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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 45 37
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 109 93 144
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.21% 4.38% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 4.79% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 63 86
10th Percentile £336 £445 £413
25th Percentile £420 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +14.99%
75th Percentile £663 £681 £718
90th Percentile £741 £770 £844
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +16.07%
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 1,641 1,942 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.56% 91.47% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,194 1,754
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -35.15%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +6.87% -24.26%

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 November 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 (11.01%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.42%) Apache
4 2 (1.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.92%) JBoss
5 1 (0.92%) Luigi
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.59%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) HFM
1 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Endur
2 1 (0.92%) Maximo
2 1 (0.92%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.92%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.92%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.11%) Azure
2 28 (25.69%) Power Platform
3 27 (24.77%) AWS
4 16 (14.68%) Snowflake
5 12 (11.01%) GCP
6 11 (10.09%) dbt
7 10 (9.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.59%) Collibra
9 5 (4.59%) GitHub
10 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.75%) Serverless
11 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.92%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) Firewall
1 1 (0.92%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (25.69%) Power BI
2 27 (24.77%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (15.60%) Data Lake
4 15 (13.76%) Metadata
5 10 (9.17%) Star Schema
6 8 (7.34%) Relational Database
6 8 (7.34%) Tableau
7 6 (5.50%) Hadoop
7 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.59%) Power Query
8 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.67%) Big Data
9 4 (3.67%) Data Vault
9 4 (3.67%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.75%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Git
2 4 (3.67%) ERwin
3 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) JIRA
5 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.92%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.92%) Postman
5 1 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
General
1 44 (40.37%) Finance
2 38 (34.86%) Social Skills
3 26 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Banking
5 7 (6.42%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Back Office
7 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Front Office
8 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.75%) Law
8 3 (2.75%) Legal
9 2 (1.83%) Aviation
9 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (22.02%) Analyst
2 20 (18.35%) Data Engineer
3 18 (16.51%) Architect
4 16 (14.68%) Senior
5 13 (11.93%) Business Analyst
6 11 (10.09%) Data Architect
7 10 (9.17%) Data Analyst
7 10 (9.17%) Data Modeller
8 9 (8.26%) Developer
9 6 (5.50%) Consultant
10 5 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.59%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Data Scientist
11 4 (3.67%) Lead
11 4 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
12 3 (2.75%) DBA
12 3 (2.75%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
12 3 (2.75%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) CSS
1 6 (5.50%) HTML
1 6 (5.50%) Kafka
2 5 (4.59%) PySpark
3 4 (3.67%) JSON
3 4 (3.67%) REST
3 4 (3.67%) XML
4 3 (2.75%) .NET
4 3 (2.75%) Flask
4 3 (2.75%) Pandas
5 2 (1.83%) ADO
5 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.83%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.83%) Middleware
5 2 (1.83%) Node.js
5 2 (1.83%) Web Services
6 1 (0.92%) jQuery
6 1 (0.92%) RESTful
6 1 (0.92%) SOAP
6 1 (0.92%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.93%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.50%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.50%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) CMDB
5 3 (2.75%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.75%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.83%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) FMCG
7 1 (0.92%) NHS
7 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (37.61%) Analytics
2 35 (32.11%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (26.61%) Agile
4 27 (24.77%) ETL
5 26 (23.85%) Visualisation
6 23 (21.10%) Data Analysis
6 23 (21.10%) Data Governance
7 22 (20.18%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (17.43%) Data Integration
8 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (16.51%) Decision-Making
10 17 (15.60%) AI
11 15 (13.76%) Data Architecture
11 15 (13.76%) Data Transformation
11 15 (13.76%) Migration
11 15 (13.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (12.84%) CI/CD
13 13 (11.93%) Data Engineering
13 13 (11.93%) Scrum
13 13 (11.93%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 58 (53.21%) SQL
2 37 (33.94%) Python
3 10 (9.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (8.26%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.50%) Java
6 5 (4.59%) Scala
7 2 (1.83%) ABAP
7 2 (1.83%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.83%) C#
7 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.83%) R
7 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.83%) VBA
8 1 (0.92%) C++
8 1 (0.92%) CodeQL
8 1 (0.92%) Go
8 1 (0.92%) LookML
8 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) Degree
2 10 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) CBAP
5 2 (1.83%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.92%) CFA
6 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (28.44%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.50%) GDPR
2 6 (5.50%) QA
3 2 (1.83%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.92%) GRC
4 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (20.18%) Databricks
2 20 (18.35%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.42%) Oracle
4 4 (3.67%) Google
4 4 (3.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.75%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.75%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.75%) Dataiku
5 3 (2.75%) Palantir
5 3 (2.75%) SAP
5 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.75%) Tagetik
6 2 (1.83%) Foundry
6 2 (1.83%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.83%) Informatica
6 2 (1.83%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.83%) Sparx
6 2 (1.83%) Workday
7 1 (0.92%) Planview
7 1 (0.92%) Remedy