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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 47 38
Rank change year-on-year +19 -9 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,204 603 873
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.96% 4.77% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% 5.20% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 417 651
10th Percentile £388 £363 £413
25th Percentile £455 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £713
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 18
10th Percentile £20.89 - £35.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £29.07 £41.56
Median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +6.60% -8.37%
75th Percentile £35.73 £60.31 £53.44
90th Percentile £40.54 £65.00 £62.58
England median hourly rate £76.80 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +38.38% +20.18% -26.70%

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 15,419 11,590 15,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 91.69% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,329 7,865 11,333
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.90
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +34 149 £550 -0.18% 101
West London +8 33 £603 -3.60% 10
South London -7 12 £475 -1.30% 3
East London -1 10 £450 -28.00% 5
North London +1 1 £495 -30.62% 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
1 104 (8.64%) Apache Spark
2 65 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (4.40%) Apache
4 34 (2.82%) Confluence
5 23 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.50%) Appian
7 11 (0.91%) Camunda
7 11 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.66%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.58%) CMS
9 7 (0.58%) SAS
10 4 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
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%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 47 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.50%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.42%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.33%) Findur
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.17%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 445 (36.96%) Azure
2 318 (26.41%) Power Platform
3 302 (25.08%) AWS
4 155 (12.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 114 (9.47%) GCP
6 110 (9.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 103 (8.55%) Snowflake
8 101 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (7.81%) Amazon S3
10 82 (6.81%) dbt
11 81 (6.73%) Serverless
12 74 (6.15%) GitHub
13 51 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (4.15%) Power Automate
15 40 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (3.32%) PowerApps
16 35 (2.91%) Collibra
17 34 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
18 26 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
19 23 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) RTP
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
3 3 (0.25%) Firewall
3 3 (0.25%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) FTP
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%) MQTT
5 1 (0.083%) Network Security
5 1 (0.083%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (23.34%) Power BI
2 243 (20.18%) Data Warehouse
3 144 (11.96%) Metadata
4 127 (10.55%) Data Lake
5 90 (7.48%) SQL Server
6 79 (6.56%) Tableau
7 69 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 66 (5.48%) NoSQL
8 66 (5.48%) Snowflake Schema
9 61 (5.07%) Delta Lake
10 59 (4.90%) BigQuery
11 54 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
12 49 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
13 41 (3.41%) Relational Database
14 40 (3.32%) Data Vault
14 40 (3.32%) Star Schema
15 34 (2.82%) Big Data
15 34 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 29 (2.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 111 (9.22%) Git
2 80 (6.64%) JIRA
3 32 (2.66%) ERwin
4 18 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.41%) GitLab
5 17 (1.41%) MLflow
6 14 (1.16%) PowerDesigner
7 11 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.66%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.50%) JMeter
10 3 (0.25%) Maven
10 3 (0.25%) MSTest
10 3 (0.25%) Selenium
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%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 407 (33.80%) Finance
2 362 (30.07%) Social Skills
3 255 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (10.22%) Banking
5 115 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.16%) Marketing
8 31 (2.57%) Financial Institution
9 29 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (2.24%) Retail
11 25 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.66%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.58%) Billing
15 18 (1.50%) Front Office
15 18 (1.50%) Legal
16 15 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.00%) Back Office
18 10 (0.83%) Law
18 10 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 288 (23.92%) Data Engineer
2 210 (17.44%) Architect
3 177 (14.70%) Analyst
4 162 (13.46%) Developer
5 143 (11.88%) Senior
6 125 (10.38%) Lead
7 103 (8.55%) Data Architect
8 97 (8.06%) Business Analyst
9 72 (5.98%) Data Analyst
10 71 (5.90%) Data Modeller
11 47 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
12 46 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (3.65%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (3.41%) Consultant
15 40 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 33 (2.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 33 (2.74%) Snowflake Engineer
18 28 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
18 28 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (8.72%) PySpark
2 79 (6.56%) REST
3 78 (6.48%) Kafka
4 41 (3.41%) .NET
5 34 (2.82%) JSON
5 34 (2.82%) OAuth
6 30 (2.49%) SOAP
7 27 (2.24%) Pandas
7 27 (2.24%) XML
8 25 (2.08%) Middleware
9 24 (1.99%) Great Expectations
9 24 (1.99%) RESTful
10 23 (1.91%) Node.js
11 20 (1.66%) Lightning Web Components
11 20 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
12 18 (1.50%) pytest
12 18 (1.50%) Web Services
13 16 (1.33%) OAuth2
14 15 (1.25%) scikit-learn
15 14 (1.16%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.81%) Data Structures
3 69 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.33%) Reference Data
7 26 (2.16%) CMDB
8 22 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.58%) Reinsurance
11 18 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
12 17 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (1.33%) Low-Code
14 14 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.00%) Equities
16 11 (0.91%) Clustering
16 11 (0.91%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.50%) Linux
2 17 (1.41%) Unix
3 8 (0.66%) Windows
4 3 (0.25%) zOS
5 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (37.54%) Analytics
2 382 (31.73%) ETL
3 358 (29.73%) Agile
4 341 (28.32%) Business Intelligence
5 298 (24.75%) Data Governance
6 297 (24.67%) Data Pipeline
7 296 (24.58%) Data Engineering
8 286 (23.75%) CI/CD
9 239 (19.85%) DevOps
10 237 (19.68%) Data Architecture
11 211 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
12 210 (17.44%) AI
13 191 (15.86%) Migration
14 185 (15.37%) Stakeholder Management
15 166 (13.79%) Decision-Making
16 158 (13.12%) Validation
17 144 (11.96%) Data Integration
18 136 (11.30%) Visualisation
19 124 (10.30%) Integration Patterns
20 118 (9.80%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 608 (50.50%) SQL
2 420 (34.88%) Python
3 79 (6.56%) Java
4 66 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 65 (5.40%) C#
6 62 (5.15%) Scala
7 34 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.08%) R
8 25 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 19 (1.58%) Apex Code
10 17 (1.41%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.33%) 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%) Korn
15 5 (0.42%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 230 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 184 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 80 (6.64%) Degree
4 42 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.00%) CBAP
9 11 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.91%) IIBA
10 10 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.58%) CISSP
12 7 (0.58%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.42%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.33%) CFA
14 4 (0.33%) ISEB
14 4 (0.33%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (31.23%) Data Quality
2 89 (7.39%) GDPR
3 66 (5.48%) QA
4 19 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.25%) PMO
6 11 (0.91%) Solvency II
7 9 (0.75%) NIST
8 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.50%) MiFID
10 5 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.42%) GRC
10 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.33%) IFRS
11 4 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.25%) Basel III
12 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.25%) SLA
12 3 (0.25%) WCAG
13 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (3.90%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) HDFS
3 1 (0.083%) RACF
Systems Management
1 110 (9.14%) Terraform
2 46 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.42%) Grafana
4 5 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.42%) SCCM
5 4 (0.33%) Ansible
6 1 (0.083%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.083%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 235 (19.52%) Databricks
2 209 (17.36%) Microsoft
3 91 (7.56%) Oracle
4 66 (5.48%) ServiceNow
5 63 (5.23%) Salesforce
6 58 (4.82%) SAP
7 44 (3.65%) Google
8 28 (2.33%) Informatica
9 25 (2.08%) Workday
10 22 (1.83%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.25%) Guidewire
11 15 (1.25%) IBM
12 13 (1.08%) Sparx
13 12 (1.00%) Palantir
13 12 (1.00%) Pega
14 11 (0.91%) Foundry
14 11 (0.91%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.75%) Ariba
15 9 (0.75%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.75%) UiPath