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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 40 47
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 151 97 93
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.19% 5.34% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% 5.69% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 61 74
10th Percentile £399 £425 £413
25th Percentile £453 £480 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £691 £690 £686
90th Percentile £795 £725 £775
Central London median daily rate £568 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £43.00 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +44.48% -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 2,093 1,705 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.78% 93.84% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,093 1,349
10th Percentile £366 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £552 £560
% change year-on-year -0.36% -1.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% +20.37% -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 5 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 14 (9.27%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.31%) Confluence
3 4 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.99%) Apache
5 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.66%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.66%) Appian
6 1 (0.66%) CMS
6 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) BambooHR
2 4 (2.65%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.99%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.66%) Actimize
4 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.66%) Maximo
4 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.11%) Azure
2 49 (32.45%) Power Platform
3 35 (23.18%) AWS
4 26 (17.22%) Snowflake
5 18 (11.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (8.61%) dbt
6 13 (8.61%) GCP
7 10 (6.62%) GitHub
8 9 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (5.30%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.30%) Serverless
10 7 (4.64%) Prefect
11 6 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.97%) PaaS
12 5 (3.31%) Dagster
12 5 (3.31%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.65%) Matillion
13 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) FTP
1 1 (0.66%) RTP
1 1 (0.66%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (29.14%) Power BI
2 28 (18.54%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (12.58%) Metadata
4 14 (9.27%) Tableau
5 11 (7.28%) Looker
6 10 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.62%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.96%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (5.96%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.30%) Data Lake
8 8 (5.30%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.65%) Data Mart
10 4 (2.65%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.65%) Mixpanel
10 4 (2.65%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Git
2 8 (5.30%) JIRA
3 5 (3.31%) GitLab
4 4 (2.65%) ERwin
5 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.32%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Mockito
6 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (47.02%) Finance
2 34 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 33 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (15.89%) Banking
5 11 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.64%) Legal
8 4 (2.65%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.65%) Marketing
8 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.99%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Back Office
10 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Front Office
10 2 (1.32%) Law
10 2 (1.32%) Military
10 2 (1.32%) Publishing
11 1 (0.66%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (24.50%) Data Engineer
2 34 (22.52%) Architect
3 31 (20.53%) Analyst
4 18 (11.92%) Data Architect
5 17 (11.26%) Data Analyst
6 16 (10.60%) Developer
7 12 (7.95%) Senior
8 11 (7.28%) Lead
9 10 (6.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 10 (6.62%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.97%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.31%) Consultant
12 5 (3.31%) Data Modeller
12 5 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Systems Analyst
13 4 (2.65%) Data Business Analyst
13 4 (2.65%) Financial Analyst
13 4 (2.65%) Senior Developer
14 3 (1.99%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.95%) PySpark
2 10 (6.62%) Kafka
3 6 (3.97%) JSON
3 6 (3.97%) REST
3 6 (3.97%) RESTful
4 5 (3.31%) React
5 4 (2.65%) Middleware
5 4 (2.65%) XML
6 3 (1.99%) .NET
6 3 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.99%) SOAP
7 2 (1.32%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.32%) GeoJSON
7 2 (1.32%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.32%) Node.js
7 2 (1.32%) OAuth
7 2 (1.32%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.32%) Pandas
7 2 (1.32%) pytest
7 2 (1.32%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.28%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.62%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.65%) Clustering
4 4 (2.65%) CMDB
4 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.99%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.32%) Derivative
6 2 (1.32%) Equities
6 2 (1.32%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.32%) IoT
6 2 (1.32%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Linux
1 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (48.34%) Analytics
2 52 (34.44%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (29.80%) Data Pipeline
4 41 (27.15%) Data Engineering
5 36 (23.84%) ETL
6 35 (23.18%) Data Governance
7 34 (22.52%) CI/CD
8 33 (21.85%) AI
9 31 (20.53%) Data Architecture
10 27 (17.88%) Agile
11 25 (16.56%) Decision-Making
11 25 (16.56%) Migration
12 24 (15.89%) Validation
13 22 (14.57%) DevOps
14 19 (12.58%) Integration Patterns
14 19 (12.58%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (12.58%) Use Case
15 18 (11.92%) Performance Tuning
16 17 (11.26%) Event-Driven
17 16 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 69 (45.70%) SQL
2 57 (37.75%) Python
3 12 (7.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (6.62%) Java
5 8 (5.30%) C#
6 5 (3.31%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.65%) R
7 4 (2.65%) Ruby
8 3 (1.99%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.99%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.32%) Korn
9 2 (1.32%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.66%) LookML
10 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.66%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 24 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.30%) Degree
4 6 (3.97%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.32%) CBAP
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) IIBA
7 1 (0.66%) ISEB
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (30.46%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.93%) GDPR
3 9 (5.96%) QA
4 6 (3.97%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.32%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.66%) GxP
6 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.31%) Terraform
2 1 (0.66%) Grafana
2 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.53%) Databricks
3 18 (11.92%) Oracle
4 9 (5.96%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.30%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.30%) SAP
6 7 (4.64%) Informatica
7 6 (3.97%) Google
7 6 (3.97%) Workday
8 4 (2.65%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.99%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.32%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.32%) IBM
10 2 (1.32%) SimCorp
10 2 (1.32%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.66%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.66%) Murex
11 1 (0.66%) Pega
11 1 (0.66%) Planview
11 1 (0.66%) Sage