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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 39
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,147 635 859
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.90% 4.98% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.68% 5.46% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 434 631
10th Percentile £375 £361 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £712
90th Percentile £750 £784 £825
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 19
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £21.32 £35.16 £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 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +31.75% +20.18% -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 14,942 11,630 15,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.82% 91.27% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,020 7,810 11,431
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 232 164 342
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -19.47%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.18 £69.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

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 21 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 21 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 +28 145 £550 -0.18% 100
West London +5 27 £603 +16.31% 9
South London -9 11 £475 -1.30% 2
East London -2 8 £450 -28.00% 6
North London +1 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 99 (8.63%) Apache Spark
2 61 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (4.36%) Apache
4 34 (2.96%) Confluence
5 22 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.39%) Appian
7 10 (0.87%) Camunda
8 9 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.70%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.61%) CMS
11 6 (0.52%) SAS
12 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.087%) nginx
14 1 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 44 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.26%) Trello
7 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.87%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.44%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.44%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.35%) Findur
6 4 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.26%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.17%) Actimize
8 2 (0.17%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 419 (36.53%) Azure
2 313 (27.29%) Power Platform
3 297 (25.89%) AWS
4 155 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 110 (9.59%) Snowflake
6 109 (9.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 96 (8.37%) GCP
8 93 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (7.93%) Amazon S3
10 85 (7.41%) Serverless
11 77 (6.71%) dbt
12 70 (6.10%) GitHub
13 55 (4.80%) Power Automate
14 53 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (3.57%) PowerApps
16 39 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
18 32 (2.79%) Collibra
19 26 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
20 25 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.44%) RTP
2 4 (0.35%) 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 (0.087%) 4G
5 1 (0.087%) 5G
5 1 (0.087%) DNS
5 1 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.087%) MQTT
5 1 (0.087%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (24.15%) Power BI
2 237 (20.66%) Data Warehouse
3 139 (12.12%) Metadata
4 124 (10.81%) Data Lake
5 94 (8.20%) SQL Server
6 73 (6.36%) Tableau
7 69 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (5.84%) NoSQL
9 63 (5.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 55 (4.80%) Delta Lake
11 52 (4.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 50 (4.36%) Relational Database
13 48 (4.18%) BigQuery
14 46 (4.01%) Amazon Athena
15 45 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
16 41 (3.57%) Data Vault
17 40 (3.49%) Big Data
18 35 (3.05%) Star Schema
19 32 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 29 (2.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 107 (9.33%) Git
2 82 (7.15%) JIRA
3 36 (3.14%) ERwin
4 20 (1.74%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.48%) GitLab
6 16 (1.39%) MLflow
7 14 (1.22%) PowerDesigner
8 9 (0.78%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.52%) JMeter
10 3 (0.26%) MSTest
10 3 (0.26%) Selenium
10 3 (0.26%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.17%) LSMW
11 2 (0.17%) Maven
11 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 376 (32.78%) Finance
2 351 (30.60%) Social Skills
3 226 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (9.94%) Banking
5 109 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.79%) Marketing
8 30 (2.62%) Retail
9 28 (2.44%) Financial Institution
10 26 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.83%) Investment Banking
13 18 (1.57%) Front Office
14 17 (1.48%) Billing
15 15 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.13%) Back Office
17 9 (0.78%) Law
17 9 (0.78%) Legal
17 9 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 269 (23.45%) Data Engineer
2 191 (16.65%) Architect
3 164 (14.30%) Analyst
4 159 (13.86%) Developer
5 135 (11.77%) Lead
6 134 (11.68%) Senior
7 100 (8.72%) Data Architect
8 98 (8.54%) Business Analyst
9 71 (6.19%) Data Modeller
10 65 (5.67%) Data Analyst
11 47 (4.10%) Consultant
12 43 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
13 42 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (3.49%) Azure Data Engineer
15 39 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 32 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (2.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 30 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
18 27 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
18 27 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (9.24%) PySpark
2 75 (6.54%) Kafka
3 73 (6.36%) REST
4 39 (3.40%) .NET
5 35 (3.05%) JSON
6 31 (2.70%) OAuth
7 28 (2.44%) Pandas
8 27 (2.35%) XML
9 24 (2.09%) SOAP
10 22 (1.92%) Great Expectations
10 22 (1.92%) Middleware
10 22 (1.92%) Node.js
10 22 (1.92%) RESTful
11 18 (1.57%) Lightning Web Components
11 18 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
12 16 (1.39%) OAuth2
12 16 (1.39%) OpenAPI
12 16 (1.39%) pytest
12 16 (1.39%) scikit-learn
12 16 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 66 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (4.45%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (2.44%) Reference Data
7 26 (2.27%) CMDB
7 26 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.83%) Reinsurance
9 19 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
11 14 (1.22%) Equities
11 14 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.05%) Derivative
12 12 (1.05%) Fixed Income
13 11 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.74%) Linux
2 18 (1.57%) Unix
3 7 (0.61%) Windows
4 3 (0.26%) zOS
5 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (37.14%) Analytics
2 368 (32.08%) ETL
3 347 (30.25%) Agile
4 332 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
5 291 (25.37%) Data Engineering
6 290 (25.28%) Data Governance
7 274 (23.89%) CI/CD
8 270 (23.54%) Data Pipeline
9 227 (19.79%) Data Architecture
10 226 (19.70%) DevOps
11 208 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
12 189 (16.48%) Migration
13 185 (16.13%) AI
14 178 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 143 (12.47%) Decision-Making
16 139 (12.12%) Data Integration
17 136 (11.86%) Validation
18 126 (10.99%) Visualisation
19 115 (10.03%) Data Science
20 107 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 587 (51.18%) SQL
2 403 (35.14%) Python
3 71 (6.19%) Java
4 64 (5.58%) C#
5 63 (5.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 57 (4.97%) Scala
7 29 (2.53%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.92%) R
9 21 (1.83%) TypeScript
10 18 (1.57%) Apex Code
11 17 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 12 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.96%) Bicep
15 9 (0.78%) Ruby
16 6 (0.52%) Bash
16 6 (0.52%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.44%) Korn
17 5 (0.44%) SOQL
18 4 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 223 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 179 (15.61%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.06%) Degree
4 41 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.05%) CBAP
9 12 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.96%) IIBA
11 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.61%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.44%) CISSP
15 4 (0.35%) CFA
15 4 (0.35%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.35%) ISEB
15 4 (0.35%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (31.47%) Data Quality
2 89 (7.76%) GDPR
3 63 (5.49%) QA
4 19 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.13%) PMO
6 11 (0.96%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.70%) NIST
8 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.52%) MiFID
9 5 (0.44%) GRC
9 5 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.35%) IFRS
10 4 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.26%) Basel III
11 3 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.26%) SLA
11 3 (0.26%) WCAG
12 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (4.45%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 102 (8.89%) Terraform
2 48 (4.18%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.70%) 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 (0.087%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.087%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 219 (19.09%) Databricks
2 200 (17.44%) Microsoft
3 83 (7.24%) Oracle
4 64 (5.58%) ServiceNow
5 56 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 54 (4.71%) SAP
7 37 (3.23%) Google
8 30 (2.62%) Informatica
9 22 (1.92%) MuleSoft
9 22 (1.92%) Workday
10 17 (1.48%) Guidewire
11 14 (1.22%) IBM
11 14 (1.22%) Sparx
12 11 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 11 (0.96%) Pega
13 10 (0.87%) Palantir
14 9 (0.78%) Ariba
14 9 (0.78%) Foundry
14 9 (0.78%) UiPath
15 8 (0.70%) Automation Anywhere