Physical Data Model Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Physical Data Model
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Physical Data Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 130
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 +55
Contract jobs citing Physical Data Model 7 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.42% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £500 £478 £469
25th Percentile £503 £506 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £673
Median % change year-on-year - -7.06% +3.46%
75th Percentile £738 £641 £708
90th Percentile £756 £706 £715
Central London median daily rate £625 £625 £673
% change year-on-year - -7.06% +28.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Physical Data Model 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 1,639 1,916 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.90% 91.98% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,167 1,626
10th Percentile £339 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £762 £788 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -37.04%

Physical Data Model
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Physical Data Model relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Physical Data Model job vacancy trend in the City of London

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Physical Data Model.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Physical Data Model

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physical Data Model in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Physical Data Model in the City of London

Physical Data Model
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Metadata
2 4 (57.14%) Data Vault
3 3 (42.86%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
4 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) ERwin
2 2 (28.57%) ER Studio
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Aviation
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modeller
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Reference Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (85.71%) Logical Data Model
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Model Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Conceptual Models
4 3 (42.86%) Data Design
4 3 (42.86%) Data Transformation
4 3 (42.86%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) ERD
5 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
5 2 (28.57%) UML
6 1 (14.29%) AI
6 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Sparx
2 1 (14.29%) MicroStrategy