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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 43 49
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 789 747 879
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.88% 4.75% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 5.32% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 495 588
10th Percentile £409 £375 £400
25th Percentile £469 £475 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.92% -0.26%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
England median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile £34.00 £39.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £46.25 £37.35
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.50 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% +5.70% -18.68%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £63.81
90th Percentile £50.15 - £67.88
England median hourly rate £48.00 £40.33 £50.00
% change year-on-year +19.03% -19.35% -22.48%

All Process and 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 12,395 14,043 18,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.44% 89.25% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,145 9,054 13,391
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 170 232
10th Percentile £18.14 £17.48 £18.18
25th Percentile £25.02 £24.63 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £38.29 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% -0.23% -1.44%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £64.85 £78.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 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 +10 115 £550 -6.18% 178
West London -13 10 £525 -2.33% 12
East London +5 5 £585 +18.18% 9
South London -3 4 £487 -9.35% 5
North London - 1 - - 2
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 55 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (6.59%) Apache Spark
3 31 (3.93%) Apache
4 20 (2.53%) Confluence
5 15 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.63%) JBoss
6 5 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.63%) Luigi
6 5 (0.63%) SAS
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.38%) Camunda
9 2 (0.25%) Appian
9 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 36 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.52%) Endur
3 12 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 8 (1.01%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.63%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.51%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.38%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.25%) HFM
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 267 (33.84%) Azure
2 202 (25.60%) Power Platform
3 195 (24.71%) AWS
4 102 (12.93%) GCP
5 89 (11.28%) Snowflake
6 68 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 66 (8.37%) dbt
8 47 (5.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 44 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (5.45%) GitHub
11 40 (5.07%) Amazon S3
12 39 (4.94%) Serverless
13 29 (3.68%) Power Automate
14 26 (3.30%) Collibra
15 25 (3.17%) PowerApps
16 24 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
18 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) Firewall
2 3 (0.38%) Internet
2 3 (0.38%) SSL
3 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (22.81%) Data Warehouse
2 175 (22.18%) Power BI
3 109 (13.81%) Metadata
4 87 (11.03%) Data Lake
5 56 (7.10%) Tableau
6 49 (6.21%) Big Data
7 48 (6.08%) BigQuery
7 48 (6.08%) NoSQL
8 44 (5.58%) Relational Database
9 42 (5.32%) Data Vault
10 41 (5.20%) SQL Server
11 39 (4.94%) Snowflake Schema
12 33 (4.18%) Star Schema
13 32 (4.06%) Power Query
14 28 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (3.04%) Delta Lake
16 24 (3.04%) Looker
17 17 (2.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (7.98%) Git
2 44 (5.58%) JIRA
3 42 (5.32%) ERwin
4 23 (2.92%) ER Studio
5 15 (1.90%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.14%) GitLab
6 9 (1.14%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.63%) Maven
8 3 (0.38%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.25%) MLflow
9 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) JMeter
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) TestNG
General
1 256 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 243 (30.80%) Finance
3 157 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (10.90%) Banking
5 59 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.56%) Investment Banking
7 28 (3.55%) Front Office
8 27 (3.42%) Retail
9 25 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (3.17%) Marketing
10 24 (3.04%) Back Office
11 23 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.52%) Legal
16 11 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
16 11 (1.39%) Local Government
16 11 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 170 (21.55%) Architect
2 146 (18.50%) Data Engineer
3 126 (15.97%) Analyst
4 98 (12.42%) Data Architect
5 93 (11.79%) Developer
6 77 (9.76%) Senior
7 72 (9.13%) Lead
8 68 (8.62%) Data Modeller
9 64 (8.11%) Business Analyst
10 53 (6.72%) Data Analyst
11 49 (6.21%) Consultant
12 28 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (3.17%) Azure Data Engineer
14 24 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (2.53%) Azure Architect
16 20 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (2.53%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 17 (2.15%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.97%) PySpark
2 41 (5.20%) Kafka
3 35 (4.44%) REST
4 22 (2.79%) HTML
5 21 (2.66%) JSON
6 20 (2.53%) .NET
7 16 (2.03%) RESTful
8 15 (1.90%) Middleware
8 15 (1.90%) SOAP
9 14 (1.77%) Node.js
10 13 (1.65%) Web Services
10 13 (1.65%) XML
11 12 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
12 11 (1.39%) Pandas
12 11 (1.39%) React
13 10 (1.27%) CSS
13 10 (1.27%) Spring
14 9 (1.14%) .NET Core
15 8 (1.01%) scikit-learn
15 8 (1.01%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.98%) Data Structures
2 55 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.83%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.04%) Algorithms
5 21 (2.66%) Reinsurance
6 20 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.15%) Reference Data
9 16 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.90%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.77%) Equities
12 13 (1.65%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.52%) Derivative
13 12 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 8 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.14%) Unix
2 7 (0.89%) Linux
3 3 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (33.21%) Analytics
2 235 (29.78%) Agile
3 231 (29.28%) Business Intelligence
4 219 (27.76%) Data Governance
5 218 (27.63%) ETL
6 167 (21.17%) Data Engineering
7 160 (20.28%) Data Architecture
7 160 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (19.65%) Data Pipeline
9 126 (15.97%) CI/CD
10 120 (15.21%) Data Integration
11 118 (14.96%) Visualisation
12 112 (14.20%) DevOps
13 105 (13.31%) AI
14 98 (12.42%) Data Analysis
14 98 (12.42%) Migration
15 94 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 89 (11.28%) Decision-Making
17 84 (10.65%) Data Science
18 73 (9.25%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 397 (50.32%) SQL
2 266 (33.71%) Python
3 70 (8.87%) Java
4 41 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (3.42%) C#
5 27 (3.42%) Scala
6 26 (3.30%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.66%) R
8 14 (1.77%) T-SQL
9 13 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.52%) Apex Code
11 8 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.01%) VBA
12 6 (0.76%) Bash
13 5 (0.63%) ABAP
14 4 (0.51%) C
14 4 (0.51%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.38%) Go
15 3 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 75 (9.51%) SC Cleared
3 67 (8.49%) Degree
4 20 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.65%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.63%) CFA
12 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.51%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.38%) CBAP
13 3 (0.38%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.25%) PMP
14 2 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CISSP
15 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (23.45%) Data Quality
2 60 (7.60%) GDPR
3 36 (4.56%) QA
4 19 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.39%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.89%) MiFID
7 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.51%) HL7
8 4 (0.51%) PMO
8 4 (0.51%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.38%) SLA
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) DICOM
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) GxP
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (3.55%) Docker
2 7 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (5.96%) Terraform
2 31 (3.93%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.89%) Ansible
4 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.13%) Puppet
5 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 127 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 119 (15.08%) Databricks
3 59 (7.48%) Oracle
4 52 (6.59%) Google
5 42 (5.32%) Salesforce
6 38 (4.82%) SAP
7 16 (2.03%) Informatica
8 15 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.90%) Sparx
9 12 (1.52%) Guidewire
10 10 (1.27%) Foundry
10 10 (1.27%) Palantir
11 8 (1.01%) Charles River
11 8 (1.01%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.01%) Talend
11 8 (1.01%) Temenos
11 8 (1.01%) Workday
12 7 (0.89%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.89%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.76%) MicroStrategy