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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 36 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 159 103 92
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.56% 5.53% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 5.90% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 65 71
10th Percentile £409 £413 £415
25th Percentile £455 £480 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £706 £688 £688
90th Percentile £791 £733 £775
Central London median daily rate £557 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.25% - -7.69%
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 2,095 1,747 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.46% 93.87% 91.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 1,125 1,344
10th Percentile £368 £338 £363
25th Percentile £453 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -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 16 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 15 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.52%) Apache
2 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.52%) Confluence
3 3 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.63%) Appian
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.14%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.89%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.26%) 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 General Ledger
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.63%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (33.33%) Azure
2 50 (31.45%) Power Platform
3 37 (23.27%) AWS
4 27 (16.98%) Snowflake
5 19 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (9.43%) GCP
7 14 (8.81%) dbt
8 12 (7.55%) GitHub
9 9 (5.66%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (5.66%) Serverless
10 7 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.40%) PaaS
10 7 (4.40%) Prefect
11 5 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (3.14%) Dagster
11 5 (3.14%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.52%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) FTP
1 1 (0.63%) RTP
1 1 (0.63%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (28.30%) Power BI
2 31 (19.50%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (14.47%) Metadata
4 14 (8.81%) Tableau
5 11 (6.92%) BigQuery
5 11 (6.92%) Looker
6 10 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.29%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (5.03%) Semantic Layer
7 8 (5.03%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.14%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.52%) Data Mart
9 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.52%) Mixpanel
9 4 (2.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.81%) Git
2 6 (3.77%) GitLab
2 6 (3.77%) JIRA
3 4 (2.52%) ERwin
4 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.26%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.63%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Mockito
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 72 (45.28%) Finance
2 39 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 38 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (15.09%) Banking
5 13 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.40%) Legal
7 5 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.52%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.52%) Retail
9 3 (1.89%) Back Office
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
9 3 (1.89%) Military
10 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Front Office
10 2 (1.26%) Law
10 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.26%) Publishing
11 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (24.53%) Data Engineer
2 38 (23.90%) Architect
3 32 (20.13%) Analyst
4 20 (12.58%) Data Architect
5 19 (11.95%) Data Analyst
6 18 (11.32%) Developer
7 15 (9.43%) Senior
8 10 (6.29%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.29%) Lead
8 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Engineer
9 7 (4.40%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.77%) Data Business Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Data Modeller
10 6 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Consultant
11 5 (3.14%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.14%) Systems Analyst
12 4 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
12 4 (2.52%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) PySpark
2 10 (6.29%) Kafka
3 6 (3.77%) JSON
3 6 (3.77%) REST
3 6 (3.77%) RESTful
4 5 (3.14%) React
4 5 (3.14%) XML
5 4 (2.52%) Middleware
5 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.89%) .NET
6 3 (1.89%) SOAP
7 2 (1.26%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.26%) GeoJSON
7 2 (1.26%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.26%) Node.js
7 2 (1.26%) OAuth
7 2 (1.26%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.26%) Redux
7 2 (1.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.55%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.14%) CMDB
5 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.52%) Clustering
7 3 (1.89%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.89%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.26%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.26%) Derivative
8 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.26%) IoT
8 2 (1.26%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.26%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (47.80%) Analytics
2 56 (35.22%) Business Intelligence
3 46 (28.93%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (27.04%) Data Engineering
5 38 (23.90%) ETL
6 36 (22.64%) Data Governance
7 35 (22.01%) CI/CD
7 35 (22.01%) Data Architecture
8 31 (19.50%) AI
9 27 (16.98%) Decision-Making
9 27 (16.98%) Validation
10 25 (15.72%) Agile
10 25 (15.72%) Migration
11 23 (14.47%) DevOps
12 20 (12.58%) Integration Patterns
13 19 (11.95%) Event-Driven
13 19 (11.95%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (11.95%) Use Case
14 18 (11.32%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 75 (47.17%) SQL
2 60 (37.74%) Python
3 12 (7.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.92%) Java
5 8 (5.03%) C#
6 5 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.14%) Ruby
7 4 (2.52%) R
8 3 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.26%) Korn
9 2 (1.26%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.63%) LookML
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 27 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.40%) Degree
4 6 (3.77%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.26%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CBAP
7 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (31.45%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.81%) GDPR
3 9 (5.66%) QA
4 7 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.26%) 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 (1.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.52%) 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 38 (23.90%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.13%) Databricks
3 19 (11.95%) Oracle
4 10 (6.29%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.66%) SAP
6 8 (5.03%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.40%) Google
7 7 (4.40%) Informatica
8 6 (3.77%) Workday
9 4 (2.52%) Amplitude
10 3 (1.89%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.26%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.26%) IBM
11 2 (1.26%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.63%) Murex
12 1 (0.63%) Pega
12 1 (0.63%) Planview
12 1 (0.63%) Sage
12 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.63%) Talend