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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 40 42
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 144 90 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.00% 5.28% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.01% 5.63% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 53 81
10th Percentile £369 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £794 £725 £763
Central London median daily rate £568 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +3.18% -2.22% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £43.00 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +44.48% -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 2,054 1,598 1,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.62% 93.78% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 1,016 1,378
10th Percentile £361 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.48% -5.83%
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 27 15 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.58 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.48% -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 11 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 (9.03%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.47%) Confluence
3 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.08%) Apache
5 1 (0.69%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.69%) Appian
5 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.08%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.69%) Actimize
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Maximo
3 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (32.64%) Power Platform
2 46 (31.94%) Azure
3 33 (22.92%) AWS
4 24 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 17 (11.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.33%) dbt
6 12 (8.33%) GCP
7 8 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.56%) Serverless
8 7 (4.86%) GitHub
8 7 (4.86%) Prefect
9 6 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (3.47%) Dagster
10 5 (3.47%) PaaS
11 4 (2.78%) Matillion
11 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.78%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) FTP
1 1 (0.69%) RTP
1 1 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (29.17%) Power BI
2 26 (18.06%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (13.19%) Metadata
4 15 (10.42%) Tableau
5 10 (6.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (6.94%) Looker
5 10 (6.94%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.47%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (2.78%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.78%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (2.78%) Mixpanel
9 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.08%) Data Mart
10 3 (2.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (6.94%) Git
2 7 (4.86%) JIRA
3 4 (2.78%) ERwin
4 2 (1.39%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.39%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 65 (45.14%) Finance
2 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (17.36%) Banking
5 9 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.17%) Legal
7 4 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.78%) Marketing
7 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.08%) Front Office
8 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.08%) Retail
9 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.39%) Publishing
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) Billing
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 31 (21.53%) Architect
3 29 (20.14%) Analyst
4 14 (9.72%) Data Analyst
4 14 (9.72%) Developer
5 13 (9.03%) Data Architect
5 13 (9.03%) Lead
6 11 (7.64%) Senior
7 10 (6.94%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Snowflake Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Technical Architect
9 5 (3.47%) Data Modeller
9 5 (3.47%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (2.78%) Consultant
10 4 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (2.78%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (2.78%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) PySpark
2 9 (6.25%) Kafka
3 7 (4.86%) REST
4 6 (4.17%) JSON
5 5 (3.47%) React
5 5 (3.47%) RESTful
6 4 (2.78%) .NET
6 4 (2.78%) Middleware
6 4 (2.78%) XML
7 3 (2.08%) Pandas
7 3 (2.08%) SOAP
8 2 (1.39%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.39%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.39%) Node.js
8 2 (1.39%) OAuth
8 2 (1.39%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.39%) pytest
8 2 (1.39%) Redux
8 2 (1.39%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.94%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.78%) Clustering
4 4 (2.78%) CMDB
4 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.08%) Equities
5 3 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.08%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.08%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.39%) Derivative
6 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.39%) IoT
6 2 (1.39%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.39%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (43.75%) Analytics
2 49 (34.03%) Business Intelligence
3 40 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (27.08%) ETL
5 36 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 33 (22.92%) AI
7 32 (22.22%) Data Governance
8 29 (20.14%) CI/CD
9 26 (18.06%) Data Architecture
10 25 (17.36%) Validation
11 24 (16.67%) Agile
12 23 (15.97%) Migration
13 21 (14.58%) Decision-Making
13 21 (14.58%) Integration Patterns
14 18 (12.50%) DevOps
14 18 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (11.81%) Event-Driven
15 17 (11.81%) Use Case
16 16 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
16 16 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (46.53%) SQL
2 56 (38.89%) Python
3 10 (6.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 10 (6.94%) Java
4 7 (4.86%) C#
5 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.78%) R
5 4 (2.78%) Ruby
6 3 (2.08%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.08%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.39%) Korn
7 2 (1.39%) Scala
8 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.69%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.56%) Degree
4 6 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.39%) CBAP
6 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.39%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.69%) CFA
7 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) IIBA
7 1 (0.69%) ISEB
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (32.64%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.03%) GDPR
3 8 (5.56%) QA
4 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.39%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.69%) Basel III
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) GxP
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.39%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 28 (19.44%) Databricks
3 17 (11.81%) Oracle
4 9 (6.25%) SAP
5 8 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.86%) Informatica
7 6 (4.17%) Google
7 6 (4.17%) Workday
8 4 (2.78%) Amplitude
9 3 (2.08%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.08%) Sparx
10 2 (1.39%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.39%) IBM
10 2 (1.39%) SimCorp
10 2 (1.39%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.69%) Murex
11 1 (0.69%) Planview
11 1 (0.69%) Sage