Data Design Contract Job Trends in Central London

Data Design
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Design 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.42% 0.099% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £763 - -
90th Percentile £853 - -
London median daily rate £638 £600 £800
% change year-on-year +6.25% -25.00% +28.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,061 1,862 2,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.56% 92.59% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,213 1,585
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.95%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 22 27
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.66 £22.25
Median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -20.54%
75th Percentile £46.29 £44.40 £36.50
90th Percentile £59.48 £50.75 £56.15
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Data Design job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Design
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Design

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in Central London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in Central London

Data Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Design

Data Design
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Design within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -2 10 £725 - 4
Data Design
London

Data Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Collibra
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Metadata
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) ERwin
2 2 (20.00%) ER Studio
3 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
2 4 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Metadata Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (30.00%) UML
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 2 (20.00%) Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) ERD
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) Sparx
4 1 (10.00%) Informatica
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce