,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 86.34% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,162 24,149 37,016
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 2,454 1,744
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%
75th Percentile £60.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%

Physical Data Model
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Physical Data Model in the UK

Physical Data Model
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Physical Data Model in the UK

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physical Data Model over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Physical Data Model in the UK

Physical Data Model
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Physical Data Model in the UK

Physical Data Model
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physical Data Model within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +44 69 £500 -16.67% 44
London +21 47 £538 -10.42% 31
Work from Home +16 38 £500 -16.67% 18
UK excluding London +62 21 £465 -15.45% 19
South East +44 10 £478 -6.83% 8
South West +31 4 £450 -7.69% 3
North of England +4 4 £450 -14.29% 5
East of England +37 2 £500 -13.04%
Midlands +19 2 £458 +7.65% 1
North West +1 2 £450 -14.29% 3
North East - 2 £456 -
West Midlands - 2 £458 - 1
Scotland +11 1 £608 -14.97%
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 2

Physical Data Model
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 4 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (9.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) AWS
2 17 (22.67%) Azure
3 15 (20.00%) dbt
4 9 (12.00%) Snowflake
5 8 (10.67%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.67%) SaaS
7 4 (5.33%) GCP
7 4 (5.33%) OCI
8 2 (2.67%) GitHub
8 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.33%) Collibra
9 1 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (44.00%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (25.33%) Relational Database
3 17 (22.67%) Metadata
4 15 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 13 (17.33%) Big Data
6 11 (14.67%) NoSQL
7 8 (10.67%) Power BI
7 8 (10.67%) RDBMS
8 7 (9.33%) Tableau
9 6 (8.00%) Data Vault
9 6 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (8.00%) Star Schema
10 4 (5.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (5.33%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
11 2 (2.67%) Looker
11 2 (2.67%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.67%) TKPROF
Development Applications
1 24 (32.00%) ERwin
2 8 (10.67%) ER Studio
3 5 (6.67%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.67%) Git
5 1 (1.33%) JIRA
5 1 (1.33%) Liquibase
General
1 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Finance
3 9 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.00%) Retail
4 7 (9.33%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Back Office
8 1 (1.33%) Front Office
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (36.00%) Data Modeller
2 21 (28.00%) Architect
3 18 (24.00%) Data Architect
4 11 (14.67%) Senior
5 8 (10.67%) Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Lead
9 3 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Data Analyst
10 2 (2.67%) Lead Data Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Oracle Analyst
10 2 (2.67%) Principal Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Principal Data Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Senior Data Modeller
10 2 (2.67%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.67%) Snowflake Developer
10 2 (2.67%) SQL Analyst
10 2 (2.67%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) Jinja
2 5 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (5.33%) XML
4 2 (2.67%) FHIR
4 2 (2.67%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.67%) Node.js
4 2 (2.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.33%) Data Fabric
2 4 (5.33%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.00%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.67%) FMCG
5 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 60 (80.00%) Logical Data Model
3 29 (38.67%) Data Architecture
4 24 (32.00%) Analytics
5 22 (29.33%) ETL
6 19 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 13 (17.33%) Data Integration
8 13 (17.33%) Data Strategy
9 11 (14.67%) Metadata Management
9 11 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.00%) Migration
11 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
11 8 (10.67%) Conceptual Models
11 8 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (10.67%) Machine Learning
12 7 (9.33%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (9.33%) Data Science
12 7 (9.33%) Translating Business Requirements
12 7 (9.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.00%) SQL
2 9 (12.00%) Python
3 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.33%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (2.67%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.67%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Oracle
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) SAP
3 9 (12.00%) Databricks
3 9 (12.00%) Sparx
4 3 (4.00%) Workday
5 2 (2.67%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.67%) Google
5 2 (2.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) Ariba