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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 47 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 106 75 126
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.74% 3.84% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 4.17% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 40 92
10th Percentile £322 £459 £414
25th Percentile £413 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% -1.79% +6.90%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £689
90th Percentile £736 £780 £773
Central London median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

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 1,661 1,797 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.93% 91.97% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,092 1,553
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £766 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £46.05 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 January 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 8 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (7.55%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.72%) Apache
3 3 (2.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.94%) Endur
3 1 (0.94%) HFM
3 1 (0.94%) Maximo
3 1 (0.94%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.94%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.30%) Power Platform
2 27 (25.47%) Azure
3 23 (21.70%) AWS
4 14 (13.21%) Snowflake
5 11 (10.38%) dbt
6 8 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (7.55%) GCP
7 7 (6.60%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.72%) Serverless
9 4 (3.77%) GitHub
10 2 (1.89%) Collibra
10 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.89%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) Firewall
1 1 (0.94%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.36%) Power BI
2 21 (19.81%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (16.04%) Metadata
4 9 (8.49%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.55%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (7.55%) Tableau
6 7 (6.60%) Star Schema
7 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.66%) Power Query
8 5 (4.72%) Data Vault
8 5 (4.72%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.83%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.89%) Big Data
11 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (12.26%) Git
2 6 (5.66%) ERwin
3 4 (3.77%) JIRA
4 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.89%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
General
1 45 (42.45%) Finance
2 31 (29.25%) Social Skills
3 24 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.38%) Banking
5 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Front Office
7 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Aviation
8 3 (2.83%) Back Office
8 3 (2.83%) Law
9 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.89%) Legal
9 2 (1.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (22.64%) Analyst
2 19 (17.92%) Data Engineer
3 14 (13.21%) Architect
3 14 (13.21%) Business Analyst
4 13 (12.26%) Senior
5 12 (11.32%) Data Modeller
6 10 (9.43%) Data Analyst
7 9 (8.49%) Developer
8 7 (6.60%) Consultant
8 7 (6.60%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.60%) Lead
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.77%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Functional Consultant
11 3 (2.83%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.83%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.72%) JSON
1 5 (4.72%) XML
2 4 (3.77%) Kafka
2 4 (3.77%) PySpark
3 3 (2.83%) .NET
3 3 (2.83%) HTML
3 3 (2.83%) Pandas
4 2 (1.89%) ADO
4 2 (1.89%) CSS
4 2 (1.89%) Flask
4 2 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.89%) Node.js
4 2 (1.89%) REST
4 2 (1.89%) Web Services
5 1 (0.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.94%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.94%) boto
5 1 (0.94%) IDoc
5 1 (0.94%) NumPy
5 1 (0.94%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.55%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.77%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.83%) CMDB
6 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.89%) Equities
6 2 (1.89%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.94%) Replication
7 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.02%) Analytics
2 33 (31.13%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (26.42%) ETL
4 26 (24.53%) Data Governance
5 24 (22.64%) Visualisation
6 22 (20.75%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (18.87%) Agile
8 20 (18.87%) Decision-Making
9 18 (16.98%) AI
9 18 (16.98%) Data Analysis
10 17 (16.04%) Data Integration
10 17 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (14.15%) CI/CD
11 15 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (13.21%) Data Transformation
13 13 (12.26%) Actionable Insight
14 12 (11.32%) User Stories
15 11 (10.38%) Data Engineering
15 11 (10.38%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 56 (52.83%) SQL
2 33 (31.13%) Python
3 10 (9.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.66%) Java
5 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.89%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.89%) R
7 2 (1.89%) Scala
8 1 (0.94%) ABAP
8 1 (0.94%) C#
8 1 (0.94%) C++
8 1 (0.94%) Go
8 1 (0.94%) LookML
8 1 (0.94%) Ruby
8 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.49%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.66%) Degree
4 2 (1.89%) CFA
4 2 (1.89%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.94%) ACCA
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.94%) IIBA
5 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.94%) PMP
5 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (30.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.66%) GDPR
2 6 (5.66%) QA
3 3 (2.83%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.89%) Basel III
5 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.77%) Terraform
2 2 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.98%) Databricks
3 6 (5.66%) Oracle
4 5 (4.72%) Sparx
5 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.83%) SAP
6 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.89%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.89%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.89%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.89%) Tagetik
8 1 (0.94%) eFront
8 1 (0.94%) Google
8 1 (0.94%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.94%) IBM
8 1 (0.94%) Informatica
8 1 (0.94%) Okta
8 1 (0.94%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.94%) Planview
8 1 (0.94%) Remedy