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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 36 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 158 103 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.44% 5.55% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 5.92% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 66 75
10th Percentile £403 £415 £413
25th Percentile £453 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £725 £698 £684
90th Percentile £795 £731 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -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 2,114 1,741 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.18% 93.85% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,120 1,359
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £560
% change year-on-year -0.18% -1.61% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% +20.37% -22.86%

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 9 July 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 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.16%) Confluence
3 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.90%) Apache
5 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.63%) Appian
6 1 (0.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.16%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.90%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.63%) Actimize
5 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.63%) Maximo
5 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.91%) Azure
2 49 (31.01%) Power Platform
3 37 (23.42%) AWS
4 27 (17.09%) Snowflake
5 18 (11.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (8.86%) GCP
7 13 (8.23%) dbt
8 12 (7.59%) GitHub
9 9 (5.70%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (5.70%) Serverless
10 7 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.43%) PaaS
10 7 (4.43%) Prefect
11 5 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (3.16%) Dagster
11 5 (3.16%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.53%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) FTP
1 1 (0.63%) RTP
1 1 (0.63%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (27.85%) Power BI
2 29 (18.35%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (12.66%) Metadata
4 14 (8.86%) Tableau
5 11 (6.96%) Looker
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.33%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (5.70%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.06%) Data Lake
8 8 (5.06%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.16%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.53%) Data Mart
10 4 (2.53%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.53%) Mixpanel
10 4 (2.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Git
2 8 (5.06%) JIRA
3 6 (3.80%) GitLab
4 4 (2.53%) ERwin
5 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.27%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.63%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) Mockito
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 73 (46.20%) Finance
2 37 (23.42%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (22.78%) Social Skills
4 24 (15.19%) Banking
5 11 (6.96%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.43%) Legal
8 5 (3.16%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.53%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.90%) Back Office
10 3 (1.90%) Marketing
10 3 (1.90%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Front Office
11 2 (1.27%) Law
11 2 (1.27%) Military
11 2 (1.27%) Publishing
12 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (24.68%) Data Engineer
2 37 (23.42%) Architect
3 31 (19.62%) Analyst
4 19 (12.03%) Data Architect
4 19 (12.03%) Developer
5 17 (10.76%) Data Analyst
6 14 (8.86%) Senior
7 11 (6.96%) Lead
8 10 (6.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (5.70%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.43%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.80%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) Consultant
12 5 (3.16%) Data Modeller
12 5 (3.16%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Systems Analyst
13 4 (2.53%) Data Business Analyst
13 4 (2.53%) Financial Analyst
14 3 (1.90%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.59%) PySpark
2 10 (6.33%) Kafka
3 7 (4.43%) REST
4 6 (3.80%) JSON
4 6 (3.80%) RESTful
5 5 (3.16%) React
5 5 (3.16%) XML
6 4 (2.53%) Middleware
6 4 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.53%) SOAP
7 3 (1.90%) .NET
8 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.27%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.27%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.27%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.27%) Node.js
8 2 (1.27%) OAuth
8 2 (1.27%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.27%) Redux
8 2 (1.27%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.96%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.33%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.16%) CMDB
5 4 (2.53%) Clustering
5 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.53%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.27%) Derivative
6 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.27%) IoT
6 2 (1.27%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.27%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (47.47%) Analytics
2 54 (34.18%) Business Intelligence
3 47 (29.75%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (27.22%) Data Engineering
5 37 (23.42%) ETL
6 35 (22.15%) CI/CD
6 35 (22.15%) Data Governance
7 32 (20.25%) AI
7 32 (20.25%) Data Architecture
8 27 (17.09%) Agile
8 27 (17.09%) Decision-Making
9 25 (15.82%) Migration
9 25 (15.82%) Validation
10 22 (13.92%) DevOps
11 19 (12.03%) Event-Driven
11 19 (12.03%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (12.03%) Performance Optimisation
11 19 (12.03%) Use Case
12 18 (11.39%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 72 (45.57%) SQL
2 60 (37.97%) Python
3 12 (7.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.96%) Java
5 8 (5.06%) C#
6 6 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.16%) Ruby
8 4 (2.53%) R
9 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.27%) Korn
10 2 (1.27%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.63%) LookML
11 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.06%) Degree
4 6 (3.80%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.27%) CBAP
6 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) IIBA
7 1 (0.63%) ISEB
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (30.38%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.49%) GDPR
3 9 (5.70%) QA
4 7 (4.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.27%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.16%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Grafana
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (23.42%) Microsoft
2 31 (19.62%) Databricks
3 20 (12.66%) Oracle
4 10 (6.33%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.06%) SAP
6 7 (4.43%) Informatica
7 6 (3.80%) Google
7 6 (3.80%) Workday
8 4 (2.53%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.90%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.27%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.27%) IBM
11 1 (0.63%) Murex
11 1 (0.63%) Pega
11 1 (0.63%) Planview
11 1 (0.63%) Sage
11 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.63%) Talend
11 1 (0.63%) Vermilion