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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 40 44
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 841 753 903
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.95% 4.79% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.44% 5.37% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 509 625
10th Percentile £401 £363 £400
25th Percentile £465 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £660 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.36% -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% -19.18%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £50.15 £54.75 £64.90
England median hourly rate £48.00 £40.33 £49.75
% change year-on-year +19.03% -18.94% -26.30%

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 13,053 14,033 17,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 89.24% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,585 9,054 12,730
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.21% -3.69%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.13 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.56 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%

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 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 20 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 20 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 +10 122 £550 -8.33% 253
West London -16 11 £525 -8.14% 18
East London +2 5 £585 +9.35% 9
South London -6 4 £487 -15.26% 3
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 61 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 58 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.28%) Apache
4 20 (2.38%) Confluence
5 17 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.59%) Camunda
6 5 (0.59%) CMS
6 5 (0.59%) JBoss
6 5 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.59%) SAS
7 4 (0.48%) Appian
7 4 (0.48%) Luigi
7 4 (0.48%) 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 42 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 26 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (1.31%) Endur
5 8 (0.95%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.95%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.71%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.48%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.36%) Loan IQ
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 Payables
10 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.24%) SAP SCM
10 2 (0.24%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 284 (33.77%) Azure
2 218 (25.92%) Power Platform
3 212 (25.21%) AWS
4 104 (12.37%) Snowflake
5 95 (11.30%) GCP
6 77 (9.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 68 (8.09%) dbt
8 60 (7.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 51 (6.06%) Serverless
10 49 (5.83%) Amazon S3
11 48 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (5.47%) GitHub
13 35 (4.16%) Power Automate
14 33 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
15 32 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (3.69%) PowerApps
17 26 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
18 24 (2.85%) Collibra
18 24 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
19 18 (2.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.36%) Firewall
1 3 (0.36%) HTTP
1 3 (0.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.24%) NAS
3 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.12%) MQTT
3 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (22.35%) Power BI
2 187 (22.24%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (14.63%) Metadata
4 87 (10.34%) Data Lake
5 55 (6.54%) NoSQL
5 55 (6.54%) Tableau
6 47 (5.59%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.47%) Big Data
8 45 (5.35%) Data Vault
8 45 (5.35%) SQL Server
9 43 (5.11%) Snowflake Schema
10 38 (4.52%) BigQuery
10 38 (4.52%) Power Query
11 33 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (3.69%) Star Schema
13 27 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
14 22 (2.62%) Delta Lake
15 19 (2.26%) Looker
16 17 (2.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (7.85%) Git
2 48 (5.71%) ERwin
2 48 (5.71%) JIRA
3 21 (2.50%) PowerDesigner
4 20 (2.38%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.31%) GitLab
5 11 (1.31%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.59%) Maven
7 3 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.36%) Selenium
7 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.36%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.24%) MLflow
9 1 (0.12%) Gradle
9 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 286 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 264 (31.39%) Finance
3 167 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (10.58%) Banking
5 67 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.52%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.45%) Retail
8 28 (3.33%) Front Office
9 27 (3.21%) Back Office
9 27 (3.21%) Marketing
10 26 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.66%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.43%) Local Government
14 12 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.31%) Legal
16 9 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 172 (20.45%) Architect
2 156 (18.55%) Data Engineer
3 133 (15.81%) Analyst
4 106 (12.60%) Developer
5 96 (11.41%) Data Architect
6 81 (9.63%) Lead
7 77 (9.16%) Senior
8 75 (8.92%) Business Analyst
9 74 (8.80%) Data Modeller
10 56 (6.66%) Data Analyst
11 55 (6.54%) Consultant
12 32 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
14 25 (2.97%) Azure Data Engineer
15 24 (2.85%) Azure Architect
16 23 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 23 (2.73%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
18 19 (2.26%) Technical Architect
18 19 (2.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.02%) PySpark
2 40 (4.76%) Kafka
3 34 (4.04%) REST
4 27 (3.21%) .NET
5 24 (2.85%) JSON
6 22 (2.62%) HTML
7 19 (2.26%) XML
8 18 (2.14%) RESTful
9 16 (1.90%) Middleware
10 15 (1.78%) SOAP
11 14 (1.66%) Node.js
11 14 (1.66%) Web Services
12 12 (1.43%) Pandas
13 10 (1.19%) CSS
13 10 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.19%) OAuth
13 10 (1.19%) Spring
14 9 (1.07%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.95%) scikit-learn
15 8 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.20%) Data Structures
2 55 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 51 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.73%) Reinsurance
6 21 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.50%) Reference Data
7 20 (2.38%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.55%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.43%) Derivative
10 12 (1.43%) Equities
11 10 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.19%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.07%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.19%) Unix
2 9 (1.07%) Linux
3 3 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (34.48%) Analytics
2 262 (31.15%) Agile
3 245 (29.13%) Business Intelligence
4 242 (28.78%) Data Governance
5 235 (27.94%) ETL
6 174 (20.69%) Data Engineering
7 167 (19.86%) Data Architecture
8 166 (19.74%) Data Pipeline
9 159 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
10 131 (15.58%) CI/CD
11 123 (14.63%) DevOps
11 123 (14.63%) Visualisation
12 122 (14.51%) Data Integration
13 118 (14.03%) AI
14 108 (12.84%) Migration
14 108 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 94 (11.18%) Data Analysis
16 89 (10.58%) Data Science
16 89 (10.58%) Decision-Making
17 81 (9.63%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 422 (50.18%) SQL
2 277 (32.94%) Python
3 71 (8.44%) Java
4 46 (5.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 37 (4.40%) C#
6 30 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 28 (3.33%) Scala
8 26 (3.09%) R
9 15 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.19%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.95%) VBA
14 7 (0.83%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.83%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.71%) ABAP
15 6 (0.71%) Bash
16 5 (0.59%) C++
17 4 (0.48%) C
17 4 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 114 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 90 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.73%) Degree
4 21 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 21 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.59%) CFA
11 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.36%) CBAP
12 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.24%) CISSP
13 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (24.61%) Data Quality
2 70 (8.32%) GDPR
3 39 (4.64%) QA
4 18 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.07%) MiFID
6 9 (1.07%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.59%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.48%) HL7
10 4 (0.48%) IFRS
11 3 (0.36%) SLA
12 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
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
System Software
1 28 (3.33%) Docker
2 8 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (5.59%) Terraform
2 31 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.59%) Ansible
4 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.12%) Puppet
5 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 145 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 126 (14.98%) Databricks
3 56 (6.66%) Oracle
4 46 (5.47%) SAP
5 40 (4.76%) Google
6 39 (4.64%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.26%) Sparx
9 17 (2.02%) Informatica
10 15 (1.78%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.31%) Palantir
12 10 (1.19%) Bloomberg
12 10 (1.19%) Foundry
12 10 (1.19%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.07%) Charles River
13 9 (1.07%) Workday
14 8 (0.95%) Talend
14 8 (0.95%) Temenos
15 7 (0.83%) Alteryx
16 6 (0.71%) MicroStrategy