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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 41 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 912 669 891
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.32% 4.85% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 5.36% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 456 643
10th Percentile £365 £363 £413
25th Percentile £456 £465 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -5.58% -2.92%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £527 £538 £565
% change year-on-year -1.95% -4.87% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile £21.74 £39.38 £35.44
25th Percentile £25.58 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.86 £52.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.23% +4.48% -13.36%
75th Percentile £37.81 £58.06 £61.75
90th Percentile £41.98 £65.00 £66.92
England median hourly rate £42.72 £52.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year -18.63% +5.53% -28.93%

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 13,151 12,474 16,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.19% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 7,941 11,571
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 290
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% -14.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.60 £73.66
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +17 116 £525 -9.48% 69
West London -11 18 £603 +14.76% 12
East London -1 7 £473 -24.40% 4
South London -5 6 £500 +1.22% 7
North London +5 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 78 (8.55%) Apache Spark
2 50 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (3.95%) Apache
4 24 (2.63%) Confluence
5 12 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.21%) Appian
7 8 (0.88%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.77%) Camunda
9 6 (0.66%) CMS
10 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.33%) Luigi
11 3 (0.33%) SAS
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.77%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.55%) Endur
5 5 (0.55%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.33%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.33%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.33%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.22%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 328 (35.96%) Azure
2 252 (27.63%) Power Platform
3 231 (25.33%) AWS
4 123 (13.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 93 (10.20%) Snowflake
6 80 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 76 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (8.11%) GCP
9 72 (7.89%) Serverless
10 65 (7.13%) Amazon S3
11 64 (7.02%) dbt
12 53 (5.81%) GitHub
13 44 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (4.17%) Power Automate
15 31 (3.40%) Collibra
15 31 (3.40%) PowerApps
16 28 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
17 26 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.44%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) NAS
2 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.22%) RFID
2 2 (0.22%) VPN
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (24.78%) Power BI
2 198 (21.71%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (12.72%) Metadata
4 97 (10.64%) Data Lake
5 76 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 70 (7.68%) NoSQL
7 59 (6.47%) Tableau
8 55 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (5.70%) Data Vault
10 46 (5.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 45 (4.93%) Relational Database
12 39 (4.28%) Big Data
12 39 (4.28%) Delta Lake
13 38 (4.17%) Star Schema
14 36 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
15 35 (3.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (2.96%) BigQuery
17 27 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 25 (2.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 83 (9.10%) Git
2 70 (7.68%) JIRA
3 40 (4.39%) ERwin
4 17 (1.86%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.75%) ER Studio
6 13 (1.43%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.32%) MLflow
8 11 (1.21%) GitLab
9 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.44%) JMeter
11 3 (0.33%) Maven
11 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.22%) LSMW
12 2 (0.22%) Selenium
13 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 285 (31.25%) Finance
2 279 (30.59%) Social Skills
3 168 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (10.31%) Banking
5 68 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.62%) Retail
7 29 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (3.07%) Marketing
9 26 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.52%) Front Office
10 23 (2.52%) Investment Banking
11 21 (2.30%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.08%) Back Office
12 19 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.32%) Billing
15 10 (1.10%) Law
15 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.99%) Local Government
17 7 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 210 (23.03%) Data Engineer
2 154 (16.89%) Architect
3 138 (15.13%) Analyst
4 111 (12.17%) Developer
5 102 (11.18%) Lead
6 95 (10.42%) Senior
7 92 (10.09%) Data Architect
8 89 (9.76%) Business Analyst
9 64 (7.02%) Data Modeller
10 56 (6.14%) Data Analyst
11 50 (5.48%) Consultant
12 43 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (4.50%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
15 26 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 23 (2.52%) Technical Business Analyst
18 22 (2.41%) Technical Analyst
19 21 (2.30%) Data Business Analyst
19 21 (2.30%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (9.54%) PySpark
2 55 (6.03%) Kafka
3 52 (5.70%) REST
4 28 (3.07%) .NET
5 24 (2.63%) JSON
6 22 (2.41%) OAuth
6 22 (2.41%) XML
7 20 (2.19%) Pandas
8 19 (2.08%) Node.js
8 19 (2.08%) RESTful
9 18 (1.97%) SOAP
10 17 (1.86%) Web Services
11 14 (1.54%) Middleware
11 14 (1.54%) scikit-learn
12 13 (1.43%) HTML
13 12 (1.32%) .NET Core
13 12 (1.32%) OpenAPI
14 10 (1.10%) Great Expectations
14 10 (1.10%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.99%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.44%) Data Structures
2 63 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 45 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 44 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.74%) Reinsurance
6 23 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.97%) Reference Data
9 15 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.43%) Equities
11 12 (1.32%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.21%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.21%) Derivative
13 10 (1.10%) Fixed Income
14 9 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (0.88%) CMDB
15 8 (0.88%) Replication
16 7 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.10%) Linux
1 10 (1.10%) Unix
2 2 (0.22%) zOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (34.43%) Analytics
2 287 (31.47%) Agile
3 280 (30.70%) ETL
4 276 (30.26%) Business Intelligence
5 262 (28.73%) Data Governance
6 220 (24.12%) Data Engineering
7 207 (22.70%) Data Pipeline
8 185 (20.29%) Data Architecture
9 180 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
10 173 (18.97%) CI/CD
11 158 (17.32%) DevOps
12 151 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 139 (15.24%) AI
14 137 (15.02%) Migration
15 133 (14.58%) Data Integration
16 116 (12.72%) Visualisation
17 103 (11.29%) Decision-Making
18 100 (10.96%) Data Science
19 96 (10.53%) Data Analysis
20 93 (10.20%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 475 (52.08%) SQL
2 311 (34.10%) Python
3 58 (6.36%) Java
4 46 (5.04%) C#
4 46 (5.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (4.93%) Scala
6 23 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.41%) R
8 18 (1.97%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.21%) Bicep
10 11 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.66%) Bash
14 5 (0.55%) Korn
14 5 (0.55%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.44%) ABAP
15 4 (0.44%) VBA
16 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 150 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 126 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.02%) Degree
4 32 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.77%) CFA
9 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.66%) CBAP
10 6 (0.66%) IIBA
11 4 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.33%) ISEB
12 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.33%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 77 (8.44%) GDPR
3 42 (4.61%) QA
4 18 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.88%) PMO
6 7 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.77%) MiFID
7 6 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.66%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.44%) NIST
10 3 (0.33%) Basel III
10 3 (0.33%) IFRS
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (3.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (7.24%) Terraform
2 34 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.33%) Ansible
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 181 (19.85%) Databricks
2 144 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 60 (6.58%) Oracle
4 51 (5.59%) SAP
5 38 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 37 (4.06%) Salesforce
7 29 (3.18%) Google
8 21 (2.30%) Informatica
9 20 (2.19%) Guidewire
9 20 (2.19%) Sparx
10 12 (1.32%) IBM
11 10 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.99%) Alteryx
12 9 (0.99%) Pega
13 8 (0.88%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.88%) Workday
14 7 (0.77%) Confluent
14 7 (0.77%) ESRI
14 7 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (0.77%) Palantir