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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 47 41
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 135 77 99
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.88% 4.43% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 4.73% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 43 78
10th Percentile £372 £430 £422
25th Percentile £458 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £681 £640 £680
90th Percentile £783 £723 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -6.12%
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 1,945 1,627 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.75% 93.51% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,023 1,373
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -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 15 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 (8.15%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.70%) Confluence
3 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Appian
4 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.70%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.22%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.74%) Actimize
4 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (32.59%) Power Platform
2 43 (31.85%) Azure
3 29 (21.48%) AWS
4 24 (17.78%) Snowflake
5 16 (11.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (9.63%) dbt
7 11 (8.15%) GCP
8 8 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.19%) Prefect
10 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.44%) GitHub
10 6 (4.44%) Serverless
11 5 (3.70%) Dagster
11 5 (3.70%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.96%) PaaS
13 3 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) FTP
1 1 (0.74%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (28.89%) Power BI
2 25 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (16.30%) Metadata
4 15 (11.11%) Tableau
5 10 (7.41%) Looker
5 10 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.93%) BigQuery
6 8 (5.93%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.44%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.96%) Mixpanel
11 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.22%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.48%) Spatial Data
12 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Git
1 7 (5.19%) JIRA
2 5 (3.70%) ERwin
3 2 (1.48%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.48%) GitLab
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 65 (48.15%) Finance
2 30 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (21.48%) Social Skills
4 20 (14.81%) Banking
5 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.44%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.44%) Legal
7 5 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.96%) Marketing
8 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Front Office
9 3 (2.22%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.74%) Back Office
11 1 (0.74%) Billing
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (22.96%) Analyst
2 28 (20.74%) Architect
3 27 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 16 (11.85%) Data Analyst
5 13 (9.63%) Senior
6 12 (8.89%) Data Architect
7 11 (8.15%) Business Analyst
7 11 (8.15%) Developer
7 11 (8.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 11 (8.15%) Snowflake Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) Lead
9 7 (5.19%) Data Modeller
10 6 (4.44%) Consultant
11 5 (3.70%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.96%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.96%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
13 3 (2.22%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.67%) PySpark
2 7 (5.19%) Kafka
3 6 (4.44%) JSON
3 6 (4.44%) REST
4 5 (3.70%) React
4 5 (3.70%) RESTful
5 4 (2.96%) .NET
5 4 (2.96%) XML
6 3 (2.22%) Middleware
6 3 (2.22%) Pandas
7 2 (1.48%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.48%) GeoJSON
7 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.48%) Node.js
7 2 (1.48%) OAuth
7 2 (1.48%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.48%) pytest
7 2 (1.48%) Redux
7 2 (1.48%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.70%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.96%) Clustering
6 4 (2.96%) Equities
7 3 (2.22%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.48%) CMDB
8 2 (1.48%) Derivative
8 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.48%) IoT
8 2 (1.48%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.48%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.48%) Analytics
2 46 (34.07%) Business Intelligence
3 33 (24.44%) Data Governance
3 33 (24.44%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (22.22%) ETL
5 29 (21.48%) AI
5 29 (21.48%) Data Engineering
6 24 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 23 (17.04%) Agile
8 22 (16.30%) Validation
9 21 (15.56%) Decision-Making
10 20 (14.81%) Data Architecture
10 20 (14.81%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (14.07%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (12.59%) Logical Data Model
13 17 (12.59%) Use Case
14 15 (11.11%) Migration
14 15 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.44%) SQL
2 48 (35.56%) Python
3 11 (8.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.93%) Java
5 6 (4.44%) C#
6 5 (3.70%) R
7 4 (2.96%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.22%) Ruby
8 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.48%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.74%) Korn
10 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 21 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.48%) CBAP
6 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.48%) IIBA
6 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.48%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.74%) ACCA
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CFA
7 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) ISEB
7 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (34.07%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.63%) GDPR
3 7 (5.19%) QA
4 3 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.22%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.48%) Basel III
6 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) GxP
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.30%) Databricks
3 12 (8.89%) Oracle
4 8 (5.93%) SAP
5 7 (5.19%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.44%) Google
6 6 (4.44%) Informatica
6 6 (4.44%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.44%) Workday
7 5 (3.70%) Sparx
8 4 (2.96%) Amplitude
9 3 (2.22%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.48%) SimCorp
10 2 (1.48%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.74%) IBM
11 1 (0.74%) Pega
11 1 (0.74%) Planview
11 1 (0.74%) Sage
11 1 (0.74%) Talend