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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 55 37
Rank change year-on-year +24 -18 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 116 69 121
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.96% 3.78% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 4.12% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 42 88
10th Percentile £325 £459 £413
25th Percentile £425 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £691
90th Percentile £739 £736 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -4.72% -8.17% -
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 1,731 1,675 2,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.91% 91.68% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,022 1,511
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £31.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +54.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £48.75 £41.84
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 23 February 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 10 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.31%) Apache
3 5 (4.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.17%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.86%) HFM
3 1 (0.86%) Maximo
3 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.86%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.76%) Power Platform
2 32 (27.59%) Azure
3 29 (25.00%) AWS
4 22 (18.97%) Snowflake
5 13 (11.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (11.21%) GCP
6 12 (10.34%) dbt
7 7 (6.03%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (5.17%) Serverless
9 5 (4.31%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.45%) Matillion
10 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.59%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.59%) SaaS
12 2 (1.72%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.86%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (29.31%) Power BI
2 25 (21.55%) Metadata
3 24 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.62%) Snowflake Schema
4 10 (8.62%) Tableau
5 9 (7.76%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.17%) Data Vault
6 6 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.17%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.17%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.17%) Star Schema
7 5 (4.31%) Looker
8 4 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.45%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.45%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (2.59%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (2.59%) Mixpanel
9 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.59%) Power Query
9 3 (2.59%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Git
2 7 (6.03%) ERwin
3 6 (5.17%) JIRA
4 3 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.72%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
General
1 56 (48.28%) Finance
2 34 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.21%) Banking
5 6 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Aviation
8 3 (2.59%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.59%) Front Office
8 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.59%) Law
8 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Publishing
8 3 (2.59%) Retail
9 2 (1.72%) Back Office
9 2 (1.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 27 (23.28%) Analyst
3 15 (12.93%) Architect
4 14 (12.07%) Business Analyst
4 14 (12.07%) Senior
5 12 (10.34%) Data Modeller
6 11 (9.48%) Data Analyst
7 10 (8.62%) Data Architect
7 10 (8.62%) Developer
8 8 (6.90%) Consultant
8 8 (6.90%) Lead
9 7 (6.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 3 (2.59%) Finance Business Analyst
12 3 (2.59%) Lead Data Engineer
12 3 (2.59%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.31%) Kafka
2 4 (3.45%) JSON
2 4 (3.45%) PySpark
2 4 (3.45%) XML
3 3 (2.59%) Pandas
4 2 (1.72%) .NET
4 2 (1.72%) GeoJSON
4 2 (1.72%) Matplotlib
4 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.72%) Polars
4 2 (1.72%) REST
4 2 (1.72%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.86%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.86%) boto
5 1 (0.86%) IDoc
5 1 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.86%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.86%) SOAP
5 1 (0.86%) Web Services
5 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.90%) Data Structures
2 8 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.31%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.45%) Equities
5 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.59%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.72%) Clustering
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.86%) Derivative
7 1 (0.86%) FMCG
7 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Replication
7 1 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.59%) Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.38%) Analytics
2 40 (34.48%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (27.59%) ETL
4 29 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 28 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (21.55%) AI
7 24 (20.69%) Agile
8 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (19.83%) Visualisation
9 21 (18.10%) Data Engineering
10 19 (16.38%) CI/CD
11 17 (14.66%) Data Integration
11 17 (14.66%) Data Transformation
11 17 (14.66%) Decision-Making
11 17 (14.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (13.79%) Data Analysis
12 16 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (12.93%) Machine Learning
14 14 (12.07%) Data Visualisation
14 14 (12.07%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 61 (52.59%) SQL
2 39 (33.62%) Python
3 7 (6.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.17%) Java
5 5 (4.31%) R
6 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) Scala
7 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.86%) ABAP
8 1 (0.86%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.86%) C#
8 1 (0.86%) C++
8 1 (0.86%) Korn
8 1 (0.86%) LookML
8 1 (0.86%) Ruby
8 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.86%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.48%) Degree
1 11 (9.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.72%) CFA
4 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.72%) IIBA
4 2 (1.72%) SnowPro
4 2 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.86%) ACCA
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.86%) CBAP
5 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.86%) ISEB
5 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (36.21%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.03%) GDPR
3 5 (4.31%) QA
4 3 (2.59%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.72%) Basel III
6 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.86%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.17%) Terraform
2 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.10%) Databricks
3 7 (6.03%) Oracle
4 5 (4.31%) Sparx
5 4 (3.45%) Google
5 4 (3.45%) Informatica
5 4 (3.45%) SAP
5 4 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.59%) Amplitude
6 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.72%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.72%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.72%) Talend
7 2 (1.72%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.86%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.86%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.86%) IBM
8 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.86%) Planview
8 1 (0.86%) Sage