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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 29 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 170 111 80
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.48% 6.29% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.48% 6.68% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 73 57
10th Percentile £425 £366 £425
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £706 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £743
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £593
% change year-on-year -6.38% -0.84% -8.85%
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 2,005 1,661 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.25% 94.16% 91.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 1,098 1,226
10th Percentile £375 £324 £379
25th Percentile £458 £424 £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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 4 September 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 12 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.29%) Apache
3 8 (4.71%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.53%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.59%) Appian
6 1 (0.59%) CMS
6 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.18%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.18%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.59%) Actimize
3 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.59%) Maximo
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 64 (37.65%) Azure
2 47 (27.65%) Power Platform
3 39 (22.94%) AWS
4 27 (15.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (12.94%) Snowflake
7 17 (10.00%) GitHub
8 15 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (8.24%) dbt
9 14 (8.24%) Serverless
10 12 (7.06%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.47%) GCP
12 9 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (3.53%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (3.53%) PaaS
13 6 (3.53%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.59%) FTP
2 1 (0.59%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.47%) Power BI
2 35 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (13.53%) Metadata
4 16 (9.41%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.29%) BigQuery
7 8 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (4.71%) Semantic Layer
7 8 (4.71%) Star Schema
7 8 (4.71%) Tableau
8 7 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (4.12%) Looker
8 7 (4.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (3.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.94%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.94%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (7.06%) Git
2 8 (4.71%) GitLab
3 6 (3.53%) JIRA
4 5 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.18%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.18%) ERwin
5 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.59%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.59%) JMeter
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
6 1 (0.59%) MLflow
6 1 (0.59%) Mockito
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 72 (42.35%) Finance
2 45 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 40 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (20.59%) Banking
5 13 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.71%) Retail
7 5 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.94%) Legal
8 4 (2.35%) Back Office
8 4 (2.35%) Front Office
8 4 (2.35%) Marketing
9 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.76%) Law
9 3 (1.76%) Military
10 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.59%) Billing
11 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (27.06%) Architect
2 36 (21.18%) Analyst
3 35 (20.59%) Data Engineer
4 26 (15.29%) Data Architect
5 25 (14.71%) Data Analyst
6 24 (14.12%) Senior
7 20 (11.76%) Developer
8 11 (6.47%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.71%) Lead
10 7 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.53%) Data Business Analyst
11 6 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Snowflake Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Technical Architect
12 5 (2.94%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Consultant
12 5 (2.94%) Data Modeller
12 5 (2.94%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.53%) PySpark
2 9 (5.29%) REST
3 8 (4.71%) Kafka
4 7 (4.12%) Terraform
5 6 (3.53%) JSON
5 6 (3.53%) Middleware
5 6 (3.53%) React
5 6 (3.53%) SOAP
6 5 (2.94%) XML
7 4 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.35%) RESTful
8 3 (1.76%) .NET
8 3 (1.76%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (1.76%) Node.js
9 2 (1.18%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.18%) Great Expectations
9 2 (1.18%) PCRE
9 2 (1.18%) pytest
9 2 (1.18%) Redux
9 2 (1.18%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.18%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.35%) CMDB
7 4 (2.35%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.76%) Clustering
8 3 (1.76%) Derivative
8 3 (1.76%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.76%) Replication
9 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) IoT
9 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.76%) Linux
1 3 (1.76%) Unix
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (48.24%) Analytics
2 57 (33.53%) Business Intelligence
3 48 (28.24%) Data Governance
3 48 (28.24%) Data Pipeline
4 46 (27.06%) Data Architecture
5 45 (26.47%) CI/CD
6 43 (25.29%) Data Engineering
7 40 (23.53%) ETL
8 39 (22.94%) Agile
9 38 (22.35%) DevOps
10 31 (18.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 30 (17.65%) Migration
11 30 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (15.88%) AI
12 27 (15.88%) Decision-Making
12 27 (15.88%) Validation
13 23 (13.53%) Event-Driven
14 22 (12.94%) Integration Patterns
14 22 (12.94%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (12.35%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 85 (50.00%) SQL
2 58 (34.12%) Python
3 16 (9.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.29%) Java
5 7 (4.12%) C#
6 5 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.94%) Ruby
7 4 (2.35%) LookML
7 4 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.76%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.76%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.18%) CQL
9 2 (1.18%) Perl
9 2 (1.18%) SOQL
10 1 (0.59%) Cypher
10 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.59%) R
10 1 (0.59%) Scala
10 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.59%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.35%) Degree
5 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.18%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CBAP
7 1 (0.59%) CSPO
7 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (37.06%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.47%) QA
3 9 (5.29%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.71%) GDPR
5 2 (1.18%) GRC
5 2 (1.18%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.59%) Basel III
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) NCSC
6 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.18%) Grafana
1 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (27.06%) Microsoft
2 33 (19.41%) Databricks
3 17 (10.00%) Oracle
4 13 (7.65%) SAP
5 10 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.71%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.53%) Informatica
8 5 (2.94%) Google
9 3 (1.76%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.18%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.18%) eFront
10 2 (1.18%) IBM
10 2 (1.18%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.18%) Splunk
10 2 (1.18%) Workday
11 1 (0.59%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.59%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.59%) Murex
11 1 (0.59%) Planon
11 1 (0.59%) Sparx