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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 40 38
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,005 650 895
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.53% 4.86% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% 5.36% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 443 650
10th Percentile £375 £363 £413
25th Percentile £458 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £592
Median % change year-on-year - -7.09% -1.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 19
10th Percentile £20.89 £39.38 £35.50
25th Percentile £23.45 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £56.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.96% +14.14% -7.91%
75th Percentile £31.61 £65.00 £57.94
90th Percentile £33.94 £68.75 £66.13
England median hourly rate £57.30 £57.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year -0.35% +19.79% -25.58%

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 13,941 12,133 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.57% 90.64% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,301 7,761 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 151 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.88 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +20 132 £525 -7.49% 68
West London -6 22 £603 +20.50% 14
South London -8 9 £487 -0.05% 5
East London 0 8 £495 -20.80% 4
North London +4 1 £495 -30.62% 8
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 87 (8.66%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (4.08%) Apache
4 29 (2.89%) Confluence
5 15 (1.49%) Appian
6 14 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.90%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.80%) Camunda
9 7 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.60%) CMS
11 4 (0.40%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.30%) SAS
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.100%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.100%) Apache Pig
14 1 (0.100%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.100%) nginx
14 1 (0.100%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.30%) Trello
6 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.100%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.80%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.50%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.40%) Endur
6 4 (0.40%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.30%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.30%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.30%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.20%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.20%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SRM
8 2 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 373 (37.11%) Azure
2 277 (27.56%) Power Platform
3 261 (25.97%) AWS
4 140 (13.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 108 (10.75%) Snowflake
6 94 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 90 (8.96%) GCP
8 81 (8.06%) Serverless
9 79 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (7.26%) Amazon S3
11 63 (6.27%) dbt
12 52 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (4.98%) GitHub
14 47 (4.68%) Power Automate
15 34 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (3.38%) PowerApps
16 32 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (2.69%) Collibra
18 24 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
19 22 (2.19%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.40%) HTTP
2 3 (0.30%) RTP
3 2 (0.20%) NAS
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) RFID
3 2 (0.20%) VPN
4 1 (0.100%) 4G
4 1 (0.100%) 5G
4 1 (0.100%) DNS
4 1 (0.100%) Firewall
4 1 (0.100%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.100%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (24.98%) Power BI
2 203 (20.20%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (12.94%) Metadata
4 113 (11.24%) Data Lake
5 85 (8.46%) SQL Server
6 72 (7.16%) NoSQL
7 68 (6.77%) Tableau
8 62 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 59 (5.87%) Snowflake Schema
10 51 (5.07%) Data Vault
11 48 (4.78%) Delta Lake
12 42 (4.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 41 (4.08%) Relational Database
14 40 (3.98%) Big Data
15 39 (3.88%) BigQuery
15 39 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
16 37 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (3.18%) Star Schema
18 27 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 26 (2.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 81 (8.06%) Git
2 75 (7.46%) JIRA
3 43 (4.28%) ERwin
4 18 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.59%) ER Studio
5 16 (1.59%) MLflow
6 15 (1.49%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.29%) GitLab
8 7 (0.70%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.40%) JMeter
10 3 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.20%) LSMW
11 2 (0.20%) Selenium
11 2 (0.20%) Toad
12 1 (0.100%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.100%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.100%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.100%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.100%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 321 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 320 (31.84%) Finance
3 195 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.65%) Banking
5 79 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.18%) Retail
8 29 (2.89%) Marketing
9 25 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 21 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.99%) Back Office
11 20 (1.99%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.69%) Front Office
13 16 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.19%) Billing
15 10 (1.00%) Law
15 10 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.00%) Publishing
16 9 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 234 (23.28%) Data Engineer
2 170 (16.92%) Architect
3 153 (15.22%) Analyst
4 125 (12.44%) Developer
5 122 (12.14%) Lead
6 112 (11.14%) Senior
7 98 (9.75%) Data Architect
8 96 (9.55%) Business Analyst
9 71 (7.06%) Data Modeller
10 62 (6.17%) Data Analyst
11 51 (5.07%) Consultant
12 43 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (3.98%) Azure Data Engineer
14 38 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
15 30 (2.99%) Snowflake Engineer
16 29 (2.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 27 (2.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 27 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
18 26 (2.59%) Lead Data Engineer
19 23 (2.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (9.45%) PySpark
2 65 (6.47%) REST
3 63 (6.27%) Kafka
4 28 (2.79%) Pandas
5 26 (2.59%) OAuth
6 25 (2.49%) .NET
6 25 (2.49%) JSON
7 23 (2.29%) XML
8 21 (2.09%) RESTful
9 20 (1.99%) SOAP
10 18 (1.79%) Middleware
10 18 (1.79%) Node.js
10 18 (1.79%) scikit-learn
11 17 (1.69%) Web Services
12 16 (1.59%) Great Expectations
13 15 (1.49%) OpenAPI
14 13 (1.29%) Lightning Web Components
15 12 (1.19%) NumPy
15 12 (1.19%) OAuth2
16 11 (1.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.66%) Data Structures
2 72 (7.16%) Cloud Native
3 53 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.79%) Reinsurance
6 24 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.29%) Reference Data
8 19 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.59%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.59%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.49%) CMDB
11 12 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 11 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.00%) Equities
14 9 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.90%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.80%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.29%) Linux
1 13 (1.29%) Unix
2 4 (0.40%) Windows
3 3 (0.30%) zOS
4 1 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (36.22%) Analytics
2 324 (32.24%) ETL
3 317 (31.54%) Agile
4 305 (30.35%) Business Intelligence
5 276 (27.46%) Data Governance
6 247 (24.58%) Data Engineering
7 225 (22.39%) Data Pipeline
8 206 (20.50%) CI/CD
9 202 (20.10%) Data Architecture
10 197 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
11 182 (18.11%) DevOps
12 161 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 159 (15.82%) AI
14 158 (15.72%) Migration
15 130 (12.94%) Data Integration
16 128 (12.74%) Visualisation
17 113 (11.24%) Validation
18 111 (11.04%) Decision-Making
19 109 (10.85%) Data Science
20 103 (10.25%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 507 (50.45%) SQL
2 339 (33.73%) Python
3 56 (5.57%) Java
4 52 (5.17%) Scala
5 48 (4.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 47 (4.68%) C#
7 25 (2.49%) JavaScript
8 19 (1.89%) R
9 17 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.19%) Apex Code
12 12 (1.19%) Bicep
13 10 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.60%) Korn
14 6 (0.60%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.40%) ABAP
15 4 (0.40%) SOQL
16 3 (0.30%) Bash
16 3 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 170 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 142 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.26%) Degree
4 32 (3.18%) Azure Certification
4 32 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.09%) CBAP
9 10 (1.00%) IIBA
10 7 (0.70%) CFA
10 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.40%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.30%) ISEB
13 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (31.84%) Data Quality
2 81 (8.06%) GDPR
3 53 (5.27%) QA
4 19 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.09%) PMO
6 9 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.80%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.60%) MiFID
9 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.40%) NIST
11 3 (0.30%) Basel III
11 3 (0.30%) WCAG
12 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.20%) GRC
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 1 (0.100%) PERC
System Software
1 41 (4.08%) Docker
2 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (8.86%) Terraform
2 39 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.40%) Grafana
5 3 (0.30%) Ansible
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.30%) SCCM
6 1 (0.100%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.100%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.100%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 202 (20.10%) Databricks
2 168 (16.72%) Microsoft
3 62 (6.17%) Oracle
4 56 (5.57%) SAP
5 49 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 48 (4.78%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.79%) Google
8 24 (2.39%) Informatica
9 20 (1.99%) Guidewire
10 19 (1.89%) Sparx
11 13 (1.29%) IBM
11 13 (1.29%) Workday
12 11 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.90%) Ariba
13 9 (0.90%) Pega
13 9 (0.90%) UiPath
14 8 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (0.80%) ESRI
14 8 (0.80%) Palantir