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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 54 34
Rank change year-on-year +26 -20 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 140 66 110
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.12% 3.73% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 4.01% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 38 87
10th Percentile £355 £454 £421
25th Percentile £450 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £651 £682
90th Percentile £790 £716 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
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 1,949 1,644 1,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.22% 92.93% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,046 1,406
10th Percentile £362 £363 £359
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 13
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 28 April 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.57%) Confluence
3 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.71%) Appian
5 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.57%) BambooHR
3 3 (2.14%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.71%) Actimize
5 1 (0.71%) Maximo
5 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.71%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.29%) Power Platform
2 40 (28.57%) Azure
3 29 (20.71%) AWS
4 22 (15.71%) Snowflake
5 16 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.57%) dbt
6 12 (8.57%) GCP
7 8 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (5.00%) Prefect
9 6 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.29%) Serverless
10 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.57%) Dagster
10 5 (3.57%) GitHub
10 5 (3.57%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.86%) PaaS
12 3 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) FTP
1 1 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.71%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.71%) Power BI
2 26 (18.57%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (18.57%) Metadata
3 13 (9.29%) Tableau
4 11 (7.86%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (6.43%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.43%) Looker
6 8 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 7 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.57%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.86%) Data Vault
10 4 (2.86%) Power Query
10 4 (2.86%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.14%) Mixpanel
11 3 (2.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Git
2 7 (5.00%) ERwin
2 7 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (1.43%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (47.14%) Finance
2 33 (23.57%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.86%) Banking
5 12 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.00%) Legal
7 6 (4.29%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.14%) Aviation
10 3 (2.14%) Front Office
10 3 (2.14%) Law
10 3 (2.14%) Marketing
11 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.43%) Publishing
11 2 (1.43%) Retail
12 1 (0.71%) Back Office
12 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (21.43%) Analyst
2 29 (20.71%) Data Engineer
3 24 (17.14%) Architect
4 15 (10.71%) Data Analyst
5 14 (10.00%) Senior
6 12 (8.57%) Developer
7 11 (7.86%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.86%) Data Modeller
8 10 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Lead
10 7 (5.00%) Consultant
10 7 (5.00%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.57%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.86%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.86%) Power BI Developer
12 4 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 3 (2.14%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) JSON
2 6 (4.29%) XML
3 5 (3.57%) PySpark
4 4 (2.86%) Kafka
5 3 (2.14%) Middleware
5 3 (2.14%) Pandas
5 3 (2.14%) React
5 3 (2.14%) REST
5 3 (2.14%) RESTful
6 2 (1.43%) .NET
6 2 (1.43%) GeoJSON
6 2 (1.43%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.43%) Node.js
6 2 (1.43%) OAuth
6 2 (1.43%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.43%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.43%) pytest
6 2 (1.43%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.57%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.86%) Clustering
6 4 (2.86%) Equities
7 3 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.43%) CMDB
8 2 (1.43%) Derivative
8 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.43%) IoT
8 2 (1.43%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (41.43%) Analytics
2 43 (30.71%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (25.00%) ETL
4 34 (24.29%) Data Governance
5 30 (21.43%) AI
6 27 (19.29%) Data Engineering
7 25 (17.86%) Agile
8 24 (17.14%) CI/CD
9 23 (16.43%) Decision-Making
10 22 (15.71%) Validation
11 21 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
13 19 (13.57%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (12.86%) Data Architecture
14 18 (12.86%) Logical Data Model
14 18 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (12.86%) Visualisation
15 17 (12.14%) Data Transformation
16 16 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.71%) SQL
2 47 (33.57%) Python
3 10 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.43%) Java
5 5 (3.57%) R
6 4 (2.86%) C#
7 3 (2.14%) Ruby
8 2 (1.43%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.43%) Scala
9 1 (0.71%) ABAP
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Korn
9 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.71%) SOQL
9 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) Degree
4 4 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.43%) CBAP
6 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.43%) IIBA
6 2 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.43%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.71%) ACCA
7 1 (0.71%) CFA
7 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.71%) ISEB
7 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (35.00%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.00%) GDPR
3 8 (5.71%) QA
4 5 (3.57%) Solvency II
5 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.43%) Basel III
7 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) GxP
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.43%) Terraform
2 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.14%) Databricks
3 12 (8.57%) Oracle
4 10 (7.14%) SAP
5 7 (5.00%) Informatica
5 7 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.29%) Google
6 6 (4.29%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.29%) Sparx
6 6 (4.29%) Workday
7 3 (2.14%) Amplitude
7 3 (2.14%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.43%) IBM
8 2 (1.43%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.43%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.71%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.71%) Pega
9 1 (0.71%) Planview
9 1 (0.71%) Sage
9 1 (0.71%) Talend