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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 46 35
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 114 92 144
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.62% 4.38% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.05% 4.78% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 63 85
10th Percentile £349 £445 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +15.56%
75th Percentile £663 £681 £715
90th Percentile £743 £770 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +17.12%
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 1,618 1,926 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.02% 91.67% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,177 1,739
10th Percentile £327 £374 £363
25th Percentile £420 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.03% +1.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £760 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -24.26%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.05%

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 5 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 10 (8.77%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.89%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.39%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Luigi
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.39%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) HFM
2 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) Endur
2 1 (0.88%) Maximo
2 1 (0.88%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.88%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.88%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.82%) Azure
2 26 (22.81%) Power Platform
3 25 (21.93%) AWS
4 16 (14.04%) Snowflake
5 13 (11.40%) GCP
6 10 (8.77%) dbt
7 9 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (5.26%) Collibra
10 5 (4.39%) GitHub
10 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.63%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.63%) Serverless
13 2 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.75%) Cloud Composer
13 2 (1.75%) Google Compute Engine
13 2 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (22.81%) Power BI
3 18 (15.79%) Data Lake
4 15 (13.16%) Metadata
5 11 (9.65%) Star Schema
6 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
6 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
6 8 (7.02%) Tableau
7 7 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.39%) Big Data
9 5 (4.39%) Hadoop
10 4 (3.51%) Data Vault
10 4 (3.51%) Delta Lake
10 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.63%) Apache Hive
11 3 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.63%) Power Query
11 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.65%) Git
2 4 (3.51%) ERwin
3 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.75%) JIRA
5 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.88%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.88%) Postman
5 1 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (36.84%) Finance
2 37 (32.46%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.44%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.65%) Banking
5 9 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Retail
8 4 (3.51%) Back Office
8 4 (3.51%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.63%) Front Office
9 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.75%) Aviation
10 2 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.75%) Law
10 2 (1.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (24.56%) Analyst
2 24 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 17 (14.91%) Architect
4 16 (14.04%) Senior
5 15 (13.16%) Business Analyst
6 11 (9.65%) Data Analyst
7 10 (8.77%) Data Architect
7 10 (8.77%) Data Modeller
7 10 (8.77%) Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Consultant
9 5 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.51%) Finance Business Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Lead
10 4 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.63%) Snowflake Architect
11 3 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.02%) HTML
2 7 (6.14%) Kafka
3 6 (5.26%) CSS
3 6 (5.26%) PySpark
4 5 (4.39%) Flask
4 5 (4.39%) JSON
5 4 (3.51%) REST
6 3 (2.63%) .NET
6 3 (2.63%) Pandas
6 3 (2.63%) React
6 3 (2.63%) XML
7 2 (1.75%) ADO
7 2 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.75%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.75%) Node.js
7 2 (1.75%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (1.75%) Web Services
8 1 (0.88%) IDoc
8 1 (0.88%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.39%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.51%) CMDB
5 4 (3.51%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.63%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.75%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) NHS
8 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Replication
8 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.33%) Analytics
2 34 (29.82%) Agile
3 33 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (22.81%) Data Analysis
5 25 (21.93%) ETL
6 23 (20.18%) Visualisation
7 22 (19.30%) Data Governance
8 21 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (17.54%) AI
9 20 (17.54%) Data Integration
10 19 (16.67%) Data Engineering
11 18 (15.79%) Decision-Making
12 17 (14.91%) Data Architecture
12 17 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (14.04%) Scrum
13 16 (14.04%) User Stories
14 15 (13.16%) Migration
15 14 (12.28%) CI/CD
15 14 (12.28%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.51%) SQL
2 39 (34.21%) Python
3 11 (9.65%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.26%) Java
5 6 (5.26%) Scala
6 3 (2.63%) VBA
7 2 (1.75%) ABAP
7 2 (1.75%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.75%) C#
7 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.88%) CodeQL
8 1 (0.88%) Go
8 1 (0.88%) LookML
8 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.88%) R
8 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) Degree
2 10 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) CBAP
5 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CFA
6 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (28.07%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.39%) GDPR
2 5 (4.39%) QA
3 2 (1.75%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.88%) GRC
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Terraform
2 6 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (17.54%) Databricks
2 19 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.77%) Oracle
4 7 (6.14%) Google
5 3 (2.63%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.63%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.63%) Dataiku
5 3 (2.63%) Informatica
5 3 (2.63%) Palantir
5 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.63%) Tagetik
6 2 (1.75%) Foundry
6 2 (1.75%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.75%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.75%) SAP
6 2 (1.75%) Sparx
6 2 (1.75%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) IBM
7 1 (0.88%) Planview