Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Modelling
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 32 50
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 170 110 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.46% 6.17% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 6.54% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 72 60
10th Percentile £425 £364 £430
25th Percentile £463 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +1.29% -10.77%
75th Percentile £725 £691 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £739
Central London median daily rate £553 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -3.83% -1.71% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £42.00 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £35.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.53% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Modelling 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,010 1,681 1,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.20% 94.23% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,112 1,243
10th Percentile £380 £325 £377
25th Percentile £460 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -1.82%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in the City of London

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.12%) Apache
4 6 (3.53%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.59%) Appian
6 1 (0.59%) CMS
6 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.76%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.18%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.59%) Actimize
4 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.59%) Maximo
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (35.88%) Azure
2 46 (27.06%) Power Platform
3 40 (23.53%) AWS
4 26 (15.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (13.53%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.00%) GitHub
7 15 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (8.24%) Serverless
9 13 (7.65%) dbt
10 12 (7.06%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.29%) GCP
11 9 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (3.53%) Azure Databricks
12 6 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.53%) PaaS
12 6 (3.53%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.59%) FTP
2 1 (0.59%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.88%) Power BI
2 34 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (12.35%) Metadata
4 14 (8.24%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.29%) Semantic Layer
6 9 (5.29%) Tableau
7 8 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (4.71%) BigQuery
7 8 (4.71%) Star Schema
8 7 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (4.12%) Looker
8 7 (4.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (3.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.94%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.94%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (7.06%) Git
2 8 (4.71%) GitLab
3 6 (3.53%) JIRA
4 5 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.18%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.18%) ERwin
5 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.59%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.59%) JMeter
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
6 1 (0.59%) MLflow
6 1 (0.59%) Mockito
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 75 (44.12%) Finance
2 46 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 41 (24.12%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (20.59%) Banking
5 14 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.71%) Retail
7 5 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.94%) Legal
8 4 (2.35%) Back Office
8 4 (2.35%) Front Office
8 4 (2.35%) Marketing
9 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.76%) Law
9 3 (1.76%) Military
9 3 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.18%) Billing
10 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (25.88%) Architect
2 37 (21.76%) Analyst
3 33 (19.41%) Data Engineer
4 26 (15.29%) Data Analyst
5 24 (14.12%) Data Architect
5 24 (14.12%) Senior
6 20 (11.76%) Developer
7 11 (6.47%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.29%) Lead
9 7 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.12%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.12%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.53%) Data Business Analyst
10 6 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) AWS Data Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Consultant
11 5 (2.94%) Data Modeller
11 5 (2.94%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.53%) PySpark
2 8 (4.71%) Kafka
2 8 (4.71%) REST
3 7 (4.12%) Terraform
4 6 (3.53%) Middleware
4 6 (3.53%) React
5 5 (2.94%) JSON
5 5 (2.94%) RESTful
5 5 (2.94%) SOAP
6 4 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.35%) XML
7 3 (1.76%) .NET
7 3 (1.76%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.76%) Node.js
8 2 (1.18%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.18%) PCRE
8 2 (1.18%) pytest
8 2 (1.18%) Redux
8 2 (1.18%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.18%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.35%) CMDB
7 4 (2.35%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.76%) Derivative
8 3 (1.76%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.76%) Replication
9 2 (1.18%) Clustering
9 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) IoT
9 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.76%) Linux
1 3 (1.76%) Unix
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (47.06%) Analytics
2 56 (32.94%) Business Intelligence
3 47 (27.65%) Data Pipeline
4 45 (26.47%) CI/CD
4 45 (26.47%) Data Governance
5 43 (25.29%) Data Architecture
6 41 (24.12%) Data Engineering
6 41 (24.12%) ETL
7 39 (22.94%) Agile
7 39 (22.94%) DevOps
8 33 (19.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (18.82%) Migration
10 30 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (16.47%) Decision-Making
12 27 (15.88%) AI
12 27 (15.88%) Validation
13 24 (14.12%) Event-Driven
13 24 (14.12%) Integration Patterns
14 21 (12.35%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (12.35%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 83 (48.82%) SQL
2 60 (35.29%) Python
3 16 (9.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.29%) Java
5 7 (4.12%) C#
6 5 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.94%) Ruby
7 4 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.76%) LookML
8 3 (1.76%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.76%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.18%) CQL
9 2 (1.18%) Perl
9 2 (1.18%) SOQL
10 1 (0.59%) Cypher
10 1 (0.59%) Korn
10 1 (0.59%) R
10 1 (0.59%) Scala
10 1 (0.59%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.35%) Degree
5 3 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.18%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CBAP
7 1 (0.59%) CSPO
7 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (35.88%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.47%) QA
3 10 (5.88%) GDPR
4 9 (5.29%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.18%) GRC
5 2 (1.18%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.59%) Basel III
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.18%) Grafana
1 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 34 (20.00%) Databricks
3 18 (10.59%) Oracle
4 14 (8.24%) SAP
5 10 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.53%) Informatica
7 4 (2.35%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.76%) Google
8 3 (1.76%) Workday
9 2 (1.18%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.18%) eFront
9 2 (1.18%) IBM
9 2 (1.18%) OneTrust
9 2 (1.18%) Splunk
10 1 (0.59%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.59%) Jitterbit
10 1 (0.59%) Palantir
10 1 (0.59%) Planon
10 1 (0.59%) Sparx