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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 53 37
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 128 64 117
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.06% 3.67% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 3.98% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 36 89
10th Percentile £325 £456 £423
25th Percentile £440 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -2.83% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £700
90th Percentile £750 £708 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £559 £600
% change year-on-year -1.65% -6.79% -
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 1,859 1,610 2,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.98% 92.26% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,027 1,491
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £46.29 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.13 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -13.07% +8.00% -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 March 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 13 (10.16%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.91%) Apache
3 5 (3.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.78%) Appian
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.34%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.56%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.78%) Actimize
4 1 (0.78%) Maximo
4 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.78%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.03%) Power Platform
2 36 (28.13%) Azure
3 33 (25.78%) AWS
4 25 (19.53%) Snowflake
5 16 (12.50%) dbt
6 14 (10.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (10.94%) GCP
7 8 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.69%) Prefect
8 6 (4.69%) Serverless
9 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.91%) GitHub
9 5 (3.91%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.13%) Dagster
10 4 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.78%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.91%) Power BI
2 29 (22.66%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (17.19%) Metadata
4 12 (9.38%) Tableau
5 11 (8.59%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (7.81%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.47%) Looker
7 7 (5.47%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.69%) Data Vault
8 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.91%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.91%) Star Schema
10 4 (3.13%) Delta Lake
10 4 (3.13%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.13%) Power Query
11 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.34%) Mixpanel
11 3 (2.34%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (10.16%) Git
2 6 (4.69%) ERwin
2 6 (4.69%) JIRA
3 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.56%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
General
1 58 (45.31%) Finance
2 31 (24.22%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.72%) Banking
5 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.69%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.13%) Front Office
7 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.13%) Law
7 4 (3.13%) Legal
8 3 (2.34%) Aviation
8 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.34%) Marketing
8 3 (2.34%) Retail
8 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.56%) Back Office
9 2 (1.56%) Publishing
10 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (25.78%) Data Engineer
2 24 (18.75%) Analyst
3 20 (15.63%) Architect
4 15 (11.72%) Senior
5 12 (9.38%) Data Modeller
6 11 (8.59%) Business Analyst
6 11 (8.59%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.81%) Developer
7 10 (7.81%) Lead
8 9 (7.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) Snowflake Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Data Architect
10 7 (5.47%) Consultant
11 5 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.91%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (3.13%) Power BI Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
13 3 (2.34%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.25%) Kafka
2 7 (5.47%) JSON
3 6 (4.69%) XML
4 5 (3.91%) PySpark
5 3 (2.34%) Pandas
6 2 (1.56%) GeoJSON
6 2 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.56%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.56%) Middleware
6 2 (1.56%) OAuth
6 2 (1.56%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.56%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.56%) Polars
6 2 (1.56%) REST
6 2 (1.56%) RESTful
6 2 (1.56%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.78%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.78%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.78%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.47%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.91%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.13%) Clustering
4 4 (3.13%) Equities
4 4 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.34%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.56%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.34%) Linux
2 2 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (39.84%) Analytics
2 44 (34.38%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (28.13%) ETL
4 34 (26.56%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (22.66%) AI
6 28 (21.88%) Data Engineering
7 27 (21.09%) Data Governance
8 25 (19.53%) CI/CD
9 23 (17.97%) Agile
10 21 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (14.84%) Data Transformation
11 19 (14.84%) Decision-Making
11 19 (14.84%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (14.84%) Visualisation
12 17 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (12.50%) Migration
13 16 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (12.50%) Validation
14 15 (11.72%) Data Architecture
14 15 (11.72%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.56%) SQL
2 48 (37.50%) Python
3 8 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (6.25%) Java
4 5 (3.91%) R
5 3 (2.34%) Ruby
5 3 (2.34%) Scala
6 2 (1.56%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.78%) ABAP
7 1 (0.78%) C#
7 1 (0.78%) C++
7 1 (0.78%) Korn
7 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.78%) SOQL
7 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.03%) Degree
4 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.56%) CFA
6 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.56%) IIBA
6 2 (1.56%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.78%) ACCA
7 1 (0.78%) CBAP
7 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.78%) ISEB
7 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (36.72%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.81%) GDPR
3 5 (3.91%) QA
4 4 (3.13%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.56%) Basel III
6 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.78%) GxP
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Terraform
2 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.75%) Databricks
3 9 (7.03%) Oracle
4 7 (5.47%) Informatica
4 7 (5.47%) SAP
5 6 (4.69%) Google
5 6 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.91%) Sparx
7 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.13%) Workday
8 3 (2.34%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.34%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.56%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.56%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.56%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.78%) IBM
10 1 (0.78%) Pega
10 1 (0.78%) Planview
10 1 (0.78%) Sage
10 1 (0.78%) Talend