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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 39 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 941 677 900
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.39% 4.90% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 5.42% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 457 648
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £456 £464 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.89% -3.62%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £540 £561
% change year-on-year -2.78% -3.67% -2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 21
10th Percentile £21.74 £39.38 £35.00
25th Percentile £25.58 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.86 £54.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +9.09% -12.39%
75th Percentile £37.81 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £41.98 £68.75 £64.53
England median hourly rate £43.50 £55.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year -21.62% +15.63% -31.43%

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 13,393 12,486 16,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.95% 90.46% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 7,905 11,829
10th Percentile £350 £350 £342
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 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.23
25th Percentile £25.08 £25.23 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +17 123 £525 -8.70% 101
West London -12 20 £603 +17.56% 10
East London +1 8 £495 -20.80% 5
South London -4 6 £500 +1.22% 5
North London +4 1 £495 -30.62%
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 81 (8.61%) Apache Spark
2 53 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (4.04%) Apache
4 26 (2.76%) Confluence
5 13 (1.38%) Appian
5 13 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.85%) ArcGIS
6 8 (0.85%) Camunda
7 6 (0.64%) CMS
7 6 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Luigi
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.32%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 26 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.85%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.53%) Endur
5 5 (0.53%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.32%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.21%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.21%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.21%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 348 (36.98%) Azure
2 257 (27.31%) Power Platform
3 245 (26.04%) AWS
4 132 (14.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 101 (10.73%) Snowflake
6 85 (9.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 80 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (8.40%) GCP
9 74 (7.86%) Serverless
10 68 (7.23%) Amazon S3
11 66 (7.01%) dbt
12 55 (5.84%) GitHub
13 46 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (4.46%) Power Automate
15 31 (3.29%) PowerApps
16 29 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
18 25 (2.66%) Collibra
18 25 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.43%) HTTP
2 2 (0.21%) NAS
2 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.21%) RFID
2 2 (0.21%) RTP
2 2 (0.21%) VPN
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (24.65%) Power BI
2 199 (21.15%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (12.54%) Metadata
4 102 (10.84%) Data Lake
5 78 (8.29%) SQL Server
6 74 (7.86%) NoSQL
7 64 (6.80%) Tableau
8 60 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (5.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 50 (5.31%) Data Vault
11 44 (4.68%) Relational Database
12 42 (4.46%) Delta Lake
13 39 (4.14%) Star Schema
14 38 (4.04%) Big Data
14 38 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
15 36 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
16 30 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (2.87%) BigQuery
17 27 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (2.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 85 (9.03%) Git
2 74 (7.86%) JIRA
3 42 (4.46%) ERwin
4 17 (1.81%) ER Studio
5 16 (1.70%) PowerDesigner
6 13 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 13 (1.38%) MLflow
7 9 (0.96%) GitLab
8 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.43%) JMeter
10 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.21%) LSMW
11 2 (0.21%) Selenium
12 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.11%) Maven
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.11%) Toad
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 299 (31.77%) Finance
2 290 (30.82%) Social Skills
3 171 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (9.99%) Banking
5 72 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.40%) Retail
7 28 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.98%) Marketing
8 27 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.23%) Back Office
9 21 (2.23%) Front Office
9 21 (2.23%) Investment Banking
10 20 (2.13%) Financial Institution
10 20 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.17%) Billing
13 10 (1.06%) Law
14 9 (0.96%) Local Government
15 8 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 224 (23.80%) Data Engineer
2 157 (16.68%) Architect
3 136 (14.45%) Analyst
4 121 (12.86%) Developer
5 112 (11.90%) Lead
6 99 (10.52%) Senior
7 92 (9.78%) Business Analyst
7 92 (9.78%) Data Architect
8 63 (6.70%) Data Modeller
9 53 (5.63%) Data Analyst
10 50 (5.31%) Consultant
11 42 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (4.25%) Azure Data Engineer
13 38 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
14 29 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 26 (2.76%) Snowflake Engineer
17 25 (2.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 24 (2.55%) Technical Business Analyst
19 22 (2.34%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (9.25%) PySpark
2 59 (6.27%) Kafka
3 58 (6.16%) REST
4 28 (2.98%) .NET
5 24 (2.55%) JSON
6 23 (2.44%) OAuth
6 23 (2.44%) Pandas
6 23 (2.44%) XML
7 19 (2.02%) Node.js
7 19 (2.02%) RESTful
8 18 (1.91%) SOAP
9 16 (1.70%) Web Services
10 14 (1.49%) Middleware
10 14 (1.49%) scikit-learn
11 13 (1.38%) Great Expectations
11 13 (1.38%) OpenAPI
12 12 (1.28%) .NET Core
12 12 (1.28%) HTML
13 10 (1.06%) NumPy
13 10 (1.06%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.61%) Data Structures
2 70 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 50 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (4.99%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (2.66%) Reinsurance
6 21 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.02%) Reference Data
8 15 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.38%) Equities
10 12 (1.28%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.17%) Derivative
12 10 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.06%) CMDB
12 10 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.28%) Linux
1 12 (1.28%) Unix
2 2 (0.21%) Windows
2 2 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (34.43%) Analytics
2 300 (31.88%) ETL
3 298 (31.67%) Agile
4 277 (29.44%) Business Intelligence
5 263 (27.95%) Data Governance
6 235 (24.97%) Data Engineering
7 216 (22.95%) Data Pipeline
8 188 (19.98%) Data Architecture
9 183 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
10 182 (19.34%) CI/CD
11 169 (17.96%) DevOps
12 159 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 147 (15.62%) Migration
14 146 (15.52%) AI
15 132 (14.03%) Data Integration
16 119 (12.65%) Visualisation
17 103 (10.95%) Decision-Making
18 101 (10.73%) Data Science
19 94 (9.99%) Data Analysis
20 93 (9.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 486 (51.65%) SQL
2 318 (33.79%) Python
3 58 (6.16%) Java
4 49 (5.21%) Scala
5 48 (5.10%) C#
5 48 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (2.34%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.23%) R
8 17 (1.81%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.28%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.17%) Bicep
11 10 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.85%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.64%) Korn
14 5 (0.53%) Bash
14 5 (0.53%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.43%) ABAP
16 3 (0.32%) Ruby
16 3 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 163 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 138 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.76%) Degree
4 35 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.06%) CBAP
9 10 (1.06%) IIBA
10 7 (0.74%) CFA
10 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.43%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.32%) ISEB
12 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (31.56%) Data Quality
2 80 (8.50%) GDPR
3 48 (5.10%) QA
4 17 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.85%) PMO
7 7 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.64%) MiFID
8 6 (0.64%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.43%) NIST
11 3 (0.32%) 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%) WCAG
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (3.72%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 72 (7.65%) Terraform
2 34 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.32%) Ansible
4 3 (0.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.21%) 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
1 190 (20.19%) Databricks
2 155 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.27%) Oracle
4 54 (5.74%) SAP
5 41 (4.36%) ServiceNow
6 40 (4.25%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.66%) Google
8 23 (2.44%) Informatica
9 20 (2.13%) Guidewire
10 19 (2.02%) Sparx
11 11 (1.17%) IBM
12 10 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.06%) Workday
13 9 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.96%) Pega
14 8 (0.85%) Ariba
15 7 (0.74%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.74%) ESRI
15 7 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
15 7 (0.74%) Palantir