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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 37 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 174 109 84
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.62% 6.08% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.61% 6.45% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 69 61
10th Percentile £424 £361 £431
25th Percentile £463 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £718 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £740 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £586
% change year-on-year -2.13% +0.21% -9.81%
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 2,021 1,690 1,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.52% 94.20% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,115 1,242
10th Percentile £368 £325 £388
25th Percentile £456 £422 £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 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
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% -14.80%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £29.07 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.00% -11.91% +5.60%

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 11 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 12 (6.90%) 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 64 (36.78%) Azure
2 47 (27.01%) Power Platform
3 39 (22.41%) AWS
4 28 (16.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (13.22%) Snowflake
7 18 (10.34%) GitHub
8 17 (9.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (9.20%) dbt
10 15 (8.62%) Serverless
11 12 (6.90%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.90%) GCP
12 10 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (3.45%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (3.45%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.45%) PowerApps
13 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 45 (25.86%) Power BI
2 35 (20.11%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (14.37%) Metadata
4 18 (10.34%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.32%) BigQuery
5 11 (6.32%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.17%) Looker
7 9 (5.17%) Semantic Layer
8 8 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.60%) Star Schema
9 7 (4.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.02%) Tableau
10 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
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 75 (43.10%) 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%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 49 (28.16%) Architect
2 36 (20.69%) Analyst
3 34 (19.54%) 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%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.87%) Data Modeller
11 5 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (2.87%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.22%) PySpark
2 9 (5.17%) REST
3 8 (4.60%) Terraform
4 7 (4.02%) Kafka
5 6 (3.45%) Middleware
5 6 (3.45%) SOAP
6 5 (2.87%) JSON
6 5 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.87%) React
6 5 (2.87%) XML
7 4 (2.30%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (2.30%) RESTful
8 3 (1.72%) .NET
9 2 (1.15%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.15%) Node.js
9 2 (1.15%) PCRE
9 2 (1.15%) Redux
9 2 (1.15%) Regular Expression
10 1 (0.57%) RAML
10 1 (0.57%) Swagger
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%) Derivative
8 3 (1.72%) Replication
9 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.15%) Clustering
9 2 (1.15%) FMCG
9 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.15%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
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 57 (32.76%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (28.74%) Data Pipeline
4 49 (28.16%) Data Governance
5 48 (27.59%) Data Architecture
6 46 (26.44%) CI/CD
7 43 (24.71%) Data Engineering
8 41 (23.56%) ETL
9 39 (22.41%) Agile
10 38 (21.84%) DevOps
11 32 (18.39%) Migration
11 32 (18.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 30 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (15.52%) Decision-Making
14 26 (14.94%) AI
14 26 (14.94%) Validation
15 24 (13.79%) Event-Driven
15 24 (13.79%) Integration Patterns
16 23 (13.22%) Performance Optimisation
17 22 (12.64%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 90 (51.72%) SQL
2 58 (33.33%) Python
3 17 (9.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.60%) Java
5 7 (4.02%) C#
6 6 (3.45%) LookML
7 5 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.87%) Ruby
8 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.15%) CQL
10 2 (1.15%) Perl
10 2 (1.15%) SOQL
11 1 (0.57%) Cypher
11 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) R
11 1 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
11 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
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
7 1 (0.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (36.78%) 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 46 (26.44%) 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 6 (3.45%) Google
7 6 (3.45%) Informatica
8 3 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.15%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.15%) eFront
9 2 (1.15%) IBM
9 2 (1.15%) OneTrust
9 2 (1.15%) Splunk
9 2 (1.15%) Workday
10 1 (0.57%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.57%) Murex
10 1 (0.57%) Planon
10 1 (0.57%) Sparx