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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 41 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 913 672 878
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.34% 4.79% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 5.30% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 457 633
10th Percentile £374 £363 £413
25th Percentile £457 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £527 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -1.95% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 18
10th Percentile £28.67 £39.38 £35.44
25th Percentile £30.11 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £52.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% +4.48% -13.36%
75th Percentile £40.13 £58.06 £61.75
90th Percentile £42.90 £65.00 £66.92
England median hourly rate £50.40 £52.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.53% -27.64%

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 13,144 12,678 15,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.30% 90.34% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,697 8,106 11,397
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 261
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.63
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.01%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.45 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +17 113 £525 -9.48% 66
West London -12 17 £603 +14.76% 11
East London -2 6 £473 -24.40% 6
South London -4 6 £500 +1.22% 6
North London +4 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 77 (8.43%) Apache Spark
2 50 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.83%) Apache
4 24 (2.63%) Confluence
5 12 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.10%) Appian
7 8 (0.88%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.77%) Camunda
9 6 (0.66%) CMS
10 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.44%) SAS
12 3 (0.33%) Luigi
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.55%) Endur
5 5 (0.55%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.33%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.33%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.33%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.22%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 330 (36.14%) Azure
2 252 (27.60%) Power Platform
3 229 (25.08%) AWS
4 122 (13.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 94 (10.30%) Snowflake
6 80 (8.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 75 (8.21%) GCP
8 74 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (8.00%) Serverless
10 64 (7.01%) Amazon S3
10 64 (7.01%) dbt
11 53 (5.81%) GitHub
12 44 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (4.05%) Power Automate
14 32 (3.50%) PowerApps
15 30 (3.29%) Collibra
16 28 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
17 26 (2.85%) Azure Functions
18 25 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.44%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) NAS
2 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.22%) RFID
2 2 (0.22%) VPN
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (24.64%) Power BI
2 199 (21.80%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (13.14%) Metadata
4 96 (10.51%) Data Lake
5 72 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 70 (7.67%) NoSQL
7 60 (6.57%) Tableau
8 57 (6.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (5.81%) Data Vault
10 46 (5.04%) Relational Database
10 46 (5.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 39 (4.27%) Big Data
12 38 (4.16%) Delta Lake
12 38 (4.16%) Star Schema
13 36 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
14 28 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 26 (2.85%) BigQuery
17 25 (2.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 84 (9.20%) Git
2 68 (7.45%) JIRA
3 40 (4.38%) ERwin
4 18 (1.97%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.75%) ER Studio
6 13 (1.42%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.20%) GitLab
7 11 (1.20%) MLflow
8 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.44%) JMeter
10 3 (0.33%) Maven
10 3 (0.33%) Selenium
10 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.22%) LSMW
12 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 286 (31.33%) Finance
2 285 (31.22%) Social Skills
3 167 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (10.62%) Banking
5 71 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.61%) Retail
7 30 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (3.07%) Marketing
9 26 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.85%) Investment Banking
10 23 (2.52%) Front Office
11 21 (2.30%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.08%) Back Office
12 19 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.31%) Billing
15 11 (1.20%) Local Government
16 10 (1.10%) Law
16 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 205 (22.45%) Data Engineer
2 157 (17.20%) Architect
3 137 (15.01%) Analyst
4 112 (12.27%) Developer
5 100 (10.95%) Lead
6 94 (10.30%) Senior
7 93 (10.19%) Data Architect
8 89 (9.75%) Business Analyst
9 64 (7.01%) Data Modeller
10 55 (6.02%) Data Analyst
11 49 (5.37%) Consultant
12 43 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (4.49%) Azure Data Engineer
14 35 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
15 26 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 23 (2.52%) Technical Business Analyst
18 22 (2.41%) Technical Analyst
19 20 (2.19%) Data Business Analyst
19 20 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (9.75%) PySpark
2 54 (5.91%) Kafka
3 51 (5.59%) REST
4 28 (3.07%) .NET
5 24 (2.63%) JSON
6 21 (2.30%) OAuth
6 21 (2.30%) XML
7 19 (2.08%) Node.js
7 19 (2.08%) Pandas
8 18 (1.97%) RESTful
8 18 (1.97%) SOAP
9 16 (1.75%) Web Services
10 14 (1.53%) Middleware
11 13 (1.42%) HTML
11 13 (1.42%) scikit-learn
12 12 (1.31%) .NET Core
13 11 (1.20%) OpenAPI
14 10 (1.10%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.99%) Great Expectations
15 9 (0.99%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.43%) Data Structures
2 62 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 46 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (2.52%) Reinsurance
6 19 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.08%) Reference Data
7 16 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.42%) Equities
9 12 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.20%) Derivative
11 10 (1.10%) Fixed Income
12 9 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.88%) Replication
13 8 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 7 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.10%) Linux
1 10 (1.10%) Unix
2 2 (0.22%) zOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (34.61%) Analytics
2 284 (31.11%) Agile
3 278 (30.45%) Business Intelligence
3 278 (30.45%) ETL
4 267 (29.24%) Data Governance
5 220 (24.10%) Data Engineering
6 205 (22.45%) Data Pipeline
7 185 (20.26%) Data Architecture
8 180 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (18.84%) CI/CD
10 155 (16.98%) DevOps
11 148 (16.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 138 (15.12%) AI
13 135 (14.79%) Migration
14 132 (14.46%) Data Integration
15 115 (12.60%) Visualisation
16 102 (11.17%) Decision-Making
17 99 (10.84%) Data Science
18 97 (10.62%) Data Analysis
19 92 (10.08%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 474 (51.92%) SQL
2 309 (33.84%) Python
3 59 (6.46%) Java
4 45 (4.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (4.82%) Scala
6 43 (4.71%) C#
7 25 (2.74%) R
8 23 (2.52%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.97%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.20%) Bicep
11 11 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.66%) Bash
15 5 (0.55%) Korn
15 5 (0.55%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.44%) ABAP
16 4 (0.44%) VBA
17 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 150 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 125 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.01%) Degree
4 32 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.77%) CFA
9 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.66%) CBAP
10 6 (0.66%) IIBA
11 5 (0.55%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.33%) ISEB
12 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.33%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (30.34%) Data Quality
2 78 (8.54%) GDPR
3 42 (4.60%) QA
4 19 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.88%) PMO
6 7 (0.77%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.77%) MiFID
7 6 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.66%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.44%) NIST
10 3 (0.33%) Basel III
10 3 (0.33%) IFRS
10 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) DICOM
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (3.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 65 (7.12%) Terraform
2 33 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.33%) Ansible
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 178 (19.50%) Databricks
2 146 (15.99%) Microsoft
3 58 (6.35%) Oracle
4 52 (5.70%) SAP
5 38 (4.16%) Salesforce
6 37 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.29%) Google
8 20 (2.19%) Guidewire
8 20 (2.19%) Sparx
9 19 (2.08%) Informatica
10 12 (1.31%) IBM
11 10 (1.10%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.99%) Pega
13 8 (0.88%) Workday
14 7 (0.77%) Confluent
14 7 (0.77%) ESRI
14 7 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.77%) Palantir