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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 37 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 958 676 888
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.42% 4.93% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.07% 5.45% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 457 643
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £457 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 20
10th Percentile £21.74 £39.38 £35.57
25th Percentile £25.58 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.86 £54.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +8.54% -11.95%
75th Percentile £37.81 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £41.98 £68.75 £65.33
England median hourly rate £50.40 £55.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -9.19% +14.43% -30.71%

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 13,555 12,414 16,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.89% 90.56% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,000 7,871 11,674
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 210 154 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.27 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.14 £36.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% +20.00% -15.49%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.25 £79.63 £72.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +18 121 £525 -8.10% 111
West London -9 21 £603 +17.56% 8
East London +3 8 £495 -20.80% 4
South London -11 6 £500 +1.22% 4
North London +4 1 £495 -30.62% 2
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 83 (8.66%) Apache Spark
2 51 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (4.28%) Apache
4 26 (2.71%) Confluence
5 14 (1.46%) Appian
6 13 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.94%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.84%) Camunda
9 7 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.63%) CMS
11 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.21%) Luigi
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.21%) SAS
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pig
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.73%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.63%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.52%) Endur
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.31%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.31%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.21%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.21%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.21%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.21%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.21%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 355 (37.06%) Azure
2 259 (27.04%) Power Platform
3 246 (25.68%) AWS
4 135 (14.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 101 (10.54%) Snowflake
6 87 (9.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 81 (8.46%) GCP
8 80 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (7.83%) Serverless
10 70 (7.31%) Amazon S3
11 68 (7.10%) dbt
12 55 (5.74%) GitHub
13 46 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (4.59%) Power Automate
15 32 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (3.34%) PowerApps
16 29 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
18 26 (2.71%) Collibra
19 25 (2.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.42%) HTTP
2 3 (0.31%) RTP
3 2 (0.21%) NAS
3 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.21%) RFID
3 2 (0.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (24.43%) Power BI
2 195 (20.35%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (12.32%) Metadata
4 107 (11.17%) Data Lake
5 80 (8.35%) SQL Server
6 73 (7.62%) NoSQL
7 64 (6.68%) Tableau
8 61 (6.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (5.43%) Snowflake Schema
10 51 (5.32%) Data Vault
11 43 (4.49%) Delta Lake
11 43 (4.49%) Relational Database
12 39 (4.07%) Star Schema
13 38 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 38 (3.97%) Big Data
13 38 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (3.24%) BigQuery
16 26 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 25 (2.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 84 (8.77%) Git
2 73 (7.62%) JIRA
3 41 (4.28%) ERwin
4 17 (1.77%) ER Studio
5 16 (1.67%) PowerDesigner
6 14 (1.46%) MLflow
7 13 (1.36%) Jenkins
8 9 (0.94%) GitLab
9 7 (0.73%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.42%) JMeter
11 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.21%) LSMW
12 2 (0.21%) Selenium
13 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.10%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.10%) Toad
13 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 304 (31.73%) Finance
2 294 (30.69%) Social Skills
3 177 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (9.92%) Banking
5 73 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.34%) Retail
7 31 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (2.92%) Marketing
9 25 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.30%) Back Office
11 21 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 20 (2.09%) Front Office
12 20 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.98%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.15%) Billing
16 10 (1.04%) Law
17 9 (0.94%) Local Government
17 9 (0.94%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 227 (23.70%) Data Engineer
2 159 (16.60%) Architect
3 140 (14.61%) Analyst
4 122 (12.73%) Developer
5 115 (12.00%) Lead
6 103 (10.75%) Senior
7 94 (9.81%) Data Architect
8 93 (9.71%) Business Analyst
9 63 (6.58%) Data Modeller
10 56 (5.85%) Data Analyst
11 49 (5.11%) Consultant
12 44 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (4.28%) Azure Data Engineer
14 39 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
15 29 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 26 (2.71%) Snowflake Engineer
18 25 (2.61%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 24 (2.51%) Technical Business Analyst
20 23 (2.40%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (9.29%) PySpark
2 61 (6.37%) Kafka
3 59 (6.16%) REST
4 29 (3.03%) .NET
5 24 (2.51%) JSON
5 24 (2.51%) OAuth
5 24 (2.51%) Pandas
6 22 (2.30%) XML
7 20 (2.09%) RESTful
8 19 (1.98%) Node.js
8 19 (1.98%) SOAP
9 16 (1.67%) Web Services
10 15 (1.57%) scikit-learn
11 14 (1.46%) Great Expectations
11 14 (1.46%) Middleware
11 14 (1.46%) OpenAPI
12 12 (1.25%) .NET Core
13 11 (1.15%) HTML
13 11 (1.15%) NumPy
14 10 (1.04%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.77%) Data Structures
2 73 (7.62%) Cloud Native
3 51 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (4.70%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (2.61%) Reinsurance
6 21 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.09%) Reference Data
8 15 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.46%) CMDB
9 14 (1.46%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.36%) Equities
11 11 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.15%) Derivative
11 11 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.04%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.36%) Unix
2 12 (1.25%) Linux
3 4 (0.42%) Windows
4 3 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (34.97%) Analytics
2 301 (31.42%) Agile
2 301 (31.42%) ETL
3 280 (29.23%) Business Intelligence
4 267 (27.87%) Data Governance
5 244 (25.47%) Data Engineering
6 216 (22.55%) Data Pipeline
7 191 (19.94%) CI/CD
8 190 (19.83%) Data Architecture
9 183 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
10 173 (18.06%) DevOps
11 161 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 154 (16.08%) AI
13 148 (15.45%) Migration
14 129 (13.47%) Data Integration
15 123 (12.84%) Visualisation
16 104 (10.86%) Data Science
16 104 (10.86%) Decision-Making
17 96 (10.02%) Data Analysis
17 96 (10.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 489 (51.04%) SQL
2 323 (33.72%) Python
3 54 (5.64%) Java
4 50 (5.22%) Scala
5 49 (5.11%) C#
6 47 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 20 (2.09%) R
9 17 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.25%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.25%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.15%) Bicep
12 10 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.94%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.63%) Korn
15 5 (0.52%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.42%) ABAP
17 3 (0.31%) Bash
17 3 (0.31%) Ruby
17 3 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 163 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 138 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.62%) Degree
4 35 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.04%) CBAP
9 10 (1.04%) IIBA
10 7 (0.73%) CFA
10 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.31%) ISEB
12 3 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (32.05%) Data Quality
2 80 (8.35%) GDPR
3 49 (5.11%) QA
4 17 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.84%) PMO
7 7 (0.73%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.63%) MiFID
8 6 (0.63%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.42%) NIST
11 3 (0.31%) Basel III
12 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.21%) NCSC
12 2 (0.21%) SLA
12 2 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (3.76%) Docker
2 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (8.04%) Terraform
2 34 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.42%) Grafana
5 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.21%) Ansible
6 2 (0.21%) SCCM
7 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 194 (20.25%) Databricks
2 159 (16.60%) Microsoft
3 58 (6.05%) Oracle
4 53 (5.53%) SAP
5 46 (4.80%) ServiceNow
6 43 (4.49%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.61%) Google
8 22 (2.30%) Informatica
9 20 (2.09%) Guidewire
10 19 (1.98%) Sparx
11 13 (1.36%) Workday
12 12 (1.25%) IBM
13 10 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.94%) Pega
15 8 (0.84%) Ariba
15 8 (0.84%) ESRI
15 8 (0.84%) Palantir
15 8 (0.84%) UiPath
16 7 (0.73%) Automation Anywhere