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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 31 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 172 105 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.00% 6.08% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.85% 6.44% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 68 65
10th Percentile £410 £351 £436
25th Percentile £453 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £725 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £741 £765
Central London median daily rate £575 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +2.22% -2.17% -11.54%
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 1,944 1,631 1,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 94.44% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 1,107 1,218
10th Percentile £365 £325 £366
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
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 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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 9 October 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 (5.81%) Apache
1 10 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.33%) Confluence
5 2 (1.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
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%) 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%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 62 (36.05%) Azure
2 47 (27.33%) Power Platform
3 36 (20.93%) AWS
4 27 (15.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (11.63%) Snowflake
7 18 (10.47%) GitHub
7 18 (10.47%) Serverless
8 16 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (8.14%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.14%) dbt
10 13 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.98%) GCP
12 11 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (4.07%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (4.07%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (4.07%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.58%) FTP
2 1 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.16%) Power BI
2 33 (19.19%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (16.28%) Metadata
4 16 (9.30%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.40%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.81%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (5.81%) Semantic Layer
7 9 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (5.23%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.23%) Star Schema
8 8 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (4.07%) Looker
10 6 (3.49%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.91%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.91%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.91%) Tableau
12 4 (2.33%) Data Mart
12 4 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.98%) GitLab
2 11 (6.40%) Git
3 8 (4.65%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.07%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.16%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.58%) ERwin
6 1 (0.58%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) MLflow
6 1 (0.58%) Mockito
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.58%) QUnit
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (43.02%) Finance
2 45 (26.16%) Social Skills
3 41 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (20.35%) Banking
5 13 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.65%) Retail
7 7 (4.07%) Back Office
7 7 (4.07%) Front Office
7 7 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.33%) Billing
9 4 (2.33%) Legal
9 4 (2.33%) Marketing
9 4 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.74%) Law
10 3 (1.74%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (23.84%) Architect
2 38 (22.09%) Analyst
3 36 (20.93%) Data Engineer
4 29 (16.86%) Data Architect
5 26 (15.12%) Senior
6 25 (14.53%) Developer
7 24 (13.95%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.98%) Business Analyst
9 10 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Consultant
10 9 (5.23%) Lead
10 9 (5.23%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) AWS Data Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (4.07%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.49%) Data Business Analyst
13 6 (3.49%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (3.49%) Power BI Developer
14 5 (2.91%) Data Modeller
14 5 (2.91%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.37%) PySpark
2 11 (6.40%) REST
2 11 (6.40%) Terraform
3 7 (4.07%) Middleware
3 7 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (4.07%) SOAP
4 6 (3.49%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (3.49%) Kafka
5 4 (2.33%) React
5 4 (2.33%) XML
6 3 (1.74%) .NET
6 3 (1.74%) JSON
6 3 (1.74%) RESTful
7 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.16%) PCRE
7 2 (1.16%) Redux
7 2 (1.16%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.58%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.05%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.91%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.91%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.74%) CMDB
8 3 (1.74%) Derivative
8 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.74%) Replication
8 3 (1.74%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.16%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.16%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.33%) Linux
1 4 (2.33%) Unix
2 2 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (52.33%) Analytics
2 57 (33.14%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (30.23%) Data Governance
4 50 (29.07%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (27.91%) Data Architecture
6 47 (27.33%) CI/CD
7 42 (24.42%) Data Engineering
8 41 (23.84%) Agile
9 39 (22.67%) DevOps
10 37 (21.51%) ETL
10 37 (21.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 34 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (18.60%) Migration
13 26 (15.12%) Decision-Making
13 26 (15.12%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (14.53%) Validation
15 23 (13.37%) Data Analysis
16 22 (12.79%) Translating Business Requirements
17 21 (12.21%) AI
17 21 (12.21%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 92 (53.49%) SQL
2 57 (33.14%) Python
3 18 (10.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.49%) C#
4 6 (3.49%) LookML
5 5 (2.91%) Java
5 5 (2.91%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.74%) Ruby
7 3 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.16%) CQL
8 2 (1.16%) Perl
8 2 (1.16%) Scala
8 2 (1.16%) SOQL
9 1 (0.58%) Cypher
9 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.58%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 24 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.49%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.74%) Degree
6 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.16%) TOGAF 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%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (38.37%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.81%) QA
3 9 (5.23%) Accessibility
4 7 (4.07%) GDPR
5 2 (1.16%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) Basel III
6 1 (0.58%) EMIR
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.58%) MiFID
6 1 (0.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.58%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.74%) Docker
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 (26.16%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.77%) Databricks
3 12 (6.98%) Oracle
4 10 (5.81%) SAP
5 9 (5.23%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.65%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.91%) Google
8 4 (2.33%) Informatica
9 3 (1.74%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.16%) eFront
10 2 (1.16%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.16%) Splunk
11 1 (0.58%) Aderant
11 1 (0.58%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.58%) Braze
11 1 (0.58%) IBM
11 1 (0.58%) Murex
11 1 (0.58%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.58%) Teradata