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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 49 36
Rank change year-on-year +22 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,203 608 886
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.86% 4.77% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.73% 5.18% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 427 664
10th Percentile £391 £363 £422
25th Percentile £455 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £712
90th Percentile £750 £769 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 17
10th Percentile £20.89 - £35.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £35.73 £58.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £40.54 £65.00 £62.86
England median hourly rate £79.75 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +47.69% +16.93% -14.08%

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 15,562 11,733 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.06% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,427 7,976 11,319
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 172 330
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.53 £15.99
25th Percentile £25.11 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.38 £63.70 £65.78
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +26 150 £550 -1.79% 55
West London +6 34 £603 -3.60% 17
East London -2 10 £450 -28.00% 16
South London -6 9 £463 -3.90% 10
North London +3 2 £336 -52.87%
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 98 (8.15%) Apache Spark
2 64 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (4.16%) Apache
4 32 (2.66%) Confluence
5 23 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.33%) Appian
7 10 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.75%) Camunda
9 7 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.58%) SAS
10 6 (0.50%) CMS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.083%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 48 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.50%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 27 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.50%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.33%) Findur
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.33%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
9 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 438 (36.41%) Azure
2 307 (25.52%) Power Platform
3 293 (24.36%) AWS
4 152 (12.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 114 (9.48%) GCP
6 113 (9.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 100 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (8.31%) Snowflake
8 95 (7.90%) Amazon S3
9 84 (6.98%) Serverless
10 83 (6.90%) dbt
11 70 (5.82%) GitHub
12 52 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (4.32%) Power Automate
13 42 (3.49%) PowerApps
14 39 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 37 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
16 33 (2.74%) Collibra
17 26 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) RTP
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
3 3 (0.25%) Firewall
3 3 (0.25%) FTP
3 3 (0.25%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) NAS
4 2 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.083%) 4G
5 1 (0.083%) 5G
5 1 (0.083%) DNS
5 1 (0.083%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.083%) Network Security
5 1 (0.083%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (22.61%) Power BI
2 234 (19.45%) Data Warehouse
3 138 (11.47%) Metadata
4 125 (10.39%) Data Lake
5 95 (7.90%) SQL Server
6 80 (6.65%) Tableau
7 68 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 63 (5.24%) BigQuery
8 63 (5.24%) Snowflake Schema
9 62 (5.15%) NoSQL
10 61 (5.07%) Delta Lake
11 58 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 50 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
13 44 (3.66%) Relational Database
14 43 (3.57%) Data Vault
14 43 (3.57%) Star Schema
15 35 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (2.83%) Big Data
17 32 (2.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 110 (9.14%) Git
2 82 (6.82%) JIRA
3 33 (2.74%) ERwin
4 18 (1.50%) GitLab
5 17 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.33%) MLflow
6 16 (1.33%) PowerDesigner
7 11 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.67%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.42%) JMeter
10 3 (0.25%) Maven
10 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.17%) git-flow
11 2 (0.17%) LSMW
11 2 (0.17%) MSTest
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
11 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (34.33%) Finance
2 344 (28.60%) Social Skills
3 249 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (10.31%) Banking
5 114 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 45 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.16%) Marketing
8 31 (2.58%) Financial Institution
9 25 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (1.91%) Retail
11 22 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.75%) Legal
13 18 (1.50%) Front Office
14 17 (1.41%) Billing
15 16 (1.33%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.91%) Aviation
18 10 (0.83%) Manufacturing
19 9 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 285 (23.69%) Data Engineer
2 203 (16.87%) Architect
3 181 (15.05%) Analyst
4 163 (13.55%) Developer
5 151 (12.55%) Senior
6 124 (10.31%) Lead
7 100 (8.31%) Business Analyst
8 97 (8.06%) Data Architect
9 74 (6.15%) Data Analyst
10 70 (5.82%) Data Modeller
11 51 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
12 42 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (3.41%) Consultant
14 40 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
14 40 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
15 39 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 33 (2.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 33 (2.74%) Snowflake Engineer
17 29 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
18 28 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (8.23%) PySpark
2 78 (6.48%) REST
3 76 (6.32%) Kafka
4 43 (3.57%) .NET
5 36 (2.99%) JSON
5 36 (2.99%) OAuth
6 29 (2.41%) SOAP
7 27 (2.24%) XML
8 25 (2.08%) Middleware
8 25 (2.08%) Pandas
9 24 (2.00%) Node.js
10 23 (1.91%) Great Expectations
10 23 (1.91%) RESTful
11 22 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
12 19 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (1.50%) pytest
13 18 (1.50%) Web Services
14 16 (1.33%) OAuth2
15 14 (1.16%) FastAPI
16 13 (1.08%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.06%) Data Structures
3 71 (5.90%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.33%) Reference Data
8 27 (2.24%) CMDB
9 23 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.58%) Reinsurance
13 16 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.25%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.08%) Derivative
16 12 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (1.00%) Equities
17 11 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.50%) Linux
2 16 (1.33%) Unix
3 8 (0.67%) Windows
4 3 (0.25%) zOS
5 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (36.99%) Analytics
2 372 (30.92%) ETL
3 358 (29.76%) Agile
4 332 (27.60%) Business Intelligence
5 292 (24.27%) Data Pipeline
6 289 (24.02%) CI/CD
7 288 (23.94%) Data Governance
8 286 (23.77%) Data Engineering
9 236 (19.62%) DevOps
10 226 (18.79%) Data Architecture
11 205 (17.04%) AI
12 204 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
13 197 (16.38%) Migration
14 177 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 172 (14.30%) Decision-Making
16 167 (13.88%) Validation
17 131 (10.89%) Data Integration
18 125 (10.39%) Visualisation
19 118 (9.81%) Integration Patterns
20 117 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 599 (49.79%) SQL
2 408 (33.92%) Python
3 78 (6.48%) Java
4 67 (5.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (5.49%) C#
6 58 (4.82%) Scala
7 34 (2.83%) JavaScript
8 27 (2.24%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.91%) R
10 19 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.50%) Apex Code
11 18 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.91%) Bicep
12 11 (0.91%) Ruby
13 9 (0.75%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.50%) Bash
14 6 (0.50%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.50%) SOQL
15 5 (0.42%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 223 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 179 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.23%) Degree
4 40 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.00%) CBAP
8 12 (1.00%) IIBA
9 11 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.58%) CISSP
11 7 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.58%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.42%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.42%) ISEB
13 4 (0.33%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (30.92%) Data Quality
2 94 (7.81%) GDPR
3 64 (5.32%) QA
4 16 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.08%) PMO
6 12 (1.00%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.67%) NIST
8 7 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.33%) GRC
11 4 (0.33%) IFRS
11 4 (0.33%) MiFID
11 4 (0.33%) WCAG
12 3 (0.25%) Basel III
12 3 (0.25%) SLA
13 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (3.91%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) HDFS
3 1 (0.083%) RACF
Systems Management
1 113 (9.39%) Terraform
2 47 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.58%) Grafana
4 7 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.42%) Ansible
5 5 (0.42%) SCCM
6 1 (0.083%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 229 (19.04%) Databricks
2 214 (17.79%) Microsoft
3 95 (7.90%) Oracle
4 65 (5.40%) ServiceNow
5 62 (5.15%) SAP
6 61 (5.07%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.57%) Google
8 28 (2.33%) Informatica
9 27 (2.24%) Workday
10 20 (1.66%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.25%) IBM
12 13 (1.08%) Guidewire
13 12 (1.00%) Sparx
14 11 (0.91%) Palantir
15 10 (0.83%) Ariba
15 10 (0.83%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.83%) Foundry
15 10 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.83%) Pega
16 9 (0.75%) UiPath