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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 72 65
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,491 1,772 3,098
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.46% 3.16% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 3.52% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,204 2,119
10th Percentile £400 £413 £408
25th Percentile £463 £475 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +11.15%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.27% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 12
10th Percentile £35.00 - £39.73
25th Percentile £37.55 £19.00 £48.69
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -41.67% +111.92%
75th Percentile £51.75 £64.50 £65.01
90th Percentile £68.75 £66.00 £74.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £27.74 £19.91
% change year-on-year +45.39% +39.30% -13.02%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +17 1,301 £550 -4.35% 609
London +24 829 £575 -4.17% 335
Work from Home +24 576 £550 - 280
UK excluding London +18 504 £516 -6.27% 273
North of England +36 180 £525 -4.55% 93
South East -25 97 £500 -4.76% 52
Yorkshire +17 89 £507 -10.50% 25
North West +52 87 £525 +10.53% 56
Midlands +22 80 £488 -12.56% 48
South West +33 76 £550 -17.85% 33
Scotland +14 65 £492 -8.89% 19
West Midlands -7 47 £425 -25.44% 33
East Midlands +31 32 £550 +57.14% 15
East of England -15 20 £525 +31.25% 15
North East +5 7 £415 -40.71% 12
Wales -6 4 £450 -18.03% 8

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 58 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 35 (2.35%) Apache
2 35 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.88%) SharePoint
4 27 (1.81%) SAS
5 26 (1.74%) Confluence
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.20%) IIS
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.067%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.067%) CMS
10 1 (0.067%) JBoss
10 1 (0.067%) Mendix
10 1 (0.067%) nginx
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WildFly
Applications
1 60 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.95%) MS Visio
3 26 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.54%) SPSS
5 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 39 (2.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 38 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 33 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.54%) SAP MDG
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.40%) ION MarketView
6 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
7 5 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
7 5 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
7 5 (0.34%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
7 5 (0.34%) Unica
8 4 (0.27%) FastStats
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.27%) Shopify
8 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.20%) OPENHousing
9 3 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 416 (27.90%) Azure
2 304 (20.39%) Power Platform
3 221 (14.82%) AWS
4 112 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 91 (6.10%) GCP
6 84 (5.63%) Snowflake
7 76 (5.10%) Serverless
8 68 (4.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
10 52 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 43 (2.88%) dbt
13 33 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (1.74%) GitHub
15 23 (1.54%) PowerApps
16 22 (1.48%) Collibra
16 22 (1.48%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.48%) SaaS
17 21 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (1.34%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.94%) SAN
1 14 (0.94%) TCP/IP
2 10 (0.67%) FIX Connectivity
3 7 (0.47%) Internet
4 6 (0.40%) Firewall
4 6 (0.40%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.34%) Network Security
6 2 (0.13%) FTP
6 2 (0.13%) HTTP
7 1 (0.067%) DNS
7 1 (0.067%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.067%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.067%) VPN
7 1 (0.067%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 379 (25.42%) Data Warehouse
2 291 (19.52%) Power BI
3 147 (9.86%) SQL Server
4 144 (9.66%) Data Lake
5 133 (8.92%) Big Data
6 125 (8.38%) NoSQL
7 123 (8.25%) Tableau
8 121 (8.12%) Metadata
9 100 (6.71%) Relational Database
10 69 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 66 (4.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 58 (3.89%) Data Vault
13 54 (3.62%) Snowflake Schema
14 51 (3.42%) BigQuery
15 47 (3.15%) Hadoop
16 46 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
17 45 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
18 41 (2.75%) Metadata Repository
19 35 (2.35%) Star Schema
20 33 (2.21%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 68 (4.56%) JIRA
2 55 (3.69%) Git
3 48 (3.22%) ERwin
4 27 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.21%) ER Studio
6 11 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.67%) Selenium
8 9 (0.60%) JMeter
9 7 (0.47%) Eclipse
9 7 (0.47%) GitLab
9 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.40%) MLflow
11 5 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.27%) Deequ
12 4 (0.27%) kappa
12 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.20%) JUnit
13 3 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
General
1 367 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 338 (22.67%) Finance
3 275 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 77 (5.16%) Banking
6 75 (5.03%) Marketing
7 41 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 37 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 34 (2.28%) Retail
11 32 (2.15%) Front Office
11 32 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 27 (1.81%) Electronics
13 26 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.54%) Publishing
15 17 (1.14%) Billing
15 17 (1.14%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.94%) Back Office
16 14 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 340 (22.80%) Architect
2 263 (17.64%) Data Engineer
3 238 (15.96%) Data Architect
4 236 (15.83%) Developer
5 225 (15.09%) Analyst
6 142 (9.52%) Senior
7 114 (7.65%) Data Analyst
8 100 (6.71%) Data Modeller
9 79 (5.30%) Business Analyst
10 78 (5.23%) Lead
11 75 (5.03%) Consultant
12 47 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 44 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
15 35 (2.35%) Data Scientist
16 34 (2.28%) Project Manager
16 34 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
17 31 (2.08%) Senior Data Engineer
18 30 (2.01%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (4.90%) JSON
2 68 (4.56%) PySpark
2 68 (4.56%) XML
3 42 (2.82%) REST
4 40 (2.68%) Kafka
5 35 (2.35%) Web Services
6 29 (1.95%) Apache Avro
7 28 (1.88%) HTML
8 25 (1.68%) CSS
9 22 (1.48%) Spring Boot
10 19 (1.27%) JSON Schema
11 18 (1.21%) Middleware
11 18 (1.21%) React
12 17 (1.14%) Spring
13 16 (1.07%) AngularJS
13 16 (1.07%) Pandas
13 16 (1.07%) RESTful
14 15 (1.01%) Node.js
14 15 (1.01%) OAuth
14 15 (1.01%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.84%) Data Structures
2 72 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.69%) Reference Data
4 50 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 47 (3.15%) Algorithms
6 35 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.41%) Derivative
10 18 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.01%) CMDB
12 14 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.80%) NHS
14 11 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
15 10 (0.67%) Cloud Native
15 10 (0.67%) Fixed Income
15 10 (0.67%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.22%) Unix
2 29 (1.95%) Linux
3 25 (1.68%) Windows
4 14 (0.94%) Debian
4 14 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 12 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 1 (0.067%) Android
7 1 (0.067%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (26.96%) Business Intelligence
2 378 (25.35%) ETL
3 375 (25.15%) Analytics
4 305 (20.46%) Agile
5 301 (20.19%) Data Governance
6 244 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (15.36%) Data Integration
8 220 (14.76%) Data Architecture
9 204 (13.68%) Data Analysis
10 185 (12.41%) Visualisation
11 177 (11.87%) Migration
12 174 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
13 165 (11.07%) Data Engineering
14 164 (11.00%) Data Management
15 134 (8.99%) Computer Science
16 132 (8.85%) Data Strategy
17 131 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
18 125 (8.38%) Data Migration
18 125 (8.38%) DevOps
19 124 (8.32%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 620 (41.58%) SQL
2 355 (23.81%) Python
3 108 (7.24%) Java
4 52 (3.49%) Scala
5 48 (3.22%) JavaScript
6 46 (3.09%) T-SQL
7 45 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (2.88%) PL/SQL
9 41 (2.75%) R
10 35 (2.35%) C#
11 18 (1.21%) Perl
11 18 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.87%) ABAP
14 12 (0.80%) C
14 12 (0.80%) C++
15 11 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.54%) Go
17 5 (0.34%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 179 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 178 (11.94%) Degree
3 144 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 29 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 10 (0.67%) PMP
12 6 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.34%) CBAP
13 5 (0.34%) MCITP
13 5 (0.34%) MCTS
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (19.72%) Data Quality
2 76 (5.10%) QA
3 56 (3.76%) GDPR
4 20 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.74%) IFRS
6 10 (0.67%) SLA
7 8 (0.54%) EMIR
7 8 (0.54%) MiFID
8 6 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
8 6 (0.40%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.40%) IFRS 9
9 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.34%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.27%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.20%) MISRA
11 3 (0.20%) MISRA C
12 2 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (1.95%) Docker
2 24 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.067%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 38 (2.55%) Terraform
2 35 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.27%) Grafana
5 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.067%) Ansible
7 1 (0.067%) Control-M
7 1 (0.067%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.067%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.067%) Kibana
7 1 (0.067%) Rancher
Vendors
1 251 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 142 (9.52%) Databricks
3 126 (8.45%) Oracle
4 125 (8.38%) SAP
5 67 (4.49%) Sparx
6 61 (4.09%) Google
7 50 (3.35%) Salesforce
8 46 (3.09%) ServiceNow
9 42 (2.82%) Informatica
10 15 (1.01%) Ab Initio
10 15 (1.01%) Guidewire
11 14 (0.94%) Red Hat
11 14 (0.94%) VMware
12 11 (0.74%) Adobe
12 11 (0.74%) Ariba
12 11 (0.74%) Bloomberg
12 11 (0.74%) Foundry
12 11 (0.74%) Palantir
12 11 (0.74%) Talend
13 10 (0.67%) Cloudera