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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 53 34
Rank change year-on-year +21 -19 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 122 68 121
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.92% 3.78% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 4.12% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 41 91
10th Percentile £323 £456 £413
25th Percentile £430 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £694
90th Percentile £756 £725 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% +4.35%
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 1,821 1,649 2,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.36% 91.61% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,256 1,054 1,495
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £46.29 £48.75 £44.29
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.75 £27.81
% change year-on-year -17.76% +14.17% -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 March 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 12 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.56%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.10%) Apache
3 5 (4.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.10%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.46%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.64%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.82%) Maximo
4 1 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.82%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.82%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (32.79%) Power Platform
2 32 (26.23%) AWS
2 32 (26.23%) Azure
3 24 (19.67%) Snowflake
4 15 (12.30%) dbt
5 13 (10.66%) GCP
6 12 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (6.56%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.92%) Serverless
9 5 (4.10%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.10%) Prefect
10 4 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.28%) Dagster
10 4 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.46%) GitHub
11 3 (2.46%) Matillion
11 3 (2.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.82%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (29.51%) Power BI
2 26 (21.31%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (18.03%) Metadata
4 12 (9.84%) Tableau
5 9 (7.38%) Data Lake
5 9 (7.38%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (5.74%) Looker
7 6 (4.92%) Data Vault
7 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.92%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.10%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.28%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.28%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (3.28%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.46%) Mixpanel
10 3 (2.46%) Power Query
11 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.64%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (10.66%) Git
2 6 (4.92%) ERwin
2 6 (4.92%) JIRA
3 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.64%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
General
1 59 (48.36%) Finance
2 30 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 27 (22.13%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.48%) Banking
5 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.92%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.28%) Law
8 4 (3.28%) Legal
9 3 (2.46%) Aviation
9 3 (2.46%) Front Office
9 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.46%) Retail
9 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.64%) Back Office
10 2 (1.64%) Marketing
10 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (26.23%) Data Engineer
2 26 (21.31%) Analyst
3 16 (13.11%) Architect
4 14 (11.48%) Senior
5 12 (9.84%) Business Analyst
5 12 (9.84%) Data Modeller
6 11 (9.02%) Data Analyst
6 11 (9.02%) Developer
7 10 (8.20%) Lead
8 8 (6.56%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) Snowflake Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Consultant
10 5 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.46%) Data Business Analyst
12 3 (2.46%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.74%) Kafka
2 6 (4.92%) JSON
3 5 (4.10%) PySpark
3 5 (4.10%) XML
4 3 (2.46%) Pandas
5 2 (1.64%) .NET
5 2 (1.64%) GeoJSON
5 2 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.64%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.64%) Middleware
5 2 (1.64%) Node.js
5 2 (1.64%) Polars
5 2 (1.64%) REST
5 2 (1.64%) RESTful
5 2 (1.64%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.82%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.82%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.82%) NumPy
6 1 (0.82%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.74%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.10%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.28%) Equities
5 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.46%) Clustering
6 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.64%) CMDB
7 2 (1.64%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Life Science
8 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.46%) Linux
2 2 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.16%) Analytics
2 43 (35.25%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (27.87%) ETL
4 33 (27.05%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (21.31%) Data Engineering
5 26 (21.31%) Data Governance
6 25 (20.49%) AI
7 24 (19.67%) Agile
8 22 (18.03%) CI/CD
8 22 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (16.39%) Visualisation
10 18 (14.75%) Decision-Making
11 17 (13.93%) Data Transformation
11 17 (13.93%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (13.11%) Migration
13 15 (12.30%) Data Integration
13 15 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (11.48%) Data Architecture
14 14 (11.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (52.46%) SQL
2 47 (38.52%) Python
3 8 (6.56%) Java
4 7 (5.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (4.10%) R
6 3 (2.46%) Scala
7 2 (1.64%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.64%) Ruby
8 1 (0.82%) ABAP
8 1 (0.82%) C#
8 1 (0.82%) C++
8 1 (0.82%) Korn
8 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.82%) SOQL
8 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) Degree
4 4 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.64%) CFA
5 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.64%) IIBA
5 2 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.82%) ACCA
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.82%) CBAP
6 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.82%) ISEB
6 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.82%) PMP
6 1 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (36.89%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.20%) GDPR
3 5 (4.10%) QA
4 3 (2.46%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.64%) Basel III
6 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.82%) GxP
6 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.92%) Terraform
2 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.85%) Databricks
3 6 (4.92%) Oracle
4 5 (4.10%) Google
4 5 (4.10%) Informatica
4 5 (4.10%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.10%) SAP
4 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.10%) Sparx
5 4 (3.28%) Workday
6 3 (2.46%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.64%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.64%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.64%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.82%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.82%) IBM
8 1 (0.82%) Planview
8 1 (0.82%) Sage
8 1 (0.82%) Talend