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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 44 39
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,127 634 862
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.86% 4.95% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 5.43% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 435 637
10th Percentile £375 £359 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £704
90th Percentile £750 £788 £805
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 19
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £21.32 £32.04 £41.88
Median hourly rate £23.54 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.16% +8.25% -9.77%
75th Percentile £25.67 £61.88 £53.94
90th Percentile £26.90 £65.00 £66.13
England median hourly rate £73.12 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.41% +16.93% -28.40%

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 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 18 March 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
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 18 March 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 +24 139 £538 -2.45% 95
West London +6 27 £603 +16.31% 6
South London -11 10 £475 -1.30%
East London 0 8 £450 -28.00% 7
North London +1 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 99 (8.78%) Apache Spark
2 61 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (4.44%) Apache
4 33 (2.93%) Confluence
5 21 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.42%) Appian
7 9 (0.80%) Camunda
7 9 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.71%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.62%) CMS
10 6 (0.53%) SAS
11 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.089%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.089%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.089%) nginx
13 1 (0.089%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.27%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.89%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.53%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.44%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.27%) Findur
8 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.27%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.18%) Actimize
9 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.18%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Maximo
9 2 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 412 (36.56%) Azure
2 308 (27.33%) Power Platform
3 292 (25.91%) AWS
4 154 (13.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 107 (9.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 107 (9.49%) Snowflake
6 94 (8.34%) GCP
7 92 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (7.90%) Amazon S3
9 85 (7.54%) Serverless
10 76 (6.74%) dbt
11 68 (6.03%) GitHub
12 53 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (4.61%) Power Automate
14 40 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 39 (3.46%) PowerApps
16 32 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
17 31 (2.75%) Collibra
18 25 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
18 25 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.44%) RTP
2 4 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.27%) Firewall
3 3 (0.27%) VPN
4 2 (0.18%) NAS
4 2 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.18%) RFID
5 1 (0.089%) 4G
5 1 (0.089%) 5G
5 1 (0.089%) DNS
5 1 (0.089%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.089%) MQTT
5 1 (0.089%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (24.31%) Power BI
2 234 (20.76%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (11.98%) Metadata
4 123 (10.91%) Data Lake
5 91 (8.07%) SQL Server
6 72 (6.39%) Tableau
7 68 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (5.94%) NoSQL
9 61 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 56 (4.97%) Delta Lake
11 51 (4.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (4.26%) BigQuery
13 47 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
14 46 (4.08%) Relational Database
15 44 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
16 42 (3.73%) Data Vault
17 40 (3.55%) Big Data
18 34 (3.02%) Star Schema
19 31 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 29 (2.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 106 (9.41%) Git
2 77 (6.83%) JIRA
3 35 (3.11%) ERwin
4 20 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.51%) GitLab
6 16 (1.42%) MLflow
7 14 (1.24%) PowerDesigner
8 9 (0.80%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.53%) JMeter
10 3 (0.27%) MSTest
10 3 (0.27%) Selenium
10 3 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.18%) LSMW
11 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.18%) Toad
12 1 (0.089%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.089%) Maven
12 1 (0.089%) Oracle Forms
General
1 375 (33.27%) Finance
2 343 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 225 (19.96%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (10.29%) Banking
5 106 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.84%) Marketing
8 30 (2.66%) Retail
9 28 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 25 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.86%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.60%) Front Office
13 16 (1.42%) Billing
13 16 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.15%) Back Office
16 10 (0.89%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.80%) Law
18 8 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 265 (23.51%) Data Engineer
2 183 (16.24%) Architect
3 162 (14.37%) Analyst
4 155 (13.75%) Developer
5 135 (11.98%) Lead
6 134 (11.89%) Senior
7 99 (8.78%) Data Architect
8 98 (8.70%) Business Analyst
9 71 (6.30%) Data Modeller
10 64 (5.68%) Data Analyst
11 48 (4.26%) Consultant
12 43 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
12 43 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
13 41 (3.64%) Azure Data Engineer
14 39 (3.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 30 (2.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 30 (2.66%) Snowflake Engineer
16 29 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.48%) Power BI Developer
18 27 (2.40%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (9.23%) PySpark
2 73 (6.48%) Kafka
3 71 (6.30%) REST
4 37 (3.28%) .NET
5 31 (2.75%) JSON
6 29 (2.57%) OAuth
7 28 (2.48%) Pandas
8 25 (2.22%) XML
9 24 (2.13%) Node.js
9 24 (2.13%) SOAP
10 22 (1.95%) Great Expectations
10 22 (1.95%) RESTful
11 20 (1.77%) Middleware
12 17 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
12 17 (1.51%) Web Services
13 16 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
13 16 (1.42%) scikit-learn
14 15 (1.33%) OpenAPI
14 15 (1.33%) pytest
15 14 (1.24%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.63%) Data Structures
3 65 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (2.40%) Reference Data
7 26 (2.31%) CMDB
8 24 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.86%) Reinsurance
10 19 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.33%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
12 14 (1.24%) Equities
12 14 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.06%) Derivative
14 12 (1.06%) Fixed Income
15 11 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.77%) Linux
2 19 (1.69%) Unix
3 7 (0.62%) Windows
4 3 (0.27%) zOS
5 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (37.62%) Analytics
2 359 (31.85%) ETL
3 338 (29.99%) Agile
4 330 (29.28%) Business Intelligence
5 284 (25.20%) Data Engineering
5 284 (25.20%) Data Governance
6 266 (23.60%) CI/CD
7 264 (23.43%) Data Pipeline
8 222 (19.70%) Data Architecture
8 222 (19.70%) DevOps
9 211 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
10 185 (16.42%) Migration
11 179 (15.88%) AI
12 172 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 137 (12.16%) Data Integration
13 137 (12.16%) Decision-Making
14 132 (11.71%) Validation
15 127 (11.27%) Visualisation
16 116 (10.29%) Data Science
17 104 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 584 (51.82%) SQL
2 398 (35.31%) Python
3 66 (5.86%) Java
4 64 (5.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 61 (5.41%) C#
6 57 (5.06%) Scala
7 29 (2.57%) JavaScript
8 23 (2.04%) R
9 21 (1.86%) TypeScript
10 17 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.42%) Apex Code
12 14 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.98%) Bicep
15 7 (0.62%) Ruby
16 6 (0.53%) Bash
16 6 (0.53%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.44%) Korn
18 4 (0.35%) SAS Macro
18 4 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 217 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 175 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.10%) Degree
4 40 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.06%) CBAP
10 11 (0.98%) IIBA
11 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.44%) CISSP
13 5 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.35%) CFA
14 4 (0.35%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.35%) ISEB
15 3 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (31.50%) Data Quality
2 85 (7.54%) GDPR
3 62 (5.50%) QA
4 19 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.98%) PMO
6 9 (0.80%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.71%) NIST
8 6 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.53%) MiFID
9 5 (0.44%) GRC
9 5 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.35%) IFRS
10 4 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.27%) Basel III
11 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.27%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) WCAG
12 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (4.53%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.089%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 102 (9.05%) Terraform
2 48 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.44%) Ansible
4 5 (0.44%) Grafana
4 5 (0.44%) SCCM
5 4 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.089%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.089%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 218 (19.34%) Databricks
2 191 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 77 (6.83%) Oracle
4 63 (5.59%) ServiceNow
5 55 (4.88%) SAP
6 54 (4.79%) Salesforce
7 36 (3.19%) Google
8 28 (2.48%) Informatica
9 21 (1.86%) Workday
10 18 (1.60%) Guidewire
10 18 (1.60%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.24%) IBM
11 14 (1.24%) Sparx
12 12 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.06%) Pega
13 10 (0.89%) Palantir
14 9 (0.80%) Ariba
14 9 (0.80%) Foundry
14 9 (0.80%) UiPath
15 8 (0.71%) Automation Anywhere