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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 35 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 171 109 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.35% 6.03% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.37% 6.40% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 70 59
10th Percentile £425 £362 £428
25th Percentile £463 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +0.43% -10.00%
75th Percentile £724 £697 £675
90th Percentile £775 £739 £740
Central London median daily rate £552 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.09% -4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £42.00 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £35.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.53% - -

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 2,044 1,703 1,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.80% 94.24% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,120 1,252
10th Percentile £383 £325 £375
25th Percentile £463 £422 £475
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 £775 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -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 28 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 14 (8.19%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.68%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.09%) Apache
4 6 (3.51%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.58%) Appian
6 1 (0.58%) CMS
6 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.92%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.17%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.17%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.58%) Actimize
4 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.58%) Maximo
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (35.67%) Azure
2 48 (28.07%) Power Platform
3 39 (22.81%) AWS
4 26 (15.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (14.04%) Snowflake
6 23 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (9.94%) GitHub
8 16 (9.36%) dbt
9 15 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (8.19%) Serverless
11 12 (7.02%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (5.26%) GCP
12 9 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.09%) Prefect
14 6 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (3.51%) PaaS
14 6 (3.51%) Power Automate
14 6 (3.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) SSL
2 1 (0.58%) FTP
2 1 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.90%) Power BI
2 37 (21.64%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (12.28%) Metadata
4 14 (8.19%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.43%) Tableau
6 10 (5.85%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.85%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.26%) Looker
7 9 (5.26%) Semantic Layer
8 8 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.68%) Star Schema
9 7 (4.09%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (4.09%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (3.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.92%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.92%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (7.02%) Git
2 7 (4.09%) GitLab
3 6 (3.51%) JIRA
4 5 (2.92%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.17%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.17%) ERwin
5 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.58%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) MLflow
6 1 (0.58%) Mockito
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 75 (43.86%) Finance
2 46 (26.90%) Social Skills
3 40 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (19.88%) Banking
5 14 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.68%) Retail
7 7 (4.09%) Legal
8 5 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.34%) Back Office
9 4 (2.34%) Front Office
9 4 (2.34%) Marketing
10 3 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.75%) Law
10 3 (1.75%) Military
10 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.17%) Billing
11 2 (1.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 44 (25.73%) Architect
2 36 (21.05%) Analyst
3 35 (20.47%) Data Engineer
4 25 (14.62%) Data Analyst
5 24 (14.04%) Data Architect
6 23 (13.45%) Senior
7 20 (11.70%) Developer
8 11 (6.43%) Business Analyst
9 9 (5.26%) Lead
10 7 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.09%) Snowflake Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.51%) Data Business Analyst
11 6 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Consultant
12 5 (2.92%) Data Modeller
12 5 (2.92%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (2.92%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.45%) PySpark
2 8 (4.68%) Kafka
2 8 (4.68%) REST
3 7 (4.09%) Terraform
4 6 (3.51%) Middleware
4 6 (3.51%) React
5 5 (2.92%) JSON
5 5 (2.92%) RESTful
5 5 (2.92%) SOAP
6 4 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.34%) XML
7 3 (1.75%) .NET
7 3 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.75%) Node.js
8 2 (1.17%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.17%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.17%) PCRE
8 2 (1.17%) pytest
8 2 (1.17%) Redux
8 2 (1.17%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.85%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.92%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.34%) CMDB
7 4 (2.34%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.75%) Derivative
8 3 (1.75%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.75%) Replication
9 2 (1.17%) Clustering
9 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) IoT
9 2 (1.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.75%) Linux
1 3 (1.75%) Unix
2 2 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (47.95%) Analytics
2 58 (33.92%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (28.65%) Data Pipeline
4 45 (26.32%) Data Governance
5 44 (25.73%) CI/CD
5 44 (25.73%) Data Engineering
6 43 (25.15%) Data Architecture
7 42 (24.56%) ETL
8 39 (22.81%) DevOps
9 38 (22.22%) Agile
10 33 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (18.71%) Migration
12 30 (17.54%) Decision-Making
12 30 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 27 (15.79%) AI
13 27 (15.79%) Validation
14 24 (14.04%) Event-Driven
14 24 (14.04%) Integration Patterns
15 21 (12.28%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (12.28%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.71%) SQL
2 63 (36.84%) Python
3 16 (9.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.26%) Java
5 7 (4.09%) C#
6 5 (2.92%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.92%) Ruby
7 4 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.75%) LookML
8 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.17%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.17%) CQL
9 2 (1.17%) Perl
9 2 (1.17%) SOQL
10 1 (0.58%) Korn
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) R
10 1 (0.58%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.51%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.34%) Degree
5 3 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.17%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CBAP
7 1 (0.58%) CSPO
7 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.02%) GDPR
3 11 (6.43%) QA
4 9 (5.26%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.17%) GRC
5 2 (1.17%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.58%) Basel III
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) GxP
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.17%) Grafana
1 2 (1.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 36 (21.05%) Databricks
3 18 (10.53%) Oracle
4 14 (8.19%) SAP
5 10 (5.85%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.85%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.51%) Informatica
7 5 (2.92%) Workday
8 4 (2.34%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.75%) Google
10 2 (1.17%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.17%) eFront
10 2 (1.17%) IBM
10 2 (1.17%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.17%) Splunk
11 1 (0.58%) Aderant
11 1 (0.58%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.58%) Planon
11 1 (0.58%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.58%) Sparx