Data Design Contract Job Trends in London

Data Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 354 382
Rank change year-on-year +15 +28 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Design 39 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 18
10th Percentile £428 £501 £499
25th Percentile £540 £541 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £672 £588 £725
Median % change year-on-year +14.30% -18.97% +10.02%
75th Percentile £722 £656 £775
90th Percentile £863 £795 -
England median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Design 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,078 13,523 16,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.37% 90.12% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,615 8,692 12,023
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 165 235
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.04 £18.40
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.91%
75th Percentile £52.19 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.10 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Design job vacancy trend in London

Data Design
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Design

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in London

Data Design
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Design

Data Design
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Design within the London region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +3 8 £725 -
West London - 3 £716 - 1
Data Design
England

Data Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (10.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (7.69%) SAP Travel Management
2 3 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) Power Platform
3 9 (23.08%) AWS
4 7 (17.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.69%) dbt
7 3 (7.69%) SaaS
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.13%) PaaS
9 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.56%) Collibra
9 1 (2.56%) iPaaS
9 1 (2.56%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) Metadata
2 12 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (25.64%) Data Lake
3 10 (25.64%) Power BI
4 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
5 6 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (7.69%) Data Vault
7 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
7 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (7.69%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (5.13%) Apache Hive
8 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (5.13%) Big Data
8 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.13%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (5.13%) Power Query
8 2 (5.13%) Spark SQL
8 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) ERwin
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) ER Studio
3 2 (5.13%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (56.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Architect
2 13 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Data Modeller
4 5 (12.82%) Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Management Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) ETL Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Modeller
7 1 (2.56%) ETRM Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Lead Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Portfolio Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Power BI Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Solutions Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) JSON
1 3 (7.69%) SAP TM
2 2 (5.13%) XML
3 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.56%) JSON Schema
3 1 (2.56%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
1 6 (15.38%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Data Fabric
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.56%) Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) FMCG
3 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) IoT
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Life Science
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Replication
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) Data Modelling
2 20 (51.28%) Data Architecture
3 17 (43.59%) Data Governance
4 15 (38.46%) Analytics
5 14 (35.90%) ETL
6 13 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (28.21%) Metadata Management
8 10 (25.64%) Agile
9 9 (23.08%) Conceptual Models
9 9 (23.08%) Data Engineering
9 9 (23.08%) Event-Driven
9 9 (23.08%) Physical Data Model
10 8 (20.51%) Data Strategy
10 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (17.95%) AI
11 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (17.95%) Logical Data Model
11 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
11 7 (17.95%) Master Data Management
11 7 (17.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) T-SQL
4 3 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.56%) Java
6 1 (2.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) IFRS
4 1 (2.56%) IFRS 17
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Databricks
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.38%) SAP
4 5 (12.82%) Sparx
5 3 (7.69%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle
6 2 (5.13%) Informatica
6 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.56%) Talend
7 1 (2.56%) Trayport