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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,102 648 856
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.80% 5.02% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 5.51% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 444 631
10th Percentile £375 £361 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £709
90th Percentile £746 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 20
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £21.32 £32.04 £41.25
Median hourly rate £23.54 £52.50 £47.28
Median % change year-on-year -55.16% +11.05% -12.04%
75th Percentile £25.67 £61.88 £53.84
90th Percentile £26.90 £65.00 £65.33
England median hourly rate £69.44 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.59% +16.93% -28.40%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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
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 12 March 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 +16 139 £550 -1.65% 115
West London +5 27 £603 +20.50% 21
South London -6 10 £475 -1.30%
East London +2 8 £450 -28.00% 13
North London +1 1 £495 -30.62% 5
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 97 (8.80%) Apache Spark
2 55 (4.99%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (4.26%) Apache
4 33 (2.99%) Confluence
5 20 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.36%) Appian
7 9 (0.82%) ArcGIS
7 9 (0.82%) Camunda
7 9 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.64%) CMS
9 6 (0.54%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.091%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.091%) nginx
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (1.00%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.54%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.45%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.27%) Findur
8 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.27%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.18%) Maximo
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.18%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.18%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 400 (36.30%) Azure
2 300 (27.22%) Power Platform
3 287 (26.04%) AWS
4 150 (13.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 107 (9.71%) Snowflake
6 103 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 95 (8.62%) GCP
8 88 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
9 86 (7.80%) Amazon S3
9 86 (7.80%) Serverless
10 74 (6.72%) dbt
11 64 (5.81%) GitHub
12 54 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (4.63%) Power Automate
14 39 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (3.45%) PowerApps
16 32 (2.90%) Collibra
16 32 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
17 25 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
18 23 (2.09%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.36%) HTTP
1 4 (0.36%) RTP
2 3 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.18%) Firewall
3 2 (0.18%) NAS
3 2 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.18%) RFID
4 1 (0.091%) 4G
4 1 (0.091%) 5G
4 1 (0.091%) DNS
4 1 (0.091%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.091%) MQTT
4 1 (0.091%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (24.23%) Power BI
2 228 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (11.89%) Metadata
4 120 (10.89%) Data Lake
5 89 (8.08%) SQL Server
6 72 (6.53%) Tableau
7 67 (6.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 66 (5.99%) NoSQL
9 61 (5.54%) Snowflake Schema
10 56 (5.08%) Delta Lake
11 50 (4.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 47 (4.26%) BigQuery
13 46 (4.17%) Relational Database
14 45 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
14 45 (4.08%) Data Vault
15 42 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
16 39 (3.54%) Big Data
17 31 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 30 (2.72%) Star Schema
19 28 (2.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 101 (9.17%) Git
2 75 (6.81%) JIRA
3 35 (3.18%) ERwin
4 20 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.54%) GitLab
6 16 (1.45%) MLflow
7 15 (1.36%) PowerDesigner
8 10 (0.91%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.54%) JMeter
11 3 (0.27%) MSTest
11 3 (0.27%) Selenium
11 3 (0.27%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.18%) LSMW
12 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.18%) Toad
13 1 (0.091%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.091%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.091%) Maven
General
1 361 (32.76%) Finance
2 343 (31.13%) Social Skills
3 219 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.07%) Banking
5 101 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.81%) Marketing
7 31 (2.81%) Retail
8 27 (2.45%) Financial Institution
9 25 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.91%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.54%) Front Office
13 16 (1.45%) Billing
13 16 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.18%) Back Office
16 10 (0.91%) Law
16 10 (0.91%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 253 (22.96%) Data Engineer
2 181 (16.42%) Architect
3 161 (14.61%) Analyst
4 154 (13.97%) Developer
5 131 (11.89%) Senior
6 129 (11.71%) Lead
7 98 (8.89%) Business Analyst
7 98 (8.89%) Data Architect
8 70 (6.35%) Data Modeller
9 63 (5.72%) Data Analyst
10 49 (4.45%) Consultant
11 44 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
13 41 (3.72%) Azure Data Engineer
14 39 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 32 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.63%) Power BI Developer
16 29 (2.63%) Snowflake Engineer
17 28 (2.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 26 (2.36%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (9.26%) PySpark
2 70 (6.35%) REST
3 67 (6.08%) Kafka
4 35 (3.18%) .NET
5 30 (2.72%) JSON
6 28 (2.54%) OAuth
6 28 (2.54%) Pandas
7 25 (2.27%) XML
8 24 (2.18%) Node.js
8 24 (2.18%) RESTful
9 23 (2.09%) SOAP
10 20 (1.81%) Great Expectations
10 20 (1.81%) Middleware
11 18 (1.63%) Web Services
12 17 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
13 16 (1.45%) scikit-learn
14 15 (1.36%) OpenAPI
15 14 (1.27%) OAuth2
15 14 (1.27%) pytest
16 13 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 94 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.08%) Data Structures
3 62 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (4.54%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.36%) Reference Data
7 24 (2.18%) CMDB
7 24 (2.18%) Reinsurance
8 22 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 20 (1.81%) Management Information System
10 16 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 14 (1.27%) Equities
11 14 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.09%) Derivative
13 12 (1.09%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.54%) Linux
2 16 (1.45%) Unix
3 7 (0.64%) Windows
4 3 (0.27%) zOS
5 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (37.39%) Analytics
2 349 (31.67%) ETL
3 339 (30.76%) Agile
4 321 (29.13%) Business Intelligence
5 278 (25.23%) Data Governance
6 276 (25.05%) Data Engineering
7 259 (23.50%) CI/CD
8 254 (23.05%) Data Pipeline
9 218 (19.78%) DevOps
10 215 (19.51%) Data Architecture
11 209 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
12 176 (15.97%) AI
13 175 (15.88%) Migration
14 172 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 133 (12.07%) Data Integration
16 130 (11.80%) Decision-Making
17 128 (11.62%) Visualisation
18 125 (11.34%) Validation
19 115 (10.44%) Data Science
20 102 (9.26%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 565 (51.27%) SQL
2 388 (35.21%) Python
3 63 (5.72%) Java
4 61 (5.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 60 (5.44%) C#
6 57 (5.17%) Scala
7 29 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 23 (2.09%) R
9 21 (1.91%) TypeScript
10 17 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.45%) Apex Code
12 13 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.00%) Bicep
13 11 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.54%) Bash
14 6 (0.54%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.45%) Korn
16 4 (0.36%) Ruby
16 4 (0.36%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 205 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 165 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.99%) Degree
4 37 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.09%) CBAP
11 11 (1.00%) IIBA
12 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.45%) CISSP
14 5 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.36%) CFA
15 4 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.36%) ISEB
16 3 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 86 (7.80%) GDPR
3 62 (5.63%) QA
4 19 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.00%) PMO
6 9 (0.82%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.73%) NIST
8 6 (0.54%) MiFID
9 5 (0.45%) GRC
9 5 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.36%) IFRS
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.27%) Basel III
11 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.27%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) WCAG
12 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (4.45%) Docker
2 5 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.091%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 100 (9.07%) Terraform
2 46 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.45%) Grafana
4 5 (0.45%) SCCM
5 4 (0.36%) Ansible
5 4 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.091%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.091%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 217 (19.69%) Databricks
2 187 (16.97%) Microsoft
3 69 (6.26%) Oracle
4 61 (5.54%) ServiceNow
5 56 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 55 (4.99%) SAP
7 35 (3.18%) Google
8 27 (2.45%) Informatica
9 20 (1.81%) Guidewire
9 20 (1.81%) Workday
10 18 (1.63%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.27%) IBM
11 14 (1.27%) Sparx
12 12 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.00%) Pega
14 10 (0.91%) Palantir
15 9 (0.82%) Ariba
15 9 (0.82%) Foundry
15 9 (0.82%) UiPath
16 8 (0.73%) Automation Anywhere