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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 34
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 120 71 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.93% 3.93% 5.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.69% 4.29% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 41 91
10th Percentile £322 £459 £413
25th Percentile £427 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £666 £638 £694
90th Percentile £759 £725 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £559 £600
% change year-on-year -1.65% -6.79% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year - -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 1,795 1,655 2,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.64% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,039 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
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 9 March 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 11 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.17%) Apache
3 5 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.50%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.67%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.83%) Maximo
4 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.83%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.83%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (32.50%) Power Platform
2 30 (25.00%) Azure
3 29 (24.17%) AWS
4 23 (19.17%) Snowflake
5 14 (11.67%) dbt
6 12 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (10.00%) GCP
7 7 (5.83%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (5.00%) Serverless
9 5 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.33%) Dagster
10 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.33%) Prefect
11 3 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.50%) Matillion
11 3 (2.50%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.83%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.17%) Power BI
2 25 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (18.33%) Metadata
4 11 (9.17%) Tableau
5 9 (7.50%) Data Lake
6 8 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.83%) Looker
8 6 (5.00%) Data Vault
8 6 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 6 (5.00%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.17%) BigQuery
10 4 (3.33%) Delta Lake
10 4 (3.33%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (2.50%) Mixpanel
11 3 (2.50%) Power Query
11 3 (2.50%) Spatial Data
11 3 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) ERwin
2 6 (5.00%) JIRA
3 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.67%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
General
1 59 (49.17%) Finance
2 30 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 27 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.67%) Banking
5 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Law
7 4 (3.33%) Legal
8 3 (2.50%) Aviation
8 3 (2.50%) Front Office
8 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.50%) Retail
8 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.67%) Back Office
9 2 (1.67%) Marketing
9 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 26 (21.67%) Analyst
3 15 (12.50%) Architect
4 14 (11.67%) Senior
5 12 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 12 (10.00%) Data Modeller
6 11 (9.17%) Data Analyst
6 11 (9.17%) Developer
7 10 (8.33%) Lead
8 8 (6.67%) Data Architect
9 7 (5.83%) Consultant
9 7 (5.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (2.50%) Data Business Analyst
12 3 (2.50%) Financial Analyst
12 3 (2.50%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) Kafka
2 5 (4.17%) JSON
2 5 (4.17%) XML
3 4 (3.33%) PySpark
4 3 (2.50%) Pandas
5 2 (1.67%) .NET
5 2 (1.67%) GeoJSON
5 2 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.67%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.67%) Middleware
5 2 (1.67%) Polars
5 2 (1.67%) REST
5 2 (1.67%) RESTful
5 2 (1.67%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.83%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.83%) HTML
6 1 (0.83%) SOAP
6 1 (0.83%) XSD
6 1 (0.83%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.83%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.17%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.33%) Equities
4 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.67%) Clustering
6 2 (1.67%) CMDB
6 2 (1.67%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.83%) Analytics
2 42 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
3 33 (27.50%) ETL
4 31 (25.83%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (20.83%) AI
5 25 (20.83%) Data Engineering
5 25 (20.83%) Data Governance
6 24 (20.00%) Agile
7 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (17.50%) Visualisation
9 20 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 19 (15.83%) Decision-Making
11 17 (14.17%) Data Transformation
12 16 (13.33%) Migration
12 16 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (12.50%) Data Integration
13 15 (12.50%) Machine Learning
13 15 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (11.67%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (52.50%) SQL
2 44 (36.67%) Python
3 7 (5.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.00%) Java
5 5 (4.17%) R
6 3 (2.50%) Scala
7 2 (1.67%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.83%) ABAP
8 1 (0.83%) C#
8 1 (0.83%) C++
8 1 (0.83%) Korn
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.83%) Ruby
8 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.83%) SOQL
8 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.67%) CFA
5 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.67%) IIBA
5 2 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.83%) ACCA
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CBAP
6 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.83%) ISEB
6 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (35.83%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.33%) GDPR
3 5 (4.17%) QA
4 3 (2.50%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.67%) Basel III
6 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.83%) GxP
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.33%) Databricks
3 5 (4.17%) Oracle
3 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.17%) SAP
3 5 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.17%) Sparx
4 4 (3.33%) Google
4 4 (3.33%) Informatica
4 4 (3.33%) Workday
5 3 (2.50%) Amplitude
6 2 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.67%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.67%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.83%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.83%) Palantir
7 1 (0.83%) Planview
7 1 (0.83%) Sage