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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 37
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,018 655 899
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.51% 4.84% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.20% 5.33% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 443 656
10th Percentile £370 £363 £413
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
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 £788 £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 14,143 12,286 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.69% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,444 7,897 11,628
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 219 156 343
10th Percentile £18.21 £20.23 £16.02
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.73 £19.53
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -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 20 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 20 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 +15 131 £525 -6.12% 74
West London -7 22 £603 +20.50% 13
South London -10 9 £487 -0.05% 5
East London +1 8 £495 -20.80% 6
North London +4 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 89 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 47 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (4.22%) Apache
4 27 (2.65%) Confluence
5 15 (1.47%) Appian
5 15 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.88%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.79%) Camunda
7 8 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.59%) CMS
9 4 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.39%) SAS
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.098%) nginx
11 1 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.29%) Trello
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.49%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.39%) Endur
6 4 (0.39%) SAP BPC
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%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.20%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SRM
8 2 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 376 (36.94%) Azure
2 279 (27.41%) Power Platform
3 266 (26.13%) AWS
4 140 (13.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 107 (10.51%) Snowflake
6 95 (9.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 90 (8.84%) GCP
8 83 (8.15%) Serverless
9 80 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
10 76 (7.47%) Amazon S3
11 69 (6.78%) dbt
12 52 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (5.11%) GitHub
13 48 (4.72%) Power Automate
14 35 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 33 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
16 32 (3.14%) PowerApps
17 28 (2.75%) Collibra
18 24 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (2.26%) 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 (24.66%) Power BI
2 211 (20.73%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (12.87%) Metadata
4 115 (11.30%) Data Lake
5 85 (8.35%) SQL Server
6 70 (6.88%) NoSQL
7 65 (6.39%) Tableau
8 62 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 59 (5.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 53 (5.21%) Delta Lake
11 50 (4.91%) Data Vault
12 46 (4.52%) Relational Database
13 43 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (3.93%) Big Data
14 40 (3.93%) BigQuery
15 39 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
16 32 (3.14%) Star Schema
17 28 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (2.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 89 (8.74%) Git
2 75 (7.37%) JIRA
3 42 (4.13%) ERwin
4 17 (1.67%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.57%) MLflow
6 15 (1.47%) ER Studio
6 15 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.28%) GitLab
8 8 (0.79%) 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%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.098%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.098%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 323 (31.73%) Finance
2 322 (31.63%) Social Skills
3 191 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.53%) Banking
5 82 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 38 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.14%) Retail
8 31 (3.05%) Marketing
9 26 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 22 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.57%) Back Office
13 15 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.38%) Front Office
15 13 (1.28%) Billing
16 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.98%) Publishing
17 9 (0.88%) Law
17 9 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 241 (23.67%) Data Engineer
2 171 (16.80%) Architect
3 155 (15.23%) Analyst
4 127 (12.48%) Developer
5 126 (12.38%) Lead
6 111 (10.90%) Senior
7 99 (9.72%) Data Architect
8 97 (9.53%) Business Analyst
9 69 (6.78%) Data Modeller
10 59 (5.80%) Data Analyst
11 51 (5.01%) Consultant
12 43 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (3.93%) Azure Data Engineer
14 38 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
15 30 (2.95%) Snowflake Engineer
16 29 (2.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 28 (2.75%) Lead Data Engineer
18 27 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 27 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
19 25 (2.46%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (9.43%) PySpark
2 64 (6.29%) REST
3 62 (6.09%) Kafka
4 28 (2.75%) .NET
5 27 (2.65%) Pandas
6 25 (2.46%) JSON
6 25 (2.46%) OAuth
7 23 (2.26%) XML
8 21 (2.06%) RESTful
8 21 (2.06%) SOAP
9 19 (1.87%) Node.js
10 18 (1.77%) Middleware
11 17 (1.67%) Great Expectations
11 17 (1.67%) scikit-learn
11 17 (1.67%) Web Services
12 15 (1.47%) OpenAPI
13 13 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
14 12 (1.18%) NumPy
15 11 (1.08%) OAuth2
15 11 (1.08%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.64%) Data Structures
2 75 (7.37%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.65%) Reinsurance
6 25 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (2.36%) Reference Data
8 20 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.57%) CMDB
9 16 (1.57%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
11 11 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (0.98%) Equities
12 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.28%) Linux
1 13 (1.28%) Unix
2 4 (0.39%) Windows
3 3 (0.29%) zOS
4 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (36.64%) Analytics
2 331 (32.51%) ETL
3 322 (31.63%) Agile
4 304 (29.86%) Business Intelligence
5 278 (27.31%) Data Governance
6 252 (24.75%) Data Engineering
7 230 (22.59%) Data Pipeline
8 215 (21.12%) CI/CD
9 205 (20.14%) Data Architecture
10 195 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
11 187 (18.37%) DevOps
12 164 (16.11%) AI
13 159 (15.62%) Migration
13 159 (15.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 131 (12.87%) Data Integration
15 127 (12.48%) Visualisation
16 115 (11.30%) Validation
17 113 (11.10%) Data Science
18 112 (11.00%) Decision-Making
19 100 (9.82%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 517 (50.79%) SQL
2 349 (34.28%) Python
3 56 (5.50%) Java
4 53 (5.21%) Scala
5 51 (5.01%) C#
6 49 (4.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (2.46%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.96%) R
9 19 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.38%) 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
1 175 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 145 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.07%) Degree
4 33 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.18%) CBAP
10 11 (1.08%) IIBA
11 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.39%) CFA
13 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.39%) ISEB
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.39%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (31.53%) Data Quality
2 81 (7.96%) GDPR
3 50 (4.91%) QA
4 19 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.08%) PMO
6 9 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.79%) 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
11 3 (0.29%) Basel III
11 3 (0.29%) WCAG
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
13 1 (0.098%) PERC
System Software
1 43 (4.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (8.84%) Terraform
2 39 (3.83%) 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%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.098%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 206 (20.24%) Databricks
2 170 (16.70%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.58%) Oracle
4 59 (5.80%) SAP
5 50 (4.91%) Salesforce
5 50 (4.91%) ServiceNow
6 29 (2.85%) Google
7 25 (2.46%) Informatica
8 21 (2.06%) Guidewire
9 18 (1.77%) Sparx
10 14 (1.38%) Workday
11 13 (1.28%) IBM
12 12 (1.18%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.08%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.88%) Ariba
14 9 (0.88%) Palantir
14 9 (0.88%) Pega
14 9 (0.88%) UiPath
15 8 (0.79%) ESRI
15 8 (0.79%) Foundry