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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 40 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 870 736 918
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.10% 4.82% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 5.36% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 487 660
10th Percentile £400 £363 £412
25th Percentile £463 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 14
10th Percentile £29.15 £40.00 £35.19
25th Percentile £31.30 £49.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 £52.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +5.53% -14.22%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.75 £63.81
90th Percentile - £65.00 £64.86
England median hourly rate £57.30 £51.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year +11.26% +3.52% -26.30%

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 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 14 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 +15 118 £525 -10.64% 32
West London -13 13 £600 +5.63% 10
East London +2 6 £540 -6.90% 6
South London -3 4 £487 -15.26% 10
North London +3 1 - - 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 72 (8.28%) Apache Spark
2 57 (6.55%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.91%) Apache
4 16 (1.84%) Confluence
5 15 (1.72%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.80%) Camunda
7 6 (0.69%) Appian
7 6 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.57%) CMS
8 5 (0.57%) JBoss
8 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.46%) Luigi
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.34%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 37 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.23%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (1.15%) Endur
5 8 (0.92%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.92%) Temenos T24
6 5 (0.57%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.34%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.34%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.34%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.23%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.23%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP SRM
9 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 298 (34.25%) Azure
2 229 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 209 (24.02%) AWS
4 105 (12.07%) Snowflake
5 92 (10.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 81 (9.31%) GCP
7 66 (7.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 66 (7.59%) dbt
8 59 (6.78%) Serverless
9 55 (6.32%) Amazon S3
9 55 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
10 42 (4.83%) GitHub
11 36 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (4.02%) Power Automate
13 32 (3.68%) PowerApps
14 31 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (3.33%) Collibra
16 28 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (2.53%) Azure Functions
18 21 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) HTTP
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
2 2 (0.23%) Internet
2 2 (0.23%) NAS
3 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (23.10%) Power BI
2 191 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (14.25%) Metadata
4 78 (8.97%) Data Lake
5 71 (8.16%) NoSQL
6 61 (7.01%) Tableau
7 47 (5.40%) Relational Database
8 46 (5.29%) Data Vault
8 46 (5.29%) Snowflake Schema
9 45 (5.17%) SQL Server
10 44 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 44 (5.06%) Big Data
11 35 (4.02%) Power Query
12 34 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (3.68%) BigQuery
14 30 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
15 29 (3.33%) Star Schema
16 25 (2.87%) Delta Lake
17 23 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 83 (9.54%) Git
2 47 (5.40%) JIRA
3 39 (4.48%) ERwin
4 19 (2.18%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.84%) ER Studio
6 11 (1.26%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.15%) GitLab
8 4 (0.46%) MLflow
9 3 (0.34%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.34%) Maven
9 3 (0.34%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) MSTest
11 1 (0.11%) TestNG
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 289 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 284 (32.64%) Finance
3 175 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.69%) Banking
5 69 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 34 (3.91%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.45%) Retail
8 29 (3.33%) Front Office
8 29 (3.33%) Marketing
9 28 (3.22%) Back Office
9 28 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.38%) Local Government
14 12 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.15%) Legal
16 9 (1.03%) Billing
16 9 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 165 (18.97%) Data Engineer
2 164 (18.85%) Architect
3 143 (16.44%) Analyst
4 107 (12.30%) Developer
5 94 (10.80%) Data Architect
6 86 (9.89%) Lead
7 84 (9.66%) Business Analyst
8 81 (9.31%) Senior
9 67 (7.70%) Data Modeller
10 60 (6.90%) Data Analyst
11 55 (6.32%) Consultant
12 34 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
13 32 (3.68%) Azure Data Engineer
14 29 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 23 (2.64%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (2.64%) Technical Business Analyst
16 22 (2.53%) Technical Analyst
17 20 (2.30%) Azure Architect
17 20 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.74%) PySpark
2 46 (5.29%) Kafka
3 28 (3.22%) .NET
3 28 (3.22%) REST
4 24 (2.76%) JSON
5 20 (2.30%) XML
6 18 (2.07%) Node.js
7 14 (1.61%) HTML
7 14 (1.61%) Middleware
7 14 (1.61%) RESTful
7 14 (1.61%) SOAP
8 12 (1.38%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.38%) Pandas
9 11 (1.26%) Lightning Web Components
10 10 (1.15%) OAuth
11 8 (0.92%) scikit-learn
11 8 (0.92%) Swagger
12 7 (0.80%) OAuth2
12 7 (0.80%) Spring
12 7 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.05%) Data Structures
2 59 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 52 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.64%) Reference Data
6 21 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.18%) Reinsurance
8 16 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.72%) Derivative
9 15 (1.72%) Equities
10 14 (1.61%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.26%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.15%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.03%) CMDB
15 8 (0.92%) Replication
15 8 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.38%) Linux
2 9 (1.03%) Unix
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (33.22%) Analytics
2 268 (30.80%) Agile
3 261 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 256 (29.43%) Business Intelligence
5 233 (26.78%) ETL
6 196 (22.53%) Data Engineering
7 178 (20.46%) Data Pipeline
8 172 (19.77%) Data Architecture
9 168 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
10 143 (16.44%) CI/CD
11 135 (15.52%) DevOps
12 127 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 125 (14.37%) Data Integration
13 125 (14.37%) Visualisation
14 120 (13.79%) AI
14 120 (13.79%) Migration
15 95 (10.92%) Decision-Making
16 93 (10.69%) Data Analysis
17 91 (10.46%) Data Science
18 80 (9.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 443 (50.92%) SQL
2 294 (33.79%) Python
3 70 (8.05%) Java
4 46 (5.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (4.71%) C#
6 38 (4.37%) Scala
7 29 (3.33%) R
8 26 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.38%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.38%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.26%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.92%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.69%) Bicep
14 5 (0.57%) Bash
14 5 (0.57%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.46%) ABAP
15 4 (0.46%) Korn
15 4 (0.46%) VBA
16 2 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 126 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 102 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.24%) Degree
4 27 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.69%) CFA
9 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.23%) CBAP
11 2 (0.23%) CISSP
11 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (27.36%) Data Quality
2 75 (8.62%) GDPR
3 43 (4.94%) QA
4 19 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.15%) MiFID
6 9 (1.03%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.69%) PMO
8 6 (0.69%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.34%) Basel III
10 3 (0.34%) IFRS
11 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) DICOM
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (3.45%) Docker
2 5 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (5.86%) Terraform
2 30 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 157 (18.05%) Databricks
2 138 (15.86%) Microsoft
3 55 (6.32%) Oracle
4 45 (5.17%) SAP
5 42 (4.83%) Salesforce
6 35 (4.02%) Google
7 27 (3.10%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.07%) Sparx
9 17 (1.95%) Informatica
10 12 (1.38%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.26%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.15%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.03%) Charles River
13 9 (1.03%) Pega
13 9 (1.03%) Workday
14 8 (0.92%) Alteryx
14 8 (0.92%) IBM
14 8 (0.92%) Talend
14 8 (0.92%) Temenos
15 7 (0.80%) Palantir