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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 55 32
Rank change year-on-year +23 -23 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 111 68 124
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.90% 3.63% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 3.95% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 39 88
10th Percentile £322 £462 £413
25th Percentile £413 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £738 £755 £762
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £35.50 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - £48.50

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 1,674 1,722 2,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.04% 91.89% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,039 1,569
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -4.37%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £781 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 15
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £19.42
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 31 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 10 (9.01%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.21%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.50%) Apache
4 4 (3.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.50%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.90%) Endur
3 1 (0.90%) HFM
3 1 (0.90%) Maximo
3 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.90%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.90%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.03%) Azure
1 30 (27.03%) Power Platform
2 29 (26.13%) AWS
3 17 (15.32%) Snowflake
4 13 (11.71%) dbt
5 11 (9.91%) GCP
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (7.21%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (5.41%) Serverless
9 4 (3.60%) GitHub
9 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (3.60%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.70%) Matillion
10 3 (2.70%) SaaS
11 2 (1.80%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.90%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.13%) Power BI
2 23 (20.72%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (18.92%) Metadata
4 10 (9.01%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (7.21%) Data Lake
6 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (6.31%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.31%) Star Schema
6 7 (6.31%) Tableau
7 6 (5.41%) Data Vault
8 4 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.60%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.60%) Metadata Repository
8 4 (3.60%) Power Query
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.80%) Big Data
9 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.80%) Looker
9 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) ERwin
3 6 (5.41%) JIRA
4 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.80%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
General
1 50 (45.05%) Finance
2 28 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 25 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.61%) Banking
5 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.60%) Back Office
8 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.60%) Front Office
8 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Aviation
9 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.70%) Law
9 3 (2.70%) Retail
10 2 (1.80%) Marketing
11 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Data Engineer
2 22 (19.82%) Analyst
3 15 (13.51%) Architect
4 14 (12.61%) Business Analyst
4 14 (12.61%) Senior
5 12 (10.81%) Data Modeller
6 11 (9.91%) Developer
7 9 (8.11%) Data Architect
8 8 (7.21%) Consultant
8 8 (7.21%) Data Analyst
8 8 (7.21%) Lead
9 6 (5.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 3 (2.70%) Functional Consultant
12 3 (2.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.50%) JSON
1 5 (4.50%) Kafka
1 5 (4.50%) XML
2 4 (3.60%) PySpark
3 3 (2.70%) .NET
3 3 (2.70%) REST
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.80%) Node.js
4 2 (1.80%) Web Services
5 1 (0.90%) ADO
5 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.90%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.90%) boto
5 1 (0.90%) HTML
5 1 (0.90%) IDoc
5 1 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.90%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.90%) Pandas
5 1 (0.90%) SOAP
5 1 (0.90%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.60%) Equities
5 4 (3.60%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.70%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.80%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.90%) Clustering
8 1 (0.90%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.14%) Analytics
2 33 (29.73%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (28.83%) ETL
4 29 (26.13%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (25.23%) Data Governance
6 24 (21.62%) Agile
6 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (17.12%) AI
7 19 (17.12%) CI/CD
7 19 (17.12%) Data Engineering
8 18 (16.22%) Data Integration
8 18 (16.22%) Decision-Making
8 18 (16.22%) Visualisation
9 15 (13.51%) Data Analysis
9 15 (13.51%) Data Transformation
10 14 (12.61%) Data Architecture
10 14 (12.61%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (10.81%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 56 (50.45%) SQL
2 35 (31.53%) Python
3 8 (7.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.31%) Java
5 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.70%) Scala
6 2 (1.80%) R
6 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.90%) ABAP
7 1 (0.90%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.90%) C#
7 1 (0.90%) C++
7 1 (0.90%) Go
7 1 (0.90%) Korn
7 1 (0.90%) LookML
7 1 (0.90%) Ruby
7 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.01%) Degree
1 10 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.80%) CFA
4 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) IIBA
4 2 (1.80%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.90%) ACCA
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.90%) CBAP
5 1 (0.90%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.90%) ISEB
5 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.90%) PMP
5 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.31%) GDPR
3 5 (4.50%) QA
4 3 (2.70%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.80%) Basel III
6 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.90%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Terraform
2 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.12%) Databricks
3 8 (7.21%) Oracle
4 5 (4.50%) Sparx
5 3 (2.70%) Informatica
5 3 (2.70%) SAP
5 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.80%) Google
6 2 (1.80%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.80%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.80%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.90%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.90%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.90%) Palantir
7 1 (0.90%) Planview
7 1 (0.90%) Sage
7 1 (0.90%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.90%) Talend
7 1 (0.90%) Workday