Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in London

Data Modelling
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 45 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,360 719 756
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.77% 5.35% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.60% 5.79% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 495 527
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £453 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile £32.30 £28.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -19.80% -19.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £51.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.85 £53.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £69.50 £43.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +59.77% +7.41% -35.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,902 12,422 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.40% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,269 10,048
10th Percentile £361 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 197
10th Percentile £17.18 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.29 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.22% -16.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in London

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in London over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in London

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Modelling in London over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Modelling in London

Data Modelling
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 Modelling within the London region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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 +14 185 £552 -8.08% 63
West London +12 49 £520 -0.95% 21
South London +6 13 £530 - 5
East London -2 5 £450 -33.33% 8
North London -3 1 £178 - 1
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
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
1 106 (7.79%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (5.59%) Apache Spark
3 61 (4.49%) Apache
4 35 (2.57%) SharePoint
5 33 (2.43%) Confluence
6 12 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.81%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) Camunda
9 4 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.22%) Appian
10 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 50 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.074%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 23 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.10%) Aladdin
2 15 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
6 10 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.51%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.37%) Findur
8 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.29%) Endur
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.29%) Quorum
9 4 (0.29%) R3 Corda
9 4 (0.29%) Ripple
9 4 (0.29%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.22%) Maximo
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 453 (33.31%) Azure
2 348 (25.59%) AWS
3 304 (22.35%) Power Platform
4 155 (11.40%) GCP
5 140 (10.29%) dbt
5 140 (10.29%) Snowflake
6 119 (8.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 107 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (6.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 82 (6.03%) GitHub
10 74 (5.44%) Amazon S3
11 69 (5.07%) Serverless
12 46 (3.38%) Power Automate
12 46 (3.38%) PowerApps
13 43 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (2.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 36 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
16 29 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (1.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.44%) SSL
2 5 (0.37%) Firewall
3 4 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.22%) BGP
4 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (0.22%) FTP
4 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
4 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.15%) HTTP
5 2 (0.15%) RTP
5 2 (0.15%) TACACS
5 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.15%) Wireless
6 1 (0.074%) 5G
6 1 (0.074%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.074%) SMS
6 1 (0.074%) SNMP
6 1 (0.074%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (20.51%) Power BI
2 263 (19.34%) Data Warehouse
3 179 (13.16%) Metadata
4 104 (7.65%) Data Lake
5 78 (5.74%) BigQuery
6 77 (5.66%) Tableau
7 72 (5.29%) SQL Server
8 65 (4.78%) Relational Database
9 61 (4.49%) NoSQL
10 60 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
11 58 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 58 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
12 56 (4.12%) Delta Lake
13 55 (4.04%) Power Query
13 55 (4.04%) Star Schema
14 40 (2.94%) Data Vault
15 37 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
16 36 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 36 (2.65%) Semantic Layer
17 30 (2.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 101 (7.43%) Git
2 81 (5.96%) JIRA
3 38 (2.79%) ERwin
4 32 (2.35%) GitLab
5 25 (1.84%) ER Studio
6 21 (1.54%) Jenkins
7 14 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.44%) Ant
11 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.44%) Maven
12 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.29%) Gradle
12 4 (0.29%) JMeter
12 4 (0.29%) JUnit
12 4 (0.29%) MLflow
12 4 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
General
1 501 (36.84%) Finance
2 372 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 250 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (14.19%) Banking
5 146 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 47 (3.46%) Retail
7 40 (2.94%) Marketing
8 36 (2.65%) Front Office
9 35 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
10 34 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 34 (2.50%) Legal
11 30 (2.21%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.84%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.18%) Billing
15 15 (1.10%) Aviation
16 13 (0.96%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 308 (22.65%) Architect
2 294 (21.62%) Data Engineer
3 192 (14.12%) Analyst
4 183 (13.46%) Senior
5 182 (13.38%) Developer
6 145 (10.66%) Data Architect
7 134 (9.85%) Lead
8 87 (6.40%) Business Analyst
9 85 (6.25%) Data Analyst
10 76 (5.59%) Data Modeller
11 65 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
13 48 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 44 (3.24%) Senior Developer
15 38 (2.79%) Power BI Developer
16 37 (2.72%) Snowflake Engineer
17 35 (2.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 34 (2.50%) Technical Architect
19 33 (2.43%) Technical Leader
20 32 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (8.97%) REST
2 107 (7.87%) PySpark
3 94 (6.91%) Kafka
4 60 (4.41%) SOAP
5 52 (3.82%) JSON
6 45 (3.31%) .NET
7 41 (3.01%) Lightning Web Components
7 41 (3.01%) Middleware
8 30 (2.21%) Spring
8 30 (2.21%) XML
9 29 (2.13%) RESTful
9 29 (2.13%) Spring Boot
10 26 (1.91%) OAuth
11 25 (1.84%) Node.js
12 23 (1.69%) React
13 18 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
13 18 (1.32%) Web Services
14 16 (1.18%) GraphQL
15 15 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 106 (7.79%) Data Structures
3 98 (7.21%) Product Ownership
4 84 (6.18%) Legacy Systems
5 72 (5.29%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (3.46%) Reference Data
7 38 (2.79%) CMDB
8 30 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.69%) Derivative
11 23 (1.69%) Replication
12 21 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.25%) Reinsurance
15 16 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
15 16 (1.18%) Fixed Income
16 14 (1.03%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.91%) Linux
2 21 (1.54%) Unix
3 16 (1.18%) Windows
4 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (37.50%) Analytics
2 380 (27.94%) Agile
3 354 (26.03%) ETL
4 352 (25.88%) Business Intelligence
5 346 (25.44%) Data Pipeline
6 336 (24.71%) CI/CD
7 326 (23.97%) Data Governance
8 306 (22.50%) Data Engineering
9 273 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 256 (18.82%) Data Architecture
10 256 (18.82%) DevOps
11 247 (18.16%) AI
12 233 (17.13%) Migration
13 215 (15.81%) Validation
14 196 (14.41%) Decision-Making
15 186 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
16 180 (13.24%) Data Transformation
17 151 (11.10%) Integration Patterns
18 150 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 140 (10.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 650 (47.79%) SQL
2 412 (30.29%) Python
3 95 (6.99%) Java
4 88 (6.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 59 (4.34%) C#
6 56 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 39 (2.87%) Apex Code
8 35 (2.57%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.21%) Scala
10 27 (1.99%) PL/SQL
11 25 (1.84%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.03%) SOQL
14 12 (0.88%) Ruby
15 11 (0.81%) R
15 11 (0.81%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.59%) SOSL
17 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
18 5 (0.37%) LookML
19 4 (0.29%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 237 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 195 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.56%) Degree
4 29 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 28 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.88%) CISSP
9 12 (0.88%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.44%) CCSP
13 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.44%) GCIH
13 6 (0.44%) PMP
13 6 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 416 (30.59%) Data Quality
2 73 (5.37%) GDPR
3 60 (4.41%) QA
4 31 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.25%) GRC
6 14 (1.03%) PMO
7 10 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 9 (0.66%) IFRS
8 9 (0.66%) SLA
9 6 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.44%) MiFID
10 5 (0.37%) NIST
11 4 (0.29%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.29%) NCSC
12 3 (0.22%) GxP
12 3 (0.22%) HL7
12 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (3.53%) Docker
2 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.074%) RACF
4 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (6.91%) Terraform
2 51 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.96%) Ansible
4 8 (0.59%) Control-M
5 7 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.44%) Grafana
7 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) QRadar
8 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.074%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.074%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.074%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.074%) Istio
9 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.074%) Nagios
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.074%) SCCM
9 1 (0.074%) WMI
Vendors
1 233 (17.13%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.88%) Databricks
3 116 (8.53%) Oracle
4 93 (6.84%) Salesforce
5 64 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.82%) SAP
7 49 (3.60%) Google
8 29 (2.13%) Informatica
9 24 (1.76%) Workday
10 23 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 16 (1.18%) Palantir
12 14 (1.03%) Foundry
13 12 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 12 (0.88%) Sparx
13 12 (0.88%) Splunk
14 11 (0.81%) Alteryx
15 10 (0.74%) IBM
16 9 (0.66%) CyberArk
16 9 (0.66%) Murex
17 8 (0.59%) Confluent