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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 34 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 173 106 86
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.72% 6.06% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.68% 6.44% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 68 61
10th Percentile £425 £360 £431
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +2.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £741 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% -10.00%
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 1,994 1,647 1,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 94.17% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,095 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £321 £375
25th Percentile £458 £415 £471
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 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 16
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +4.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +34.62%

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 20 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 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.58%) CMS
6 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.62%) 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 64 (36.99%) Azure
2 47 (27.17%) Power Platform
3 38 (21.97%) AWS
4 27 (15.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (12.72%) Snowflake
7 18 (10.40%) GitHub
7 18 (10.40%) Serverless
8 17 (9.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (8.67%) dbt
10 13 (7.51%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.94%) GCP
11 12 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.05%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (4.05%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (4.05%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
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 34 (19.65%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (14.45%) 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%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (5.78%) Semantic Layer
7 9 (5.20%) Looker
8 8 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.62%) Star Schema
9 7 (4.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.47%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.47%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.47%) Tableau
11 5 (2.89%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.36%) Git
1 11 (6.36%) GitLab
2 8 (4.62%) Bitbucket
3 6 (3.47%) 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 77 (44.51%) Finance
2 45 (26.01%) Social Skills
3 41 (23.70%) 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%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.73%) Billing
11 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.73%) Law
11 3 (1.73%) Marketing
11 3 (1.73%) Military
12 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 47 (27.17%) Architect
2 36 (20.81%) Analyst
2 36 (20.81%) Data Engineer
3 29 (16.76%) Data Architect
4 26 (15.03%) Senior
5 25 (14.45%) Data Analyst
6 21 (12.14%) Developer
7 10 (5.78%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (4.62%) Lead
10 7 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Consultant
10 7 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.47%) Data Modeller
12 5 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (2.89%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (2.89%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (2.89%) Lead Data Engineer
13 4 (2.31%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.29%) PySpark
2 10 (5.78%) Terraform
3 9 (5.20%) REST
4 7 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.47%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (3.47%) Kafka
5 6 (3.47%) Middleware
5 6 (3.47%) SOAP
6 5 (2.89%) JSON
6 5 (2.89%) React
6 5 (2.89%) XML
7 4 (2.31%) RESTful
8 3 (1.73%) .NET
9 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.16%) Node.js
9 2 (1.16%) PCRE
9 2 (1.16%) Redux
9 2 (1.16%) Regular Expression
10 1 (0.58%) Next.js
10 1 (0.58%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.45%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.56%) 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%) Reinsurance
8 4 (2.31%) CMDB
8 4 (2.31%) Reference Data
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%) IoT
10 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.16%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.73%) Linux
1 3 (1.73%) Unix
2 2 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (51.45%) Analytics
2 57 (32.95%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (30.06%) Data Pipeline
4 49 (28.32%) Data Governance
5 48 (27.75%) Data Architecture
6 47 (27.17%) CI/CD
7 45 (26.01%) Data Engineering
8 42 (24.28%) ETL
9 40 (23.12%) Agile
10 39 (22.54%) DevOps
11 33 (19.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (18.50%) Migration
13 30 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (16.76%) Decision-Making
15 26 (15.03%) Validation
16 25 (14.45%) Integration Patterns
16 25 (14.45%) Performance Optimisation
17 24 (13.87%) AI
17 24 (13.87%) Event-Driven
18 23 (13.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 92 (53.18%) SQL
2 59 (34.10%) 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%) Cypher
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) R
10 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.58%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.73%) Degree
5 3 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CBAP
7 1 (0.58%) CSPO
7 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (37.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.94%) QA
3 9 (5.20%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.62%) GDPR
5 2 (1.16%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) Basel III
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
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 45 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.23%) Databricks
3 14 (8.09%) Oracle
4 13 (7.51%) SAP
5 10 (5.78%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.05%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.89%) Google
7 5 (2.89%) Informatica
8 3 (1.73%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.16%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.16%) eFront
9 2 (1.16%) IBM
9 2 (1.16%) OneTrust
9 2 (1.16%) Splunk
9 2 (1.16%) Workday
10 1 (0.58%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.58%) Murex
10 1 (0.58%) Planon
10 1 (0.58%) Sparx