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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 37
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,075 650 868
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.67% 5.01% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.42% 5.51% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 446 639
10th Percentile £375 £359 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £703
90th Percentile £749 £793 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 20
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £21.32 £32.04 £41.25
Median hourly rate £23.54 £52.50 £47.28
Median % change year-on-year -55.16% +11.05% -12.04%
75th Percentile £25.67 £61.88 £53.84
90th Percentile £26.90 £65.00 £65.33
England median hourly rate £69.22 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.19% +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 14,486 11,803 16,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.91% 91.01% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,750 7,835 11,536
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 220 158 354
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.25 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year - +17.19% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.62 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%

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 10 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 10 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 +17 138 £550 -0.18% 45
West London 0 26 £603 +20.50% 15
South London -9 9 £487 +1.25% 1
East London +2 8 £450 -28.00% 14
North London +1 1 £495 -30.62% 6
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 93 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 53 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.09%) Apache
4 33 (3.07%) Confluence
5 20 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.40%) Appian
7 9 (0.84%) ArcGIS
7 9 (0.84%) Camunda
8 8 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.56%) CMS
10 5 (0.47%) SAS
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.093%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.093%) nginx
13 1 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (1.02%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.56%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.47%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.28%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.28%) Findur
8 3 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.28%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.19%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.19%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 390 (36.28%) Azure
2 292 (27.16%) Power Platform
3 279 (25.95%) AWS
4 147 (13.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 106 (9.86%) Snowflake
6 103 (9.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 89 (8.28%) GCP
8 85 (7.91%) Serverless
9 84 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
10 83 (7.72%) Amazon S3
11 70 (6.51%) dbt
12 59 (5.49%) GitHub
13 53 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (4.74%) Power Automate
15 39 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (3.53%) PowerApps
17 32 (2.98%) Collibra
17 32 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
18 25 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (2.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.37%) HTTP
2 3 (0.28%) RTP
2 3 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) NAS
3 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.19%) RFID
4 1 (0.093%) 4G
4 1 (0.093%) 5G
4 1 (0.093%) DNS
4 1 (0.093%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.093%) MQTT
4 1 (0.093%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (24.19%) Power BI
2 221 (20.56%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (11.72%) Metadata
4 118 (10.98%) Data Lake
5 90 (8.37%) SQL Server
6 68 (6.33%) Tableau
7 66 (6.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 65 (6.05%) NoSQL
9 58 (5.40%) Snowflake Schema
10 55 (5.12%) Delta Lake
11 47 (4.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 45 (4.19%) BigQuery
12 45 (4.19%) Data Vault
12 45 (4.19%) Relational Database
13 44 (4.09%) Amazon Athena
14 42 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (3.44%) Big Data
16 30 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 29 (2.70%) Star Schema
18 28 (2.60%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 99 (9.21%) Git
2 75 (6.98%) JIRA
3 34 (3.16%) ERwin
4 19 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.49%) MLflow
6 15 (1.40%) GitLab
7 14 (1.30%) PowerDesigner
8 10 (0.93%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.37%) JMeter
11 3 (0.28%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.19%) LSMW
12 2 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.19%) Toad
13 1 (0.093%) git-flow
13 1 (0.093%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.093%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.093%) Zephyr
General
1 351 (32.65%) Finance
2 334 (31.07%) Social Skills
3 210 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (10.14%) Banking
5 97 (9.02%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.88%) Marketing
7 31 (2.88%) Retail
8 26 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 25 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 19 (1.77%) Front Office
13 16 (1.49%) Billing
13 16 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.21%) Back Office
15 12 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.93%) Law
16 10 (0.93%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 245 (22.79%) Data Engineer
2 177 (16.47%) Architect
3 159 (14.79%) Analyst
4 148 (13.77%) Developer
5 130 (12.09%) Lead
6 122 (11.35%) Senior
7 99 (9.21%) Business Analyst
8 96 (8.93%) Data Architect
9 68 (6.33%) Data Modeller
10 61 (5.67%) Data Analyst
11 51 (4.74%) Consultant
12 45 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
13 42 (3.91%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
15 38 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 32 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.60%) Power BI Developer
17 28 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
18 27 (2.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 26 (2.42%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (9.12%) PySpark
2 66 (6.14%) REST
3 64 (5.95%) Kafka
4 35 (3.26%) .NET
5 29 (2.70%) JSON
6 28 (2.60%) OAuth
7 27 (2.51%) Pandas
8 25 (2.33%) XML
9 24 (2.23%) Node.js
9 24 (2.23%) RESTful
10 20 (1.86%) Great Expectations
10 20 (1.86%) SOAP
11 19 (1.77%) Middleware
12 16 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
12 16 (1.49%) scikit-learn
12 16 (1.49%) Web Services
13 15 (1.40%) OpenAPI
14 14 (1.30%) OAuth2
14 14 (1.30%) pytest
15 12 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 86 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 60 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.42%) Reference Data
6 25 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.14%) Reinsurance
8 22 (2.05%) CMDB
8 22 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.77%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
10 14 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.21%) Equities
11 13 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.12%) Derivative
12 12 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.02%) Fixed Income
14 10 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.40%) Linux
2 14 (1.30%) Unix
3 6 (0.56%) Windows
4 3 (0.28%) zOS
5 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (36.93%) Analytics
2 340 (31.63%) ETL
3 332 (30.88%) Agile
4 314 (29.21%) Business Intelligence
5 275 (25.58%) Data Governance
6 266 (24.74%) Data Engineering
7 250 (23.26%) CI/CD
8 244 (22.70%) Data Pipeline
9 212 (19.72%) Data Architecture
10 210 (19.53%) DevOps
11 201 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
12 172 (16.00%) AI
13 171 (15.91%) Migration
14 169 (15.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 134 (12.47%) Data Integration
16 129 (12.00%) Decision-Making
17 124 (11.53%) Visualisation
18 121 (11.26%) Validation
19 114 (10.60%) Data Science
20 99 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 545 (50.70%) SQL
2 379 (35.26%) Python
3 62 (5.77%) Java
4 58 (5.40%) C#
4 58 (5.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 56 (5.21%) Scala
6 27 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.05%) R
8 21 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.40%) Apex Code
11 13 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.02%) Bicep
13 10 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) Bash
14 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.47%) Korn
16 4 (0.37%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.37%) SOQL
16 4 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 194 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 157 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.16%) Degree
4 36 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.12%) CBAP
11 11 (1.02%) IIBA
12 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.37%) CFA
14 4 (0.37%) CISSP
14 4 (0.37%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.37%) ISEB
15 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (30.79%) Data Quality
2 83 (7.72%) GDPR
3 58 (5.40%) QA
4 19 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.93%) PMO
6 8 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.65%) NIST
8 6 (0.56%) MiFID
9 5 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.37%) IFRS
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.28%) Basel III
11 3 (0.28%) GRC
11 3 (0.28%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) WCAG
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (4.09%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.093%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 99 (9.21%) Terraform
2 43 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.47%) Grafana
4 5 (0.47%) SCCM
5 4 (0.37%) Ansible
5 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.093%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 215 (20.00%) Databricks
2 179 (16.65%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.23%) Oracle
4 59 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 55 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 53 (4.93%) SAP
7 31 (2.88%) Google
8 25 (2.33%) Informatica
9 20 (1.86%) Guidewire
9 20 (1.86%) Workday
10 16 (1.49%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.30%) Sparx
12 13 (1.21%) IBM
13 12 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 11 (1.02%) Pega
15 9 (0.84%) Ariba
15 9 (0.84%) Palantir
15 9 (0.84%) UiPath
16 8 (0.74%) Automation Anywhere
16 8 (0.74%) Foundry