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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 31 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 173 108 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.74% 6.19% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 6.57% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 68 63
10th Percentile £425 £360 £418
25th Percentile £461 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £723 £678 £681
90th Percentile £775 £741 £770
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £42.00 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £35.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.53% - -

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 1,996 1,644 1,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.31% 94.21% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,101 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £325 £365
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 25 September 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 11 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.20%) Apache
3 8 (4.62%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.31%) Confluence
6 2 (1.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.16%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.16%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Maximo
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (36.42%) Azure
2 47 (27.17%) Power Platform
3 38 (21.97%) AWS
4 27 (15.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (12.72%) Snowflake
7 18 (10.40%) GitHub
8 17 (9.83%) Serverless
9 16 (9.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (8.67%) dbt
11 13 (7.51%) Amazon S3
12 12 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (6.94%) GCP
13 11 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (4.05%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
14 7 (4.05%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (4.05%) Azure Databricks
15 6 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.58%) FTP
2 1 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.01%) Power BI
2 35 (20.23%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (15.61%) Metadata
4 17 (9.83%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.36%) BigQuery
5 11 (6.36%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.78%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (5.78%) Semantic Layer
7 9 (5.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (5.20%) Looker
8 8 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.62%) Star Schema
9 7 (4.05%) Tableau
10 6 (3.47%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.89%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.89%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.31%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.36%) Git
1 11 (6.36%) GitLab
2 8 (4.62%) Bitbucket
3 7 (4.05%) JIRA
4 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.16%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.16%) ERwin
4 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.58%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.58%) JMeter
5 1 (0.58%) JUnit
5 1 (0.58%) MLflow
5 1 (0.58%) Mockito
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 78 (45.09%) Finance
2 45 (26.01%) Social Skills
3 42 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (20.81%) Banking
5 11 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.62%) Retail
7 7 (4.05%) Back Office
8 6 (3.47%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.89%) Front Office
9 5 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.89%) Legal
10 4 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.31%) Marketing
10 4 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.73%) Billing
11 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.73%) Law
11 3 (1.73%) Military
12 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 45 (26.01%) Architect
2 38 (21.97%) Analyst
3 36 (20.81%) Data Engineer
4 30 (17.34%) Data Architect
5 26 (15.03%) Senior
6 25 (14.45%) Data Analyst
7 21 (12.14%) Developer
8 11 (6.36%) Business Analyst
9 9 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Consultant
10 8 (4.62%) Lead
11 7 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.47%) Data Business Analyst
12 6 (3.47%) Data Modeller
13 5 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 5 (2.89%) Financial Analyst
13 5 (2.89%) Lead Data Engineer
14 4 (2.31%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.29%) PySpark
2 10 (5.78%) REST
2 10 (5.78%) Terraform
3 7 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.47%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (3.47%) Kafka
4 6 (3.47%) Middleware
4 6 (3.47%) SOAP
5 5 (2.89%) React
6 4 (2.31%) JSON
6 4 (2.31%) RESTful
6 4 (2.31%) XML
7 3 (1.73%) .NET
8 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.16%) Node.js
8 2 (1.16%) PCRE
8 2 (1.16%) Redux
8 2 (1.16%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.58%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.14%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.89%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.89%) Reinsurance
8 4 (2.31%) CMDB
9 3 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.73%) Derivative
9 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.73%) Replication
10 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.16%) PropTech
10 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.73%) Linux
1 3 (1.73%) Unix
2 2 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (52.02%) Analytics
2 57 (32.95%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (30.06%) Data Governance
3 52 (30.06%) Data Pipeline
4 49 (28.32%) Data Architecture
5 46 (26.59%) CI/CD
6 44 (25.43%) Data Engineering
7 40 (23.12%) ETL
8 39 (22.54%) Agile
9 38 (21.97%) DevOps
10 35 (20.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 33 (19.08%) Migration
12 30 (17.34%) Decision-Making
12 30 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (15.03%) Validation
14 25 (14.45%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (13.87%) AI
16 23 (13.29%) Data Integration
16 23 (13.29%) Integration Patterns
17 22 (12.72%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 93 (53.76%) SQL
2 60 (34.68%) Python
3 18 (10.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.05%) C#
5 6 (3.47%) Java
5 6 (3.47%) LookML
6 5 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.73%) Ruby
8 3 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.16%) CQL
9 2 (1.16%) Perl
9 2 (1.16%) Scala
9 2 (1.16%) SOQL
10 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.58%) Cypher
10 1 (0.58%) Korn
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.16%) Degree
5 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.58%) CBAP
6 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) CSPO
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (38.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.36%) QA
3 9 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) Basel III
5 1 (0.58%) IFRS
5 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.58%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Grafana
1 2 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (25.43%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.23%) Databricks
3 13 (7.51%) Oracle
4 11 (6.36%) SAP
5 10 (5.78%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.62%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.89%) Google
8 4 (2.31%) Informatica
9 2 (1.16%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.16%) eFront
9 2 (1.16%) IBM
9 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.16%) OneTrust
9 2 (1.16%) Splunk
9 2 (1.16%) Workday
10 1 (0.58%) Adaptive Insights
10 1 (0.58%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.58%) Braze
10 1 (0.58%) Jitterbit
10 1 (0.58%) Sparx