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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 48 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 -13 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 108 83 134
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.01% 3.96% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 4.31% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 49 84
10th Percentile £322 £454 £413
25th Percentile £416 £475 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £591 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% -5.44% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £696
90th Percentile £735 £755 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £588 £625
% change year-on-year -10.64% -6.00% +9.36%
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 1,634 1,927 2,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.88% 91.98% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,177 1,656
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -40.70%

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 14 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 9 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) JBoss
3 1 (0.93%) Luigi
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.63%) MS Visio
4 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.85%) 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
3 1 (0.93%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.70%) Power Platform
2 30 (27.78%) Azure
3 22 (20.37%) AWS
4 17 (15.74%) Snowflake
5 12 (11.11%) dbt
6 10 (9.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (9.26%) GCP
7 5 (4.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.78%) Collibra
9 3 (2.78%) GitHub
9 3 (2.78%) Serverless
10 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
1 1 (0.93%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.70%) Power BI
2 22 (20.37%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (16.67%) Metadata
4 10 (9.26%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (7.41%) Tableau
6 7 (6.48%) Star Schema
7 6 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.56%) Power Query
8 5 (4.63%) Data Vault
9 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.78%) Big Data
10 3 (2.78%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.78%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.85%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (12.96%) Git
2 6 (5.56%) ERwin
3 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.78%) JIRA
4 2 (1.85%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.93%) Postman
5 1 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
General
1 49 (45.37%) Finance
2 35 (32.41%) Social Skills
3 25 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Banking
5 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.70%) Back Office
7 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Aviation
8 3 (2.78%) Front Office
8 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.78%) Law
9 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.85%) Legal
9 2 (1.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (24.07%) Analyst
2 19 (17.59%) Data Engineer
3 14 (12.96%) Architect
4 13 (12.04%) Business Analyst
5 12 (11.11%) Data Modeller
5 12 (11.11%) Senior
6 11 (10.19%) Data Analyst
7 9 (8.33%) Data Architect
7 9 (8.33%) Developer
8 7 (6.48%) Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.70%) Lead
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Functional Consultant
11 3 (2.78%) Governance Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) JSON
1 6 (5.56%) XML
2 5 (4.63%) Kafka
3 4 (3.70%) PySpark
4 3 (2.78%) CSS
4 3 (2.78%) Flask
4 3 (2.78%) HTML
4 3 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.78%) Pandas
5 2 (1.85%) .NET
5 2 (1.85%) ADO
5 2 (1.85%) Middleware
5 2 (1.85%) Node.js
5 2 (1.85%) REST
5 2 (1.85%) Web Services
6 1 (0.93%) SAP ALE
6 1 (0.93%) Spring
6 1 (0.93%) XSD
6 1 (0.93%) YAML
6 1 (0.93%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.48%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.70%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.78%) CMDB
6 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.85%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.85%) Replication
6 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Equities
7 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) Analytics
2 37 (34.26%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (26.85%) Data Governance
4 26 (24.07%) ETL
4 26 (24.07%) Visualisation
5 24 (22.22%) Agile
6 21 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (19.44%) Decision-Making
7 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (17.59%) Data Analysis
8 19 (17.59%) Data Integration
9 17 (15.74%) AI
9 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (13.89%) CI/CD
12 14 (12.96%) Data Transformation
13 13 (12.04%) Actionable Insight
13 13 (12.04%) Data Architecture
13 13 (12.04%) Data Engineering
14 12 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (50.00%) SQL
2 33 (30.56%) Python
3 11 (10.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.56%) Java
5 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.78%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.78%) R
6 3 (2.78%) Scala
6 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.85%) ABAP
7 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) LookML
8 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.33%) Degree
2 9 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.85%) SnowPro
4 1 (0.93%) ACCA
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.93%) CBAP
4 1 (0.93%) CFA
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.93%) IIBA
4 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (30.56%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.56%) GDPR
3 5 (4.63%) QA
4 3 (2.78%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.93%) Basel III
6 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.44%) Databricks
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.78%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.78%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.78%) SAP
5 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.78%) Sparx
6 2 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.85%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) Informatica
7 1 (0.93%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.93%) Planview
7 1 (0.93%) Remedy
7 1 (0.93%) Temenos