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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 979 662 901
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.53% 4.92% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 5.43% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 448 654
10th Percentile £369 £363 £413
25th Percentile £458 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 19
10th Percentile £20.89 £39.38 £35.50
25th Percentile £23.45 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £56.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.96% +14.14% -10.00%
75th Percentile £31.61 £65.00 £57.94
90th Percentile £33.94 £68.75 £66.13
England median hourly rate £57.30 £57.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -0.35% +18.56% -29.45%

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 13,620 12,187 16,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.80% 90.56% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,063 7,736 11,780
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 150 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.23 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.48 £19.38
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.63 £50.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.08 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +16 130 £525 -7.49% 59
West London -4 22 £603 +20.50% 8
East London +1 8 £495 -20.80% 3
South London -7 6 £500 +2.51% 6
North London +4 1 £495 -30.62% 3
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 84 (8.58%) Apache Spark
2 53 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (4.19%) Apache
4 27 (2.76%) Confluence
5 15 (1.53%) Appian
5 15 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.92%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.82%) Camunda
8 7 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.61%) CMS
10 5 (0.51%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.20%) SAS
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.10%) Luigi
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 26 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.82%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.51%) Endur
5 5 (0.51%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.31%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.31%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.20%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 366 (37.39%) Azure
2 265 (27.07%) Power Platform
3 253 (25.84%) AWS
4 138 (14.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 107 (10.93%) Snowflake
6 89 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 84 (8.58%) GCP
8 81 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (7.97%) Serverless
10 74 (7.56%) Amazon S3
11 70 (7.15%) dbt
12 57 (5.82%) GitHub
13 47 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (4.80%) Power Automate
14 34 (3.47%) PowerApps
15 33 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (2.76%) Collibra
19 26 (2.66%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.41%) HTTP
2 3 (0.31%) RTP
3 2 (0.20%) NAS
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) RFID
3 2 (0.20%) VPN
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (24.41%) Power BI
2 194 (19.82%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (12.36%) Metadata
4 107 (10.93%) Data Lake
5 83 (8.48%) SQL Server
6 72 (7.35%) NoSQL
7 66 (6.74%) Tableau
8 62 (6.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (5.62%) Snowflake Schema
10 49 (5.01%) Data Vault
11 44 (4.49%) Delta Lake
12 41 (4.19%) Relational Database
13 40 (4.09%) Star Schema
14 39 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 38 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (3.68%) Big Data
17 35 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
18 33 (3.37%) BigQuery
19 26 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 25 (2.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 84 (8.58%) Git
2 72 (7.35%) JIRA
3 41 (4.19%) ERwin
4 17 (1.74%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.63%) ER Studio
6 15 (1.53%) MLflow
7 13 (1.33%) Jenkins
8 9 (0.92%) GitLab
9 7 (0.72%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.41%) JMeter
11 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.20%) LSMW
12 2 (0.20%) Selenium
13 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.10%) MSTest
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.10%) Toad
13 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 311 (31.77%) Finance
2 305 (31.15%) Social Skills
3 184 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.91%) Banking
5 76 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 34 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.27%) Retail
8 29 (2.96%) Marketing
9 25 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (2.15%) Back Office
10 21 (2.15%) Financial Institution
11 20 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.04%) Investment Banking
12 19 (1.94%) Front Office
13 15 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.12%) Billing
15 10 (1.02%) Law
16 9 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.92%) Publishing
17 8 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 233 (23.80%) Data Engineer
2 160 (16.34%) Architect
3 143 (14.61%) Analyst
4 130 (13.28%) Developer
5 118 (12.05%) Lead
6 109 (11.13%) Senior
7 93 (9.50%) Business Analyst
7 93 (9.50%) Data Architect
8 64 (6.54%) Data Modeller
9 58 (5.92%) Data Analyst
10 50 (5.11%) Consultant
11 43 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
13 40 (4.09%) Azure Data Engineer
14 30 (3.06%) Snowflake Engineer
15 29 (2.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 28 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 27 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (2.55%) Lead Data Engineer
19 23 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (9.19%) PySpark
2 63 (6.44%) Kafka
2 63 (6.44%) REST
3 29 (2.96%) .NET
4 27 (2.76%) Pandas
5 26 (2.66%) OAuth
6 24 (2.45%) JSON
7 22 (2.25%) XML
8 21 (2.15%) Node.js
8 21 (2.15%) RESTful
9 20 (2.04%) SOAP
10 18 (1.84%) scikit-learn
11 17 (1.74%) Web Services
12 16 (1.63%) Middleware
13 15 (1.53%) Great Expectations
13 15 (1.53%) OpenAPI
14 12 (1.23%) .NET Core
14 12 (1.23%) HTML
14 12 (1.23%) NumPy
15 11 (1.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.58%) Data Structures
2 77 (7.87%) Cloud Native
3 52 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (2.66%) Reinsurance
6 21 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.15%) Reference Data
7 16 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 14 (1.43%) CMDB
10 12 (1.23%) Equities
11 11 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.92%) Derivative
14 8 (0.82%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.33%) Unix
2 12 (1.23%) Linux
3 4 (0.41%) Windows
4 3 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (35.75%) Analytics
2 307 (31.36%) ETL
3 304 (31.05%) Agile
4 292 (29.83%) Business Intelligence
5 268 (27.37%) Data Governance
6 248 (25.33%) Data Engineering
7 218 (22.27%) Data Pipeline
8 203 (20.74%) CI/CD
9 193 (19.71%) Data Architecture
10 190 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
11 176 (17.98%) DevOps
12 160 (16.34%) AI
12 160 (16.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 153 (15.63%) Migration
14 129 (13.18%) Data Integration
14 129 (13.18%) Visualisation
15 108 (11.03%) Data Science
16 107 (10.93%) Decision-Making
17 104 (10.62%) Validation
18 100 (10.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 499 (50.97%) SQL
2 335 (34.22%) Python
3 55 (5.62%) Java
4 51 (5.21%) C#
5 50 (5.11%) Scala
6 47 (4.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 26 (2.66%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.15%) R
9 18 (1.84%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.43%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.12%) Bicep
13 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
13 10 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.61%) Korn
15 5 (0.51%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.41%) ABAP
17 3 (0.31%) Bash
17 3 (0.31%) Ruby
17 3 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 168 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 140 (14.30%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.66%) Degree
4 35 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.12%) CBAP
11 10 (1.02%) IIBA
12 7 (0.72%) CFA
12 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.31%) ISEB
14 3 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (31.97%) Data Quality
2 83 (8.48%) GDPR
3 50 (5.11%) QA
4 18 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.82%) PMO
7 7 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.61%) MiFID
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.41%) NIST
11 3 (0.31%) Basel III
12 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.20%) GRC
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) WCAG
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (3.98%) Docker
2 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (8.27%) Terraform
2 36 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.41%) Grafana
5 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Ansible
6 2 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 199 (20.33%) Databricks
2 164 (16.75%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.03%) Oracle
4 54 (5.52%) SAP
5 47 (4.80%) ServiceNow
6 45 (4.60%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.66%) Google
8 23 (2.35%) Informatica
9 20 (2.04%) Guidewire
10 19 (1.94%) Sparx
11 13 (1.33%) Workday
12 12 (1.23%) IBM
13 11 (1.12%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.92%) Ariba
14 9 (0.92%) Pega
14 9 (0.92%) UiPath
15 8 (0.82%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (0.82%) ESRI
15 8 (0.82%) Palantir