Data Modelling Contracts in the City of London

Data Modelling
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 94 92 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.33% 4.35% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 4.77% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 73 82
10th Percentile £420 £413 £463
25th Percentile £480 £475 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £689 £680 £784
90th Percentile £725 £775 £834
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +13.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% -7.89%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -7.62% -7.89%

All Process and 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 1,653 1,927 3,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.76% 91.07% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,337 2,114
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in the City of London

Data Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Modelling in the City of London

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in the City of London

Data Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Modelling in the City of London

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (9.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.19%) Apache
2 3 (3.19%) Luigi
3 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) JBoss
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (1.06%) HFM
1 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.06%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.06%) Temenos T24
1 1 (1.06%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (38.30%) Azure
2 24 (25.53%) Power Platform
3 18 (19.15%) AWS
4 14 (14.89%) GCP
5 9 (9.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (9.57%) Collibra
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (6.38%) GitHub
7 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (5.32%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.19%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (3.19%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.19%) SaaS
10 2 (2.13%) Alation
10 2 (2.13%) Boomi
10 2 (2.13%) dbt
10 2 (2.13%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.47%) Power BI
2 21 (22.34%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (20.21%) Data Lake
4 16 (17.02%) Metadata
5 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
6 9 (9.57%) Big Data
6 9 (9.57%) BigQuery
7 8 (8.51%) NoSQL
8 7 (7.45%) Hadoop
8 7 (7.45%) Relational Database
8 7 (7.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (7.45%) Star Schema
8 7 (7.45%) Tableau
9 6 (6.38%) Delta Lake
9 6 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (5.32%) Apache Hive
11 4 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (4.26%) Data Mining
12 3 (3.19%) Parquet
13 2 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.06%) ERwin
2 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Postman
2 1 (1.06%) Selenium
2 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.06%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (34.04%) Finance
2 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 25 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (21.28%) Banking
5 6 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Retail
7 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.26%) Police
8 3 (3.19%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Legal
10 1 (1.06%) Advertising
10 1 (1.06%) Billing
10 1 (1.06%) Electronics
10 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.06%) Front Office
10 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (29.79%) Analyst
1 28 (29.79%) Data Engineer
2 17 (18.09%) Senior
3 13 (13.83%) Data Analyst
3 13 (13.83%) Developer
4 12 (12.77%) Architect
5 10 (10.64%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Senior Data Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.19%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) Kafka
1 8 (8.51%) PySpark
2 7 (7.45%) HTML
3 6 (6.38%) REST
4 5 (5.32%) React
5 4 (4.26%) CSS
5 4 (4.26%) Flask
6 3 (3.19%) .NET
6 3 (3.19%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.19%) JSON
6 3 (3.19%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (3.19%) Web Services
7 2 (2.13%) Apache Avro
7 2 (2.13%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.13%) Pandas
7 2 (2.13%) pytest
7 2 (2.13%) Spring
7 2 (2.13%) ZK
8 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.13%) CMDB
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.13%) Pricing Data
4 2 (2.13%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Clustering
5 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.98%) Agile
2 29 (30.85%) Analytics
2 29 (30.85%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (25.53%) Data Engineering
4 23 (24.47%) Data Governance
5 22 (23.40%) Data Analysis
6 19 (20.21%) Data Integration
7 18 (19.15%) ETL
8 17 (18.09%) Data Management
9 16 (17.02%) Visualisation
10 15 (15.96%) Data Architecture
10 15 (15.96%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (15.96%) Decision-Making
10 15 (15.96%) Migration
11 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.83%) DevOps
13 12 (12.77%) CI/CD
14 11 (11.70%) Artificial Intelligence
14 11 (11.70%) Data Lineage
14 11 (11.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 62 (65.96%) SQL
2 39 (41.49%) Python
3 10 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (9.57%) Scala
5 7 (7.45%) Java
6 6 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (4.26%) R
8 3 (3.19%) VBA
9 2 (2.13%) C#
9 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.06%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Degree
2 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) CBAP
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.06%) CFA
5 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.72%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.26%) GDPR
2 4 (4.26%) QA
3 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.06%) GRC
4 1 (1.06%) MiFID
4 1 (1.06%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.32%) Terraform
3 2 (2.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (18.09%) Databricks
2 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.89%) Oracle
3 10 (10.64%) Google
4 7 (7.45%) Informatica
5 6 (6.38%) SAP
6 3 (3.19%) Dataiku
7 2 (2.13%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.13%) Foundry
7 2 (2.13%) Palantir
7 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.13%) Sparx
8 1 (1.06%) Advent
8 1 (1.06%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.06%) GoldenSource
8 1 (1.06%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.06%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.06%) Temenos