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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 50 40
Rank change year-on-year +22 -10 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 136 77 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.87% 4.47% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 4.77% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 43 80
10th Percentile £363 £430 £415
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% -12.16%
75th Percentile £688 £640 £675
90th Percentile £788 £723 £764
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
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 1,961 1,613 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.67% 93.56% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,012 1,391
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +2.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
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 21 May 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 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.68%) Confluence
3 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.74%) Appian
5 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.68%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.21%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.74%) Actimize
4 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.09%) Power Platform
2 44 (32.35%) Azure
3 29 (21.32%) AWS
4 23 (16.91%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.82%) dbt
6 12 (8.82%) GCP
7 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.15%) Prefect
9 6 (4.41%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.41%) GitHub
9 6 (4.41%) Serverless
10 5 (3.68%) Dagster
10 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) FTP
1 1 (0.74%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (29.41%) Power BI
2 24 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (15.44%) Metadata
4 15 (11.03%) Tableau
5 10 (7.35%) Looker
5 10 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.62%) BigQuery
7 8 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (5.15%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.41%) Data Lake
10 5 (3.68%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.68%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (2.94%) Mixpanel
12 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.21%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.21%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Git
2 6 (4.41%) JIRA
3 5 (3.68%) ERwin
4 2 (1.47%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.47%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (46.32%) Finance
2 29 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.44%) Banking
4 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.41%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.41%) Legal
6 5 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Marketing
7 4 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.21%) Front Office
8 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.21%) Retail
9 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (22.06%) Data Engineer
2 28 (20.59%) Analyst
2 28 (20.59%) Architect
3 15 (11.03%) Data Analyst
4 13 (9.56%) Developer
5 12 (8.82%) Data Architect
5 12 (8.82%) Senior
6 10 (7.35%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Snowflake Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Lead
8 6 (4.41%) Consultant
8 6 (4.41%) Data Modeller
9 5 (3.68%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.21%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) PySpark
2 8 (5.88%) Kafka
3 6 (4.41%) JSON
3 6 (4.41%) REST
4 5 (3.68%) React
4 5 (3.68%) RESTful
5 4 (2.94%) .NET
5 4 (2.94%) XML
6 3 (2.21%) Middleware
6 3 (2.21%) Pandas
7 2 (1.47%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.47%) GeoJSON
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.47%) Node.js
7 2 (1.47%) OAuth
7 2 (1.47%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.47%) pytest
7 2 (1.47%) Redux
7 2 (1.47%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.35%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.68%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.68%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.94%) Clustering
6 4 (2.94%) Equities
6 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.21%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.47%) CMDB
8 2 (1.47%) Derivative
8 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.47%) IoT
8 2 (1.47%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.47%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.91%) Analytics
2 47 (34.56%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
4 34 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 33 (24.26%) ETL
6 30 (22.06%) Data Engineering
7 28 (20.59%) AI
8 24 (17.65%) CI/CD
9 23 (16.91%) Validation
10 21 (15.44%) Agile
11 20 (14.71%) Data Architecture
11 20 (14.71%) Integration Patterns
12 19 (13.97%) Decision-Making
13 18 (13.24%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (12.50%) Migration
14 17 (12.50%) Use Case
15 16 (11.76%) Logical Data Model
16 15 (11.03%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 61 (44.85%) SQL
2 49 (36.03%) Python
3 10 (7.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.62%) Java
5 6 (4.41%) C#
6 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.94%) R
7 3 (2.21%) Ruby
7 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.47%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.47%) Scala
9 1 (0.74%) Korn
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.74%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) Degree
4 4 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.47%) CBAP
6 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.47%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CFA
7 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) IIBA
7 1 (0.74%) ISEB
7 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.56%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.56%) GDPR
3 7 (5.15%) QA
4 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.47%) Basel III
5 2 (1.47%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) GxP
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.47%) Terraform
2 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.18%) Databricks
3 12 (8.82%) Oracle
4 8 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.88%) SAP
5 6 (4.41%) Google
5 6 (4.41%) Informatica
5 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.41%) Workday
6 5 (3.68%) Sparx
7 4 (2.94%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.21%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.47%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.47%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.74%) IBM
10 1 (0.74%) Pega
10 1 (0.74%) Planview
10 1 (0.74%) Sage
10 1 (0.74%) Talend