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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 40 47
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 159 101 93
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.54% 5.42% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 5.78% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 64 73
10th Percentile £403 £411 £413
25th Percentile £453 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £706 £691 £688
90th Percentile £791 £734 £775
Central London median daily rate £557 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.25% - -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 2,101 1,748 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.39% 93.88% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,127 1,351
10th Percentile £368 £344 £363
25th Percentile £453 £436 £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 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +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 15 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
4 3 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) Appian
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
5 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 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%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 54 (33.96%) Azure
2 50 (31.45%) Power Platform
3 37 (23.27%) AWS
4 26 (16.35%) 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 45 (28.30%) Power BI
2 29 (18.24%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (13.84%) Metadata
4 14 (8.81%) Tableau
5 11 (6.92%) Looker
6 10 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.29%) BigQuery
6 10 (6.29%) 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 72 (45.28%) Finance
2 38 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (23.90%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.09%) Banking
4 13 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (4.40%) Legal
6 5 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.52%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.52%) Retail
8 3 (1.89%) Back Office
8 3 (1.89%) Marketing
8 3 (1.89%) Military
9 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Front Office
9 2 (1.26%) Law
9 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.26%) Publishing
10 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 40 (25.16%) Data Engineer
2 38 (23.90%) Architect
3 32 (20.13%) Analyst
4 20 (12.58%) Data Architect
5 18 (11.32%) Data Analyst
5 18 (11.32%) Developer
6 15 (9.43%) Senior
7 10 (6.29%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.29%) Lead
7 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 10 (6.29%) Snowflake Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) Technical Architect
9 6 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Consultant
10 5 (3.14%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.14%) Data Modeller
10 5 (3.14%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.14%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.52%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) PySpark
2 10 (6.29%) Kafka
3 6 (3.77%) JSON
3 6 (3.77%) REST
3 6 (3.77%) RESTful
4 5 (3.14%) React
4 5 (3.14%) XML
5 4 (2.52%) Middleware
5 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.89%) .NET
6 3 (1.89%) SOAP
7 2 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.26%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.26%) Node.js
7 2 (1.26%) OAuth
7 2 (1.26%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.26%) Pandas
7 2 (1.26%) pytest
7 2 (1.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.92%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.66%) 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 3 (1.89%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.26%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.26%) Derivative
7 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.26%) IoT
7 2 (1.26%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
8 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 55 (34.59%) Business Intelligence
3 47 (29.56%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (27.04%) Data Engineering
5 38 (23.90%) ETL
6 35 (22.01%) CI/CD
6 35 (22.01%) Data Governance
7 34 (21.38%) Data Architecture
8 31 (19.50%) AI
9 27 (16.98%) Decision-Making
10 26 (16.35%) Agile
10 26 (16.35%) Validation
11 25 (15.72%) Migration
12 23 (14.47%) DevOps
13 20 (12.58%) Integration Patterns
14 19 (11.95%) Event-Driven
14 19 (11.95%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (11.95%) Use Case
15 18 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (46.54%) SQL
2 61 (38.36%) Python
3 12 (7.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.92%) Java
5 8 (5.03%) C#
6 5 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.14%) Ruby
7 4 (2.52%) R
8 3 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.26%) Korn
9 2 (1.26%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.63%) LookML
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.84%) 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 49 (30.82%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.81%) 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 4 (2.52%) 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 33 (20.75%) Databricks
3 20 (12.58%) Oracle
4 10 (6.29%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.66%) SAP
6 8 (5.03%) Informatica
6 8 (5.03%) Salesforce
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
10 2 (1.26%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.63%) Murex
11 1 (0.63%) Pega
11 1 (0.63%) Planview
11 1 (0.63%) Sage
11 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.63%) Talend