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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 40 50
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 159 101 92
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.61% 5.41% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.62% 5.75% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 63 69
10th Percentile £409 £409 £415
25th Percentile £456 £478 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £706 £694 £688
90th Percentile £791 £735 £775
Central London median daily rate £568 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.42% - -7.69%
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 2,086 1,756 1,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.66% 94.00% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,133 1,324
10th Percentile £368 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £30.41
% change year-on-year -28.74% +6.89% -13.13%

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 21 July 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 15 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.52%) Apache
2 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.52%) Confluence
3 3 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.63%) Appian
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.14%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.89%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.63%) Actimize
5 1 (0.63%) Maximo
5 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.63%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.70%) Azure
2 50 (31.45%) Power Platform
3 37 (23.27%) AWS
4 28 (17.61%) Snowflake
5 19 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (8.81%) dbt
6 14 (8.81%) GCP
7 12 (7.55%) GitHub
8 9 (5.66%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (5.66%) Serverless
9 7 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.40%) PaaS
9 7 (4.40%) Prefect
10 5 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (3.14%) Dagster
10 5 (3.14%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.52%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) FTP
1 1 (0.63%) RTP
1 1 (0.63%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (28.30%) Power BI
2 31 (19.50%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (13.84%) Metadata
4 13 (8.18%) Tableau
5 11 (6.92%) BigQuery
5 11 (6.92%) Looker
6 10 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.29%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (5.03%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (4.40%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.14%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.52%) Data Mart
10 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.52%) Mixpanel
10 4 (2.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (9.43%) Git
2 6 (3.77%) GitLab
2 6 (3.77%) JIRA
3 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.89%) ERwin
4 2 (1.26%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.63%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.63%) JUnit
5 1 (0.63%) Mockito
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (44.65%) Finance
2 39 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 38 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (15.09%) Banking
5 13 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.40%) Legal
7 5 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.89%) Back Office
9 3 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
9 3 (1.89%) Military
9 3 (1.89%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Front Office
10 2 (1.26%) Law
10 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.26%) Publishing
11 1 (0.63%) Billing
11 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (24.53%) Architect
2 38 (23.90%) Data Engineer
3 33 (20.75%) Analyst
4 20 (12.58%) Data Analyst
4 20 (12.58%) Data Architect
5 18 (11.32%) Developer
6 15 (9.43%) Senior
7 10 (6.29%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.29%) Lead
7 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Engineer
8 8 (5.03%) Technical Architect
9 6 (3.77%) Data Business Analyst
9 6 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Consultant
10 5 (3.14%) Data Modeller
10 5 (3.14%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.14%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.52%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) PySpark
2 10 (6.29%) Kafka
3 7 (4.40%) REST
4 6 (3.77%) JSON
4 6 (3.77%) RESTful
5 5 (3.14%) Middleware
5 5 (3.14%) React
5 5 (3.14%) XML
6 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.52%) SOAP
7 3 (1.89%) .NET
8 2 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.26%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.26%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.26%) Node.js
8 2 (1.26%) OAuth
8 2 (1.26%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.26%) Pandas
8 2 (1.26%) pytest
8 2 (1.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.55%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.14%) CMDB
6 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.52%) Clustering
8 3 (1.89%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.89%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.26%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.26%) Derivative
9 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.26%) IoT
9 2 (1.26%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.26%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (47.17%) Analytics
2 56 (35.22%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (28.30%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (27.04%) Data Engineering
5 38 (23.90%) ETL
6 36 (22.64%) CI/CD
6 36 (22.64%) Data Governance
7 34 (21.38%) Data Architecture
8 31 (19.50%) AI
9 26 (16.35%) Agile
9 26 (16.35%) Decision-Making
9 26 (16.35%) Validation
10 24 (15.09%) DevOps
10 24 (15.09%) Migration
11 21 (13.21%) Integration Patterns
12 20 (12.58%) Event-Driven
12 20 (12.58%) Performance Optimisation
12 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (11.95%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (11.32%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 75 (47.17%) SQL
2 59 (37.11%) Python
3 12 (7.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (6.29%) Java
5 8 (5.03%) C#
6 5 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.14%) Ruby
7 4 (2.52%) R
8 3 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.26%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.26%) Korn
9 2 (1.26%) SOQL
10 1 (0.63%) LookML
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.77%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.77%) Degree
4 3 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.26%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CBAP
6 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (30.19%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.81%) GDPR
3 9 (5.66%) QA
4 7 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.52%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Grafana
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (23.27%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.13%) Databricks
3 18 (11.32%) Oracle
4 10 (6.29%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.66%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.66%) SAP
6 7 (4.40%) Informatica
7 6 (3.77%) Google
7 6 (3.77%) Workday
8 4 (2.52%) Amplitude
8 4 (2.52%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.26%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.26%) IBM
9 2 (1.26%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.63%) Murex
10 1 (0.63%) Pega
10 1 (0.63%) Planview
10 1 (0.63%) Sage
10 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds