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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 46 38
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,234 600 841
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.86% 4.84% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 5.25% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 415 620
10th Percentile £387 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 15
10th Percentile £21.74 - £35.00
25th Percentile £25.58 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £35.11 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% +8.25% -11.82%
75th Percentile £48.19 £61.88 £52.75
90th Percentile £56.18 £65.00 £60.37
England median hourly rate £79.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.64% +22.22% +1.41%

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 15,896 11,429 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 92.26% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,715 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £812 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 185 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.10 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.90 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +18 146 £575 +4.55% 55
West London +7 38 £603 -3.60% 16
East London +2 12 £450 -33.33% 15
South London -10 9 £463 -2.63% 11
North London +1 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
1 102 (8.27%) Apache Spark
2 65 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (4.13%) Apache
4 33 (2.67%) Confluence
5 23 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.13%) Appian
7 10 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.65%) Camunda
8 8 (0.65%) SAS
9 7 (0.57%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.081%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.081%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 44 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.24%) Trello
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.97%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.49%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.41%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.41%) Findur
7 5 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.24%) Dynamics SL
9 3 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite
9 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.24%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 453 (36.71%) Azure
2 304 (24.64%) Power Platform
3 301 (24.39%) AWS
4 146 (11.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 128 (10.37%) GCP
6 106 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 91 (7.37%) dbt
8 91 (7.37%) Snowflake
9 87 (7.05%) Amazon S3
10 76 (6.16%) Serverless
11 68 (5.51%) GitHub
12 47 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (3.65%) Power Automate
14 37 (3.00%) PowerApps
15 32 (2.59%) Collibra
16 31 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
19 27 (2.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) RTP
2 3 (0.24%) Firewall
2 3 (0.24%) FTP
2 3 (0.24%) VPN
3 2 (0.16%) 5G
3 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 2 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.16%) RFID
4 1 (0.081%) 4G
4 1 (0.081%) DNS
4 1 (0.081%) HTTP
4 1 (0.081%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (22.04%) Power BI
2 229 (18.56%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (11.43%) Metadata
4 129 (10.45%) Data Lake
5 97 (7.86%) SQL Server
6 83 (6.73%) Tableau
7 69 (5.59%) BigQuery
8 68 (5.51%) Delta Lake
9 63 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 59 (4.78%) NoSQL
11 55 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
12 54 (4.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 53 (4.29%) Relational Database
14 51 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 49 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
16 43 (3.48%) Star Schema
17 40 (3.24%) Data Vault
18 34 (2.76%) Power Query
19 31 (2.51%) Big Data
19 31 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 115 (9.32%) Git
2 83 (6.73%) JIRA
3 34 (2.76%) ERwin
4 22 (1.78%) GitLab
5 18 (1.46%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.30%) MLflow
7 15 (1.22%) PowerDesigner
8 13 (1.05%) ER Studio
8 13 (1.05%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.49%) Maven
10 5 (0.41%) JMeter
11 4 (0.32%) Gradle
12 3 (0.24%) Ant
12 3 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.24%) MSTest
12 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.16%) git-flow
13 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 434 (35.17%) Finance
2 325 (26.34%) Social Skills
3 248 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (10.94%) Banking
5 123 (9.97%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (2.92%) Marketing
8 33 (2.67%) Financial Institution
9 26 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.86%) Legal
12 22 (1.78%) Front Office
12 22 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.54%) Retail
14 18 (1.46%) Billing
15 17 (1.38%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.81%) Aviation
18 9 (0.73%) Publishing
19 8 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 295 (23.91%) Data Engineer
2 218 (17.67%) Architect
3 179 (14.51%) Analyst
4 170 (13.78%) Developer
5 167 (13.53%) Senior
6 129 (10.45%) Lead
7 108 (8.75%) Data Architect
8 93 (7.54%) Business Analyst
9 74 (6.00%) Data Analyst
10 69 (5.59%) Data Modeller
11 58 (4.70%) Senior Data Engineer
12 45 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
13 43 (3.48%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 37 (3.00%) Senior Developer
15 37 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (2.76%) Consultant
16 34 (2.76%) Technical Architect
17 32 (2.59%) Snowflake Engineer
18 31 (2.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (8.51%) PySpark
2 91 (7.37%) REST
3 84 (6.81%) Kafka
4 41 (3.32%) .NET
5 35 (2.84%) JSON
5 35 (2.84%) SOAP
6 34 (2.76%) OAuth
7 27 (2.19%) Lightning Web Components
7 27 (2.19%) Middleware
8 26 (2.11%) RESTful
9 25 (2.03%) Pandas
10 24 (1.94%) Node.js
11 23 (1.86%) XML
12 22 (1.78%) Great Expectations
12 22 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (1.62%) Web Services
14 17 (1.38%) pytest
14 17 (1.38%) React
15 15 (1.22%) Apache Avro
16 14 (1.13%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.24%) Cloud Native
2 99 (8.02%) Data Structures
3 71 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
4 67 (5.43%) Product Ownership
5 41 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.67%) Reference Data
8 32 (2.59%) CMDB
9 27 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.86%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.46%) Derivative
14 18 (1.46%) Equities
14 18 (1.46%) Reinsurance
15 17 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
16 15 (1.22%) Low-Code
17 13 (1.05%) Fixed Income
18 12 (0.97%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.46%) Linux
2 15 (1.22%) Unix
3 9 (0.73%) Windows
4 3 (0.24%) zOS
5 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (36.06%) Analytics
2 373 (30.23%) ETL
3 346 (28.04%) Agile
4 327 (26.50%) Business Intelligence
5 305 (24.72%) CI/CD
6 304 (24.64%) Data Pipeline
7 293 (23.74%) Data Governance
8 289 (23.42%) Data Engineering
9 246 (19.94%) DevOps
10 234 (18.96%) Data Architecture
11 209 (16.94%) Migration
12 205 (16.61%) AI
12 205 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
13 184 (14.91%) Validation
14 176 (14.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 172 (13.94%) Decision-Making
16 127 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
17 126 (10.21%) Data Integration
18 119 (9.64%) Visualisation
19 112 (9.08%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 607 (49.19%) SQL
2 412 (33.39%) Python
3 85 (6.89%) Java
4 69 (5.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 67 (5.43%) C#
6 56 (4.54%) Scala
7 37 (3.00%) JavaScript
8 28 (2.27%) TypeScript
9 26 (2.11%) Apex Code
10 24 (1.94%) PL/SQL
11 23 (1.86%) T-SQL
12 19 (1.54%) R
13 11 (0.89%) Ruby
14 9 (0.73%) Bicep
14 9 (0.73%) SOQL
15 7 (0.57%) Bash
15 7 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
15 7 (0.57%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.49%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 222 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 177 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 78 (6.32%) Degree
4 40 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.05%) CBAP
8 12 (0.97%) IIBA
8 12 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.89%) CISSP
10 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.65%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.49%) CCSP
13 6 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.49%) GCIH
13 6 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (31.20%) Data Quality
2 85 (6.89%) GDPR
3 64 (5.19%) QA
4 18 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.97%) PMO
6 8 (0.65%) ISO 20022
6 8 (0.65%) NIST
7 7 (0.57%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.49%) GRC
8 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.49%) MiFID
8 6 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.41%) WCAG
10 4 (0.32%) SLA
11 3 (0.24%) Basel III
11 3 (0.24%) IFRS
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 54 (4.38%) Docker
2 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.081%) HDFS
3 1 (0.081%) RACF
Systems Management
1 109 (8.83%) Terraform
2 51 (4.13%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.65%) Grafana
5 7 (0.57%) Ansible
5 7 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.41%) SCCM
7 1 (0.081%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.081%) QRadar
7 1 (0.081%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 233 (18.88%) Databricks
2 213 (17.26%) Microsoft
3 101 (8.18%) Oracle
4 73 (5.92%) Salesforce
5 68 (5.51%) ServiceNow
6 57 (4.62%) SAP
7 44 (3.57%) Google
8 28 (2.27%) Workday
9 27 (2.19%) Informatica
10 18 (1.46%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.97%) Guidewire
11 12 (0.97%) IBM
12 10 (0.81%) Alteryx
12 10 (0.81%) Bloomberg
12 10 (0.81%) Foundry
12 10 (0.81%) Palantir
12 10 (0.81%) Splunk
13 9 (0.73%) Confluent
13 9 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.65%) Sparx