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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 38 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 163 99 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.78% 5.29% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.82% 5.62% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 61 69
10th Percentile £425 £400 £415
25th Percentile £466 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £719 £700 £675
90th Percentile £790 £738 £765
Central London median daily rate £557 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.22% -4.17% -7.69%
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 2,085 1,761 1,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.77% 94.07% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,135 1,301
10th Percentile £368 £335 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.71
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -7.46% -4.29%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.74% -1.52% -5.71%

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 24 July 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 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.29%) Apache
2 7 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.45%) Confluence
4 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.61%) Appian
5 1 (0.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.07%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.84%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.23%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.61%) Actimize
5 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.61%) Maximo
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (34.97%) Azure
2 49 (30.06%) Power Platform
3 34 (20.86%) AWS
4 25 (15.34%) Snowflake
5 23 (14.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (7.98%) dbt
7 13 (7.98%) GCP
8 12 (7.36%) GitHub
9 10 (6.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (4.91%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.91%) Serverless
11 7 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (4.29%) PaaS
11 7 (4.29%) Prefect
12 6 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (3.07%) Dagster
14 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (2.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) FTP
1 1 (0.61%) RTP
1 1 (0.61%) SNMP
1 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (26.99%) Power BI
2 31 (19.02%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (13.50%) Metadata
4 12 (7.36%) Data Lake
4 12 (7.36%) Tableau
5 11 (6.75%) BigQuery
6 10 (6.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.13%) Looker
7 8 (4.91%) Semantic Layer
7 8 (4.91%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (4.91%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.07%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.45%) Mixpanel
9 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (7.98%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) GitLab
2 6 (3.68%) JIRA
3 3 (1.84%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.84%) ERwin
4 2 (1.23%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.61%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.61%) JUnit
5 1 (0.61%) Mockito
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (45.40%) Finance
2 43 (26.38%) Social Skills
3 42 (25.77%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (16.56%) Banking
5 13 (7.98%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.29%) Legal
7 5 (3.07%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.45%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.45%) Marketing
8 4 (2.45%) Retail
9 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.84%) Law
9 3 (1.84%) Military
9 3 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.23%) Back Office
10 2 (1.23%) Front Office
10 2 (1.23%) Publishing
11 1 (0.61%) Billing
11 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (25.77%) Architect
2 37 (22.70%) Data Engineer
3 35 (21.47%) Analyst
4 23 (14.11%) Data Architect
5 22 (13.50%) Data Analyst
6 18 (11.04%) Developer
7 15 (9.20%) Senior
8 11 (6.75%) Business Analyst
9 10 (6.13%) Lead
10 8 (4.91%) Technical Architect
11 7 (4.29%) Data Business Analyst
11 7 (4.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Snowflake Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) Data Modeller
12 6 (3.68%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Financial Analyst
13 5 (3.07%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.07%) Systems Analyst
14 4 (2.45%) Consultant
14 4 (2.45%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.43%) PySpark
2 9 (5.52%) Kafka
3 8 (4.91%) REST
4 6 (3.68%) JSON
4 6 (3.68%) Middleware
4 6 (3.68%) RESTful
5 5 (3.07%) React
5 5 (3.07%) SOAP
5 5 (3.07%) XML
6 4 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.84%) .NET
8 2 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.23%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.23%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.23%) Node.js
8 2 (1.23%) OAuth
8 2 (1.23%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.23%) Pandas
8 2 (1.23%) pytest
8 2 (1.23%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.82%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.36%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.07%) CMDB
7 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.45%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.84%) Clustering
8 3 (1.84%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.23%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.23%) Derivative
9 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.23%) FMCG
9 2 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.23%) IoT
9 2 (1.23%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Unix
2 2 (1.23%) Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (47.85%) Analytics
2 58 (35.58%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (27.61%) Data Pipeline
4 42 (25.77%) Data Engineering
5 41 (25.15%) ETL
6 40 (24.54%) Data Governance
7 38 (23.31%) Data Architecture
8 36 (22.09%) CI/CD
9 29 (17.79%) Agile
9 29 (17.79%) AI
9 29 (17.79%) DevOps
10 27 (16.56%) Migration
10 27 (16.56%) Validation
11 26 (15.95%) Decision-Making
12 23 (14.11%) Integration Patterns
13 22 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (12.88%) Event-Driven
14 21 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (11.66%) Logical Data Model
16 18 (11.04%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 81 (49.69%) SQL
2 61 (37.42%) Python
3 11 (6.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (6.13%) Java
5 8 (4.91%) C#
6 5 (3.07%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.07%) Ruby
7 4 (2.45%) R
8 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.84%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.23%) Korn
9 2 (1.23%) SOQL
10 1 (0.61%) LookML
10 1 (0.61%) Perl
10 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.61%) Scala
10 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.61%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.18%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.68%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.68%) Degree
4 3 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.23%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) CBAP
6 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (33.13%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.59%) GDPR
3 9 (5.52%) QA
4 7 (4.29%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.23%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) GRC
6 1 (0.61%) GxP
6 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.45%) Terraform
2 1 (0.61%) Grafana
2 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 34 (20.86%) Databricks
3 18 (11.04%) Oracle
4 10 (6.13%) Salesforce
4 10 (6.13%) SAP
4 10 (6.13%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.91%) Informatica
6 6 (3.68%) Google
6 6 (3.68%) Workday
7 5 (3.07%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.45%) Amplitude
9 2 (1.23%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.23%) IBM
9 2 (1.23%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.61%) Murex
10 1 (0.61%) Pega
10 1 (0.61%) Planview
10 1 (0.61%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.61%) SolarWinds