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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 34 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 173 108 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.68% 6.13% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.64% 6.50% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 69 58
10th Percentile £424 £361 £426
25th Percentile £463 £425 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +2.35% -9.81%
75th Percentile £724 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £740 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.35% -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 2,002 1,661 1,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.90% 94.27% 92.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,107 1,213
10th Percentile £368 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £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 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 17
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.57 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.19% -10.71% +34.62%

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 16 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 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.20%) Apache
3 8 (4.62%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.58%) CMS
6 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.89%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.16%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.16%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Maximo
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 64 (36.99%) Azure
2 47 (27.17%) Power Platform
3 39 (22.54%) AWS
4 28 (16.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (13.29%) Snowflake
7 18 (10.40%) GitHub
8 17 (9.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (9.25%) dbt
9 16 (9.25%) Serverless
10 13 (7.51%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.94%) GCP
12 11 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.47%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (3.47%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (3.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.58%) FTP
2 1 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.01%) Power BI
2 35 (20.23%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (14.45%) Metadata
4 18 (10.40%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.36%) BigQuery
5 11 (6.36%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (5.20%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.20%) Looker
7 9 (5.20%) Semantic Layer
8 8 (4.62%) Star Schema
9 7 (4.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.05%) Tableau
10 6 (3.47%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.89%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.89%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.31%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 11 (6.36%) Git
2 10 (5.78%) GitLab
3 7 (4.05%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.47%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.16%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.16%) ERwin
5 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.58%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) MLflow
6 1 (0.58%) Mockito
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 75 (43.35%) Finance
2 45 (26.01%) Social Skills
3 41 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (19.65%) Banking
5 12 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.62%) Retail
7 6 (3.47%) Back Office
7 6 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Front Office
8 5 (2.89%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.89%) Legal
9 4 (2.31%) Marketing
9 4 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.73%) Billing
10 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.73%) Law
10 3 (1.73%) Military
11 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 48 (27.75%) Architect
2 36 (20.81%) Analyst
3 35 (20.23%) Data Engineer
4 29 (16.76%) Data Architect
5 26 (15.03%) Senior
6 25 (14.45%) Data Analyst
7 20 (11.56%) Developer
8 11 (6.36%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.62%) Lead
9 8 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.47%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (3.47%) Consultant
11 6 (3.47%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (2.89%) Data Modeller
12 5 (2.89%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (2.89%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.89%) Snowflake Engineer
12 5 (2.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.29%) PySpark
2 9 (5.20%) REST
2 9 (5.20%) Terraform
3 7 (4.05%) Kafka
4 6 (3.47%) Middleware
4 6 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.47%) SOAP
5 5 (2.89%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (2.89%) JSON
5 5 (2.89%) React
5 5 (2.89%) XML
6 4 (2.31%) RESTful
7 3 (1.73%) .NET
8 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.16%) Node.js
8 2 (1.16%) PCRE
8 2 (1.16%) Redux
8 2 (1.16%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.58%) Next.js
9 1 (0.58%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.98%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.20%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.89%) Reinsurance
8 4 (2.31%) CMDB
8 4 (2.31%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.73%) Derivative
9 3 (1.73%) Replication
10 2 (1.16%) Clustering
10 2 (1.16%) FMCG
10 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.16%) Learning Management System
10 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.16%) PropTech
10 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.73%) Linux
1 3 (1.73%) Unix
2 2 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (50.87%) Analytics
2 57 (32.95%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (29.48%) Data Pipeline
4 49 (28.32%) Data Governance
5 48 (27.75%) Data Architecture
6 46 (26.59%) CI/CD
7 44 (25.43%) Data Engineering
8 42 (24.28%) ETL
9 39 (22.54%) Agile
10 38 (21.97%) DevOps
11 32 (18.50%) Migration
11 32 (18.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 29 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (15.61%) Decision-Making
14 26 (15.03%) Validation
15 25 (14.45%) AI
15 25 (14.45%) Integration Patterns
16 24 (13.87%) Event-Driven
17 23 (13.29%) Data Integration
17 23 (13.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 91 (52.60%) SQL
2 58 (33.53%) Python
3 17 (9.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.05%) C#
4 7 (4.05%) Java
5 6 (3.47%) LookML
6 5 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.31%) Ruby
7 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.16%) CQL
9 2 (1.16%) Perl
9 2 (1.16%) SOQL
10 1 (0.58%) Cypher
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) R
10 1 (0.58%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.58%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.73%) Degree
4 3 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.58%) CBAP
6 1 (0.58%) CSPO
6 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (37.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.36%) QA
3 9 (5.20%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.62%) GDPR
5 2 (1.16%) GRC
5 2 (1.16%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.58%) Basel III
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Grafana
1 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (26.59%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.65%) Databricks
3 16 (9.25%) Oracle
4 13 (7.51%) SAP
5 10 (5.78%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.62%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.47%) Google
7 6 (3.47%) Informatica
8 3 (1.73%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.16%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.16%) eFront
9 2 (1.16%) IBM
9 2 (1.16%) OneTrust
9 2 (1.16%) Splunk
9 2 (1.16%) Workday
10 1 (0.58%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.58%) Murex
10 1 (0.58%) Planon
10 1 (0.58%) Sparx