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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 823 745 910
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.90% 4.74% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 5.31% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 502 625
10th Percentile £403 £363 £400
25th Percentile £469 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% -1.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £539 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.05% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 13
10th Percentile £34.00 £38.13 £35.13
25th Percentile £36.25 £43.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% +4.04% -16.81%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £50.15 £54.75 £64.90
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.33 £49.75
% change year-on-year +30.19% -18.94% -26.02%

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 12,878 14,024 18,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.35% 89.20% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,465 9,048 13,116
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.06% -2.84%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 254
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.31
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +6 117 £550 -8.33% 267
West London -15 11 £525 -8.14% 19
East London +1 5 £585 +9.35% 10
South London -5 4 £487 -15.26% 2
North London - 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 60 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 58 (7.05%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (4.25%) Apache
4 19 (2.31%) Confluence
5 16 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.61%) Camunda
6 5 (0.61%) CMS
6 5 (0.61%) JBoss
6 5 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.61%) SAS
7 4 (0.49%) Appian
7 4 (0.49%) Luigi
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 37 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (1.34%) Endur
5 8 (0.97%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.97%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.73%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.49%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.36%) Loan IQ
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.24%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 280 (34.02%) Azure
2 213 (25.88%) Power Platform
3 210 (25.52%) AWS
4 102 (12.39%) Snowflake
5 95 (11.54%) GCP
6 73 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (8.14%) dbt
8 57 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 50 (6.08%) Serverless
10 49 (5.95%) Amazon S3
11 48 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (5.59%) GitHub
13 34 (4.13%) Power Automate
14 32 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
15 30 (3.65%) PowerApps
16 25 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (3.04%) Collibra
17 24 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.07%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.49%) Firewall
2 3 (0.36%) Internet
3 2 (0.24%) HTTP
3 2 (0.24%) SSL
4 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.12%) MQTT
4 1 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (22.48%) Data Warehouse
2 183 (22.24%) Power BI
3 118 (14.34%) Metadata
4 85 (10.33%) Data Lake
5 55 (6.68%) NoSQL
5 55 (6.68%) Tableau
6 46 (5.59%) Relational Database
7 45 (5.47%) Big Data
8 44 (5.35%) Data Vault
8 44 (5.35%) SQL Server
9 42 (5.10%) Snowflake Schema
10 39 (4.74%) BigQuery
11 35 (4.25%) Power Query
12 34 (4.13%) Star Schema
13 33 (4.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (2.67%) Delta Lake
17 19 (2.31%) Looker
17 19 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (8.02%) Git
2 48 (5.83%) ERwin
3 43 (5.22%) JIRA
4 23 (2.79%) ER Studio
5 20 (2.43%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.34%) GitLab
6 11 (1.34%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.61%) Maven
8 3 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
8 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.36%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) Gradle
10 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 281 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 254 (30.86%) Finance
3 161 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (10.09%) Banking
5 63 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.37%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.52%) Retail
8 27 (3.28%) Back Office
8 27 (3.28%) Front Office
9 26 (3.16%) Marketing
10 25 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.58%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.34%) Legal
15 11 (1.34%) Local Government
15 11 (1.34%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (21.02%) Architect
2 152 (18.47%) Data Engineer
3 127 (15.43%) Analyst
4 102 (12.39%) Developer
5 97 (11.79%) Data Architect
6 79 (9.60%) Lead
7 76 (9.23%) Senior
8 75 (9.11%) Data Modeller
9 69 (8.38%) Business Analyst
10 55 (6.68%) Consultant
11 54 (6.56%) Data Analyst
12 32 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
14 25 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
15 24 (2.92%) Azure Architect
16 23 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (2.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 20 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
19 19 (2.31%) Technical Architect
20 18 (2.19%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.05%) PySpark
2 42 (5.10%) Kafka
3 35 (4.25%) REST
4 26 (3.16%) .NET
5 23 (2.79%) JSON
6 21 (2.55%) HTML
7 19 (2.31%) XML
8 17 (2.07%) RESTful
9 16 (1.94%) Middleware
10 15 (1.82%) SOAP
11 14 (1.70%) Node.js
11 14 (1.70%) Web Services
12 12 (1.46%) Pandas
13 10 (1.22%) CSS
13 10 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.22%) Spring
14 9 (1.09%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.09%) OAuth
15 8 (0.97%) scikit-learn
15 8 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.02%) Data Structures
2 56 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 51 (6.20%) Cloud Native
4 28 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.67%) Reinsurance
6 21 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.55%) Reference Data
7 20 (2.43%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.58%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.46%) Derivative
10 12 (1.46%) Equities
10 12 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.09%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.09%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.34%) Unix
2 9 (1.09%) Linux
3 3 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (34.02%) Analytics
2 255 (30.98%) Agile
3 241 (29.28%) Business Intelligence
4 238 (28.92%) Data Governance
5 228 (27.70%) ETL
6 169 (20.53%) Data Engineering
7 165 (20.05%) Data Architecture
8 164 (19.93%) Data Pipeline
9 155 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
10 128 (15.55%) CI/CD
11 122 (14.82%) DevOps
12 120 (14.58%) Data Integration
12 120 (14.58%) Visualisation
13 113 (13.73%) AI
14 107 (13.00%) Migration
15 104 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
16 93 (11.30%) Data Analysis
17 89 (10.81%) Data Science
18 87 (10.57%) Decision-Making
19 79 (9.60%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 413 (50.18%) SQL
2 274 (33.29%) Python
3 70 (8.51%) Java
4 44 (5.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 36 (4.37%) C#
6 29 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 28 (3.40%) Scala
8 25 (3.04%) R
9 15 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.22%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.97%) VBA
13 7 (0.85%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.73%) ABAP
14 6 (0.73%) Bash
15 5 (0.61%) C++
16 4 (0.49%) C
16 4 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 112 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 87 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.78%) Degree
4 21 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.61%) CFA
12 4 (0.49%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.36%) CBAP
13 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.24%) CISSP
14 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (24.06%) Data Quality
2 67 (8.14%) GDPR
3 38 (4.62%) QA
4 18 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.97%) MiFID
7 7 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.85%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.61%) PMO
9 5 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.49%) HL7
11 3 (0.36%) IFRS
11 3 (0.36%) SLA
12 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) DICOM
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) GxP
12 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
13 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (3.40%) Docker
2 8 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (5.83%) Terraform
2 31 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.12%) Puppet
5 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 142 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 124 (15.07%) Databricks
3 57 (6.93%) Oracle
4 45 (5.47%) SAP
5 43 (5.22%) Google
6 39 (4.74%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.31%) Sparx
8 18 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.82%) Guidewire
9 15 (1.82%) Informatica
10 11 (1.34%) Palantir
11 10 (1.22%) Foundry
11 10 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.09%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.09%) Workday
13 8 (0.97%) Charles River
13 8 (0.97%) Talend
13 8 (0.97%) Temenos
14 7 (0.85%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.73%) MicroStrategy