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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 39 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 168 106 85
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.12% 5.67% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.14% 6.01% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 67 62
10th Percentile £425 £385 £433
25th Percentile £463 £466 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.27% -3.27%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £743 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.00 - -
75th Percentile £43.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year +44.48% - -

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 2,065 1,763 1,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.57% 94.28% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 1,157 1,269
10th Percentile £380 £325 £381
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
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 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%

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 August 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 14 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.76%) Apache
2 8 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.60%) Appian
5 1 (0.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.98%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.19%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.19%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.60%) Actimize
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.60%) Maximo
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (36.90%) Azure
2 49 (29.17%) Power Platform
3 38 (22.62%) AWS
4 25 (14.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (13.10%) Snowflake
6 21 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (9.52%) GitHub
8 15 (8.93%) dbt
9 14 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (7.14%) Serverless
11 11 (6.55%) GCP
12 10 (5.95%) Amazon S3
13 8 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.17%) Prefect
15 6 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (3.57%) PaaS
15 6 (3.57%) Power Automate
15 6 (3.57%) PowerApps
16 5 (2.98%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.60%) FTP
2 1 (0.60%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (26.19%) Power BI
2 35 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (11.31%) Metadata
4 13 (7.74%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.55%) Tableau
6 10 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (5.95%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (4.76%) Looker
7 8 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
7 8 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (4.17%) Star Schema
9 6 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.98%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.98%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (7.74%) Git
2 7 (4.17%) GitLab
3 6 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.19%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.19%) ERwin
5 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.60%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
6 1 (0.60%) Mockito
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 76 (45.24%) Finance
2 44 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 39 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (20.24%) Banking
5 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.17%) Legal
7 7 (4.17%) Retail
8 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.38%) Marketing
10 3 (1.79%) Back Office
10 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.79%) Front Office
10 3 (1.79%) Law
10 3 (1.79%) Military
10 3 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.19%) Billing
11 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 43 (25.60%) Architect
2 37 (22.02%) Analyst
3 35 (20.83%) Data Engineer
4 24 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 22 (13.10%) Data Architect
6 21 (12.50%) Developer
7 20 (11.90%) Senior
8 10 (5.95%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.95%) Lead
9 8 (4.76%) Technical Architect
10 7 (4.17%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Data Modeller
11 6 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (2.98%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (2.98%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.50%) PySpark
2 9 (5.36%) Kafka
3 8 (4.76%) REST
4 7 (4.17%) Middleware
5 6 (3.57%) JSON
5 6 (3.57%) React
5 6 (3.57%) RESTful
6 5 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.98%) SOAP
6 5 (2.98%) XML
7 3 (1.79%) .NET
7 3 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.79%) Node.js
8 2 (1.19%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.19%) OAuth
8 2 (1.19%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.19%) PCRE
8 2 (1.19%) pytest
8 2 (1.19%) Redux
8 2 (1.19%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.90%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.98%) CMDB
7 5 (2.98%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.38%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.79%) Clustering
9 3 (1.79%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.19%) Derivative
10 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.19%) FMCG
10 2 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.19%) IoT
10 2 (1.19%) Learning Management System
10 2 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.79%) Linux
1 3 (1.79%) Unix
2 2 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (47.02%) Analytics
2 56 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (26.19%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (25.60%) ETL
5 42 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 42 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 41 (24.40%) Data Governance
7 40 (23.81%) Data Engineering
8 37 (22.02%) Agile
8 37 (22.02%) DevOps
9 32 (19.05%) Migration
10 30 (17.86%) Decision-Making
11 28 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (16.07%) AI
12 27 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (16.07%) Validation
13 25 (14.88%) Integration Patterns
14 23 (13.69%) Event-Driven
15 19 (11.31%) Data Lineage
15 19 (11.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (48.21%) SQL
2 60 (35.71%) Python
3 14 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.95%) Java
5 8 (4.76%) C#
6 6 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.98%) Ruby
8 4 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.79%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.19%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.19%) Perl
10 2 (1.19%) R
10 2 (1.19%) SOQL
11 1 (0.60%) CQL
11 1 (0.60%) Korn
11 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.60%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.38%) Degree
5 3 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.19%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) CBAP
7 1 (0.60%) CSPO
7 1 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (32.74%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.74%) GDPR
3 12 (7.14%) QA
4 10 (5.95%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.19%) GRC
5 2 (1.19%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.60%) Basel III
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) GxP
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.98%) Terraform
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
2 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.83%) Databricks
3 19 (11.31%) Oracle
4 13 (7.74%) SAP
5 11 (6.55%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.95%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.17%) Informatica
8 6 (3.57%) Workday
9 5 (2.98%) Google
9 5 (2.98%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.19%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.19%) Amplitude
10 2 (1.19%) IBM
10 2 (1.19%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.19%) Splunk
11 1 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.60%) eFront
11 1 (0.60%) Planon
11 1 (0.60%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.60%) Sparx