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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 42
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 139 85 96
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.90% 5.03% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 5.37% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 49 77
10th Percentile £369 £420 £414
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £795 £725 £768
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
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 2,015 1,582 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.56% 93.66% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 998 1,364
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -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 5 June 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 13 (9.35%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.60%) Confluence
3 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.72%) Appian
5 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (2.16%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.16%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.72%) Actimize
4 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.72%) Maximo
4 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.37%) Azure
1 45 (32.37%) Power Platform
2 32 (23.02%) AWS
3 23 (16.55%) Snowflake
4 17 (12.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (8.63%) dbt
5 12 (8.63%) GCP
6 8 (5.76%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.76%) Serverless
7 7 (5.04%) GitHub
7 7 (5.04%) Prefect
8 6 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.60%) Dagster
9 5 (3.60%) PaaS
10 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) FTP
1 1 (0.72%) RTP
1 1 (0.72%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.78%) Power BI
2 25 (17.99%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (14.39%) Metadata
4 15 (10.79%) Tableau
5 10 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (7.19%) Looker
5 10 (7.19%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.47%) BigQuery
7 7 (5.04%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (4.32%) Data Lake
8 6 (4.32%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.60%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.88%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.88%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (2.88%) Mixpanel
10 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.16%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.44%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 10 (7.19%) Git
2 7 (5.04%) JIRA
3 5 (3.60%) ERwin
4 2 (1.44%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 64 (46.04%) Finance
2 30 (21.58%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (16.55%) Banking
5 9 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.32%) Legal
7 4 (2.88%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.88%) Marketing
7 4 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.16%) Front Office
8 3 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.16%) Retail
9 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.44%) Publishing
10 1 (0.72%) Back Office
10 1 (0.72%) Billing
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (24.46%) Data Engineer
2 30 (21.58%) Architect
3 28 (20.14%) Analyst
4 14 (10.07%) Data Analyst
5 13 (9.35%) Developer
6 12 (8.63%) Data Architect
7 11 (7.91%) Lead
7 11 (7.91%) Senior
8 10 (7.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.32%) Data Modeller
10 6 (4.32%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Systems Analyst
12 4 (2.88%) Consultant
12 4 (2.88%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.88%) Financial Analyst
12 4 (2.88%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.19%) PySpark
2 9 (6.47%) Kafka
3 6 (4.32%) JSON
3 6 (4.32%) REST
4 5 (3.60%) React
4 5 (3.60%) RESTful
5 4 (2.88%) .NET
5 4 (2.88%) XML
6 3 (2.16%) Middleware
6 3 (2.16%) Pandas
7 2 (1.44%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.44%) GeoJSON
7 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.44%) Node.js
7 2 (1.44%) OAuth
7 2 (1.44%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.44%) pytest
7 2 (1.44%) Redux
7 2 (1.44%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.19%) Data Structures
2 10 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.88%) Clustering
4 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.88%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.16%) CMDB
5 3 (2.16%) Equities
5 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.44%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.44%) IoT
6 2 (1.44%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.44%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.17%) Analytics
2 47 (33.81%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (27.34%) Data Pipeline
4 37 (26.62%) ETL
5 34 (24.46%) Data Engineering
6 31 (22.30%) Data Governance
7 30 (21.58%) AI
8 27 (19.42%) CI/CD
9 25 (17.99%) Validation
10 23 (16.55%) Data Architecture
11 22 (15.83%) Agile
12 21 (15.11%) Migration
13 20 (14.39%) Integration Patterns
14 19 (13.67%) Decision-Making
15 17 (12.23%) Event-Driven
15 17 (12.23%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (11.51%) DevOps
16 16 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (11.51%) Use Case
17 15 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (46.04%) SQL
2 53 (38.13%) Python
3 10 (7.19%) Java
4 9 (6.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (5.04%) C#
6 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.88%) R
6 4 (2.88%) Ruby
7 3 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.44%) Scala
8 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.72%) Korn
9 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.76%) Degree
4 6 (4.32%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.44%) CBAP
6 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.44%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.72%) CFA
7 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) IIBA
7 1 (0.72%) ISEB
7 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (33.81%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.63%) GDPR
3 8 (5.76%) QA
4 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.44%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.72%) Basel III
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.72%) GxP
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.44%) Terraform
2 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (23.02%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.99%) Databricks
3 15 (10.79%) Oracle
4 8 (5.76%) SAP
5 7 (5.04%) Informatica
5 7 (5.04%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.04%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.32%) Google
6 6 (4.32%) Workday
7 4 (2.88%) Amplitude
7 4 (2.88%) Sparx
8 3 (2.16%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.44%) IBM
9 2 (1.44%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.44%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.72%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.72%) Pega
10 1 (0.72%) Planview
10 1 (0.72%) Sage
10 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds