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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 49 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 112 86 143
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.23% 4.03% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 4.39% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 54 90
10th Percentile £323 £456 £413
25th Percentile £420 £489 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -5.88% +10.87%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £699
90th Percentile £731 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 7 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 9 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (8.04%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) JBoss
3 1 (0.89%) Luigi
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.46%) MS Visio
4 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.89%) Endur
2 1 (0.89%) HFM
2 1 (0.89%) Maximo
2 1 (0.89%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.89%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 31 (27.68%) Azure
3 22 (19.64%) AWS
4 17 (15.18%) Snowflake
5 12 (10.71%) dbt
6 11 (9.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (8.93%) GCP
8 5 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.68%) Collibra
10 3 (2.68%) GitHub
10 3 (2.68%) Serverless
11 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.79%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) Firewall
1 1 (0.89%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.57%) Power BI
2 22 (19.64%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (15.18%) Metadata
4 11 (9.82%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (7.14%) Star Schema
5 8 (7.14%) Tableau
6 6 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.36%) Power Query
7 5 (4.46%) Data Vault
8 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.68%) Big Data
9 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (4.46%) ERwin
3 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.89%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.89%) Postman
4 1 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
General
1 51 (45.54%) Finance
2 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 26 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Banking
5 6 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Back Office
7 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Aviation
8 3 (2.68%) Front Office
8 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.68%) Law
9 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.79%) Legal
9 2 (1.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (25.89%) Analyst
2 19 (16.96%) Data Engineer
3 15 (13.39%) Architect
4 14 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 14 (12.50%) Senior
5 11 (9.82%) Data Analyst
5 11 (9.82%) Data Modeller
6 10 (8.93%) Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.25%) Consultant
9 6 (5.36%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (4.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Data Scientist
11 4 (3.57%) Lead
12 3 (2.68%) Finance Business Analyst
12 3 (2.68%) Functional Consultant
12 3 (2.68%) Power BI Developer
12 3 (2.68%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) JSON
1 5 (4.46%) Kafka
1 5 (4.46%) XML
2 4 (3.57%) PySpark
3 3 (2.68%) CSS
3 3 (2.68%) Flask
3 3 (2.68%) HTML
3 3 (2.68%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.68%) Pandas
3 3 (2.68%) REST
4 2 (1.79%) .NET
4 2 (1.79%) ADO
4 2 (1.79%) Middleware
4 2 (1.79%) Node.js
4 2 (1.79%) Web Services
5 1 (0.89%) EDI
5 1 (0.89%) SOAP
5 1 (0.89%) Web Dynpro
5 1 (0.89%) XSD
5 1 (0.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.57%) CMDB
6 3 (2.68%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.79%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.79%) Replication
7 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.89%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.89%) Equities
8 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.89%) NHS
8 1 (0.89%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (35.71%) Analytics
2 38 (33.93%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (25.89%) Data Governance
4 27 (24.11%) Visualisation
5 26 (23.21%) Agile
5 26 (23.21%) ETL
6 23 (20.54%) Data Analysis
7 22 (19.64%) Decision-Making
8 21 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (16.96%) Data Integration
10 19 (16.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (15.18%) AI
12 16 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (13.39%) CI/CD
14 14 (12.50%) Data Transformation
14 14 (12.50%) Migration
15 13 (11.61%) Actionable Insight
15 13 (11.61%) Data Architecture
15 13 (11.61%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 54 (48.21%) SQL
2 34 (30.36%) Python
3 12 (10.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.36%) Java
4 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.68%) Apex Code
5 3 (2.68%) R
5 3 (2.68%) Scala
5 3 (2.68%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.79%) ABAP
6 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) C++
7 1 (0.89%) Go
7 1 (0.89%) LookML
7 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.71%) Degree
2 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) CBAP
5 2 (1.79%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.89%) ACCA
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.89%) CFA
6 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.89%) IIBA
6 1 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (29.46%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.36%) GDPR
3 5 (4.46%) QA
4 3 (2.68%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.89%) Basel III
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.89%) Ansible
2 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (19.64%) Databricks
1 22 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.36%) Oracle
3 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.68%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.68%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.68%) SAP
6 2 (1.79%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.79%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.79%) Sparx
6 2 (1.79%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.89%) eFront
7 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.89%) Okta
7 1 (0.89%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.89%) Palantir
7 1 (0.89%) Remedy
7 1 (0.89%) Talend
7 1 (0.89%) Workday