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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 56 36
Rank change year-on-year +25 -20 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 138 66 112
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.17% 3.74% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 4.03% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 38 87
10th Percentile £360 £456 £421
25th Percentile £451 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £651 £702
90th Percentile £776 £716 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
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 1,922 1,637 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.88% 92.80% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,045 1,408
10th Percentile £363 £363 £352
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% +3.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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 21 April 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 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.62%) Apache
2 5 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.62%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.72%) Appian
3 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.62%) BambooHR
3 3 (2.17%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.72%) Actimize
5 1 (0.72%) Maximo
5 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.72%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.43%) Power Platform
2 39 (28.26%) Azure
3 32 (23.19%) AWS
4 23 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 15 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (10.14%) dbt
7 13 (9.42%) GCP
8 8 (5.80%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (5.80%) Prefect
9 6 (4.35%) Dagster
9 6 (4.35%) Serverless
10 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.62%) GitHub
10 5 (3.62%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.72%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.81%) Power BI
2 26 (18.84%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (18.12%) Metadata
4 14 (10.14%) Tableau
5 11 (7.97%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (7.25%) Data Lake
7 9 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.52%) Looker
8 7 (5.07%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.07%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.07%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.62%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.90%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.90%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.90%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.90%) Power Query
12 3 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.25%) Git
2 7 (5.07%) ERwin
3 6 (4.35%) JIRA
4 2 (1.45%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
General
1 66 (47.83%) Finance
2 32 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.04%) Banking
5 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.35%) Legal
7 5 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.90%) Law
8 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.17%) Aviation
9 3 (2.17%) Front Office
9 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.17%) Marketing
10 2 (1.45%) Back Office
10 2 (1.45%) Publishing
10 2 (1.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 32 (23.19%) Data Engineer
2 29 (21.01%) Analyst
3 22 (15.94%) Architect
4 16 (11.59%) Senior
5 13 (9.42%) Data Analyst
6 12 (8.70%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.97%) Data Modeller
7 11 (7.97%) Developer
8 10 (7.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Snowflake Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Lead
10 7 (5.07%) Consultant
11 6 (4.35%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.62%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 4 (2.90%) Data Business Analyst
13 4 (2.90%) Power BI Developer
13 4 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.80%) JSON
2 6 (4.35%) PySpark
2 6 (4.35%) XML
3 4 (2.90%) Kafka
4 3 (2.17%) Middleware
4 3 (2.17%) Pandas
4 3 (2.17%) RESTful
5 2 (1.45%) .NET
5 2 (1.45%) GeoJSON
5 2 (1.45%) Great Expectations
5 2 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.45%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.45%) Node.js
5 2 (1.45%) OAuth
5 2 (1.45%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.45%) pytest
5 2 (1.45%) React
5 2 (1.45%) REST
5 2 (1.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.62%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.90%) Clustering
5 4 (2.90%) Equities
5 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.45%) CMDB
7 2 (1.45%) IoT
7 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.45%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.72%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.58%) Analytics
2 44 (31.88%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (28.26%) ETL
4 37 (26.81%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (23.19%) Data Governance
6 29 (21.01%) AI
7 28 (20.29%) Data Engineering
8 25 (18.12%) Agile
9 24 (17.39%) CI/CD
10 23 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 23 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (14.49%) Validation
12 19 (13.77%) Data Transformation
13 18 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (13.04%) Visualisation
14 17 (12.32%) Integration Patterns
14 17 (12.32%) Logical Data Model
14 17 (12.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (11.59%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.83%) SQL
2 50 (36.23%) Python
3 9 (6.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (6.52%) Java
4 5 (3.62%) R
5 3 (2.17%) C#
5 3 (2.17%) Ruby
5 3 (2.17%) Scala
6 2 (1.45%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.72%) ABAP
7 1 (0.72%) C++
7 1 (0.72%) Korn
7 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.72%) SOQL
7 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.42%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.52%) Degree
4 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.45%) CFA
6 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) IIBA
6 2 (1.45%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.72%) ACCA
7 1 (0.72%) CBAP
7 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.72%) ISEB
7 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (35.51%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.42%) GDPR
3 7 (5.07%) QA
4 5 (3.62%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.45%) Basel III
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.72%) GxP
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.17%) Terraform
2 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.12%) Databricks
3 11 (7.97%) Oracle
4 10 (7.25%) SAP
5 7 (5.07%) Informatica
5 7 (5.07%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.35%) Google
6 6 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.35%) Sparx
6 6 (4.35%) Workday
7 3 (2.17%) Amplitude
7 3 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.45%) IBM
8 2 (1.45%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.45%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.72%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.72%) Pega
9 1 (0.72%) Planview
9 1 (0.72%) Sage
9 1 (0.72%) Talend