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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 45 44
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,284 625 835
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.71% 4.97% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 5.37% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 434 603
10th Percentile £391 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £698
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 13
10th Percentile £27.91 £28.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.85 £60.63 £54.05
England median hourly rate £69.22 £45.73 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.37% +7.60% +17.24%

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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +15 153 £552 -4.09% 29
West London +1 37 £603 +20.50% 8
East London +5 10 £450 -33.33% 6
South London -4 9 £463 -2.63% 1
North London +1 2 £336 - 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 80 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (6.00%) Apache Spark
3 49 (3.82%) Apache
4 32 (2.49%) Confluence
5 26 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.86%) Appian
7 10 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.62%) SAS
9 6 (0.47%) Camunda
10 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.078%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.078%) nginx
12 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 45 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.09%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.62%) Findur
5 7 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.47%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.31%) Quorum
8 4 (0.31%) R3 Corda
8 4 (0.31%) Ripple
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 453 (35.28%) Azure
2 316 (24.61%) Power Platform
3 315 (24.53%) AWS
4 137 (10.67%) GCP
5 131 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 115 (8.96%) dbt
7 113 (8.80%) Snowflake
8 104 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (7.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 82 (6.39%) Amazon S3
11 73 (5.69%) GitHub
12 71 (5.53%) Serverless
13 48 (3.74%) Power Automate
14 45 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (3.12%) PowerApps
16 38 (2.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 33 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
18 31 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
19 26 (2.02%) Collibra
20 25 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) Firewall
1 5 (0.39%) RTP
2 4 (0.31%) Network Security
2 4 (0.31%) VPN
3 3 (0.23%) FTP
4 2 (0.16%) 5G
4 2 (0.16%) SSL
4 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.16%) Wireless
5 1 (0.078%) 4G
5 1 (0.078%) DNS
5 1 (0.078%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.078%) RFID
5 1 (0.078%) SMS
5 1 (0.078%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (22.35%) Power BI
2 223 (17.37%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (11.92%) Metadata
4 123 (9.58%) Data Lake
5 89 (6.93%) SQL Server
6 82 (6.39%) Tableau
7 70 (5.45%) BigQuery
8 66 (5.14%) Delta Lake
9 62 (4.83%) Relational Database
9 62 (4.83%) Snowflake Schema
10 53 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
11 51 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (3.74%) Star Schema
13 47 (3.66%) NoSQL
14 45 (3.50%) Data Vault
15 43 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
16 42 (3.27%) Power Query
17 41 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
18 26 (2.02%) Big Data
18 26 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 104 (8.10%) Git
2 94 (7.32%) JIRA
3 38 (2.96%) ERwin
4 25 (1.95%) GitLab
5 18 (1.40%) ER Studio
6 17 (1.32%) Jenkins
7 15 (1.17%) PowerDesigner
8 13 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 11 (0.86%) MLflow
10 6 (0.47%) Ant
10 6 (0.47%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.47%) Maven
10 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.39%) JMeter
12 4 (0.31%) Gradle
13 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.23%) MSTest
14 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 472 (36.76%) Finance
2 342 (26.64%) Social Skills
3 245 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (12.77%) Banking
5 135 (10.51%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.04%) Marketing
8 31 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 30 (2.34%) Legal
10 29 (2.26%) Retail
11 28 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (2.02%) Front Office
14 25 (1.95%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.25%) Billing
17 14 (1.09%) Aviation
18 12 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.93%) Publishing
19 11 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 302 (23.52%) Data Engineer
2 244 (19.00%) Architect
3 189 (14.72%) Analyst
4 187 (14.56%) Developer
5 174 (13.55%) Senior
6 131 (10.20%) Lead
7 121 (9.42%) Data Architect
8 95 (7.40%) Business Analyst
9 77 (6.00%) Data Analyst
10 74 (5.76%) Data Modeller
11 60 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
12 47 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 45 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (3.35%) Senior Developer
15 36 (2.80%) Technical Architect
16 35 (2.73%) Power BI Developer
17 34 (2.65%) Snowflake Engineer
18 33 (2.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 32 (2.49%) Consultant
20 30 (2.34%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (7.94%) REST
2 91 (7.09%) PySpark
3 81 (6.31%) Kafka
4 42 (3.27%) SOAP
5 41 (3.19%) .NET
6 39 (3.04%) JSON
7 34 (2.65%) Lightning Web Components
8 33 (2.57%) RESTful
9 31 (2.41%) Middleware
10 30 (2.34%) OAuth
11 25 (1.95%) Node.js
11 25 (1.95%) Web Services
11 25 (1.95%) XML
12 24 (1.87%) Pandas
13 21 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (1.56%) Spring
15 19 (1.48%) React
16 17 (1.32%) Spring Boot
17 16 (1.25%) Great Expectations
17 16 (1.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 99 (7.71%) Data Structures
3 79 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
4 71 (5.53%) Product Ownership
5 55 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.96%) Reference Data
8 34 (2.65%) CMDB
9 30 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.95%) Reinsurance
12 22 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.40%) Derivative
16 16 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
17 15 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (1.17%) Taxonomies
18 14 (1.09%) Equities
18 14 (1.09%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.17%) Linux
2 13 (1.01%) Unix
3 10 (0.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.16%) zOS
5 1 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (38.40%) Analytics
2 374 (29.13%) ETL
3 364 (28.35%) Agile
4 336 (26.17%) Business Intelligence
5 327 (25.47%) Data Pipeline
6 325 (25.31%) CI/CD
7 287 (22.35%) Data Engineering
8 281 (21.88%) Data Governance
9 247 (19.24%) Data Architecture
9 247 (19.24%) DevOps
10 233 (18.15%) AI
11 216 (16.82%) Migration
12 202 (15.73%) Validation
13 195 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
14 190 (14.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 180 (14.02%) Decision-Making
16 134 (10.44%) Data Transformation
17 121 (9.42%) Integration Patterns
18 120 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 120 (9.35%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 603 (46.96%) SQL
2 411 (32.01%) Python
3 90 (7.01%) Java
4 75 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (5.14%) C#
6 44 (3.43%) JavaScript
7 40 (3.12%) Scala
8 34 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 32 (2.49%) Apex Code
10 25 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.17%) R
13 14 (1.09%) SOQL
14 12 (0.93%) Ruby
15 9 (0.70%) Bicep
16 8 (0.62%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
17 7 (0.55%) SOSL
18 6 (0.47%) Bash
18 6 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 222 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 182 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 72 (5.61%) Degree
4 34 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.86%) CISSP
9 10 (0.78%) CBAP
9 10 (0.78%) IIBA
9 10 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.70%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.55%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.47%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.47%) CCSP
13 6 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.47%) GCIH
13 6 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (30.53%) Data Quality
2 84 (6.54%) GDPR
3 63 (4.91%) QA
4 16 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.01%) PMO
6 10 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 9 (0.70%) GRC
8 8 (0.62%) NIST
9 7 (0.55%) IFRS
10 6 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.47%) SLA
11 5 (0.39%) MiFID
12 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.31%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.31%) WCAG
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 55 (4.28%) Docker
2 5 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.078%) HDFS
3 1 (0.078%) RACF
Systems Management
1 108 (8.41%) Terraform
2 48 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.62%) Ansible
5 6 (0.47%) Grafana
5 6 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.39%) SCCM
7 2 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.078%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.078%) QRadar
8 1 (0.078%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 224 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 214 (16.67%) Databricks
3 107 (8.33%) Oracle
4 87 (6.78%) Salesforce
5 68 (5.30%) ServiceNow
6 51 (3.97%) SAP
7 44 (3.43%) Google
8 27 (2.10%) Informatica
8 27 (2.10%) Workday
9 20 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.01%) Palantir
11 12 (0.93%) Bloomberg
11 12 (0.93%) Guidewire
11 12 (0.93%) IBM
12 11 (0.86%) Alteryx
13 10 (0.78%) Foundry
13 10 (0.78%) Splunk
14 8 (0.62%) Anaplan
14 8 (0.62%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.55%) UiPath