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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 47 42
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 109 84 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.09% 4.02% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 4.37% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 60 94
10th Percentile £361 £430 £433
25th Percentile £425 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -9.81% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £747
90th Percentile £740 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £586 £650
% change year-on-year +2.35% -9.81% +17.59%
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 and 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 1,686 1,923 2,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.14% 92.10% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 1,231 1,943
10th Percentile £325 £388 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 14
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £14.84
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -13.60% -27.33%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £64.03
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.94% +27.27% -35.29%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling 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 13 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (10.09%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.75%) Apache
3 3 (2.75%) Luigi
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.59%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) HFM
2 1 (0.92%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.92%) Endur
2 1 (0.92%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.92%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.86%) Azure
2 23 (21.10%) Power Platform
3 21 (19.27%) AWS
4 14 (12.84%) GCP
5 12 (11.01%) Snowflake
6 9 (8.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (7.34%) Collibra
8 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (4.59%) dbt
10 5 (4.59%) GitHub
11 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.75%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.83%) Alation
12 2 (1.83%) Cloud Composer
12 2 (1.83%) Google Compute Engine
12 2 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.94%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (21.10%) Power BI
3 18 (16.51%) Data Lake
3 18 (16.51%) Metadata
4 10 (9.17%) Star Schema
5 8 (7.34%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.34%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.42%) BigQuery
6 7 (6.42%) Hadoop
6 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (6.42%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (6.42%) Tableau
7 6 (5.50%) Big Data
8 5 (4.59%) Apache Hive
8 5 (4.59%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.67%) Data Mining
10 3 (2.75%) Parquet
10 3 (2.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Git
2 2 (1.83%) ERwin
3 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.92%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.92%) Postman
3 1 (0.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (33.94%) Finance
2 36 (33.03%) Social Skills
3 32 (29.36%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.60%) Banking
5 8 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (6.42%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.59%) Retail
8 4 (3.67%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.67%) Police
8 4 (3.67%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.75%) Back Office
9 3 (2.75%) Legal
10 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.92%) Advertising
11 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.92%) Electronics
11 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) Analyst
1 27 (24.77%) Data Engineer
2 14 (12.84%) Architect
3 12 (11.01%) Business Analyst
3 12 (11.01%) Data Analyst
3 12 (11.01%) Senior
4 11 (10.09%) Developer
5 7 (6.42%) Azure Data Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Data Architect
6 6 (5.50%) Consultant
7 5 (4.59%) Data Modeller
7 5 (4.59%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.67%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.67%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.75%) DBA
9 3 (2.75%) Senior Data Analyst
9 3 (2.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) HTML
2 7 (6.42%) Kafka
2 7 (6.42%) PySpark
3 6 (5.50%) CSS
3 6 (5.50%) Flask
4 5 (4.59%) JSON
4 5 (4.59%) REST
5 4 (3.67%) React
6 3 (2.75%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.75%) Pandas
6 3 (2.75%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (1.83%) .NET
7 2 (1.83%) ADO
7 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.83%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.83%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.83%) Spring
7 2 (1.83%) Web Services
7 2 (1.83%) XML
7 2 (1.83%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.67%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.75%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.75%) CMDB
4 3 (2.75%) Pricing Data
4 3 (2.75%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.92%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.86%) Analytics
2 33 (30.28%) Agile
3 30 (27.52%) Data Governance
4 29 (26.61%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (22.94%) Data Analysis
5 25 (22.94%) ETL
6 23 (21.10%) Decision-Making
7 22 (20.18%) Data Engineering
8 21 (19.27%) Data Integration
8 21 (19.27%) Visualisation
9 19 (17.43%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (15.60%) Artificial Intelligence
10 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.68%) Actionable Insight
11 16 (14.68%) Data Management
12 15 (13.76%) Data Science
12 15 (13.76%) Scrum
13 14 (12.84%) Data Architecture
14 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (11.93%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 65 (59.63%) SQL
2 44 (40.37%) Python
3 12 (11.01%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (8.26%) Scala
6 7 (6.42%) Java
7 3 (2.75%) VBA
8 2 (1.83%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.83%) C#
8 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.83%) R
8 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.92%) ABAP
9 1 (0.92%) CodeQL
9 1 (0.92%) Go
9 1 (0.92%) LookML
9 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (17.43%) Degree
2 8 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) CBAP
4 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.83%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (28.44%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.50%) GDPR
3 4 (3.67%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.92%) GRC
4 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.59%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (15.60%) Databricks
1 17 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.93%) Oracle
3 8 (7.34%) Google
4 5 (4.59%) Informatica
5 4 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.75%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.75%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.75%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.75%) Tagetik
7 2 (1.83%) Foundry
7 2 (1.83%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.83%) Palantir
7 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.83%) Workday
8 1 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.92%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.92%) Remedy
8 1 (0.92%) Temenos