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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 40 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 921 682 896
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.31% 4.90% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 5.42% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 464 646
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £456 £463 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year - -5.38% -3.13%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £540 £570
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 20
10th Percentile £21.74 £38.75 £35.57
25th Percentile £25.58 £46.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.86 £52.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.23% +5.53% -14.22%
75th Percentile £37.81 £60.38 £61.75
90th Percentile £41.98 £65.00 £65.33
England median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -19.44% +10.20% -30.00%

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 13,275 12,586 16,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.02% 90.47% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,810 8,009 11,751
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
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 £503 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.29% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 311
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.14
25th Percentile £24.89 £24.66 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £37.18
% change year-on-year -26.15% -8.41% +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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +17 119 £525 -9.48% 78
West London -10 17 £603 +14.76% 10
East London 0 8 £495 -20.80% 5
South London -3 6 £500 +1.22% 12
North London +6 1 - - 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 79 (8.58%) Apache Spark
2 52 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (3.91%) Apache
4 24 (2.61%) Confluence
5 12 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.19%) Appian
7 8 (0.87%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.87%) Camunda
8 6 (0.65%) CMS
9 5 (0.54%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.33%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.33%) Trello
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.54%) Endur
5 5 (0.54%) SAP MDG
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%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 335 (36.37%) Azure
2 251 (27.25%) Power Platform
3 236 (25.62%) AWS
4 123 (13.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 98 (10.64%) Snowflake
6 79 (8.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 78 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (8.03%) GCP
9 73 (7.93%) Serverless
10 67 (7.27%) Amazon S3
11 63 (6.84%) dbt
12 54 (5.86%) GitHub
13 45 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (4.23%) Power Automate
15 30 (3.26%) PowerApps
16 28 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
17 27 (2.93%) Collibra
18 26 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.43%) 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
1 225 (24.43%) Power BI
2 196 (21.28%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (12.27%) Metadata
4 97 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 76 (8.25%) SQL Server
6 70 (7.60%) NoSQL
7 60 (6.51%) Tableau
8 56 (6.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (5.54%) Data Vault
10 50 (5.43%) Snowflake Schema
11 44 (4.78%) Relational Database
12 40 (4.34%) Delta Lake
13 39 (4.23%) Star Schema
14 38 (4.13%) Big Data
14 38 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
15 35 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (2.82%) BigQuery
19 25 (2.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 85 (9.23%) Git
2 70 (7.60%) JIRA
3 41 (4.45%) ERwin
4 17 (1.85%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.74%) ER Studio
6 13 (1.41%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.30%) MLflow
8 11 (1.19%) GitLab
9 7 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.43%) JMeter
11 3 (0.33%) Maven
11 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.22%) LSMW
12 2 (0.22%) Selenium
13 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.11%) MSTest
13 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 292 (31.70%) Finance
2 283 (30.73%) Social Skills
3 168 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (10.21%) Banking
5 69 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.58%) Retail
7 28 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.04%) Marketing
8 26 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.39%) Front Office
10 21 (2.28%) Financial Institution
10 21 (2.28%) Investment Banking
11 20 (2.17%) Back Office
12 18 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.19%) Billing
15 10 (1.09%) Law
16 9 (0.98%) Local Government
16 9 (0.98%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (23.67%) Data Engineer
2 152 (16.50%) Architect
3 139 (15.09%) Analyst
4 115 (12.49%) Developer
5 106 (11.51%) Lead
6 96 (10.42%) Senior
7 91 (9.88%) Business Analyst
8 88 (9.55%) Data Architect
9 66 (7.17%) Data Modeller
10 55 (5.97%) Data Analyst
11 49 (5.32%) Consultant
12 43 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (4.45%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
15 27 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 26 (2.82%) Snowflake Engineer
17 25 (2.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 23 (2.50%) Technical Business Analyst
19 22 (2.39%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (9.34%) PySpark
2 56 (6.08%) Kafka
3 53 (5.75%) REST
4 28 (3.04%) .NET
5 24 (2.61%) JSON
6 22 (2.39%) OAuth
6 22 (2.39%) XML
7 19 (2.06%) Node.js
7 19 (2.06%) Pandas
7 19 (2.06%) RESTful
8 17 (1.85%) SOAP
9 15 (1.63%) Web Services
10 14 (1.52%) Middleware
11 13 (1.41%) scikit-learn
12 12 (1.30%) .NET Core
12 12 (1.30%) HTML
12 12 (1.30%) OpenAPI
13 10 (1.09%) Great Expectations
13 10 (1.09%) OAuth2
14 9 (0.98%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 78 (8.47%) Data Structures
2 67 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 47 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
3 47 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.61%) Reinsurance
5 23 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.95%) Reference Data
8 14 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.41%) Equities
10 12 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.19%) Derivative
12 10 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.09%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.87%) CMDB
14 8 (0.87%) Replication
14 8 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.09%) Linux
1 10 (1.09%) Unix
2 2 (0.22%) zOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (34.31%) Analytics
2 297 (32.25%) Agile
3 287 (31.16%) ETL
4 275 (29.86%) Business Intelligence
5 262 (28.45%) Data Governance
6 222 (24.10%) Data Engineering
7 211 (22.91%) Data Pipeline
8 183 (19.87%) Data Architecture
9 181 (19.65%) CI/CD
10 178 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
11 165 (17.92%) DevOps
12 154 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 143 (15.53%) Migration
14 140 (15.20%) AI
15 131 (14.22%) Data Integration
16 116 (12.60%) Visualisation
17 103 (11.18%) Decision-Making
18 100 (10.86%) Data Science
19 97 (10.53%) Data Analysis
20 93 (10.10%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 477 (51.79%) SQL
2 314 (34.09%) Python
3 58 (6.30%) Java
4 47 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 47 (5.10%) Scala
5 46 (4.99%) C#
6 22 (2.39%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.39%) R
7 17 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.19%) Bicep
9 11 (1.19%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.76%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.76%) Bash
12 5 (0.54%) Korn
12 5 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.43%) ABAP
14 3 (0.33%) Ruby
14 3 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 155 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 69 (7.49%) Degree
4 33 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.04%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.09%) CBAP
9 10 (1.09%) IIBA
10 7 (0.76%) CFA
10 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.33%) ISEB
12 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.33%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (30.84%) Data Quality
2 75 (8.14%) GDPR
3 43 (4.67%) QA
4 17 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.87%) PMO
6 7 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.76%) MiFID
7 6 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.65%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.43%) NIST
10 3 (0.33%) Basel III
10 3 (0.33%) IFRS
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.22%) NCSC
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (3.69%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 68 (7.38%) Terraform
2 35 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.54%) 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
1 180 (19.54%) Databricks
2 148 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.41%) Oracle
4 51 (5.54%) SAP
5 39 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 39 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.71%) Google
7 20 (2.17%) Guidewire
7 20 (2.17%) Informatica
7 20 (2.17%) Sparx
8 12 (1.30%) IBM
9 10 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 9 (0.98%) Pega
10 9 (0.98%) Workday
11 8 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.76%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.76%) Confluent
12 7 (0.76%) ESRI
12 7 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
12 7 (0.76%) Palantir