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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 57 33
Rank change year-on-year +29 -24 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 130 63 117
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.05% 3.62% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 3.93% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 36 89
10th Percentile £326 £456 £423
25th Percentile £450 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -2.83% -
75th Percentile £638 £642 £700
90th Percentile £750 £719 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £568 £600
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.42% -
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 1,888 1,605 2,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.81% 92.19% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,036 1,469
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
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 29 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 13 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.15%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.85%) Apache
3 5 (3.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.77%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.77%) Appian
4 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.08%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.31%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.54%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.77%) Actimize
4 1 (0.77%) Maximo
4 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.77%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.77%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.54%) Power Platform
2 37 (28.46%) Azure
3 34 (26.15%) AWS
4 25 (19.23%) Snowflake
5 16 (12.31%) dbt
6 14 (10.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (10.77%) GCP
7 8 (6.15%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.62%) Prefect
8 6 (4.62%) Serverless
9 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.85%) GitHub
10 4 (3.08%) Dagster
10 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.08%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.31%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.77%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.46%) Power BI
2 29 (22.31%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (16.92%) Metadata
4 12 (9.23%) Tableau
5 11 (8.46%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (7.69%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.38%) Looker
7 7 (5.38%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.62%) Data Vault
8 6 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.85%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.85%) Star Schema
10 4 (3.08%) Delta Lake
10 4 (3.08%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.08%) Power Query
11 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.31%) Mixpanel
11 3 (2.31%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (10.00%) Git
2 6 (4.62%) ERwin
2 6 (4.62%) JIRA
3 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.54%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.77%) PowerDesigner
General
1 57 (43.85%) Finance
2 32 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 28 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.31%) Banking
5 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.62%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.08%) Front Office
7 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.08%) Law
7 4 (3.08%) Legal
8 3 (2.31%) Aviation
8 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.31%) Marketing
8 3 (2.31%) Retail
8 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.54%) Back Office
9 2 (1.54%) Publishing
10 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (26.15%) Data Engineer
2 25 (19.23%) Analyst
3 20 (15.38%) Architect
4 15 (11.54%) Senior
5 12 (9.23%) Data Analyst
6 11 (8.46%) Business Analyst
6 11 (8.46%) Data Modeller
7 10 (7.69%) Developer
7 10 (7.69%) Lead
7 10 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 10 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Data Architect
9 7 (5.38%) Consultant
10 5 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.85%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.08%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (3.08%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (2.31%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.15%) JSON
1 8 (6.15%) Kafka
2 6 (4.62%) PySpark
2 6 (4.62%) XML
3 3 (2.31%) Pandas
4 2 (1.54%) GeoJSON
4 2 (1.54%) Great Expectations
4 2 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.54%) Matplotlib
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.54%) Middleware
4 2 (1.54%) Node.js
4 2 (1.54%) OAuth
4 2 (1.54%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.54%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.54%) pytest
4 2 (1.54%) React
4 2 (1.54%) REST
4 2 (1.54%) RESTful
4 2 (1.54%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.08%) Clustering
4 4 (3.08%) Equities
4 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.31%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.54%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.77%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.31%) Linux
2 2 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.00%) Analytics
2 44 (33.85%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (29.23%) ETL
4 36 (27.69%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (22.31%) AI
6 28 (21.54%) Data Engineering
6 28 (21.54%) Data Governance
7 25 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 23 (17.69%) Agile
9 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (15.38%) Visualisation
11 19 (14.62%) Data Transformation
11 19 (14.62%) Decision-Making
12 17 (13.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (13.08%) Validation
13 16 (12.31%) Data Architecture
13 16 (12.31%) Data Integration
13 16 (12.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 68 (52.31%) SQL
2 50 (38.46%) Python
3 9 (6.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (6.92%) Java
4 5 (3.85%) R
5 3 (2.31%) Ruby
5 3 (2.31%) Scala
6 2 (1.54%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.54%) C#
6 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.77%) ABAP
7 1 (0.77%) C++
7 1 (0.77%) Korn
7 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.77%) SOQL
7 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.92%) Degree
4 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.54%) CFA
6 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.54%) IIBA
6 2 (1.54%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.77%) ACCA
7 1 (0.77%) CBAP
7 1 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.77%) ISEB
7 1 (0.77%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (37.69%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.69%) GDPR
3 6 (4.62%) QA
4 4 (3.08%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.54%) Basel III
6 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.77%) GxP
6 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.62%) Terraform
2 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.23%) Databricks
3 9 (6.92%) Oracle
4 8 (6.15%) SAP
5 7 (5.38%) Informatica
6 6 (4.62%) Google
6 6 (4.62%) Salesforce
7 5 (3.85%) Sparx
8 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.08%) Workday
9 3 (2.31%) Amplitude
9 3 (2.31%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.54%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.54%) SimCorp
10 2 (1.54%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.77%) IBM
11 1 (0.77%) Pega
11 1 (0.77%) Planview
11 1 (0.77%) Sage
11 1 (0.77%) Talend