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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 35 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 174 110 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.63% 6.12% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 6.49% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 70 60
10th Percentile £424 £362 £430
25th Percentile £463 £431 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% -10.77%
75th Percentile £718 £684 £675
90th Percentile £775 £739 £739
Central London median daily rate £553 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -7.83% +2.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £42.00 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £35.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.53% - -

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 2,017 1,694 1,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.46% 94.22% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,117 1,234
10th Percentile £368 £325 £386
25th Percentile £459 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% -11.91% +20.00%

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 10 September 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 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.17%) Apache
3 8 (4.60%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.45%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.57%) Appian
6 1 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.15%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.15%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.57%) Actimize
3 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) Maximo
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (37.36%) Azure
2 48 (27.59%) Power Platform
3 40 (22.99%) AWS
4 28 (16.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.79%) Snowflake
6 18 (10.34%) GitHub
7 17 (9.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (9.20%) dbt
9 15 (8.62%) Serverless
10 13 (7.47%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.90%) GCP
12 10 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.02%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (3.45%) PaaS
14 6 (3.45%) Power Automate
14 6 (3.45%) PowerApps
14 6 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) SSL
2 1 (0.57%) FTP
2 1 (0.57%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.44%) Power BI
2 36 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (14.37%) Metadata
4 18 (10.34%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.32%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (5.75%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.17%) Semantic Layer
7 9 (5.17%) Star Schema
8 8 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.60%) Looker
8 8 (4.60%) Tableau
9 7 (4.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.87%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.87%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Git
2 9 (5.17%) GitLab
3 6 (3.45%) Bitbucket
3 6 (3.45%) JIRA
4 2 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.15%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.15%) ERwin
4 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.57%) JMeter
5 1 (0.57%) JUnit
5 1 (0.57%) MLflow
5 1 (0.57%) Mockito
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (42.53%) Finance
2 46 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 41 (23.56%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (20.11%) Banking
5 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.60%) Retail
7 5 (2.87%) Back Office
7 5 (2.87%) Front Office
7 5 (2.87%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.87%) Legal
8 4 (2.30%) Marketing
9 3 (1.72%) Billing
9 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.72%) Law
9 3 (1.72%) Military
9 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 49 (28.16%) Architect
2 36 (20.69%) Analyst
3 35 (20.11%) Data Engineer
4 29 (16.67%) Data Architect
5 25 (14.37%) Data Analyst
5 25 (14.37%) Senior
6 20 (11.49%) Developer
7 11 (6.32%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Lead
9 7 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Consultant
10 6 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
10 6 (3.45%) Snowflake Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.87%) Data Modeller
11 5 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (2.87%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.22%) PySpark
2 9 (5.17%) REST
3 8 (4.60%) Kafka
3 8 (4.60%) Terraform
4 6 (3.45%) Middleware
4 6 (3.45%) SOAP
5 5 (2.87%) JSON
5 5 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.87%) React
5 5 (2.87%) XML
6 4 (2.30%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (2.30%) RESTful
7 3 (1.72%) .NET
8 2 (1.15%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.15%) Node.js
8 2 (1.15%) PCRE
8 2 (1.15%) Redux
8 2 (1.15%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.57%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.92%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.60%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.87%) Reinsurance
7 4 (2.30%) CMDB
7 4 (2.30%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.72%) Clustering
8 3 (1.72%) Derivative
8 3 (1.72%) Replication
9 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.15%) FMCG
9 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.15%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.72%) Linux
1 3 (1.72%) Unix
2 2 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.00%) Analytics
2 58 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (28.74%) Data Governance
3 50 (28.74%) Data Pipeline
4 48 (27.59%) Data Architecture
5 47 (27.01%) CI/CD
6 44 (25.29%) Data Engineering
7 42 (24.14%) ETL
8 39 (22.41%) Agile
8 39 (22.41%) DevOps
9 32 (18.39%) Migration
9 32 (18.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (15.52%) AI
11 27 (15.52%) Decision-Making
11 27 (15.52%) Validation
12 24 (13.79%) Event-Driven
12 24 (13.79%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (13.22%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (12.64%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 90 (51.72%) SQL
2 59 (33.91%) Python
3 17 (9.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.60%) Java
5 7 (4.02%) C#
6 5 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.87%) LookML
6 5 (2.87%) Ruby
7 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.15%) CQL
9 2 (1.15%) Perl
9 2 (1.15%) SOQL
10 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.57%) Cypher
10 1 (0.57%) Korn
10 1 (0.57%) R
10 1 (0.57%) Scala
10 1 (0.57%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 27 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.30%) Degree
5 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.15%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CBAP
7 1 (0.57%) CSPO
7 1 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (37.36%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.32%) QA
3 9 (5.17%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.15%) GRC
5 2 (1.15%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.57%) Basel III
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.15%) Grafana
1 2 (1.15%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (27.01%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.54%) Databricks
3 17 (9.77%) Oracle
4 13 (7.47%) SAP
5 10 (5.75%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.60%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.02%) Informatica
8 6 (3.45%) Google
9 3 (1.72%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.15%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.15%) eFront
10 2 (1.15%) IBM
10 2 (1.15%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.15%) Splunk
10 2 (1.15%) Workday
11 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.57%) Murex
11 1 (0.57%) New Relic
11 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Teradata