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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 39 51
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 159 103 91
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.47% 5.53% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 5.89% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 66 73
10th Percentile £403 £415 £413
25th Percentile £453 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £725 £698 £688
90th Percentile £795 £731 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £43.00 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +44.48% -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 2,122 1,750 1,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.30% 93.88% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 1,128 1,350
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.72% +16.86% -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 11 July 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 (8.81%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.14%) Confluence
3 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.89%) Apache
5 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.63%) Appian
6 1 (0.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.14%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.89%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.63%) Actimize
5 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.63%) Maximo
5 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (33.33%) Azure
2 49 (30.82%) Power Platform
3 37 (23.27%) AWS
4 27 (16.98%) Snowflake
5 19 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (8.81%) GCP
7 13 (8.18%) dbt
8 12 (7.55%) GitHub
9 10 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.66%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (5.66%) Serverless
11 7 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (4.40%) PaaS
11 7 (4.40%) Prefect
12 5 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.14%) Dagster
12 5 (3.14%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.52%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) FTP
1 1 (0.63%) RTP
1 1 (0.63%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (27.67%) Power BI
2 29 (18.24%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (13.21%) Metadata
4 14 (8.81%) Tableau
5 11 (6.92%) Looker
6 10 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.29%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.66%) Data Lake
7 9 (5.66%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (5.66%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.03%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.14%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.52%) Data Mart
10 4 (2.52%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.52%) Mixpanel
10 4 (2.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.81%) Git
2 8 (5.03%) JIRA
3 6 (3.77%) GitLab
4 4 (2.52%) ERwin
5 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.26%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.63%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) Mockito
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 73 (45.91%) Finance
2 37 (23.27%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (22.64%) Social Skills
4 24 (15.09%) Banking
5 12 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.40%) Legal
8 5 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.89%) Back Office
10 3 (1.89%) Marketing
10 3 (1.89%) Military
10 3 (1.89%) Retail
11 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.26%) Front Office
11 2 (1.26%) Law
11 2 (1.26%) Publishing
12 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (25.16%) Data Engineer
2 37 (23.27%) Architect
3 31 (19.50%) Analyst
4 19 (11.95%) Data Architect
4 19 (11.95%) Developer
5 17 (10.69%) Data Analyst
6 14 (8.81%) Senior
7 11 (6.92%) Lead
8 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Consultant
12 5 (3.14%) Data Modeller
12 5 (3.14%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Systems Analyst
13 4 (2.52%) Data Business Analyst
13 4 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
14 3 (1.89%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) PySpark
2 10 (6.29%) Kafka
3 7 (4.40%) REST
4 6 (3.77%) JSON
4 6 (3.77%) RESTful
5 5 (3.14%) React
5 5 (3.14%) XML
6 4 (2.52%) Middleware
6 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.52%) SOAP
7 3 (1.89%) .NET
8 2 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.26%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.26%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.26%) Node.js
8 2 (1.26%) OAuth
8 2 (1.26%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.26%) Pandas
8 2 (1.26%) pytest
8 2 (1.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.72%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.29%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.14%) CMDB
4 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.52%) Clustering
5 4 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.52%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.26%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.26%) Derivative
6 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.26%) IoT
6 2 (1.26%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.26%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.26%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (47.17%) Analytics
2 54 (33.96%) Business Intelligence
3 47 (29.56%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (27.67%) Data Engineering
5 37 (23.27%) ETL
6 36 (22.64%) CI/CD
7 35 (22.01%) Data Governance
8 33 (20.75%) Data Architecture
9 32 (20.13%) AI
10 27 (16.98%) Agile
10 27 (16.98%) Decision-Making
11 25 (15.72%) Migration
11 25 (15.72%) Validation
12 23 (14.47%) DevOps
13 19 (11.95%) Event-Driven
13 19 (11.95%) Integration Patterns
13 19 (11.95%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (11.95%) Use Case
14 18 (11.32%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 73 (45.91%) SQL
2 61 (38.36%) Python
3 12 (7.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.92%) Java
5 8 (5.03%) C#
6 6 (3.77%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.14%) Ruby
8 4 (2.52%) R
9 3 (1.89%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.26%) Korn
10 2 (1.26%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.63%) LookML
11 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 27 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.03%) Degree
4 6 (3.77%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.26%) CBAP
6 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.26%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) IIBA
7 1 (0.63%) ISEB
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (30.19%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.43%) GDPR
3 9 (5.66%) QA
4 7 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.14%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Grafana
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (23.27%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.13%) Databricks
3 20 (12.58%) Oracle
4 10 (6.29%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.03%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.03%) SAP
6 7 (4.40%) Informatica
7 6 (3.77%) Google
7 6 (3.77%) Workday
8 4 (2.52%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.89%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.26%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.26%) IBM
11 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.63%) Murex
11 1 (0.63%) Pega
11 1 (0.63%) Planview
11 1 (0.63%) Sage
11 1 (0.63%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds