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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 46 39
Rank change year-on-year +18 -7 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,176 610 857
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.94% 4.84% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 5.29% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 427 639
10th Percentile £385 £360 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £714
90th Percentile £750 £780 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 17
10th Percentile £20.89 - £35.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +8.25% -9.77%
75th Percentile £35.73 £60.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £40.54 £65.00 £62.86
England median hourly rate £73.12 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.41% +16.93% -23.67%

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 15,153 11,521 15,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.47% 91.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,178 7,819 11,391
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 167 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.65 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.10 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +32 144 £550 -0.18% 101
West London +5 30 £603 -0.50% 10
South London -6 12 £475 -1.30% 3
East London +2 9 £473 -24.40% 5
North London +2 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
1 105 (8.93%) Apache Spark
2 66 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (4.59%) Apache
4 34 (2.89%) Confluence
5 23 (1.96%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.45%) Appian
7 11 (0.94%) Camunda
8 10 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.68%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.60%) CMS
10 7 (0.60%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.085%) nginx
Applications
1 49 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Trello
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.51%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.43%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.34%) Findur
7 4 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.26%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.26%) 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
1 432 (36.73%) Azure
2 315 (26.79%) Power Platform
3 301 (25.60%) AWS
4 154 (13.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 110 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 105 (8.93%) GCP
7 103 (8.76%) Snowflake
8 97 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (7.99%) Amazon S3
10 82 (6.97%) Serverless
11 81 (6.89%) dbt
12 75 (6.38%) GitHub
13 52 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (4.34%) Power Automate
15 40 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 39 (3.32%) PowerApps
17 35 (2.98%) Collibra
18 33 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
19 27 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
20 25 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.43%) RTP
2 4 (0.34%) HTTP
3 3 (0.26%) Firewall
3 3 (0.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) NAS
4 2 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.085%) 4G
5 1 (0.085%) 5G
5 1 (0.085%) DNS
5 1 (0.085%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.085%) MQTT
5 1 (0.085%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (23.55%) Power BI
2 241 (20.49%) Data Warehouse
3 139 (11.82%) Metadata
4 125 (10.63%) Data Lake
5 90 (7.65%) SQL Server
6 76 (6.46%) Tableau
7 69 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (5.70%) NoSQL
9 64 (5.44%) Snowflake Schema
10 60 (5.10%) Delta Lake
11 53 (4.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 52 (4.42%) BigQuery
13 49 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
14 47 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
15 41 (3.49%) Data Vault
16 40 (3.40%) Relational Database
16 40 (3.40%) Star Schema
17 35 (2.98%) Big Data
18 34 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 28 (2.38%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 110 (9.35%) Git
2 81 (6.89%) JIRA
3 30 (2.55%) ERwin
4 20 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.53%) GitLab
6 17 (1.45%) MLflow
7 13 (1.11%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.51%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.51%) JMeter
10 3 (0.26%) Maven
10 3 (0.26%) MSTest
10 3 (0.26%) Selenium
10 3 (0.26%) 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
1 388 (32.99%) Finance
2 356 (30.27%) Social Skills
3 249 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (9.95%) Banking
5 112 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (3.06%) Marketing
8 29 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 29 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.47%) Retail
9 23 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.62%) Billing
11 19 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.36%) Front Office
13 14 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.02%) Back Office
14 12 (1.02%) Legal
15 10 (0.85%) Law
15 10 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 282 (23.98%) Data Engineer
2 197 (16.75%) Architect
3 173 (14.71%) Analyst
4 163 (13.86%) Developer
5 137 (11.65%) Senior
6 129 (10.97%) Lead
7 99 (8.42%) Data Architect
8 97 (8.25%) Business Analyst
9 70 (5.95%) Data Analyst
10 69 (5.87%) Data Modeller
11 45 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
12 43 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
13 42 (3.57%) Consultant
14 41 (3.49%) Azure Data Engineer
15 39 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 35 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (2.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 31 (2.64%) Snowflake Engineer
18 29 (2.47%) Technical Architect
19 27 (2.30%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (8.84%) PySpark
2 81 (6.89%) Kafka
3 76 (6.46%) REST
4 39 (3.32%) .NET
5 35 (2.98%) JSON
6 34 (2.89%) OAuth
7 27 (2.30%) Pandas
7 27 (2.30%) SOAP
7 27 (2.30%) XML
8 25 (2.13%) Middleware
9 24 (2.04%) Great Expectations
10 23 (1.96%) RESTful
11 22 (1.87%) Node.js
12 21 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
14 18 (1.53%) pytest
14 18 (1.53%) Web Services
15 16 (1.36%) OAuth2
15 16 (1.36%) OpenAPI
16 15 (1.28%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 90 (7.65%) Data Structures
3 66 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.38%) Reference Data
8 25 (2.13%) CMDB
9 22 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.70%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.53%) Reinsurance
12 17 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
13 16 (1.36%) Low-Code
14 14 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.02%) Equities
16 11 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (0.85%) Derivative
17 10 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.70%) Linux
2 19 (1.62%) Unix
3 8 (0.68%) Windows
4 3 (0.26%) zOS
5 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (37.33%) Analytics
2 376 (31.97%) ETL
3 351 (29.85%) Agile
4 334 (28.40%) Business Intelligence
5 294 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 292 (24.83%) Data Governance
7 286 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
8 285 (24.23%) CI/CD
9 231 (19.64%) DevOps
10 228 (19.39%) Data Architecture
11 210 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
12 196 (16.67%) AI
13 188 (15.99%) Migration
14 182 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 153 (13.01%) Decision-Making
16 147 (12.50%) Validation
17 144 (12.24%) Data Integration
18 133 (11.31%) Visualisation
19 114 (9.69%) Integration Patterns
20 112 (9.52%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 601 (51.11%) SQL
2 410 (34.86%) Python
3 78 (6.63%) Java
4 64 (5.44%) C#
4 64 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 59 (5.02%) Scala
6 31 (2.64%) JavaScript
7 24 (2.04%) R
8 22 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 20 (1.70%) Apex Code
10 17 (1.45%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.94%) Bicep
13 11 (0.94%) Ruby
14 6 (0.51%) Bash
14 6 (0.51%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.51%) SOQL
15 5 (0.43%) Korn
15 5 (0.43%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 229 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 184 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 81 (6.89%) Degree
4 42 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.02%) CBAP
9 11 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.94%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.94%) IIBA
10 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.60%) CISSP
12 7 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.34%) CFA
13 4 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.34%) ISEB
13 4 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (31.29%) Data Quality
2 88 (7.48%) GDPR
3 65 (5.53%) QA
4 19 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.28%) PMO
6 11 (0.94%) Solvency II
7 9 (0.77%) NIST
8 7 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.51%) MiFID
10 5 (0.43%) GRC
11 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.34%) IFRS
11 4 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.26%) Basel III
12 3 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) SLA
12 3 (0.26%) WCAG
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (4.17%) Docker
2 6 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.085%) HDFS
3 1 (0.085%) RACF
Systems Management
1 110 (9.35%) Terraform
2 48 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.43%) Grafana
4 5 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.43%) SCCM
5 4 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.085%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.085%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.085%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 230 (19.56%) Databricks
2 204 (17.35%) Microsoft
3 91 (7.74%) Oracle
4 65 (5.53%) Salesforce
5 64 (5.44%) ServiceNow
6 57 (4.85%) SAP
7 40 (3.40%) Google
8 30 (2.55%) Informatica
9 23 (1.96%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.87%) Workday
11 15 (1.28%) Guidewire
12 14 (1.19%) IBM
13 13 (1.11%) Sparx
14 12 (1.02%) Pega
15 11 (0.94%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.94%) Palantir
16 10 (0.85%) Foundry
17 9 (0.77%) Ariba
17 9 (0.77%) UiPath
18 8 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere