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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 40 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 866 753 931
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.06% 4.83% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 5.37% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 507 664
10th Percentile £400 £363 £409
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £700
90th Percentile £749 £775 £788
England median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 14
10th Percentile £29.15 £40.00 £35.19
25th Percentile £31.30 £49.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 £52.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +5.53% -14.22%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.75 £63.81
90th Percentile - £65.00 £64.86
England median hourly rate £50.40 £50.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year -0.20% +1.51% -24.62%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 +15 122 £550 -8.33% 38
West London -13 12 £600 +4.99% 8
East London +1 6 £540 +0.93% 7
South London -4 4 £487 -15.26% 18
North London +2 1 - - 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 65 (7.51%) Apache Spark
2 56 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.81%) Apache
4 16 (1.85%) Confluence
5 15 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.69%) Camunda
7 5 (0.58%) Appian
7 5 (0.58%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.58%) CMS
7 5 (0.58%) JBoss
7 5 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.46%) Luigi
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.46%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 37 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (1.15%) Endur
5 8 (0.92%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.92%) Temenos T24
6 5 (0.58%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.35%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.35%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.35%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.23%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.23%) SAP GTS
9 2 (0.23%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 287 (33.14%) Azure
2 229 (26.44%) Power Platform
3 208 (24.02%) AWS
4 107 (12.36%) Snowflake
5 88 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 81 (9.35%) GCP
7 66 (7.62%) dbt
8 63 (7.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 59 (6.81%) Serverless
10 54 (6.24%) Amazon S3
11 52 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (4.85%) GitHub
13 36 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (4.04%) Power Automate
15 34 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
16 32 (3.70%) PowerApps
17 28 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (3.23%) Collibra
18 22 (2.54%) Azure Functions
19 21 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) HTTP
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
2 2 (0.23%) Internet
2 2 (0.23%) NAS
3 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (23.09%) Power BI
2 182 (21.02%) Data Warehouse
3 127 (14.67%) Metadata
4 79 (9.12%) Data Lake
5 71 (8.20%) NoSQL
6 61 (7.04%) Tableau
7 47 (5.43%) Relational Database
8 46 (5.31%) Data Vault
9 45 (5.20%) Snowflake Schema
10 43 (4.97%) SQL Server
11 42 (4.85%) Big Data
12 39 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (4.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (4.04%) Power Query
15 34 (3.93%) BigQuery
16 30 (3.46%) Star Schema
17 29 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
18 22 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (2.54%) Delta Lake
19 18 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 81 (9.35%) Git
2 45 (5.20%) JIRA
3 40 (4.62%) ERwin
4 20 (2.31%) PowerDesigner
5 17 (1.96%) ER Studio
6 12 (1.39%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.04%) GitLab
8 4 (0.46%) Maven
9 3 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.35%) MLflow
9 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.12%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) JUnit
11 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.12%) MSTest
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 287 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 284 (32.79%) Finance
3 174 (20.09%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (10.51%) Banking
5 70 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 34 (3.93%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.35%) Front Office
8 28 (3.23%) Back Office
9 27 (3.12%) Marketing
9 27 (3.12%) Retail
10 26 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.39%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.27%) Local Government
17 10 (1.15%) Legal
18 9 (1.04%) Law
18 9 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (18.82%) Architect
2 160 (18.48%) Data Engineer
3 148 (17.09%) Analyst
4 109 (12.59%) Developer
5 90 (10.39%) Data Architect
6 84 (9.70%) Business Analyst
7 82 (9.47%) Senior
8 81 (9.35%) Lead
9 70 (8.08%) Data Modeller
10 62 (7.16%) Data Analyst
11 58 (6.70%) Consultant
12 32 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.46%) Azure Data Engineer
13 30 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
14 23 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 23 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (2.42%) Technical Business Analyst
17 20 (2.31%) Azure Architect
17 20 (2.31%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.85%) PySpark
2 46 (5.31%) Kafka
3 32 (3.70%) REST
4 29 (3.35%) .NET
5 22 (2.54%) JSON
6 18 (2.08%) Node.js
6 18 (2.08%) RESTful
6 18 (2.08%) XML
7 16 (1.85%) Middleware
7 16 (1.85%) SOAP
8 14 (1.62%) HTML
9 12 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
9 12 (1.39%) Pandas
10 11 (1.27%) .NET Core
11 10 (1.15%) OAuth
11 10 (1.15%) Spring
12 8 (0.92%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.92%) Swagger
12 8 (0.92%) Web Services
13 7 (0.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.31%) Data Structures
2 58 (6.70%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.54%) Reference Data
6 21 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (2.19%) Reinsurance
9 16 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.73%) Derivative
10 15 (1.73%) Equities
11 14 (1.62%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.27%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.15%) CMDB
14 10 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.15%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 8 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.39%) Linux
2 9 (1.04%) Unix
3 1 (0.12%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (32.68%) Analytics
2 269 (31.06%) Agile
3 256 (29.56%) Data Governance
4 254 (29.33%) Business Intelligence
5 228 (26.33%) ETL
6 191 (22.06%) Data Engineering
7 175 (20.21%) Data Pipeline
8 167 (19.28%) Data Architecture
9 163 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
10 142 (16.40%) CI/CD
11 133 (15.36%) DevOps
12 129 (14.90%) Visualisation
13 123 (14.20%) Data Integration
14 121 (13.97%) Migration
14 121 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 117 (13.51%) AI
16 97 (11.20%) Data Analysis
17 96 (11.09%) Decision-Making
18 89 (10.28%) Data Science
19 81 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 428 (49.42%) SQL
2 289 (33.37%) Python
3 69 (7.97%) Java
4 47 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (4.50%) C#
6 36 (4.16%) Scala
7 29 (3.35%) R
8 27 (3.12%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.39%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.39%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.92%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.81%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.58%) Bash
14 5 (0.58%) Bicep
15 4 (0.46%) ABAP
15 4 (0.46%) Korn
15 4 (0.46%) VBA
16 2 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 126 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.39%) Degree
4 23 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.31%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.69%) CFA
10 4 (0.46%) CBAP
10 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) CISSP
12 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (25.98%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.55%) GDPR
3 42 (4.85%) QA
4 18 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.15%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.15%) MiFID
6 7 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.69%) PMO
7 6 (0.69%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) IFRS
10 3 (0.35%) Basel III
10 3 (0.35%) HL7
11 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) DICOM
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (3.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (5.66%) Terraform
2 29 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.12%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 144 (16.63%) Databricks
2 137 (15.82%) Microsoft
3 53 (6.12%) Oracle
4 45 (5.20%) SAP
5 42 (4.85%) Salesforce
6 36 (4.16%) Google
7 26 (3.00%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.08%) Sparx
9 16 (1.85%) Informatica
10 13 (1.50%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.39%) Guidewire
12 10 (1.15%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.04%) Charles River
13 9 (1.04%) Workday
14 8 (0.92%) Alteryx
14 8 (0.92%) IBM
14 8 (0.92%) Pega
14 8 (0.92%) Talend
14 8 (0.92%) Temenos
15 7 (0.81%) Palantir