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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 38 48
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 174 102 88
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.25% 5.47% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.29% 5.80% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 63 67
10th Percentile £425 £370 £425
25th Percentile £475 £466 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £675
90th Percentile £775 £735 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £585
% change year-on-year -2.13% +0.43% -10.00%
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 2,100 1,759 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 94.27% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 1,153 1,280
10th Percentile £375 £331 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £474
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 £771 £793
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% +11.24% -22.86%

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 7 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 13 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.60%) Apache
2 8 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.57%) Appian
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.87%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.72%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.15%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.57%) Actimize
5 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.57%) Maximo
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (36.78%) Azure
2 53 (30.46%) Power Platform
3 38 (21.84%) AWS
4 27 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (13.79%) Snowflake
6 19 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.62%) GitHub
8 14 (8.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (8.05%) dbt
9 13 (7.47%) GCP
10 11 (6.32%) Serverless
11 9 (5.17%) Amazon S3
12 8 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.02%) Prefect
14 6 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (3.45%) PaaS
14 6 (3.45%) Power Automate
14 6 (3.45%) PowerApps
15 5 (2.87%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) SSL
2 1 (0.57%) FTP
2 1 (0.57%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (27.59%) Power BI
2 37 (21.26%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (12.07%) Metadata
4 14 (8.05%) Data Lake
5 13 (7.47%) Tableau
6 11 (6.32%) BigQuery
7 10 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (5.75%) Looker
7 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
8 9 (5.17%) Semantic Layer
9 8 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (4.60%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (4.02%) Star Schema
11 6 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.87%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.87%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.30%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 13 (7.47%) Git
2 7 (4.02%) GitLab
3 6 (3.45%) JIRA
4 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.15%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.15%) ERwin
5 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.57%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.57%) JMeter
6 1 (0.57%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) Mockito
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 79 (45.40%) Finance
2 47 (27.01%) Social Skills
3 42 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (18.39%) Banking
5 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.02%) Legal
7 7 (4.02%) Retail
8 5 (2.87%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.30%) Marketing
10 3 (1.72%) Back Office
10 3 (1.72%) Front Office
10 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.72%) Law
10 3 (1.72%) Military
10 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.15%) Billing
11 2 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (25.86%) Architect
2 38 (21.84%) Analyst
2 38 (21.84%) Data Engineer
3 24 (13.79%) Data Analyst
3 24 (13.79%) Data Architect
4 20 (11.49%) Developer
4 20 (11.49%) Senior
5 11 (6.32%) Business Analyst
6 10 (5.75%) Lead
7 8 (4.60%) Technical Architect
8 7 (4.02%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
9 6 (3.45%) Data Modeller
9 6 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (2.87%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.92%) PySpark
2 9 (5.17%) Kafka
3 8 (4.60%) REST
4 7 (4.02%) Middleware
5 6 (3.45%) JSON
5 6 (3.45%) React
5 6 (3.45%) RESTful
6 5 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.87%) SOAP
6 5 (2.87%) XML
7 3 (1.72%) .NET
7 3 (1.72%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.72%) Node.js
8 2 (1.15%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.15%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.15%) Pandas
8 2 (1.15%) PCRE
8 2 (1.15%) pytest
8 2 (1.15%) Regular Expression
8 2 (1.15%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.49%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.87%) CMDB
7 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.87%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.72%) Clustering
8 3 (1.72%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.15%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.15%) Derivative
9 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.15%) FMCG
9 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) IoT
9 2 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.72%) Linux
1 3 (1.72%) Unix
2 2 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (47.70%) Analytics
2 61 (35.06%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (25.86%) Data Pipeline
3 45 (25.86%) ETL
4 44 (25.29%) Data Governance
5 42 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 42 (24.14%) Data Architecture
6 40 (22.99%) Data Engineering
7 35 (20.11%) Agile
7 35 (20.11%) DevOps
8 31 (17.82%) Migration
9 30 (17.24%) Decision-Making
10 27 (15.52%) AI
10 27 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (15.52%) Validation
11 26 (14.94%) Integration Patterns
11 26 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (13.79%) Event-Driven
13 19 (10.92%) Performance Optimisation
14 18 (10.34%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 86 (49.43%) SQL
2 62 (35.63%) Python
3 14 (8.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.75%) Java
5 8 (4.60%) C#
6 6 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.87%) Ruby
8 4 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.30%) R
8 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.15%) Perl
10 2 (1.15%) SOQL
11 1 (0.57%) CQL
11 1 (0.57%) Korn
11 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.57%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.30%) Degree
4 4 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.15%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CBAP
7 1 (0.57%) CSPO
7 1 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (32.76%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.47%) GDPR
3 11 (6.32%) QA
4 9 (5.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.15%) GRC
5 2 (1.15%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.57%) Basel III
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) GxP
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.87%) Terraform
2 1 (0.57%) Grafana
2 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.54%) Databricks
3 18 (10.34%) Oracle
4 12 (6.90%) SAP
5 10 (5.75%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.75%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.02%) Informatica
7 6 (3.45%) Google
7 6 (3.45%) Workday
8 5 (2.87%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.30%) Amplitude
10 2 (1.15%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.15%) IBM
10 2 (1.15%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.15%) Splunk
11 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.57%) Murex
11 1 (0.57%) Pega
11 1 (0.57%) Planview
11 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds