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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 36 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 169 105 84
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.21% 5.65% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 6.00% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 66 62
10th Percentile £425 £381 £433
25th Percentile £463 £461 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.27% -4.24%
75th Percentile £706 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £744 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.00 - -
75th Percentile £43.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year +44.48% - -

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 2,053 1,751 1,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.62% 94.29% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,403 1,147 1,266
10th Percentile £380 £325 £379
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 £774 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%

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 18 August 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 (8.28%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.73%) Apache
2 8 (4.73%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.14%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.59%) Appian
5 1 (0.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.96%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.18%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.59%) Actimize
4 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.59%) Maximo
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.28%) Azure
2 49 (28.99%) Power Platform
3 38 (22.49%) AWS
4 26 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (13.02%) Snowflake
6 16 (9.47%) GitHub
7 15 (8.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (8.88%) dbt
8 12 (7.10%) Serverless
9 11 (6.51%) GCP
10 10 (5.92%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.14%) Prefect
13 6 (3.55%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (3.55%) PaaS
13 6 (3.55%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.59%) FTP
2 1 (0.59%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (26.04%) Power BI
2 36 (21.30%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (12.43%) Metadata
4 14 (8.28%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.92%) BigQuery
5 10 (5.92%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.92%) Tableau
6 8 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (4.73%) Semantic Layer
6 8 (4.73%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (4.14%) Looker
7 7 (4.14%) Star Schema
8 6 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.96%) Delta Lake
9 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.96%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (7.69%) Git
2 7 (4.14%) GitLab
3 6 (3.55%) JIRA
4 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.18%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.18%) ERwin
5 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
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 76 (44.97%) Finance
2 44 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 39 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (20.12%) Banking
5 15 (8.88%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.73%) Retail
7 7 (4.14%) Legal
8 5 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.37%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.37%) Marketing
10 3 (1.78%) Back Office
10 3 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.78%) Front Office
10 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.78%) Law
10 3 (1.78%) Military
10 3 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 45 (26.63%) Architect
2 36 (21.30%) Analyst
3 35 (20.71%) Data Engineer
4 24 (14.20%) Data Analyst
4 24 (14.20%) Data Architect
5 21 (12.43%) Developer
6 20 (11.83%) Senior
7 10 (5.92%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.92%) Lead
8 8 (4.73%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.14%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.55%) Data Modeller
10 6 (3.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (2.96%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.02%) PySpark
2 9 (5.33%) Kafka
3 8 (4.73%) REST
4 7 (4.14%) Middleware
5 6 (3.55%) JSON
5 6 (3.55%) React
5 6 (3.55%) RESTful
6 5 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.96%) SOAP
6 5 (2.96%) XML
7 3 (1.78%) .NET
7 3 (1.78%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.78%) Node.js
8 2 (1.18%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.18%) OAuth
8 2 (1.18%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.18%) PCRE
8 2 (1.18%) pytest
8 2 (1.18%) Redux
8 2 (1.18%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.83%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.10%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.14%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.96%) CMDB
7 5 (2.96%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.37%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.78%) Clustering
9 3 (1.78%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.18%) FMCG
10 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.18%) IoT
10 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.78%) Linux
1 3 (1.78%) Unix
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (46.75%) Analytics
2 56 (33.14%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (26.04%) Data Architecture
3 44 (26.04%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (25.44%) CI/CD
4 43 (25.44%) Data Governance
4 43 (25.44%) ETL
5 41 (24.26%) Data Engineering
6 38 (22.49%) DevOps
7 37 (21.89%) Agile
8 32 (18.93%) Migration
9 30 (17.75%) Decision-Making
10 29 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (16.57%) AI
11 28 (16.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (15.98%) Validation
13 25 (14.79%) Integration Patterns
14 23 (13.61%) Event-Driven
15 20 (11.83%) Data Lineage
16 19 (11.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (47.93%) SQL
2 59 (34.91%) Python
3 14 (8.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.92%) Java
5 8 (4.73%) C#
6 6 (3.55%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.96%) Ruby
8 4 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.18%) Perl
10 2 (1.18%) SOQL
11 1 (0.59%) CQL
11 1 (0.59%) Korn
11 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.59%) R
11 1 (0.59%) Scala
11 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.59%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 27 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.55%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.37%) Degree
5 3 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.18%) AWS 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%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) CBAP
7 1 (0.59%) CSPO
7 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (33.73%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.69%) GDPR
3 12 (7.10%) QA
4 10 (5.92%) Accessibility
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%) GxP
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.55%) Terraform
2 1 (0.59%) Grafana
2 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (26.63%) Microsoft
2 36 (21.30%) Databricks
3 19 (11.24%) Oracle
4 13 (7.69%) SAP
5 11 (6.51%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.92%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.14%) Informatica
8 6 (3.55%) Workday
9 5 (2.96%) Google
9 5 (2.96%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.18%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.18%) IBM
10 2 (1.18%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.18%) Splunk
11 1 (0.59%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.59%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.59%) eFront
11 1 (0.59%) Planon
11 1 (0.59%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.59%) Sparx