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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 39 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,073 666 870
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.60% 5.02% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 5.52% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 450 638
10th Percentile £373 £360 £413
25th Percentile £456 £451 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £596
Median % change year-on-year - -7.68% -0.71%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £789 £800
England median daily rate £525 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 20
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £21.32 £36.56 £42.19
Median hourly rate £23.54 £54.00 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -56.40% +9.64% -8.37%
75th Percentile £25.67 £63.44 £56.03
90th Percentile £26.90 £66.25 £65.33
England median hourly rate £69.22 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +24.72% +20.18% -20.38%

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 14,657 12,070 15,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.19% 90.95% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,833 7,901 11,413
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% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 222 156 343
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £77.95 £72.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 5 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 5 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 +11 135 £550 -0.09% 160
West London -1 25 £603 +20.50% 13
South London -13 9 £487 -0.05% 4
East London +2 8 £450 -28.00% 7
North London +1 1 £495 -30.62% 6
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 92 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 53 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (4.01%) Apache
4 30 (2.80%) Confluence
5 19 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.40%) Appian
7 9 (0.84%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.75%) Camunda
9 7 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.56%) CMS
11 5 (0.47%) SAS
12 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.093%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.093%) nginx
14 1 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.56%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.47%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.37%) Endur
7 4 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.28%) Findur
8 3 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.28%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.19%) BambooHR
9 2 (0.19%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.19%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 400 (37.28%) Azure
2 295 (27.49%) Power Platform
3 279 (26.00%) AWS
4 151 (14.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 110 (10.25%) Snowflake
6 106 (9.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 94 (8.76%) GCP
8 89 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
9 87 (8.11%) Serverless
10 81 (7.55%) Amazon S3
11 71 (6.62%) dbt
12 58 (5.41%) GitHub
13 53 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (4.57%) Power Automate
15 38 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (3.26%) PowerApps
17 32 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
18 31 (2.89%) Collibra
19 25 (2.33%) Azure Functions
20 24 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.37%) HTTP
2 3 (0.28%) RTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) NAS
3 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.19%) RFID
3 2 (0.19%) VPN
4 1 (0.093%) 4G
4 1 (0.093%) 5G
4 1 (0.093%) DNS
4 1 (0.093%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.093%) MQTT
4 1 (0.093%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (24.60%) Power BI
2 224 (20.88%) Data Warehouse
3 134 (12.49%) Metadata
4 121 (11.28%) Data Lake
5 89 (8.29%) SQL Server
6 68 (6.34%) NoSQL
7 67 (6.24%) Tableau
8 66 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 63 (5.87%) Snowflake Schema
10 55 (5.13%) Delta Lake
11 49 (4.57%) Data Vault
12 47 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 44 (4.10%) Relational Database
14 43 (4.01%) BigQuery
15 42 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
15 42 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
16 38 (3.54%) Big Data
17 31 (2.89%) Star Schema
18 30 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 29 (2.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 100 (9.32%) Git
2 77 (7.18%) JIRA
3 38 (3.54%) ERwin
4 17 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.58%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.49%) MLflow
6 14 (1.30%) GitLab
7 13 (1.21%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.37%) JMeter
10 3 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.19%) LSMW
11 2 (0.19%) Selenium
11 2 (0.19%) Toad
12 1 (0.093%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.093%) git-flow
12 1 (0.093%) Maven
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 348 (32.43%) Finance
2 338 (31.50%) Social Skills
3 206 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.34%) Banking
5 90 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.98%) Marketing
7 32 (2.98%) Retail
8 26 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.86%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.58%) Front Office
13 16 (1.49%) Back Office
14 15 (1.40%) Billing
15 14 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.93%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.93%) Publishing
18 9 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 249 (23.21%) Data Engineer
2 178 (16.59%) Architect
3 159 (14.82%) Analyst
4 144 (13.42%) Developer
5 126 (11.74%) Lead
6 120 (11.18%) Senior
7 99 (9.23%) Business Analyst
7 99 (9.23%) Data Architect
8 71 (6.62%) Data Modeller
9 61 (5.68%) Data Analyst
10 52 (4.85%) Consultant
11 46 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
12 43 (4.01%) Azure Data Engineer
13 40 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
14 36 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 32 (2.98%) Snowflake Engineer
16 31 (2.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 31 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
17 26 (2.42%) Lead Data Engineer
17 26 (2.42%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (9.23%) PySpark
2 64 (5.96%) Kafka
3 63 (5.87%) REST
4 34 (3.17%) .NET
5 28 (2.61%) Pandas
6 27 (2.52%) JSON
7 26 (2.42%) OAuth
8 25 (2.33%) Node.js
9 24 (2.24%) XML
10 22 (2.05%) RESTful
11 21 (1.96%) Middleware
11 21 (1.96%) SOAP
12 18 (1.68%) Great Expectations
13 16 (1.49%) scikit-learn
13 16 (1.49%) Web Services
14 15 (1.40%) OpenAPI
15 14 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
16 12 (1.12%) NumPy
16 12 (1.12%) OAuth2
16 12 (1.12%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.48%) Data Structures
2 89 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 57 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (4.75%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.33%) Reference Data
6 25 (2.33%) Reinsurance
7 21 (1.96%) CMDB
7 21 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
9 14 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.03%) Equities
12 11 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (0.93%) Derivative
13 10 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.30%) Linux
2 13 (1.21%) Unix
3 6 (0.56%) Windows
4 3 (0.28%) zOS
5 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (37.47%) Analytics
2 343 (31.97%) ETL
3 336 (31.31%) Agile
4 320 (29.82%) Business Intelligence
5 287 (26.75%) Data Governance
6 266 (24.79%) Data Engineering
7 246 (22.93%) Data Pipeline
8 242 (22.55%) CI/CD
9 215 (20.04%) Data Architecture
10 209 (19.48%) DevOps
11 200 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
12 173 (16.12%) AI
13 171 (15.94%) Migration
14 166 (15.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 134 (12.49%) Data Integration
16 128 (11.93%) Visualisation
17 126 (11.74%) Decision-Making
18 123 (11.46%) Validation
19 117 (10.90%) Data Science
20 103 (9.60%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 547 (50.98%) SQL
2 371 (34.58%) Python
3 62 (5.78%) Java
4 56 (5.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 55 (5.13%) C#
5 55 (5.13%) Scala
6 28 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.05%) R
8 21 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.12%) Apex Code
12 11 (1.03%) Bicep
13 10 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) Korn
15 5 (0.47%) Bash
15 5 (0.47%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.37%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.37%) SOQL
16 4 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 189 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 154 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.99%) Degree
4 34 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.12%) CBAP
9 12 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.03%) IIBA
11 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.37%) CFA
13 4 (0.37%) CISSP
13 4 (0.37%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.37%) ISEB
14 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (30.94%) Data Quality
2 86 (8.01%) GDPR
3 58 (5.41%) QA
4 20 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.93%) PMO
6 9 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.65%) NIST
9 6 (0.56%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.56%) MiFID
10 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.37%) IFRS
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.28%) Basel III
12 3 (0.28%) GRC
12 3 (0.28%) SLA
12 3 (0.28%) WCAG
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (4.19%) Docker
2 4 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.093%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 99 (9.23%) Terraform
2 43 (4.01%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.47%) Grafana
4 5 (0.47%) SCCM
5 4 (0.37%) Ansible
5 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.093%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 219 (20.41%) Databricks
2 182 (16.96%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.34%) Oracle
4 59 (5.50%) ServiceNow
5 56 (5.22%) SAP
6 52 (4.85%) Salesforce
7 30 (2.80%) Google
8 25 (2.33%) Informatica
9 20 (1.86%) Guidewire
9 20 (1.86%) Workday
10 16 (1.49%) Sparx
11 13 (1.21%) IBM
11 13 (1.21%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 11 (1.03%) Pega
13 9 (0.84%) Ariba
13 9 (0.84%) UiPath
14 8 (0.75%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.75%) ESRI
14 8 (0.75%) Palantir