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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 48 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 106 93 145
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.20% 4.39% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.57% 4.77% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 64 83
10th Percentile £336 £435 £413
25th Percentile £419 £479 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -10.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £734
90th Percentile £740 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £638
% change year-on-year -4.35% -9.80% +13.84%
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 1,613 1,951 2,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.33% 92.07% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,209 1,783
10th Percentile £325 £367 £373
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £768 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £17.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £24.09 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £40.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.25% +29.60% -27.53%
75th Percentile £35.88 £107.13 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -35.67%

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 13 October 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 & 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 12 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.83%) Apache
3 3 (2.83%) Luigi
4 1 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) JBoss
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.66%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) HFM
2 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.94%) Endur
2 1 (0.94%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.94%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.96%) Azure
2 23 (21.70%) AWS
2 23 (21.70%) Power Platform
3 15 (14.15%) Snowflake
4 13 (12.26%) GCP
5 8 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (6.60%) Collibra
6 7 (6.60%) dbt
7 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (4.72%) GitHub
9 3 (2.83%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.89%) Alation
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.89%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (1.89%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.53%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (21.70%) Power BI
3 17 (16.04%) Data Lake
4 15 (14.15%) Metadata
5 11 (10.38%) Star Schema
6 7 (6.60%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.60%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.60%) Tableau
7 6 (5.66%) Big Data
7 6 (5.66%) BigQuery
7 6 (5.66%) Hadoop
7 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
7 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.77%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.83%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.83%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.83%) Power Query
10 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Git
2 2 (1.89%) ERwin
2 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.94%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.94%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) Postman
3 1 (0.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (34.91%) Finance
2 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
3 29 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.26%) Banking
5 9 (8.49%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (7.55%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.77%) Retail
8 3 (2.83%) Back Office
8 3 (2.83%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.83%) Legal
8 3 (2.83%) Police
8 3 (2.83%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.89%) Front Office
9 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.94%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.94%) Marketing
10 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (25.47%) Analyst
2 26 (24.53%) Data Engineer
3 15 (14.15%) Architect
4 14 (13.21%) Business Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Data Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Senior
6 9 (8.49%) Developer
7 8 (7.55%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) Consultant
9 5 (4.72%) Data Modeller
10 4 (3.77%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.77%) Finance Business Analyst
11 3 (2.83%) Data Business Analyst
11 3 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Lead
11 3 (2.83%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) HTML
1 8 (7.55%) Kafka
2 6 (5.66%) CSS
3 5 (4.72%) Flask
3 5 (4.72%) PySpark
4 4 (3.77%) JSON
4 4 (3.77%) REST
5 3 (2.83%) .NET
5 3 (2.83%) Pandas
5 3 (2.83%) React
6 2 (1.89%) ADO
6 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.89%) Node.js
6 2 (1.89%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (1.89%) XML
7 1 (0.94%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.94%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.77%) CMDB
3 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.83%) Pricing Data
4 3 (2.83%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.83%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.02%) Analytics
2 32 (30.19%) Agile
3 30 (28.30%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (24.53%) Data Analysis
5 25 (23.58%) Data Governance
6 24 (22.64%) ETL
7 22 (20.75%) Data Engineering
8 21 (19.81%) Data Integration
8 21 (19.81%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (18.87%) Decision-Making
9 20 (18.87%) Visualisation
10 17 (16.04%) AI
11 16 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (14.15%) Scrum
12 15 (14.15%) User Stories
13 13 (12.26%) Actionable Insight
13 13 (12.26%) Data Architecture
13 13 (12.26%) Data Management
13 13 (12.26%) Data Science
13 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (56.60%) SQL
2 40 (37.74%) Python
3 11 (10.38%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (6.60%) Scala
6 6 (5.66%) Java
7 3 (2.83%) VBA
8 2 (1.89%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.89%) C#
8 2 (1.89%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.89%) R
8 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.94%) ABAP
9 1 (0.94%) CodeQL
9 1 (0.94%) Go
9 1 (0.94%) LookML
9 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (16.98%) Degree
2 8 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) CBAP
5 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (28.30%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) GDPR
2 5 (4.72%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.94%) GRC
3 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.66%) Terraform
2 1 (0.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.98%) Databricks
3 10 (9.43%) Oracle
4 7 (6.60%) Google
5 4 (3.77%) Informatica
6 3 (2.83%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.83%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.83%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.83%) Tagetik
7 2 (1.89%) Foundry
7 2 (1.89%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.89%) Palantir
7 2 (1.89%) Workday
8 1 (0.94%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.94%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.94%) Remedy
8 1 (0.94%) SAP
8 1 (0.94%) Temenos