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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 41 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 908 671 871
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.32% 4.78% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 5.29% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 455 627
10th Percentile £375 £363 £413
25th Percentile £462 £463 £498
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 £526 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.09% -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% -26.30%

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 13,119 12,681 15,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.32% 90.30% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,100 11,299
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £451
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 222 154 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.77 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.90 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.65 £80.53 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +12 113 £525 -9.48% 62
West London -9 18 £601 +14.52% 12
East London -1 6 £473 -24.40% 7
South London -1 6 £500 -0.05% 8
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 (8.48%) Apache Spark
2 49 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.85%) Apache
4 23 (2.53%) Confluence
5 12 (1.32%) 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 34 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.33%) Trello
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.98%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 324 (35.68%) Azure
2 248 (27.31%) Power Platform
3 227 (25.00%) AWS
4 120 (13.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 93 (10.24%) Snowflake
6 80 (8.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 74 (8.15%) GCP
8 72 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
8 72 (7.93%) Serverless
9 64 (7.05%) Amazon S3
10 63 (6.94%) dbt
11 51 (5.62%) GitHub
12 44 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (4.07%) Power Automate
14 32 (3.52%) PowerApps
15 29 (3.19%) Collibra
16 28 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
17 25 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (2.75%) Azure Functions
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
1 221 (24.34%) Power BI
2 197 (21.70%) Data Warehouse
3 117 (12.89%) Metadata
4 96 (10.57%) Data Lake
5 70 (7.71%) NoSQL
5 70 (7.71%) SQL Server
6 58 (6.39%) Tableau
7 57 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 51 (5.62%) Data Vault
9 47 (5.18%) Relational Database
10 45 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
11 39 (4.30%) Big Data
12 38 (4.19%) Star Schema
13 36 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (3.96%) Delta Lake
13 36 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
14 28 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (2.97%) BigQuery
15 27 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 24 (2.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 84 (9.25%) Git
2 65 (7.16%) JIRA
3 41 (4.52%) ERwin
4 18 (1.98%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.76%) ER Studio
6 13 (1.43%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.21%) GitLab
7 11 (1.21%) 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%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.22%) LSMW
11 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 286 (31.50%) Finance
2 279 (30.73%) Social Skills
3 168 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (10.57%) Banking
5 71 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.52%) Retail
7 30 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (3.08%) Marketing
9 26 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.86%) Investment Banking
10 22 (2.42%) Front Office
11 20 (2.20%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.09%) Back Office
12 19 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.32%) Billing
15 11 (1.21%) Local Government
16 10 (1.10%) Law
16 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 199 (21.92%) Data Engineer
2 159 (17.51%) Architect
3 137 (15.09%) Analyst
4 110 (12.11%) Developer
5 100 (11.01%) Lead
6 94 (10.35%) Data Architect
7 90 (9.91%) Senior
8 89 (9.80%) Business Analyst
9 65 (7.16%) Data Modeller
10 54 (5.95%) Data Analyst
11 51 (5.62%) Consultant
12 42 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (4.41%) Azure Data Engineer
14 33 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
15 26 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (2.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 23 (2.53%) Technical Business Analyst
17 22 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
18 20 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
19 19 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (9.80%) PySpark
2 54 (5.95%) Kafka
3 52 (5.73%) REST
4 28 (3.08%) .NET
5 23 (2.53%) JSON
6 21 (2.31%) OAuth
6 21 (2.31%) XML
7 19 (2.09%) Node.js
7 19 (2.09%) Pandas
7 19 (2.09%) SOAP
8 17 (1.87%) RESTful
9 16 (1.76%) Web Services
10 15 (1.65%) Middleware
11 13 (1.43%) HTML
11 13 (1.43%) scikit-learn
12 12 (1.32%) .NET Core
13 11 (1.21%) OpenAPI
14 10 (1.10%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
15 9 (0.99%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.48%) Data Structures
2 61 (6.72%) Cloud Native
3 47 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 41 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.64%) Reinsurance
6 23 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.98%) Reference Data
9 16 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.32%) Equities
11 12 (1.32%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.10%) Derivative
13 9 (0.99%) CMDB
13 9 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.99%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.88%) Replication
14 8 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.10%) Linux
1 10 (1.10%) Unix
2 2 (0.22%) zOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (34.03%) Analytics
2 282 (31.06%) Agile
3 275 (30.29%) ETL
4 273 (30.07%) Business Intelligence
5 264 (29.07%) Data Governance
6 217 (23.90%) Data Engineering
7 200 (22.03%) Data Pipeline
8 185 (20.37%) Data Architecture
9 179 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (18.61%) CI/CD
11 154 (16.96%) DevOps
12 145 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 138 (15.20%) AI
14 135 (14.87%) Migration
15 128 (14.10%) Data Integration
16 113 (12.44%) Visualisation
17 101 (11.12%) Decision-Making
18 97 (10.68%) Data Analysis
18 97 (10.68%) Data Science
19 90 (9.91%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 467 (51.43%) SQL
2 305 (33.59%) Python
3 58 (6.39%) Java
4 44 (4.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 44 (4.85%) Scala
5 42 (4.63%) C#
6 25 (2.75%) R
7 23 (2.53%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.98%) PL/SQL
9 13 (1.43%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.21%) Bicep
10 11 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.88%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.66%) Bash
14 5 (0.55%) Korn
14 5 (0.55%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.44%) ABAP
15 4 (0.44%) VBA
16 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 151 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 126 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.16%) Degree
4 33 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.77%) CFA
9 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.55%) CBAP
10 5 (0.55%) IIBA
10 5 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.33%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (30.07%) Data Quality
2 78 (8.59%) GDPR
3 42 (4.63%) QA
4 19 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.88%) PMO
6 7 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.77%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.77%) MiFID
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%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) LOINC
System Software
1 32 (3.52%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (6.94%) Terraform
2 33 (3.63%) 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
1 176 (19.38%) Databricks
2 147 (16.19%) Microsoft
3 56 (6.17%) Oracle
4 52 (5.73%) SAP
5 39 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 37 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.30%) Google
8 20 (2.20%) Guidewire
8 20 (2.20%) Sparx
9 17 (1.87%) Informatica
10 12 (1.32%) 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%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.77%) Palantir
15 6 (0.66%) MicroStrategy