Data Modelling Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Modelling
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 75 68
Rank change year-on-year +34 -7 -40
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 67 42 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.56% 2.04% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 2.52% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 50
10th Percentile £350 £235 £450
25th Percentile £418 £313 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £580
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% -22.41% +7.41%
75th Percentile £556 £560 £675
90th Percentile £631 £655 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.44 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +23.53% +17.24% -40.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,305 1,666 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.78% 80.91% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 1,102 1,326
10th Percentile £201 £271 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £612
90th Percentile £663 £737 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 121 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.32 £14.25 £14.20
Median hourly rate £23.36 £22.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% -4.70% +34.91%
75th Percentile £32.29 £40.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £49.38
England median hourly rate £26.75 £38.06 £35.25
% change year-on-year -29.72% +7.97% +37.27%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in the West Midlands

Data Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Modelling in the West Midlands

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in the West Midlands

Data Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Modelling in the West Midlands

Data Modelling
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Warwickshire +18 22 £550 -15.38% 29
Birmingham -3 14 £483 +10.29% 78
Shropshire - 14 £487 - 41
Coventry +5 6 £450 -18.18% 38
Solihull +12 3 £310 -44.64%
Staffordshire +5 2 £550 +62.96% 50
Worcestershire +3 2 £575 +4.55% 24
Herefordshire - 1 £400 -
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.48%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Maximo
1 3 (4.48%) SAP PM
1 3 (4.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.99%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.27%) Power Platform
2 30 (44.78%) Azure
3 15 (22.39%) PowerApps
4 8 (11.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (8.96%) AWS
7 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.46%) Serverless
8 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.97%) Collibra
8 4 (5.97%) GCP
8 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (5.97%) SaaS
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.48%) GitHub
9 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.48%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.99%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Firewall
1 2 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (28.36%) Power BI
2 16 (23.88%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.96%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.46%) Metadata
4 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.48%) Big Data
6 3 (4.48%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.48%) GIS
6 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.48%) Tableau
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.99%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (2.99%) SAP BW
7 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) ERwin
3 1 (1.49%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.49%) MLflow
3 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (64.18%) Social Skills
2 19 (28.36%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Finance
4 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Legal
5 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.49%) Military
5 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Architect
2 15 (22.39%) Data Architect
3 14 (20.90%) Analyst
3 14 (20.90%) Lead
4 10 (14.93%) Data Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Business Analyst
6 8 (11.94%) Technical Leader
7 7 (10.45%) Senior
8 6 (8.96%) Data Analyst
9 5 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.97%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 2 (2.99%) Consultant
12 2 (2.99%) Data Modeller
12 2 (2.99%) Project Manager
12 2 (2.99%) Python Developer
12 2 (2.99%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) Kafka
2 2 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.99%) Django
2 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.99%) MACH
3 1 (1.49%) FHIR
3 1 (1.49%) OLE
3 1 (1.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.97%) IoT
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.48%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.48%) SCADA
4 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Replication
5 1 (1.49%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (37.31%) Agile
3 22 (32.84%) Data Governance
4 21 (31.34%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (28.36%) DevOps
6 16 (23.88%) Analytics
6 16 (23.88%) Data Architecture
6 16 (23.88%) ETL
7 14 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (19.40%) Data Analysis
9 12 (17.91%) Configuration Management
9 12 (17.91%) Data Integration
9 12 (17.91%) OO
9 12 (17.91%) Problem Management
9 12 (17.91%) Process Improvement
9 12 (17.91%) Test Strategy
10 10 (14.93%) Business Analysis
10 10 (14.93%) Migration
11 9 (13.43%) Visualisation
11 9 (13.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.75%) SQL
2 14 (20.90%) Python
3 5 (7.46%) R
4 4 (5.97%) Java
4 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.48%) Bicep
5 3 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.99%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) Degree
3 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) CITP
5 1 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.87%) Data Quality
2 7 (10.45%) GDPR
3 5 (7.46%) NIST
4 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.49%) NCSC
5 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.97%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) Kibana
2 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.99%) logstash
3 1 (1.49%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) SAP
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.45%) Databricks
4 5 (7.46%) Informatica
4 5 (7.46%) Oracle
5 3 (4.48%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) OpenText
6 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) Cognos
7 1 (1.49%) IBM
7 1 (1.49%) Workday