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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 50 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 103 70 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.52% 3.74% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 4.07% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 40 91
10th Percentile £320 £462 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £596 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% -0.75% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £686
90th Percentile £728 £780 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

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 1,663 1,720 2,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.17% 91.98% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,047 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £374 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +30.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £42.12 £43.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £45.08 £112.00 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 21 January 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 8 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (7.77%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.85%) Apache
3 4 (3.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.97%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.97%) Endur
3 1 (0.97%) HFM
3 1 (0.97%) Maximo
3 1 (0.97%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.97%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 29 (28.16%) Power Platform
2 26 (25.24%) Azure
3 25 (24.27%) AWS
4 14 (13.59%) Snowflake
5 11 (10.68%) dbt
6 9 (8.74%) GCP
7 8 (7.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.80%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.85%) Serverless
11 4 (3.88%) GitHub
12 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.94%) Collibra
13 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.94%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.18%) Power BI
2 21 (20.39%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (17.48%) Metadata
4 8 (7.77%) Data Lake
4 8 (7.77%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.77%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.80%) Star Schema
6 6 (5.83%) Data Vault
6 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.83%) Tableau
7 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.88%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.88%) Power Query
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.94%) Big Data
8 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.94%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.71%) Git
2 6 (5.83%) ERwin
2 6 (5.83%) JIRA
3 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.94%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.97%) PowerDesigner
General
1 46 (44.66%) Finance
2 26 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.65%) Banking
5 7 (6.80%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.88%) Front Office
8 4 (3.88%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.91%) Aviation
9 3 (2.91%) Back Office
9 3 (2.91%) Law
9 3 (2.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.94%) Marketing
11 1 (0.97%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) Analyst
2 21 (20.39%) Data Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) Business Analyst
4 13 (12.62%) Architect
4 13 (12.62%) Senior
5 12 (11.65%) Data Modeller
6 10 (9.71%) Data Analyst
7 9 (8.74%) Developer
8 8 (7.77%) Lead
9 7 (6.80%) Data Architect
10 6 (5.83%) Consultant
11 5 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.88%) Financial Analyst
12 4 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 3 (2.91%) Functional Consultant
13 3 (2.91%) Power BI Developer
13 3 (2.91%) Technical Analyst
13 3 (2.91%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.85%) JSON
1 5 (4.85%) XML
2 4 (3.88%) Kafka
2 4 (3.88%) PySpark
3 3 (2.91%) .NET
3 3 (2.91%) REST
4 2 (1.94%) Node.js
4 2 (1.94%) Web Services
5 1 (0.97%) ADO
5 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.97%) EDI
5 1 (0.97%) HTML
5 1 (0.97%) NumPy
5 1 (0.97%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.97%) SOAP
5 1 (0.97%) Spring
5 1 (0.97%) XSD
5 1 (0.97%) XSLT
5 1 (0.97%) YAML
5 1 (0.97%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.88%) Equities
5 4 (3.88%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.91%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.94%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.97%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.97%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Replication
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.95%) Analytics
2 32 (31.07%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (28.16%) ETL
4 28 (27.18%) Data Governance
5 24 (23.30%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (21.36%) Agile
6 22 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.42%) Decision-Making
7 20 (19.42%) Visualisation
8 17 (16.50%) AI
8 17 (16.50%) CI/CD
8 17 (16.50%) Data Analysis
8 17 (16.50%) Data Integration
9 16 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (13.59%) Data Transformation
10 14 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (12.62%) Data Engineering
12 12 (11.65%) Actionable Insight
12 12 (11.65%) User Stories
12 12 (11.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 54 (52.43%) SQL
2 33 (32.04%) Python
3 8 (7.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.80%) Java
5 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.91%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.91%) Scala
6 2 (1.94%) R
6 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.97%) ABAP
7 1 (0.97%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.97%) C#
7 1 (0.97%) C++
7 1 (0.97%) Go
7 1 (0.97%) LookML
7 1 (0.97%) Ruby
7 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.77%) Degree
1 8 (7.77%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) CFA
3 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.94%) IIBA
3 2 (1.94%) SnowPro
4 1 (0.97%) ACCA
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.97%) CBAP
4 1 (0.97%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.97%) ISEB
4 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.97%) PMP
4 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (32.04%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.77%) GDPR
3 5 (4.85%) QA
4 3 (2.91%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.94%) Basel III
6 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) Terraform
2 2 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.48%) Databricks
3 8 (7.77%) Oracle
4 5 (4.85%) Sparx
5 3 (2.91%) SAP
5 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.94%) Google
6 2 (1.94%) Informatica
6 2 (1.94%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.94%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.94%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.97%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.97%) IBM
7 1 (0.97%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.97%) Palantir
7 1 (0.97%) Planview
7 1 (0.97%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.97%) Talend
7 1 (0.97%) Workday