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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 41 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 138 79 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.93% 4.77% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 5.10% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 45 79
10th Percentile £369 £435 £415
25th Percentile £451 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £675
90th Percentile £794 £725 £765
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £573
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.93% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year - -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 1,976 1,550 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.88% 93.60% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 974 1,376
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -0.46% -6.25%
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 24 14 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.33 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +10.54% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £59.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -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 27 May 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 13 (9.42%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.62%) Confluence
3 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.72%) Appian
5 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.62%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.17%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.72%) Actimize
4 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.61%) Azure
2 44 (31.88%) Power Platform
3 29 (21.01%) AWS
4 23 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 18 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.70%) dbt
6 12 (8.70%) GCP
7 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.07%) Prefect
9 6 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.35%) GitHub
9 6 (4.35%) Serverless
10 5 (3.62%) Dagster
11 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.90%) PaaS
11 4 (2.90%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) FTP
1 1 (0.72%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (28.26%) Power BI
2 24 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (16.67%) Metadata
4 15 (10.87%) Tableau
5 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
6 10 (7.25%) Looker
7 9 (6.52%) BigQuery
8 8 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (5.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (5.07%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.35%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.62%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (3.62%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (2.90%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.90%) Mixpanel
13 3 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (2.17%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.45%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Git
2 6 (4.35%) ERwin
2 6 (4.35%) JIRA
3 3 (2.17%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (47.83%) Finance
2 28 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.39%) Banking
4 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.35%) Legal
6 5 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.90%) Marketing
7 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.17%) Front Office
8 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.17%) Retail
9 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.45%) Publishing
10 1 (0.72%) Back Office
10 1 (0.72%) Billing
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (23.19%) Data Engineer
2 29 (21.01%) Analyst
3 28 (20.29%) Architect
4 17 (12.32%) Data Analyst
5 13 (9.42%) Developer
6 12 (8.70%) Data Architect
6 12 (8.70%) Senior
7 10 (7.25%) Lead
7 10 (7.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 10 (7.25%) Snowflake Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Business Analyst
9 7 (5.07%) Data Modeller
10 5 (3.62%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.90%) Azure Data Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Consultant
11 4 (2.90%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (2.90%) Risk Analyst
11 4 (2.90%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.25%) PySpark
2 9 (6.52%) Kafka
3 6 (4.35%) JSON
3 6 (4.35%) REST
4 5 (3.62%) React
4 5 (3.62%) RESTful
5 4 (2.90%) .NET
5 4 (2.90%) XML
6 3 (2.17%) Middleware
6 3 (2.17%) Pandas
7 2 (1.45%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.45%) GeoJSON
7 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.45%) Node.js
7 2 (1.45%) OAuth
7 2 (1.45%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.45%) pytest
7 2 (1.45%) Redux
7 2 (1.45%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.62%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.90%) Clustering
6 4 (2.90%) Equities
6 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.45%) CMDB
8 2 (1.45%) Derivative
8 2 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.45%) IoT
8 2 (1.45%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.45%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.48%) Analytics
2 46 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (27.54%) Data Pipeline
4 36 (26.09%) Data Governance
5 35 (25.36%) ETL
6 32 (23.19%) Data Engineering
7 29 (21.01%) AI
8 25 (18.12%) CI/CD
8 25 (18.12%) Validation
9 21 (15.22%) Data Architecture
10 20 (14.49%) Agile
10 20 (14.49%) Decision-Making
10 20 (14.49%) Integration Patterns
11 18 (13.04%) Migration
11 18 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (12.32%) Use Case
13 16 (11.59%) Data Analysis
13 16 (11.59%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.10%) SQL
2 52 (37.68%) Python
3 10 (7.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.52%) Java
5 6 (4.35%) C#
6 4 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.90%) R
7 3 (2.17%) Ruby
7 3 (2.17%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.45%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.45%) Scala
9 1 (0.72%) Korn
9 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.52%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.45%) CBAP
6 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.45%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CFA
7 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) IIBA
7 1 (0.72%) ISEB
7 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.42%) GDPR
3 8 (5.80%) QA
4 4 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.45%) Basel III
5 2 (1.45%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.72%) GxP
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.45%) Terraform
2 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.12%) Databricks
3 13 (9.42%) Oracle
4 8 (5.80%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.80%) SAP
5 6 (4.35%) Google
5 6 (4.35%) Informatica
5 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.35%) Workday
6 5 (3.62%) Sparx
7 4 (2.90%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.17%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.45%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.45%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.72%) IBM
10 1 (0.72%) Pega
10 1 (0.72%) Planview
10 1 (0.72%) Sage
10 1 (0.72%) Talend