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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 43 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 134 79 97
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.82% 4.52% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 4.83% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 44 77
10th Percentile £369 £433 £421
25th Percentile £453 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% -10.59%
75th Percentile £688 £633 £675
90th Percentile £788 £721 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year - -40.06% -7.62%

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 1,947 1,635 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.58% 93.59% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,027 1,377
10th Percentile £363 £353 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 12
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.12% +4.53% -20.54%

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 18 May 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 11 (8.21%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.73%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) Appian
4 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.73%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.24%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.75%) Actimize
4 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.58%) Power Platform
2 43 (32.09%) Azure
3 29 (21.64%) AWS
4 23 (17.16%) Snowflake
5 16 (11.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.96%) dbt
7 11 (8.21%) GCP
8 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.22%) Prefect
9 6 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.48%) GitHub
9 6 (4.48%) Serverless
10 5 (3.73%) Dagster
10 5 (3.73%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.99%) PaaS
12 3 (2.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) FTP
1 1 (0.75%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (29.85%) Power BI
2 25 (18.66%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (15.67%) Metadata
4 15 (11.19%) Tableau
5 10 (7.46%) Looker
6 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.97%) BigQuery
7 8 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (5.22%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.48%) Data Lake
10 5 (3.73%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.73%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (2.99%) Mixpanel
12 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.24%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.49%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Git
1 7 (5.22%) JIRA
2 5 (3.73%) ERwin
3 2 (1.49%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.49%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 62 (46.27%) Finance
2 29 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.93%) Banking
4 10 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.48%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.48%) Legal
6 5 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Marketing
7 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.24%) Front Office
8 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.24%) Retail
9 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Publishing
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Billing
10 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) Analyst
2 28 (20.90%) Architect
3 27 (20.15%) Data Engineer
4 16 (11.94%) Data Analyst
5 13 (9.70%) Senior
6 12 (8.96%) Data Architect
6 12 (8.96%) Developer
7 11 (8.21%) Business Analyst
8 10 (7.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Lead
10 6 (4.48%) Consultant
10 6 (4.48%) Data Modeller
11 5 (3.73%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.99%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.99%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.97%) PySpark
2 7 (5.22%) Kafka
3 6 (4.48%) JSON
3 6 (4.48%) REST
4 5 (3.73%) React
4 5 (3.73%) RESTful
5 4 (2.99%) .NET
5 4 (2.99%) XML
6 3 (2.24%) Middleware
6 3 (2.24%) Pandas
7 2 (1.49%) GeoJSON
7 2 (1.49%) Great Expectations
7 2 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.49%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.49%) Node.js
7 2 (1.49%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.49%) Polars
7 2 (1.49%) pytest
7 2 (1.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.46%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.73%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.99%) Clustering
6 4 (2.99%) Equities
7 3 (2.24%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.49%) CMDB
8 2 (1.49%) Derivative
8 2 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.49%) IoT
8 2 (1.49%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.49%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.04%) Analytics
2 47 (35.07%) Business Intelligence
3 33 (24.63%) Data Governance
3 33 (24.63%) Data Pipeline
4 31 (23.13%) ETL
5 29 (21.64%) AI
5 29 (21.64%) Data Engineering
6 23 (17.16%) CI/CD
7 22 (16.42%) Agile
7 22 (16.42%) Validation
8 20 (14.93%) Decision-Making
8 20 (14.93%) Integration Patterns
9 19 (14.18%) Data Architecture
10 18 (13.43%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (11.94%) Logical Data Model
11 16 (11.94%) Migration
11 16 (11.94%) Use Case
12 15 (11.19%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.78%) SQL
2 48 (35.82%) Python
3 11 (8.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.97%) Java
5 6 (4.48%) C#
6 5 (3.73%) R
7 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.24%) Ruby
8 3 (2.24%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.49%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.75%) Korn
10 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
10 1 (0.75%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.72%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.24%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.49%) CBAP
6 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.49%) IIBA
6 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.49%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CFA
7 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) ISEB
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (34.33%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.70%) GDPR
3 7 (5.22%) QA
4 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.49%) Basel III
5 2 (1.49%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.75%) GxP
6 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.49%) Terraform
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (24.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.67%) Databricks
3 12 (8.96%) Oracle
4 8 (5.97%) SAP
5 7 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.22%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.48%) Google
6 6 (4.48%) Informatica
6 6 (4.48%) Workday
7 5 (3.73%) Sparx
8 4 (2.99%) Amplitude
9 3 (2.24%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.49%) SimCorp
10 2 (1.49%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.75%) IBM
11 1 (0.75%) Pega
11 1 (0.75%) Planview
11 1 (0.75%) Sage
11 1 (0.75%) Talend