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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 57 33
Rank change year-on-year +27 -24 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 139 66 111
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.13% 3.71% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 4.00% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 38 88
10th Percentile £358 £454 £422
25th Percentile £450 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £651 £685
90th Percentile £789 £716 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year - -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 1,939 1,652 1,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.49% 92.86% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,051 1,415
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% +4.32% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 13
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -42.20%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 25 April 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 12 (8.63%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.88%) Apache
2 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.72%) Appian
3 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.60%) BambooHR
3 3 (2.16%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.72%) Actimize
5 1 (0.72%) Maximo
5 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.72%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.50%) Power Platform
2 38 (27.34%) Azure
3 31 (22.30%) AWS
4 22 (15.83%) Snowflake
5 15 (10.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (10.07%) dbt
7 12 (8.63%) GCP
8 8 (5.76%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (5.76%) Prefect
9 7 (5.04%) Serverless
10 6 (4.32%) Dagster
11 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.60%) GitHub
11 5 (3.60%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.88%) PaaS
13 3 (2.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) FTP
1 1 (0.72%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.72%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.90%) Power BI
2 27 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (17.99%) Metadata
4 13 (9.35%) Tableau
5 11 (7.91%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (6.47%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.47%) Looker
6 9 (6.47%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.04%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.60%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.88%) Data Vault
10 4 (2.88%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (2.88%) Power Query
11 3 (2.16%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.16%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.47%) Git
2 7 (5.04%) ERwin
3 6 (4.32%) JIRA
4 2 (1.44%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (47.48%) Finance
2 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.23%) Banking
5 10 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.04%) Legal
7 6 (4.32%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.88%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.16%) Aviation
10 3 (2.16%) Front Office
10 3 (2.16%) Law
10 3 (2.16%) Marketing
11 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.44%) Publishing
11 2 (1.44%) Retail
12 1 (0.72%) Billing
12 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (22.30%) Data Engineer
2 28 (20.14%) Analyst
3 23 (16.55%) Architect
4 16 (11.51%) Senior
5 13 (9.35%) Data Analyst
6 12 (8.63%) Developer
7 11 (7.91%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.91%) Data Modeller
8 10 (7.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Snowflake Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Lead
10 7 (5.04%) Consultant
11 6 (4.32%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.60%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 4 (2.88%) Data Business Analyst
13 4 (2.88%) Power BI Developer
13 4 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.76%) JSON
2 6 (4.32%) XML
3 5 (3.60%) PySpark
4 4 (2.88%) Kafka
5 3 (2.16%) Middleware
5 3 (2.16%) Pandas
5 3 (2.16%) React
5 3 (2.16%) REST
5 3 (2.16%) RESTful
6 2 (1.44%) .NET
6 2 (1.44%) GeoJSON
6 2 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.44%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.44%) Node.js
6 2 (1.44%) OAuth
6 2 (1.44%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.44%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.44%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.63%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.60%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.88%) Clustering
6 4 (2.88%) Equities
6 4 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.16%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.44%) CMDB
8 2 (1.44%) Derivative
8 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.44%) IoT
8 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.44%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.01%) Analytics
2 44 (31.65%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (26.62%) ETL
4 35 (25.18%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (23.02%) Data Governance
6 30 (21.58%) AI
7 27 (19.42%) Data Engineering
8 25 (17.99%) Agile
9 24 (17.27%) CI/CD
10 23 (16.55%) Decision-Making
11 22 (15.83%) Validation
12 21 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (14.39%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (13.67%) Visualisation
15 18 (12.95%) Data Transformation
15 18 (12.95%) Integration Patterns
16 17 (12.23%) Logical Data Model
16 17 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (11.51%) Data Architecture
17 16 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.76%) SQL
2 48 (34.53%) Python
3 9 (6.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (6.47%) Java
4 5 (3.60%) R
5 4 (2.88%) C#
6 3 (2.16%) Ruby
7 2 (1.44%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.44%) Scala
8 1 (0.72%) ABAP
8 1 (0.72%) C++
8 1 (0.72%) Korn
8 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.72%) SOQL
8 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.76%) Degree
4 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.44%) IIBA
6 2 (1.44%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.72%) ACCA
7 1 (0.72%) CBAP
7 1 (0.72%) CFA
7 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.72%) ISEB
7 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (34.53%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.07%) GDPR
3 6 (4.32%) QA
4 5 (3.60%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.44%) Basel III
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.72%) GxP
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.16%) Terraform
2 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.55%) Databricks
3 12 (8.63%) Oracle
4 10 (7.19%) SAP
5 7 (5.04%) Informatica
5 7 (5.04%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.32%) Google
6 6 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.32%) Sparx
6 6 (4.32%) Workday
7 3 (2.16%) Amplitude
7 3 (2.16%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.44%) IBM
8 2 (1.44%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.44%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.72%) Palantir
9 1 (0.72%) Pega
9 1 (0.72%) Planview
9 1 (0.72%) Talend