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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 56 35
Rank change year-on-year +27 -21 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 139 65 109
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.04% 3.70% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.08% 3.97% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 36 86
10th Percentile £367 £438 £420
25th Percentile £450 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £661 £683
90th Percentile £790 £719 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year - -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 1,963 1,636 1,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.27% 93.17% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,032 1,406
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 1 May 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 10 (7.19%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.60%) Confluence
3 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.72%) Appian
5 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.60%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) BambooHR
1 5 (3.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.16%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.72%) Actimize
4 1 (0.72%) Maximo
4 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (31.65%) Power Platform
2 42 (30.22%) Azure
3 31 (22.30%) AWS
4 23 (16.55%) Snowflake
5 16 (11.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.63%) dbt
6 12 (8.63%) GCP
7 8 (5.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.04%) GitHub
8 7 (5.04%) Prefect
9 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.32%) Serverless
10 5 (3.60%) Dagster
10 5 (3.60%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.88%) PaaS
12 3 (2.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) FTP
1 1 (0.72%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.72%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (28.06%) Power BI
2 26 (18.71%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (18.71%) Metadata
3 13 (9.35%) Tableau
4 11 (7.91%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (6.47%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.47%) Looker
6 8 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.76%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.04%) BigQuery
7 7 (5.04%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.60%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.88%) Data Vault
10 4 (2.88%) Power Query
10 4 (2.88%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.16%) Mixpanel
11 3 (2.16%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (6.47%) Git
2 7 (5.04%) JIRA
3 5 (3.60%) ERwin
4 2 (1.44%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (47.48%) Finance
2 33 (23.74%) Social Skills
3 31 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.39%) Banking
5 11 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.04%) Legal
7 6 (4.32%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.88%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.16%) Aviation
10 3 (2.16%) Front Office
10 3 (2.16%) Marketing
11 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.44%) Law
11 2 (1.44%) Publishing
12 1 (0.72%) Back Office
12 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (22.30%) Analyst
2 29 (20.86%) Data Engineer
3 24 (17.27%) Architect
4 16 (11.51%) Data Analyst
5 15 (10.79%) Senior
6 13 (9.35%) Developer
7 11 (7.91%) Business Analyst
8 10 (7.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Data Modeller
10 8 (5.76%) Lead
11 7 (5.04%) Consultant
11 7 (5.04%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.60%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 4 (2.88%) Data Business Analyst
13 4 (2.88%) Power BI Developer
13 4 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (2.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.76%) JSON
1 8 (5.76%) PySpark
2 6 (4.32%) Kafka
2 6 (4.32%) XML
3 5 (3.60%) React
3 5 (3.60%) REST
3 5 (3.60%) RESTful
4 4 (2.88%) .NET
5 3 (2.16%) Middleware
5 3 (2.16%) Pandas
6 2 (1.44%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.44%) GeoJSON
6 2 (1.44%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.44%) Node.js
6 2 (1.44%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.44%) pytest
6 2 (1.44%) Redux
6 2 (1.44%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.91%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.88%) Clustering
5 4 (2.88%) Equities
5 4 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.88%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.16%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.44%) CMDB
7 2 (1.44%) Derivative
7 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.44%) IoT
7 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.01%) Analytics
2 46 (33.09%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (26.62%) Data Pipeline
4 35 (25.18%) ETL
5 33 (23.74%) Data Governance
6 29 (20.86%) AI
7 28 (20.14%) Data Engineering
8 26 (18.71%) Agile
8 26 (18.71%) CI/CD
9 23 (16.55%) Validation
10 22 (15.83%) Decision-Making
11 21 (15.11%) Performance Tuning
11 21 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.39%) Integration Patterns
13 18 (12.95%) Data Architecture
13 18 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (12.95%) Visualisation
14 17 (12.23%) Data Transformation
15 16 (11.51%) Logical Data Model
15 16 (11.51%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.76%) SQL
2 50 (35.97%) Python
3 12 (8.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.47%) Java
5 6 (4.32%) C#
6 5 (3.60%) R
7 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.16%) Ruby
8 3 (2.16%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.44%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.44%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) C++
10 1 (0.72%) Korn
10 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.72%) SOQL
10 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.47%) Degree
4 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.44%) CBAP
6 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.44%) IIBA
6 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.44%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.72%) ACCA
7 1 (0.72%) CFA
7 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.72%) ISEB
7 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (35.25%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.07%) GDPR
3 8 (5.76%) QA
4 5 (3.60%) Solvency II
5 3 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.44%) Basel III
7 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.72%) GxP
7 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.44%) Terraform
2 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.27%) Databricks
3 12 (8.63%) Oracle
4 9 (6.47%) SAP
5 7 (5.04%) Informatica
5 7 (5.04%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.32%) Google
6 6 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.32%) Workday
7 5 (3.60%) Sparx
8 3 (2.16%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.16%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.44%) IBM
9 2 (1.44%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.44%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.72%) Palantir
10 1 (0.72%) Pega
10 1 (0.72%) Planview
10 1 (0.72%) Sage
10 1 (0.72%) Talend