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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 42 38
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,020 653 903
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.51% 4.83% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.20% 5.33% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 443 660
10th Percentile £375 £361 £413
25th Percentile £457 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £592
Median % change year-on-year - -7.09% -1.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £797 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 18
10th Percentile £20.04 £39.38 £35.44
25th Percentile £21.32 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £23.54 £56.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +14.72% -8.37%
75th Percentile £25.67 £65.00 £59.84
90th Percentile £26.90 £68.75 £66.92
England median hourly rate £69.44 £57.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.77% +24.51% -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 14,164 12,253 16,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.70% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,468 7,900 11,699
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% - -8.10%
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 219 156 345
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.60 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.50 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 21 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
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 21 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 +18 132 £525 -6.12% 66
West London -8 22 £603 +20.50% 14
South London -8 9 £487 -0.05% 4
East London +6 7 £473 -24.40% 5
North London +3 1 £495 -30.62% 7
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 88 (8.63%) Apache Spark
2 48 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (4.12%) Apache
4 28 (2.75%) Confluence
5 15 (1.47%) Appian
5 15 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.88%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.69%) Camunda
7 7 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.59%) CMS
9 5 (0.49%) SAS
10 4 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.098%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.098%) nginx
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.78%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.49%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.49%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.39%) Endur
6 4 (0.39%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.29%) Findur
7 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.29%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.20%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SRM
8 2 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 380 (37.25%) Azure
2 281 (27.55%) Power Platform
3 268 (26.27%) AWS
4 142 (13.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 108 (10.59%) Snowflake
6 97 (9.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 91 (8.92%) GCP
8 83 (8.14%) Serverless
9 82 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (7.55%) Amazon S3
11 69 (6.76%) dbt
12 54 (5.29%) GitHub
13 52 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (4.71%) Power Automate
15 36 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
17 32 (3.14%) PowerApps
18 28 (2.75%) Collibra
19 25 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
20 23 (2.25%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.39%) HTTP
2 3 (0.29%) RTP
3 2 (0.20%) NAS
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) RFID
3 2 (0.20%) VPN
4 1 (0.098%) 4G
4 1 (0.098%) 5G
4 1 (0.098%) DNS
4 1 (0.098%) Firewall
4 1 (0.098%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (24.61%) Power BI
2 212 (20.78%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (12.94%) Metadata
4 115 (11.27%) Data Lake
5 85 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 70 (6.86%) NoSQL
7 65 (6.37%) Tableau
8 63 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 60 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 53 (5.20%) Delta Lake
11 50 (4.90%) Data Vault
12 46 (4.51%) Relational Database
13 43 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (3.92%) BigQuery
15 39 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (3.82%) Big Data
15 39 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
16 31 (3.04%) Star Schema
17 28 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 27 (2.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 91 (8.92%) Git
2 78 (7.65%) JIRA
3 42 (4.12%) ERwin
4 17 (1.67%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.57%) MLflow
6 15 (1.47%) ER Studio
6 15 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.27%) GitLab
8 9 (0.88%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.39%) JMeter
10 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.20%) LSMW
11 2 (0.20%) Selenium
11 2 (0.20%) Toad
12 1 (0.098%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.098%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.098%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 323 (31.67%) Finance
1 323 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 193 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (9.51%) Banking
4 82 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 38 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
6 32 (3.14%) Retail
7 31 (3.04%) Marketing
8 26 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 22 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (1.76%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.57%) Back Office
12 15 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.37%) Front Office
14 13 (1.27%) Billing
15 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.98%) Publishing
16 9 (0.88%) Law
16 9 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 242 (23.73%) Data Engineer
2 168 (16.47%) Architect
3 156 (15.29%) Analyst
4 128 (12.55%) Developer
5 126 (12.35%) Lead
6 111 (10.88%) Senior
7 98 (9.61%) Data Architect
8 97 (9.51%) Business Analyst
9 69 (6.76%) Data Modeller
10 60 (5.88%) Data Analyst
11 51 (5.00%) Consultant
12 45 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
13 42 (4.12%) Azure Data Engineer
14 38 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
15 31 (3.04%) Snowflake Engineer
16 30 (2.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 28 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 27 (2.65%) Lead Data Engineer
18 27 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
19 25 (2.45%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (9.51%) PySpark
2 64 (6.27%) REST
3 61 (5.98%) Kafka
4 27 (2.65%) .NET
4 27 (2.65%) Pandas
5 25 (2.45%) JSON
5 25 (2.45%) OAuth
6 23 (2.25%) XML
7 21 (2.06%) RESTful
7 21 (2.06%) SOAP
8 19 (1.86%) Middleware
8 19 (1.86%) Node.js
9 17 (1.67%) Great Expectations
9 17 (1.67%) scikit-learn
9 17 (1.67%) Web Services
10 15 (1.47%) OpenAPI
11 14 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
12 12 (1.18%) NumPy
12 12 (1.18%) pytest
13 11 (1.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.63%) Data Structures
2 76 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.55%) Reinsurance
6 25 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (2.35%) Reference Data
8 20 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.67%) CMDB
10 16 (1.57%) Low-Code
10 16 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
12 11 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.98%) Equities
13 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.88%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.27%) Linux
1 13 (1.27%) Unix
2 5 (0.49%) Windows
3 3 (0.29%) zOS
4 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (37.06%) Analytics
2 329 (32.25%) ETL
3 324 (31.76%) Agile
4 304 (29.80%) Business Intelligence
5 281 (27.55%) Data Governance
6 255 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 230 (22.55%) Data Pipeline
8 220 (21.57%) CI/CD
9 206 (20.20%) Data Architecture
10 192 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
11 191 (18.73%) DevOps
12 168 (16.47%) AI
13 160 (15.69%) Migration
13 160 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 133 (13.04%) Data Integration
15 126 (12.35%) Visualisation
16 117 (11.47%) Validation
17 114 (11.18%) Data Science
18 113 (11.08%) Decision-Making
19 100 (9.80%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 520 (50.98%) SQL
2 349 (34.22%) Python
3 56 (5.49%) Java
4 53 (5.20%) Scala
5 52 (5.10%) C#
6 50 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.96%) R
9 19 (1.86%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.18%) Apex Code
12 12 (1.18%) Bicep
13 10 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.59%) Korn
14 6 (0.59%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.39%) ABAP
15 4 (0.39%) Bash
15 4 (0.39%) SOQL
16 3 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 174 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 145 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.06%) Degree
4 33 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.18%) CBAP
11 11 (1.08%) IIBA
12 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.39%) CFA
15 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.39%) ISEB
15 4 (0.39%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (31.37%) Data Quality
2 81 (7.94%) GDPR
3 51 (5.00%) QA
4 20 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.08%) PMO
6 9 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.59%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.59%) MiFID
9 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.39%) NIST
10 4 (0.39%) WCAG
11 3 (0.29%) Basel III
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%) SLA
13 1 (0.098%) PERC
System Software
1 43 (4.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.098%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 91 (8.92%) Terraform
2 39 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.49%) Grafana
5 4 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.39%) SCCM
6 3 (0.29%) Ansible
7 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.098%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 209 (20.49%) Databricks
2 174 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.57%) Oracle
4 58 (5.69%) SAP
5 52 (5.10%) Salesforce
6 51 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.94%) Google
8 25 (2.45%) Informatica
9 21 (2.06%) Guidewire
10 18 (1.76%) Sparx
11 14 (1.37%) Workday
12 13 (1.27%) IBM
13 12 (1.18%) MuleSoft
14 11 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.88%) Ariba
15 9 (0.88%) Pega
15 9 (0.88%) UiPath
16 8 (0.78%) Automation Anywhere
16 8 (0.78%) ESRI
16 8 (0.78%) Palantir