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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 46 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 -12 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 107 81 136
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.86% 3.94% 5.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 4.27% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 47 89
10th Percentile £325 £457 £413
25th Percentile £415 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +9.36%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £736 £760 £778
Central London median daily rate £525 £589 £625
% change year-on-year -10.90% -5.72% +10.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

All Process and 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 1,653 1,895 2,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.53% 92.17% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,156 1,604
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £422 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%

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 22 December 2025.

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 8 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (7.48%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.67%) Apache
3 3 (2.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (12.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.93%) Endur
3 1 (0.93%) HFM
3 1 (0.93%) Maximo
3 1 (0.93%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.93%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.93%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.97%) Power Platform
2 29 (27.10%) Azure
3 23 (21.50%) AWS
4 17 (15.89%) Snowflake
5 12 (11.21%) dbt
6 9 (8.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (8.41%) GCP
7 8 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.74%) GitHub
10 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.80%) Serverless
11 2 (1.87%) Collibra
11 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.87%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
1 1 (0.93%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.04%) Power BI
2 23 (21.50%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (15.89%) Metadata
4 9 (8.41%) Tableau
5 8 (7.48%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.48%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.48%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (6.54%) Star Schema
7 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.61%) Power Query
8 5 (4.67%) Data Vault
8 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.87%) Big Data
10 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.87%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (1.87%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.87%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (13.08%) Git
2 6 (5.61%) ERwin
3 4 (3.74%) JIRA
4 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.87%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
General
1 47 (43.93%) Finance
2 36 (33.64%) Social Skills
3 25 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.41%) Banking
5 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Back Office
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Front Office
7 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Aviation
8 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.80%) Law
9 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.87%) Legal
9 2 (1.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Analyst
2 18 (16.82%) Data Engineer
3 14 (13.08%) Architect
3 14 (13.08%) Business Analyst
4 13 (12.15%) Senior
5 12 (11.21%) Data Modeller
6 10 (9.35%) Data Analyst
7 9 (8.41%) Data Architect
7 9 (8.41%) Developer
8 7 (6.54%) Consultant
9 5 (4.67%) Lead
9 5 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.74%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (2.80%) Finance Business Analyst
11 3 (2.80%) Functional Consultant
11 3 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.80%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) JSON
1 6 (5.61%) XML
2 4 (3.74%) Kafka
2 4 (3.74%) PySpark
3 3 (2.80%) .NET
3 3 (2.80%) CSS
3 3 (2.80%) Flask
3 3 (2.80%) HTML
3 3 (2.80%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.80%) Pandas
4 2 (1.87%) ADO
4 2 (1.87%) Middleware
4 2 (1.87%) Node.js
4 2 (1.87%) REST
4 2 (1.87%) Web Services
5 1 (0.93%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.93%) Spring
5 1 (0.93%) Web Dynpro
5 1 (0.93%) YAML
5 1 (0.93%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.54%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.67%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.80%) CMDB
5 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.87%) Equities
6 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.87%) Replication
6 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.51%) Analytics
2 34 (31.78%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (25.23%) Data Governance
4 25 (23.36%) ETL
4 25 (23.36%) Visualisation
5 24 (22.43%) Agile
6 21 (19.63%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.69%) Decision-Making
8 18 (16.82%) AI
8 18 (16.82%) Data Analysis
9 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
9 17 (15.89%) Data Integration
9 17 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (13.08%) Data Transformation
12 13 (12.15%) Actionable Insight
12 13 (12.15%) Data Architecture
12 13 (12.15%) User Stories
13 11 (10.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (50.47%) SQL
2 33 (30.84%) Python
3 10 (9.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.54%) Java
5 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.80%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.87%) ABAP
7 2 (1.87%) R
7 2 (1.87%) Scala
8 1 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) LookML
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
8 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.61%) Degree
4 2 (1.87%) CFA
4 2 (1.87%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.93%) ACCA
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) IIBA
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
5 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (29.91%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.61%) GDPR
2 6 (5.61%) QA
3 3 (2.80%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.87%) Basel III
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Terraform
2 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.69%) Databricks
3 7 (6.54%) Oracle
4 5 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.80%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.80%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.80%) SAP
5 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.80%) Sparx
6 2 (1.87%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.87%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) Informatica
7 1 (0.93%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.93%) Planview
7 1 (0.93%) Remedy
7 1 (0.93%) Temenos
7 1 (0.93%) Workday