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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 41 47
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 167 100 91
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.00% 5.33% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 5.67% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 63 70
10th Percentile £425 £370 £415
25th Percentile £466 £475 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -0.86% -10.77%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £675
90th Percentile £775 £735 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £593
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.95% -8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.00 - -
75th Percentile £43.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year +44.48% - -

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 2,076 1,763 1,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.01% 93.98% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,402 1,149 1,284
10th Percentile £368 £331 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
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 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.53
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

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 29 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 13 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.19%) Apache
2 7 (4.19%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.59%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.60%) Appian
5 1 (0.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.99%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.80%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.20%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.60%) Actimize
5 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.60%) Maximo
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 61 (36.53%) Azure
2 52 (31.14%) Power Platform
3 35 (20.96%) AWS
4 26 (15.57%) Snowflake
5 25 (14.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.38%) dbt
7 14 (8.38%) GitHub
8 13 (7.78%) GCP
9 12 (7.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (5.39%) Serverless
11 8 (4.79%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.19%) Power Automate
12 7 (4.19%) Prefect
13 6 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.59%) PaaS
13 6 (3.59%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (2.99%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) FTP
1 1 (0.60%) SNMP
1 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (28.14%) Power BI
2 34 (20.36%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (11.98%) Metadata
4 13 (7.78%) Tableau
5 12 (7.19%) Data Lake
6 11 (6.59%) BigQuery
7 10 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (5.99%) Looker
8 9 (5.39%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.79%) Semantic Layer
9 8 (4.79%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (3.59%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.99%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.40%) Mixpanel
12 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) Git
2 6 (3.59%) GitLab
2 6 (3.59%) JIRA
3 3 (1.80%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.20%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.20%) ERwin
4 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.60%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.60%) JUnit
5 1 (0.60%) Mockito
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 77 (46.11%) Finance
2 46 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 42 (25.15%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (16.77%) Banking
5 13 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.19%) Legal
7 6 (3.59%) Retail
8 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.40%) Marketing
10 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Law
10 3 (1.80%) Military
10 3 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.20%) Back Office
11 2 (1.20%) Front Office
11 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.20%) Publishing
12 1 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (24.55%) Architect
2 38 (22.75%) Analyst
3 36 (21.56%) Data Engineer
4 23 (13.77%) Data Analyst
5 22 (13.17%) Data Architect
6 20 (11.98%) Developer
7 17 (10.18%) Senior
8 12 (7.19%) Business Analyst
9 10 (5.99%) Lead
10 8 (4.79%) Technical Architect
11 7 (4.19%) Data Business Analyst
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.59%) Data Modeller
12 6 (3.59%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Snowflake Engineer
13 5 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 5 (2.99%) Consultant
13 5 (2.99%) Financial Analyst
13 5 (2.99%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.18%) PySpark
2 9 (5.39%) Kafka
3 8 (4.79%) REST
4 6 (3.59%) JSON
4 6 (3.59%) Middleware
4 6 (3.59%) RESTful
5 5 (2.99%) React
5 5 (2.99%) SOAP
5 5 (2.99%) XML
6 4 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.80%) .NET
8 2 (1.20%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.20%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.20%) Node.js
8 2 (1.20%) OAuth
8 2 (1.20%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.20%) Pandas
8 2 (1.20%) pytest
8 2 (1.20%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.18%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.99%) CMDB
7 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.40%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.80%) Clustering
8 3 (1.80%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.20%) Derivative
9 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.20%) FMCG
9 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.20%) IoT
9 2 (1.20%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Unix
2 1 (0.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (49.10%) Analytics
2 62 (37.13%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (26.35%) Data Pipeline
4 43 (25.75%) ETL
5 41 (24.55%) Data Governance
6 40 (23.95%) Data Engineering
7 38 (22.75%) CI/CD
7 38 (22.75%) Data Architecture
8 32 (19.16%) DevOps
9 31 (18.56%) Agile
10 30 (17.96%) AI
11 29 (17.37%) Decision-Making
12 28 (16.77%) Migration
12 28 (16.77%) Validation
13 25 (14.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (14.37%) Integration Patterns
15 22 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (12.57%) Event-Driven
17 19 (11.38%) Logical Data Model
18 18 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 84 (50.30%) SQL
2 60 (35.93%) Python
3 13 (7.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.99%) Java
5 8 (4.79%) C#
6 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.99%) Ruby
7 4 (2.40%) R
8 3 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.80%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.20%) SOQL
10 1 (0.60%) Korn
10 1 (0.60%) LookML
10 1 (0.60%) Perl
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.60%) Scala
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.60%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.59%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.99%) Degree
5 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CBAP
7 1 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (34.13%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.38%) GDPR
3 10 (5.99%) QA
4 9 (5.39%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.20%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) GRC
6 1 (0.60%) GxP
6 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
2 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.96%) Databricks
3 18 (10.78%) Oracle
4 11 (6.59%) SAP
4 11 (6.59%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.99%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.79%) Informatica
7 6 (3.59%) Google
7 6 (3.59%) Workday
8 5 (2.99%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.40%) Amplitude
10 2 (1.20%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.20%) IBM
10 2 (1.20%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.60%) Murex
11 1 (0.60%) Pega
11 1 (0.60%) Planview
11 1 (0.60%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds