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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 70 64
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,511 1,835 3,185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.55% 3.20% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 3.57% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 1,259 2,190
10th Percentile £400 £410 £406
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 12
10th Percentile £30.37 - £39.73
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £48.69
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -41.67% +102.53%
75th Percentile £51.75 £64.50 £65.01
90th Percentile £64.53 £66.00 £74.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.41 £27.74 £19.91
% change year-on-year +27.68% +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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +21 1,316 £550 -4.35% 615
London +23 845 £575 -4.17% 338
Work from Home +28 602 £550 -1.79% 257
UK excluding London +19 498 £525 -4.55% 331
North of England +40 172 £525 -2.78% 93
South East -29 91 £500 -4.76% 80
North West +45 86 £525 +5.00% 54
Midlands +15 84 £481 -16.30% 72
Yorkshire +18 82 £507 -4.79% 26
South West +31 79 £550 -18.19% 33
Scotland +22 65 £495 -5.26% 16
West Midlands -1 53 £425 -26.72% 57
East Midlands +36 30 £550 +46.67% 15
East of England -5 21 £513 +28.13% 17
North East +1 7 £415 -36.15% 13
Wales -4 4 £450 -18.03% 12

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 53 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 39 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (2.18%) Apache
4 30 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.79%) Confluence
6 24 (1.59%) 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 65 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.04%) MS Visio
3 27 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.46%) SPSS
6 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (2.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 35 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.53%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 6 (0.40%) ION MarketView
5 6 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
5 6 (0.40%) Unica
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Shopify
7 4 (0.26%) FastStats
7 4 (0.26%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.13%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 403 (26.67%) Azure
2 298 (19.72%) Power Platform
3 226 (14.96%) AWS
4 117 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 93 (6.15%) GCP
6 78 (5.16%) Serverless
7 74 (4.90%) Snowflake
8 69 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 59 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (2.98%) Amazon S3
12 37 (2.45%) dbt
13 34 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (1.59%) Collibra
14 24 (1.59%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (1.52%) GitHub
15 23 (1.52%) PowerApps
16 21 (1.39%) Azure Stack
16 21 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.99%) SAN
1 15 (0.99%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
3 7 (0.46%) Internet
4 6 (0.40%) 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
1 386 (25.55%) Data Warehouse
2 285 (18.86%) Power BI
3 141 (9.33%) SQL Server
4 140 (9.27%) Data Lake
5 134 (8.87%) Big Data
6 125 (8.27%) Metadata
7 120 (7.94%) NoSQL
8 114 (7.54%) Tableau
9 96 (6.35%) Relational Database
10 64 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 63 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 59 (3.90%) Data Vault
13 53 (3.51%) BigQuery
14 46 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
15 42 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
15 42 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
16 41 (2.71%) Hadoop
16 41 (2.71%) Metadata Repository
17 32 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
17 32 (2.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (4.37%) JIRA
2 55 (3.64%) ERwin
3 47 (3.11%) Git
4 26 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 19 (1.26%) ER Studio
6 11 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.66%) Eclipse
7 10 (0.66%) Selenium
8 9 (0.60%) JMeter
9 7 (0.46%) GitLab
9 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.40%) 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
1 375 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 352 (23.30%) Finance
3 273 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.29%) Marketing
6 79 (5.23%) Banking
7 47 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 41 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (2.71%) Telecoms
9 38 (2.51%) Front Office
10 35 (2.32%) Retail
11 31 (2.05%) Electronics
12 30 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 24 (1.59%) Publishing
14 23 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.13%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.99%) Back Office
17 13 (0.86%) Billing
17 13 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 361 (23.89%) Architect
2 258 (17.07%) Data Engineer
3 251 (16.61%) Data Architect
4 235 (15.55%) Developer
5 228 (15.09%) Analyst
6 137 (9.07%) Senior
7 112 (7.41%) Data Analyst
8 99 (6.55%) Data Modeller
9 84 (5.56%) Business Analyst
10 79 (5.23%) Lead
11 74 (4.90%) Consultant
12 50 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 43 (2.85%) Azure Data Engineer
16 36 (2.38%) Enterprise Architect
16 36 (2.38%) Project Manager
17 34 (2.25%) Data Scientist
18 33 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
19 30 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (5.03%) JSON
2 71 (4.70%) PySpark
3 70 (4.63%) XML
4 42 (2.78%) REST
5 38 (2.51%) Kafka
6 34 (2.25%) Web Services
7 29 (1.92%) Apache Avro
8 22 (1.46%) Spring Boot
9 21 (1.39%) HTML
10 20 (1.32%) Middleware
11 19 (1.26%) CSS
11 19 (1.26%) JSON Schema
12 17 (1.13%) Spring
13 16 (1.06%) .NET
13 16 (1.06%) Node.js
13 16 (1.06%) React
14 15 (0.99%) GraphQL
14 15 (0.99%) Pandas
14 15 (0.99%) RESTful
14 15 (0.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.76%) Data Structures
2 71 (4.70%) Product Ownership
2 71 (4.70%) Reference Data
3 50 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 48 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 40 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (2.32%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.46%) Derivative
9 21 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.06%) CMDB
13 13 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
15 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (0.73%) Fixed Income
15 11 (0.73%) NHS
15 11 (0.73%) Wiki
16 10 (0.66%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.38%) Unix
2 31 (2.05%) Linux
3 26 (1.72%) Windows
4 15 (0.99%) Debian
4 15 (0.99%) 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
1 408 (27.00%) Business Intelligence
2 380 (25.15%) ETL
3 369 (24.42%) Analytics
4 305 (20.19%) Agile
5 302 (19.99%) Data Governance
6 245 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (16.02%) Data Integration
8 226 (14.96%) Data Architecture
9 209 (13.83%) Data Analysis
10 189 (12.51%) Visualisation
11 177 (11.71%) Migration
12 176 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
13 172 (11.38%) Data Management
14 161 (10.66%) Data Engineering
15 141 (9.33%) Data Strategy
16 137 (9.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 131 (8.67%) Computer Science
18 130 (8.60%) Data Visualisation
19 128 (8.47%) DevOps
20 126 (8.34%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 623 (41.23%) SQL
2 364 (24.09%) Python
3 115 (7.61%) Java
4 51 (3.38%) Scala
5 47 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (3.11%) T-SQL
6 43 (2.85%) C#
7 41 (2.71%) JavaScript
7 41 (2.71%) R
8 37 (2.45%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.19%) Perl
10 17 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 13 (0.86%) ABAP
11 13 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 13 (0.86%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.73%) C
13 7 (0.46%) C++
14 6 (0.40%) Bash
14 6 (0.40%) Go
15 5 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 184 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 167 (11.05%) Degree
3 148 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (1.99%) DV Cleared
5 30 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.40%) PMP
11 5 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.33%) MCITP
11 5 (0.33%) MCTS
12 4 (0.26%) CBAP
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (19.06%) Data Quality
2 77 (5.10%) QA
3 59 (3.90%) GDPR
4 18 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.79%) IFRS
6 11 (0.73%) SLA
7 9 (0.60%) EMIR
7 9 (0.60%) MiFID
8 7 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
8 7 (0.46%) IFRS 9
9 6 (0.40%) 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 29 (1.92%) Docker
2 23 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.066%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 37 (2.45%) Terraform
2 35 (2.32%) Kubernetes
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
1 259 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 147 (9.73%) Databricks
3 133 (8.80%) Oracle
4 122 (8.07%) SAP
5 73 (4.83%) Sparx
6 61 (4.04%) Google
7 45 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 44 (2.91%) Informatica
9 39 (2.58%) ServiceNow
10 15 (0.99%) Red Hat
10 15 (0.99%) VMware
11 14 (0.93%) Ab Initio
11 14 (0.93%) Guidewire
12 12 (0.79%) Bloomberg
12 12 (0.79%) Talend
13 11 (0.73%) Adobe
13 11 (0.73%) ION Trading
13 11 (0.73%) MarketAxess
13 11 (0.73%) Tradeweb
14 10 (0.66%) Foundry