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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 42 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 81 99 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.79% 4.59% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 5.06% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 78 90
10th Percentile £443 £414 £448
25th Percentile £479 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £560 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -13.85% +15.56%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £729
90th Percentile £725 £766 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +18.07%
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 1,584 1,957 3,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.62% 90.77% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,368 2,127
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £454 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £53.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -13.58%

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 30 May 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 8 (9.88%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.47%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Luigi
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.23%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.57%) Azure
2 22 (27.16%) Power Platform
3 12 (14.81%) AWS
3 12 (14.81%) GCP
4 8 (9.88%) Collibra
5 6 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.17%) GitHub
6 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (3.70%) SaaS
8 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.47%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (2.47%) dbt
9 2 (2.47%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.93%) Power BI
2 19 (23.46%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (18.52%) Metadata
4 14 (17.28%) Data Lake
5 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
6 8 (9.88%) BigQuery
7 7 (8.64%) Big Data
7 7 (8.64%) NoSQL
7 7 (8.64%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (8.64%) Tableau
8 6 (7.41%) Delta Lake
8 6 (7.41%) Relational Database
9 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (6.17%) Star Schema
10 4 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (4.94%) Data Mining
11 3 (3.70%) Apache Hive
11 3 (3.70%) Hadoop
11 3 (3.70%) Parquet
11 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.23%) ERwin
2 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Postman
2 1 (1.23%) Selenium
2 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (27.16%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (25.93%) Finance
2 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 18 (22.22%) Banking
4 5 (6.17%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (6.17%) Retail
5 4 (4.94%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.94%) Police
6 3 (3.70%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.23%) Advertising
8 1 (1.23%) Billing
8 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Marketing
8 1 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Data Engineer
2 22 (27.16%) Analyst
3 13 (16.05%) Developer
3 13 (16.05%) Senior
4 12 (14.81%) Data Analyst
5 9 (11.11%) Architect
5 9 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 7 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (7.41%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Senior Data Analyst
8 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Consultant
9 4 (4.94%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.94%) Lead
9 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.70%) DBA
10 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 3 (3.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) Kafka
1 7 (8.64%) PySpark
2 5 (6.17%) React
2 5 (6.17%) REST
3 3 (3.70%) .NET
3 3 (3.70%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.70%) Flask
3 3 (3.70%) HTML
3 3 (3.70%) JSON
3 3 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (3.70%) Web Services
4 2 (2.47%) Apache Avro
4 2 (2.47%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.47%) pytest
4 2 (2.47%) Spring
4 2 (2.47%) ZK
5 1 (1.23%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.23%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.23%) Pandas
5 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.47%) Pricing Data
3 2 (2.47%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.23%) Clustering
4 1 (1.23%) CMDB
4 1 (1.23%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.23%) Replication
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.10%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (29.63%) Agile
3 23 (28.40%) Analytics
4 22 (27.16%) Data Engineering
5 21 (25.93%) Data Governance
6 18 (22.22%) Data Integration
7 17 (20.99%) Data Analysis
7 17 (20.99%) ETL
8 15 (18.52%) Data Architecture
8 15 (18.52%) Data Management
8 15 (18.52%) Decision-Making
8 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (16.05%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (16.05%) Migration
9 13 (16.05%) Visualisation
10 11 (13.58%) CI/CD
10 11 (13.58%) DevOps
11 10 (12.35%) Translating Business Requirements
12 9 (11.11%) Data Science
12 9 (11.11%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 59 (72.84%) SQL
2 34 (41.98%) Python
3 7 (8.64%) Scala
4 5 (6.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (6.17%) Java
4 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.94%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.70%) R
6 3 (3.70%) VBA
7 1 (1.23%) C#
7 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (14.81%) Degree
2 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.23%) CFA
5 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.23%) MiFID
5 1 (1.23%) PMO
5 1 (1.23%) UCITS
Systems Management
1 6 (7.41%) Terraform
2 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Databricks
1 14 (17.28%) Oracle
2 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.88%) Google
4 7 (8.64%) Informatica
5 6 (7.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.47%) Sparx
7 1 (1.23%) Advent
7 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.23%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.23%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.23%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.23%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.23%) Teradata
7 1 (1.23%) Workday