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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 72 63
Rank change year-on-year +19 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,566 1,908 3,279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.59% 3.20% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.56% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,319 2,257
10th Percentile £400 £410 £406
25th Percentile £463 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 14
10th Percentile £30.37 £19.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.74 £22.24
Median hourly rate £48.50 £35.00 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -27.46% +50.78%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.25 £64.00
90th Percentile £64.53 £68.20 £72.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £31.25 £19.13
% change year-on-year -2.40% +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 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +23 1,366 £550 -4.35% 540
London +28 886 £600 - 294
Work from Home +29 638 £550 -1.17% 263
UK excluding London +19 490 £525 -4.55% 259
North of England +32 157 £525 -8.70% 83
South East -32 99 £513 -2.38% 49
Midlands +31 87 £500 -11.89% 52
North West +53 83 £525 - 53
South West +34 75 £550 -15.38% 22
Yorkshire +8 68 £557 +1.27% 23
Scotland +13 58 £500 -5.66% 14
West Midlands +7 58 £450 -21.40% 36
East of England +1 29 £500 +25.00% 24
East Midlands +44 28 £550 +46.67% 15
North East +7 9 £454 -24.33% 7
Wales -10 4 £450 -18.03% 17

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 46 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 36 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 31 (1.98%) Confluence
5 29 (1.85%) Apache
6 28 (1.79%) SAS
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.064%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.064%) CMS
10 1 (0.064%) IIS
10 1 (0.064%) JBoss
10 1 (0.064%) Luigi
10 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.064%) WildFly
Applications
1 67 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 27 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.45%) SPSS
7 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 48 (3.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 33 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.57%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.45%) SAP MDG
5 7 (0.45%) Siebel CRM
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
6 6 (0.38%) ION MarketView
6 6 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.38%) Unica
7 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.32%) Shopify
8 4 (0.26%) FastStats
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 398 (25.42%) Azure
2 314 (20.05%) Power Platform
3 217 (13.86%) AWS
4 119 (7.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 85 (5.43%) GCP
6 75 (4.79%) Serverless
7 69 (4.41%) Snowflake
8 67 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 61 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (2.62%) Amazon S3
12 36 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (1.92%) dbt
14 28 (1.79%) OCI
15 26 (1.66%) AWS Step Functions
16 25 (1.60%) PowerApps
17 23 (1.47%) Azure Stack
17 23 (1.47%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.40%) GitHub
19 21 (1.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.40%) SAN
2 21 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (0.45%) Internet
5 6 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.32%) Firewall
7 4 (0.26%) Network Security
8 3 (0.19%) DNS
9 2 (0.13%) Broadband
9 2 (0.13%) FTP
9 2 (0.13%) HTTP
9 2 (0.13%) VPN
10 1 (0.064%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.064%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.064%) SSL
10 1 (0.064%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (25.61%) Data Warehouse
2 297 (18.97%) Power BI
3 139 (8.88%) SQL Server
4 134 (8.56%) Metadata
5 131 (8.37%) Big Data
5 131 (8.37%) Data Lake
6 120 (7.66%) NoSQL
7 117 (7.47%) Tableau
8 92 (5.87%) Relational Database
9 71 (4.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 57 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 57 (3.64%) Data Vault
11 52 (3.32%) BigQuery
12 50 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 49 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
14 42 (2.68%) Metadata Repository
15 38 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
16 36 (2.30%) Hadoop
17 35 (2.23%) Star Schema
18 30 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 67 (4.28%) JIRA
2 60 (3.83%) ERwin
3 30 (1.92%) Git
4 22 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.34%) ER Studio
6 13 (0.83%) Eclipse
7 11 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.64%) Selenium
8 10 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 9 (0.57%) JMeter
10 7 (0.45%) GitLab
11 6 (0.38%) MLflow
11 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.26%) Deequ
13 4 (0.26%) kappa
13 4 (0.26%) Maven
14 3 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
General
1 402 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 360 (22.99%) Finance
3 279 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.75%) Marketing
6 82 (5.24%) Banking
7 51 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 48 (3.07%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (2.75%) Front Office
11 37 (2.36%) Retail
12 34 (2.17%) Electronics
13 33 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 25 (1.60%) Publishing
16 22 (1.40%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (1.02%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.83%) Back Office
20 12 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 379 (24.20%) Architect
2 275 (17.56%) Data Engineer
3 265 (16.92%) Data Architect
4 249 (15.90%) Analyst
5 247 (15.77%) Developer
6 146 (9.32%) Senior
7 126 (8.05%) Data Analyst
8 89 (5.68%) Business Analyst
8 89 (5.68%) Data Modeller
9 82 (5.24%) Consultant
10 79 (5.04%) Lead
11 52 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
12 51 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (2.87%) Azure Data Engineer
14 42 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 39 (2.49%) Enterprise Architect
16 36 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
17 34 (2.17%) Python Developer
17 34 (2.17%) SQL Developer
18 33 (2.11%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.30%) JSON
2 71 (4.53%) XML
3 67 (4.28%) PySpark
4 51 (3.26%) REST
5 37 (2.36%) Kafka
6 31 (1.98%) Web Services
7 28 (1.79%) Apache Avro
8 25 (1.60%) Spring Boot
9 22 (1.40%) Middleware
10 21 (1.34%) Spring
11 20 (1.28%) React
12 19 (1.21%) .NET
12 19 (1.21%) JSON Schema
13 18 (1.15%) CSS
13 18 (1.15%) HTML
14 16 (1.02%) Pandas
15 15 (0.96%) Node.js
16 14 (0.89%) LDAP
17 13 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
18 12 (0.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.75%) Data Structures
2 70 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.41%) Reference Data
4 55 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 51 (3.26%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 35 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 29 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.40%) Derivative
10 19 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (0.96%) CMDB
14 13 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (0.83%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.83%) Wiki
15 11 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (0.70%) Fixed Income
15 11 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.81%) Linux
1 44 (2.81%) Unix
2 25 (1.60%) Windows
3 21 (1.34%) Debian
3 21 (1.34%) Ubuntu
4 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.064%) Android
5 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
2 390 (24.90%) ETL
3 387 (24.71%) Analytics
4 316 (20.18%) Agile
5 297 (18.97%) Data Governance
6 251 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (15.45%) Data Integration
8 233 (14.88%) Data Architecture
9 228 (14.56%) Data Analysis
10 194 (12.39%) Visualisation
11 192 (12.26%) Migration
12 186 (11.88%) Data Management
13 173 (11.05%) Data Pipeline
14 165 (10.54%) Data Engineering
15 147 (9.39%) Data Strategy
16 135 (8.62%) Data Migration
16 135 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
17 130 (8.30%) Data Visualisation
18 123 (7.85%) DevOps
19 121 (7.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 641 (40.93%) SQL
2 365 (23.31%) Python
3 113 (7.22%) Java
4 47 (3.00%) T-SQL
5 46 (2.94%) Scala
6 45 (2.87%) R
7 44 (2.81%) C#
7 44 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 35 (2.23%) JavaScript
9 34 (2.17%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.09%) Perl
11 17 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 13 (0.83%) ABAP
13 10 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.57%) C
15 6 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.38%) Go
16 5 (0.32%) Bash
16 5 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 211 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 174 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 151 (9.64%) Degree
4 74 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.19%) CBAP
12 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.13%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.064%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.064%) PMP
14 1 (0.064%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 74 (4.73%) QA
3 59 (3.77%) GDPR
4 21 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.89%) IFRS
6 9 (0.57%) EMIR
6 9 (0.57%) MiFID
6 9 (0.57%) SLA
7 8 (0.51%) IFRS 9
8 7 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
8 7 (0.45%) IFRS 17
9 5 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.19%) PMO
12 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.13%) COBIT
12 2 (0.13%) GRC
12 2 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (1.79%) Docker
2 19 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) HDFS
4 1 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.064%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.064%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.92%) Terraform
3 6 (0.38%) Grafana
4 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.064%) Ansible
7 1 (0.064%) Control-M
7 1 (0.064%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.064%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.064%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.064%) Kibana
7 1 (0.064%) Rancher
Vendors
1 263 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 149 (9.51%) Databricks
2 149 (9.51%) Oracle
3 120 (7.66%) SAP
4 83 (5.30%) Sparx
5 57 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 55 (3.51%) Google
7 54 (3.45%) Informatica
8 37 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.34%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.34%) VMware
10 15 (0.96%) IBM
10 15 (0.96%) Talend
11 12 (0.77%) Bloomberg
12 11 (0.70%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.70%) ION Trading
12 11 (0.70%) MarketAxess
12 11 (0.70%) Tradeweb
13 10 (0.64%) Foundry
13 10 (0.64%) Palantir