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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 47 36
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 107 80 130
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.82% 3.95% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% 4.29% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 45 92
10th Percentile £322 £458 £413
25th Percentile £413 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £591 £606
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% -2.52% +8.26%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £695
90th Percentile £736 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -10.45% -2.29% +7.14%
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 & 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 1,659 1,866 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.26% 92.10% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,136 1,582
10th Percentile £341 £367 £363
25th Percentile £421 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £759 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -35.19%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%

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 30 December 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 8 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (7.48%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.67%) Apache
3 3 (2.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (12.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.93%) Endur
3 1 (0.93%) HFM
3 1 (0.93%) Maximo
3 1 (0.93%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.93%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.97%) Power Platform
2 28 (26.17%) Azure
3 24 (22.43%) AWS
4 15 (14.02%) Snowflake
5 12 (11.21%) dbt
6 9 (8.41%) GCP
7 8 (7.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.54%) Amazon S3
8 7 (6.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.67%) Serverless
10 4 (3.74%) GitHub
11 2 (1.87%) Collibra
11 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.87%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
1 1 (0.93%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.04%) Power BI
2 21 (19.63%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (16.82%) Metadata
4 9 (8.41%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.48%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.48%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (7.48%) Tableau
6 7 (6.54%) Star Schema
7 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.61%) Power Query
8 5 (4.67%) Data Vault
8 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.87%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.87%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (1.87%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (12.15%) Git
2 6 (5.61%) ERwin
3 4 (3.74%) JIRA
4 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.87%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
General
1 46 (42.99%) Finance
2 33 (30.84%) Social Skills
3 25 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Banking
5 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Back Office
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Front Office
7 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Aviation
8 3 (2.80%) Law
9 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.87%) Legal
9 2 (1.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (22.43%) Analyst
2 19 (17.76%) Data Engineer
3 14 (13.08%) Architect
3 14 (13.08%) Business Analyst
4 13 (12.15%) Senior
5 12 (11.21%) Data Modeller
6 10 (9.35%) Data Analyst
7 9 (8.41%) Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Data Architect
9 7 (6.54%) Consultant
10 6 (5.61%) Lead
11 5 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Data Scientist
12 4 (3.74%) Financial Analyst
12 4 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
13 3 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 3 (2.80%) Functional Consultant
13 3 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
13 3 (2.80%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) JSON
1 6 (5.61%) XML
2 4 (3.74%) Kafka
2 4 (3.74%) PySpark
3 3 (2.80%) .NET
3 3 (2.80%) HTML
3 3 (2.80%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.80%) Pandas
3 3 (2.80%) REST
4 2 (1.87%) ADO
4 2 (1.87%) CSS
4 2 (1.87%) Flask
4 2 (1.87%) Middleware
4 2 (1.87%) Node.js
4 2 (1.87%) Web Services
5 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.93%) NumPy
5 1 (0.93%) YAML
5 1 (0.93%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Cloud Native
1 9 (8.41%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.48%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.67%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.80%) CMDB
6 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.87%) Equities
6 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.87%) Replication
6 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.93%) FMCG
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.64%) Analytics
2 34 (31.78%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (25.23%) Data Governance
3 27 (25.23%) ETL
4 24 (22.43%) Visualisation
5 22 (20.56%) Agile
5 22 (20.56%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.69%) Decision-Making
8 18 (16.82%) AI
8 18 (16.82%) Data Analysis
9 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
9 17 (15.89%) Data Integration
9 17 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (13.08%) Data Transformation
12 13 (12.15%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (11.21%) Data Architecture
13 12 (11.21%) User Stories
14 11 (10.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (52.34%) SQL
2 34 (31.78%) Python
3 10 (9.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.61%) Java
5 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.80%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.87%) ABAP
7 2 (1.87%) R
7 2 (1.87%) Scala
8 1 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) LookML
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
8 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.61%) Degree
4 2 (1.87%) CFA
4 2 (1.87%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.93%) ACCA
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) IIBA
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
5 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (29.91%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.61%) GDPR
2 6 (5.61%) QA
3 3 (2.80%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.87%) Basel III
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Terraform
2 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.76%) Databricks
3 6 (5.61%) Oracle
4 5 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.74%) SAP
5 4 (3.74%) Sparx
6 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.87%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.87%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.87%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.87%) Tagetik
8 1 (0.93%) Google
8 1 (0.93%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.93%) IBM
8 1 (0.93%) Informatica
8 1 (0.93%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.93%) Palantir
8 1 (0.93%) Planview
8 1 (0.93%) Remedy
8 1 (0.93%) Talend