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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 72 65
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,523 1,835 3,200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.58% 3.21% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.58% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,256 2,205
10th Percentile £400 £411 £406
25th Percentile £463 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £663 £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 21 23 12
10th Percentile £30.37 £19.00 £21.84
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.74 £42.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -38.60% +101.32%
75th Percentile £51.75 £65.25 £65.01
90th Percentile £64.53 £68.20 £74.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.41 £31.25 £19.13
% change year-on-year +13.32% +63.36% -16.43%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +20 1,326 £550 -4.35% 545
London +29 847 £575 -4.17% 266
Work from Home +29 607 £550 -3.93% 239
UK excluding London +20 500 £525 -4.55% 300
North of England +39 175 £525 -3.67% 92
South East -34 90 £500 -4.76% 51
North West +53 87 £525 +5.00% 50
Midlands +34 86 £481 -16.30% 64
Yorkshire +15 83 £514 -2.19% 30
South West +39 78 £550 -17.85% 35
Scotland +27 63 £500 -9.09% 19
West Midlands +7 55 £425 -27.35% 50
East Midlands +36 30 £550 +57.14% 14
East of England -3 22 £525 +31.25% 18
North East -1 8 £415 -30.83% 12
Wales 0 4 £450 -18.03% 16

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 52 (3.41%) Apache Spark
2 41 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.17%) Apache
4 32 (2.10%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.77%) Confluence
6 25 (1.64%) 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 (0.066%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.066%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.066%) CMS
10 1 (0.066%) IIS
10 1 (0.066%) JBoss
10 1 (0.066%) Mendix
10 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.066%) WildFly
Applications
1 67 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.02%) MS Visio
3 27 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.46%) SPSS
5 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 43 (2.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 33 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.66%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.53%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
6 6 (0.39%) ION MarketView
6 6 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
6 6 (0.39%) Unica
7 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.33%) Shopify
8 4 (0.26%) FastStats
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
9 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 401 (26.33%) Azure
2 301 (19.76%) Power Platform
3 227 (14.90%) AWS
4 116 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 94 (6.17%) GCP
6 80 (5.25%) Serverless
7 73 (4.79%) Snowflake
8 68 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
11 46 (3.02%) Amazon S3
12 38 (2.50%) dbt
13 34 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (1.58%) Collibra
15 23 (1.51%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (1.51%) GitHub
15 23 (1.51%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.51%) PowerApps
16 21 (1.38%) Azure Stack
16 21 (1.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.98%) SAN
1 15 (0.98%) 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 (0.066%) DNS
7 1 (0.066%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.066%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.066%) SSL
7 1 (0.066%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (25.48%) Data Warehouse
2 287 (18.84%) Power BI
3 140 (9.19%) Data Lake
3 140 (9.19%) SQL Server
4 134 (8.80%) Big Data
5 131 (8.60%) Metadata
6 120 (7.88%) NoSQL
7 113 (7.42%) Tableau
8 94 (6.17%) Relational Database
9 65 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 64 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 59 (3.87%) Data Vault
12 56 (3.68%) BigQuery
13 46 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 42 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
15 41 (2.69%) Metadata Repository
15 41 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
16 40 (2.63%) Hadoop
17 32 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
17 32 (2.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 66 (4.33%) JIRA
2 57 (3.74%) ERwin
3 47 (3.09%) Git
4 26 (1.71%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.18%) ER Studio
6 11 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.66%) Eclipse
7 10 (0.66%) Selenium
8 9 (0.59%) JMeter
9 7 (0.46%) GitLab
9 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.39%) MLflow
11 5 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.26%) Deequ
12 4 (0.26%) kappa
12 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.20%) JUnit
13 3 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
14 2 (0.13%) Ant
General
1 386 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 359 (23.57%) Finance
3 276 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (10.31%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.45%) Marketing
6 81 (5.32%) Banking
7 49 (3.22%) Manufacturing
8 44 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
8 44 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 39 (2.56%) Front Office
10 37 (2.43%) Retail
11 34 (2.23%) Electronics
12 31 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 30 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.64%) Publishing
15 22 (1.44%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.98%) Back Office
18 14 (0.92%) Billing
18 14 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 366 (24.03%) Architect
2 259 (17.01%) Data Engineer
3 255 (16.74%) Data Architect
4 236 (15.50%) Developer
5 229 (15.04%) Analyst
6 142 (9.32%) Senior
7 112 (7.35%) Data Analyst
8 97 (6.37%) Data Modeller
9 85 (5.58%) Business Analyst
10 78 (5.12%) Consultant
10 78 (5.12%) Lead
11 50 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 43 (2.82%) Azure Data Engineer
15 38 (2.50%) Enterprise Architect
16 36 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
17 35 (2.30%) Data Scientist
18 33 (2.17%) Project Manager
19 29 (1.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.06%) JSON
2 72 (4.73%) PySpark
3 71 (4.66%) XML
4 44 (2.89%) REST
5 40 (2.63%) Kafka
6 35 (2.30%) Web Services
7 29 (1.90%) Apache Avro
8 23 (1.51%) Spring Boot
9 21 (1.38%) HTML
10 20 (1.31%) Middleware
11 19 (1.25%) CSS
11 19 (1.25%) JSON Schema
12 18 (1.18%) Spring
13 17 (1.12%) .NET
14 16 (1.05%) GraphQL
14 16 (1.05%) Node.js
14 16 (1.05%) React
15 15 (0.98%) Pandas
15 15 (0.98%) RESTful
15 15 (0.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 72 (4.73%) Product Ownership
2 72 (4.73%) Reference Data
3 51 (3.35%) Algorithms
4 50 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.44%) Derivative
9 21 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (0.98%) CMDB
13 13 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
13 13 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.85%) Wiki
14 11 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.72%) Fixed Income
14 11 (0.72%) NHS
15 10 (0.66%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.35%) Unix
2 37 (2.43%) Linux
3 32 (2.10%) Windows
4 15 (0.98%) Debian
4 15 (0.98%) Ubuntu
5 12 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.066%) Android
6 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (27.25%) Business Intelligence
2 385 (25.28%) ETL
3 374 (24.56%) Analytics
4 313 (20.55%) Agile
5 308 (20.22%) Data Governance
6 246 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (15.89%) Data Integration
8 226 (14.84%) Data Architecture
9 214 (14.05%) Data Analysis
10 194 (12.74%) Visualisation
11 186 (12.21%) Migration
12 177 (11.62%) Data Pipeline
13 173 (11.36%) Data Management
14 161 (10.57%) Data Engineering
15 143 (9.39%) Data Strategy
16 137 (9.00%) Data Migration
16 137 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 131 (8.60%) Data Visualisation
18 129 (8.47%) Computer Science
19 126 (8.27%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 629 (41.30%) SQL
2 364 (23.90%) Python
3 119 (7.81%) Java
4 53 (3.48%) Scala
5 48 (3.15%) T-SQL
6 47 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 43 (2.82%) C#
8 41 (2.69%) R
9 39 (2.56%) JavaScript
10 35 (2.30%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.18%) Perl
12 16 (1.05%) PowerShell
13 13 (0.85%) ABAP
13 13 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.85%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.72%) C
15 7 (0.46%) C++
16 6 (0.39%) Bash
16 6 (0.39%) Go
17 5 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 185 (12.15%) Security Cleared
2 160 (10.51%) Degree
3 149 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 81 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 28 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.33%) MCITP
12 5 (0.33%) MCTS
13 4 (0.26%) CBAP
13 4 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.26%) PMP
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (18.98%) Data Quality
2 77 (5.06%) QA
3 61 (4.01%) GDPR
4 17 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.79%) IFRS
6 10 (0.66%) SLA
7 9 (0.59%) EMIR
7 9 (0.59%) MiFID
8 7 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
8 7 (0.46%) IFRS 9
9 6 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.33%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.20%) PMO
13 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 30 (1.97%) Docker
2 23 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.066%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 36 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.30%) 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 (0.066%) Ansible
7 1 (0.066%) Control-M
7 1 (0.066%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.066%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.066%) Kibana
7 1 (0.066%) Rancher
Vendors
1 257 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 149 (9.78%) Databricks
3 133 (8.73%) Oracle
4 121 (7.94%) SAP
5 76 (4.99%) Sparx
6 62 (4.07%) Google
7 45 (2.95%) Informatica
7 45 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 15 (0.98%) IBM
9 15 (0.98%) Red Hat
9 15 (0.98%) VMware
10 14 (0.92%) Ab Initio
10 14 (0.92%) Guidewire
11 12 (0.79%) Bloomberg
11 12 (0.79%) Talend
12 11 (0.72%) ION Trading
12 11 (0.72%) MarketAxess
12 11 (0.72%) Tradeweb
13 10 (0.66%) Palantir