Physical Data Model Contract Job Trends in Central London

Physical Data Model
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Physical Data Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 128 136
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +61
Contract jobs citing Physical Data Model 7 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.37% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £500 £478 £469
25th Percentile £503 £506 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £673
Median % change year-on-year - -7.06% +28.10%
75th Percentile £738 £641 £708
90th Percentile £756 £706 £715
London median daily rate £600 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Physical Data Model 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 1,806 2,164 2,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.89% 91.97% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,351 1,745
10th Percentile £342 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £751 £788 £813
London median daily rate £527 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 16
10th Percentile £19.86 £20.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £52.50 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%

Physical Data Model
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Physical Data Model job vacancy trend in Central London

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physical Data Model in Central London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Physical Data Model in Central London

Physical Data Model
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Physical Data Model
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 Physical Data Model within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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 +3 7 £625 - 2
Physical Data Model
London

Physical Data Model
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Metadata
2 4 (57.14%) Data Vault
3 3 (42.86%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
4 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) ERwin
2 2 (28.57%) ER Studio
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Aviation
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modeller
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Reference Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (85.71%) Logical Data Model
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Model Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Conceptual Models
4 3 (42.86%) Data Design
4 3 (42.86%) Data Transformation
4 3 (42.86%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) ERD
5 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
5 2 (28.57%) UML
6 1 (14.29%) AI
6 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Sparx
2 1 (14.29%) MicroStrategy