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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 39 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 144 91 97
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.94% 5.26% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 5.61% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 55 78
10th Percentile £372 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £478 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £679
90th Percentile £794 £725 £775
Central London median daily rate £557 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.22% - -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £43.00 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +44.48% -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 2,076 1,622 1,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.68% 93.70% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 1,032 1,378
10th Percentile £363 £351 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.25 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.29
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.83 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.26% +4.53% -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 19 June 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 14 (9.72%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.47%) Confluence
3 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.08%) Apache
5 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.69%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.69%) Appian
6 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.08%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.69%) Actimize
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Maximo
3 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (31.94%) Power Platform
2 45 (31.25%) Azure
3 34 (23.61%) AWS
4 24 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 17 (11.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (9.03%) dbt
6 13 (9.03%) GCP
7 9 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.25%) Serverless
8 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.56%) GitHub
9 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.86%) Prefect
10 5 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (3.47%) Dagster
10 5 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.47%) PaaS
10 5 (3.47%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.78%) Matillion
11 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) FTP
1 1 (0.69%) RTP
1 1 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.47%) Power BI
2 26 (18.06%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (12.50%) Metadata
4 14 (9.72%) Tableau
5 11 (7.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.94%) BigQuery
6 10 (6.94%) Looker
7 9 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.17%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.47%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.78%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.78%) Mixpanel
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.08%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (2.08%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (6.94%) Git
2 8 (5.56%) JIRA
3 4 (2.78%) ERwin
4 3 (2.08%) GitLab
5 2 (1.39%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.69%) JUnit
6 1 (0.69%) Mockito
6 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 65 (45.14%) Finance
2 32 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (16.67%) Banking
5 11 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.17%) Legal
7 4 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.78%) Marketing
7 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.08%) Retail
9 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Front Office
9 2 (1.39%) Military
9 2 (1.39%) Publishing
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) Billing
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (25.69%) Data Engineer
2 31 (21.53%) Architect
3 28 (19.44%) Analyst
4 15 (10.42%) Developer
5 14 (9.72%) Data Analyst
5 14 (9.72%) Data Architect
6 12 (8.33%) Lead
7 11 (7.64%) Senior
8 10 (6.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (6.94%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.47%) Data Modeller
10 5 (3.47%) Systems Analyst
10 5 (3.47%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.78%) Consultant
11 4 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (2.78%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.78%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) PySpark
2 10 (6.94%) Kafka
3 7 (4.86%) REST
4 6 (4.17%) JSON
4 6 (4.17%) RESTful
5 5 (3.47%) React
6 4 (2.78%) Middleware
6 4 (2.78%) XML
7 3 (2.08%) .NET
7 3 (2.08%) Pandas
7 3 (2.08%) SOAP
8 2 (1.39%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.39%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.39%) HTML
8 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.39%) OAuth
8 2 (1.39%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.39%) pytest
8 2 (1.39%) Redux
8 2 (1.39%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.78%) Clustering
4 4 (2.78%) CMDB
4 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.08%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.39%) Derivative
6 2 (1.39%) Equities
6 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.39%) IoT
6 2 (1.39%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.39%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Linux
1 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (44.44%) Analytics
2 48 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (28.47%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (27.08%) ETL
5 37 (25.69%) Data Engineering
6 33 (22.92%) Data Governance
7 32 (22.22%) AI
8 29 (20.14%) CI/CD
9 27 (18.75%) Data Architecture
10 26 (18.06%) Agile
11 25 (17.36%) Validation
12 23 (15.97%) Migration
13 21 (14.58%) Decision-Making
14 20 (13.89%) DevOps
14 20 (13.89%) Integration Patterns
15 19 (13.19%) Performance Tuning
16 18 (12.50%) Event-Driven
17 17 (11.81%) Performance Optimisation
17 17 (11.81%) Use Case
18 16 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (46.53%) SQL
2 55 (38.19%) Python
3 10 (6.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.25%) Java
5 8 (5.56%) C#
6 5 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.78%) R
8 3 (2.08%) Ruby
8 3 (2.08%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.39%) Korn
9 2 (1.39%) Scala
10 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.69%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 23 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.56%) Degree
4 6 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.39%) CBAP
6 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.39%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) IIBA
7 1 (0.69%) ISEB
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (32.64%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.03%) GDPR
3 9 (6.25%) QA
4 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.39%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) GxP
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.78%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Grafana
2 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 28 (19.44%) Databricks
3 16 (11.11%) Oracle
4 9 (6.25%) SAP
4 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.86%) Informatica
7 6 (4.17%) Google
7 6 (4.17%) Workday
8 4 (2.78%) Amplitude
9 3 (2.08%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.08%) Sparx
10 2 (1.39%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.39%) IBM
10 2 (1.39%) SimCorp
10 2 (1.39%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.69%) Murex
11 1 (0.69%) Pega
11 1 (0.69%) Sage