Data Modelling Job Trends in the North West

Data Modelling
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 101 93
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 +48
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 56 115 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.90% 2.23% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 2.46% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 41 55 78
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -2.95% +18.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,600 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £88,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -1.52% +1.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Data Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,110 4,671 3,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.50% 90.38% 89.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 2,286 2,752
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,354 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the North West over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the North West

Data Modelling
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -18 36 £67,500 +10.28% 20
Cheshire -13 9 £49,490 +1.52% 4
Merseyside +1 5 £67,500 +50.00% 7
Lancashire -11 5 £60,000 -1.97% 10
Cumbria +3 1 £90,000 +121.05% 1
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) Apache
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.93%) Power Platform
2 16 (28.57%) Azure
3 10 (17.86%) Snowflake
4 8 (14.29%) SaaS
5 6 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (7.14%) AWS
7 2 (3.57%) dbt
8 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (1.79%) Broadband
2 1 (1.79%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.93%) Power BI
2 18 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (17.86%) Data Lake
3 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (10.71%) Data Vault
5 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
5 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (5.36%) Metadata
6 3 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.57%) DB2
7 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.79%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.79%) GIS
8 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.79%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) GitLab
2 4 (7.14%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 27 (48.21%) Finance
2 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Banking
4 8 (14.29%) Retail
5 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (10.71%) Investment Banking
7 5 (8.93%) Advertising
8 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.57%) Games
9 2 (3.57%) Law
9 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.79%) Legal
10 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Senior
2 19 (33.93%) Data Engineer
3 15 (26.79%) Senior Data Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) Developer
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Snowflake Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Architect
9 4 (7.14%) Data Architect
10 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Ontologist
11 2 (3.57%) Business Manager
11 2 (3.57%) Data Scientist
11 2 (3.57%) Insight Manager
11 2 (3.57%) Python Developer
11 2 (3.57%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 2 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 2 (3.57%) Senior Games Developer
11 2 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) Kafka
1 5 (8.93%) REST
2 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 4 (7.14%) CSS
2 4 (7.14%) gRPC
2 4 (7.14%) HTML
2 4 (7.14%) RESTful
2 4 (7.14%) Spring
2 4 (7.14%) Spring Batch
2 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 3 (5.36%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.79%) .NET
4 1 (1.79%) Django
4 1 (1.79%) DPDK
4 1 (1.79%) eBPF
4 1 (1.79%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.79%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.79%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.79%) RESTCONF
4 1 (1.79%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Semantic Web
3 3 (5.36%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.79%) IoT
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.79%) NVMe
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (32.14%) Analytics
3 16 (28.57%) Data Science
4 15 (26.79%) AI
5 14 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 13 (23.21%) Agile
6 13 (23.21%) Data Engineering
6 13 (23.21%) Data Governance
7 11 (19.64%) Data Integration
7 11 (19.64%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (19.64%) Machine Learning
7 11 (19.64%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (17.86%) ETL
8 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (16.07%) Decision-Making
9 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.29%) Data Management
11 7 (12.50%) User Experience
11 7 (12.50%) Visualisation
12 6 (10.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 38 (67.86%) SQL
2 28 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (12.50%) ANSI SQL
4 6 (10.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.36%) R
6 3 (5.36%) VBA
7 1 (1.79%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (1.79%) ACCA
3 1 (1.79%) CIMA
3 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.79%) MBA
3 1 (1.79%) PhD
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Firmware
1 1 (1.79%) KVM
1 1 (1.79%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Databricks
1 9 (16.07%) Oracle
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) iManage
4 1 (1.79%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.79%) Workday