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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 57 37
Rank change year-on-year +27 -20 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 137 65 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.16% 3.71% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 4.01% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 37 89
10th Percentile £360 £456 £423
25th Percentile £451 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £656 £700
90th Percentile £776 £718 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
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 1,920 1,621 2,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.29% 92.58% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,035 1,426
10th Percentile £363 £363 £351
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 17 April 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 (9.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.65%) Apache
3 5 (3.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.73%) Appian
4 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.92%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.65%) BambooHR
3 3 (2.19%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.73%) Actimize
5 1 (0.73%) Maximo
5 1 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.73%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.73%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.66%) Power Platform
2 39 (28.47%) Azure
3 33 (24.09%) AWS
4 24 (17.52%) Snowflake
5 15 (10.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (10.95%) dbt
6 13 (9.49%) GCP
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (5.84%) Prefect
8 6 (4.38%) Dagster
8 6 (4.38%) Serverless
9 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.65%) GitHub
9 5 (3.65%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.19%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.73%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (27.01%) Power BI
2 27 (19.71%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (18.25%) Metadata
4 14 (10.22%) Tableau
5 11 (8.03%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (7.30%) Data Lake
7 9 (6.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.57%) Looker
8 7 (5.11%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.11%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.65%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.92%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.92%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.92%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.92%) Power Query
12 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.19%) Mixpanel
12 3 (2.19%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Git
2 7 (5.11%) ERwin
3 6 (4.38%) JIRA
4 2 (1.46%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
General
1 64 (46.72%) Finance
2 31 (22.63%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.14%) Banking
5 10 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.38%) Legal
7 5 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.92%) Law
8 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.19%) Aviation
9 3 (2.19%) Front Office
9 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.19%) Marketing
10 2 (1.46%) Back Office
10 2 (1.46%) Publishing
10 2 (1.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (24.09%) Data Engineer
2 28 (20.44%) Analyst
3 22 (16.06%) Architect
4 16 (11.68%) Senior
5 13 (9.49%) Data Analyst
6 11 (8.03%) Business Analyst
6 11 (8.03%) Data Modeller
6 11 (8.03%) Developer
7 10 (7.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) Snowflake Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Lead
9 7 (5.11%) Consultant
10 6 (4.38%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.65%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.92%) Power BI Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.84%) JSON
2 6 (4.38%) PySpark
2 6 (4.38%) XML
3 5 (3.65%) Kafka
4 3 (2.19%) Pandas
4 3 (2.19%) RESTful
5 2 (1.46%) .NET
5 2 (1.46%) GeoJSON
5 2 (1.46%) Great Expectations
5 2 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.46%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.46%) Middleware
5 2 (1.46%) Node.js
5 2 (1.46%) OAuth
5 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.46%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.46%) pytest
5 2 (1.46%) React
5 2 (1.46%) REST
5 2 (1.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.03%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.65%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.92%) Clustering
5 4 (2.92%) Equities
5 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.19%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.46%) CMDB
7 2 (1.46%) IoT
7 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.46%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.73%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.73%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.15%) Analytics
2 44 (32.12%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (28.47%) ETL
4 38 (27.74%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (23.36%) Data Governance
6 30 (21.90%) AI
7 29 (21.17%) Data Engineering
8 25 (18.25%) Agile
8 25 (18.25%) CI/CD
9 23 (16.79%) Decision-Making
9 23 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (14.60%) Validation
11 19 (13.87%) Data Transformation
11 19 (13.87%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (13.14%) Visualisation
13 17 (12.41%) Integration Patterns
13 17 (12.41%) Logical Data Model
13 17 (12.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (11.68%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 67 (48.91%) SQL
2 51 (37.23%) Python
3 9 (6.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (6.57%) Java
4 5 (3.65%) R
5 3 (2.19%) C#
5 3 (2.19%) Ruby
5 3 (2.19%) Scala
6 2 (1.46%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.46%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.73%) ABAP
7 1 (0.73%) C++
7 1 (0.73%) Korn
7 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.73%) SOQL
7 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.57%) Degree
4 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.46%) CFA
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) IIBA
6 2 (1.46%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.73%) ACCA
7 1 (0.73%) CBAP
7 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.73%) ISEB
7 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (36.50%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.49%) GDPR
3 7 (5.11%) QA
4 5 (3.65%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.46%) Basel III
6 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.73%) GxP
6 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.92%) Terraform
2 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.98%) Databricks
3 10 (7.30%) Oracle
4 9 (6.57%) SAP
5 7 (5.11%) Informatica
6 6 (4.38%) Google
6 6 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.38%) Sparx
6 6 (4.38%) Workday
7 3 (2.19%) Amplitude
7 3 (2.19%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.46%) IBM
8 2 (1.46%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.46%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.73%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.73%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.73%) Palantir
9 1 (0.73%) Sage
9 1 (0.73%) Talend