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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 47 34
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 113 91 147
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.34% 4.31% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.79% 4.71% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 61 88
10th Percentile £345 £451 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +14.99%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £716
90th Percentile £738 £775 £841
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 1,664 1,933 2,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.43% 91.57% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,185 1,698
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £811
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 14
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +52.67% -35.78%
75th Percentile £44.72 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -41.33%

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 20 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 (10.62%) Apache Spark
2 9 (7.96%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.19%) Apache
4 2 (1.77%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Luigi
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.42%) MS Visio
4 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) HFM
1 2 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.88%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.97%) Azure
2 30 (26.55%) Power Platform
3 27 (23.89%) AWS
4 17 (15.04%) Snowflake
5 12 (10.62%) dbt
6 11 (9.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (9.73%) GCP
7 9 (7.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.42%) GitHub
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.65%) Collibra
9 3 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.65%) Serverless
10 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.88%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.88%) Dagster
11 1 (0.88%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.88%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Firewall
1 1 (0.88%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (26.55%) Power BI
2 28 (24.78%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (14.16%) Data Lake
4 15 (13.27%) Metadata
5 9 (7.96%) Star Schema
6 8 (7.08%) Relational Database
6 8 (7.08%) Tableau
7 7 (6.19%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (5.31%) Hadoop
8 6 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (5.31%) Power Query
8 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.42%) Data Vault
10 4 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.54%) Big Data
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.65%) Apache Hive
11 3 (2.65%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (11.50%) Git
2 4 (3.54%) ERwin
3 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.88%) Postman
4 1 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
General
1 49 (43.36%) Finance
2 38 (33.63%) Social Skills
3 28 (24.78%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Banking
4 7 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.54%) Back Office
6 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Aviation
7 3 (2.65%) Front Office
7 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.65%) Law
7 3 (2.65%) Legal
8 2 (1.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (23.01%) Analyst
2 20 (17.70%) Data Engineer
3 17 (15.04%) Architect
4 16 (14.16%) Senior
5 14 (12.39%) Business Analyst
6 10 (8.85%) Data Analyst
6 10 (8.85%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.85%) Data Modeller
6 10 (8.85%) Developer
7 6 (5.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (5.31%) Consultant
8 5 (4.42%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.54%) Lead
9 4 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.65%) DBA
10 3 (2.65%) Snowflake Architect
10 3 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.65%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) CSS
1 6 (5.31%) HTML
2 5 (4.42%) Kafka
2 5 (4.42%) PySpark
3 4 (3.54%) JSON
3 4 (3.54%) REST
3 4 (3.54%) XML
4 3 (2.65%) .NET
4 3 (2.65%) Flask
4 3 (2.65%) Pandas
5 2 (1.77%) ADO
5 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.77%) Middleware
5 2 (1.77%) Node.js
5 2 (1.77%) Web Services
6 1 (0.88%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.88%) jQuery
6 1 (0.88%) RESTful
6 1 (0.88%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.08%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.31%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.54%) CMDB
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.65%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.77%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.77%) Replication
6 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) FMCG
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.94%) Analytics
2 37 (32.74%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (26.55%) Agile
4 27 (23.89%) Visualisation
5 26 (23.01%) ETL
6 23 (20.35%) Data Analysis
6 23 (20.35%) Data Governance
6 23 (20.35%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (17.70%) Decision-Making
8 19 (16.81%) Data Integration
8 19 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.93%) AI
10 17 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (14.16%) Data Transformation
12 15 (13.27%) CI/CD
12 15 (13.27%) Data Architecture
13 14 (12.39%) Migration
13 14 (12.39%) Scrum
13 14 (12.39%) User Stories
14 13 (11.50%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (51.33%) SQL
2 37 (32.74%) Python
3 11 (9.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (7.96%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.31%) Java
6 4 (3.54%) Scala
7 3 (2.65%) R
8 2 (1.77%) ABAP
8 2 (1.77%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.77%) C#
8 2 (1.77%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.77%) VBA
9 1 (0.88%) C++
9 1 (0.88%) CodeQL
9 1 (0.88%) Go
9 1 (0.88%) LookML
9 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.39%) Degree
2 12 (10.62%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) CBAP
5 2 (1.77%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.88%) ACCA
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) CFA
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.88%) IIBA
6 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (28.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.31%) GDPR
2 6 (5.31%) QA
3 3 (2.65%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.88%) GRC
5 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.54%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.54%) Terraform
2 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (19.47%) Databricks
2 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.19%) Oracle
4 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.65%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.65%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.65%) Dataiku
5 3 (2.65%) Google
5 3 (2.65%) Palantir
5 3 (2.65%) SAP
5 3 (2.65%) Tagetik
6 2 (1.77%) Foundry
6 2 (1.77%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.77%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.77%) Sparx
6 2 (1.77%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) eFront
7 1 (0.88%) Okta
7 1 (0.88%) Talend