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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 49 38
Rank change year-on-year +23 -11 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,208 596 871
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.78% 4.74% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.68% 5.14% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 415 652
10th Percentile £390 £363 £425
25th Percentile £454 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -6.98% -1.46%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £712
90th Percentile £750 £761 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile £21.74 - £35.00
25th Percentile £25.58 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £35.11 £52.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% +4.48% -8.64%
75th Percentile £48.19 £60.31 £53.84
90th Percentile £56.18 £65.00 £63.14
England median hourly rate £79.00 £52.50 £46.75
% change year-on-year +50.48% +12.30% +5.35%

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 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +25 148 £560 +1.82% 94
West London +8 37 £603 -3.60% 12
East London +1 11 £473 -25.00% 12
South London -10 9 £463 -3.90% 5
North London +2 2 £336 -52.87%
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
1 102 (8.44%) Apache Spark
2 59 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (4.14%) Apache
4 33 (2.73%) Confluence
5 24 (1.99%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.24%) Appian
7 10 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.75%) Camunda
9 8 (0.66%) SAS
10 7 (0.58%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.41%) CMS
12 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.083%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 48 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.83%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.50%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.41%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.41%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.33%) Findur
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
9 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 442 (36.59%) Azure
2 303 (25.08%) Power Platform
3 294 (24.34%) AWS
4 147 (12.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (10.10%) GCP
6 111 (9.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 101 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (7.86%) Snowflake
9 92 (7.62%) Amazon S3
10 87 (7.20%) dbt
11 82 (6.79%) Serverless
12 68 (5.63%) GitHub
13 51 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (4.06%) Power Automate
15 40 (3.31%) PowerApps
16 34 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (2.81%) Collibra
17 33 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
18 27 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
19 21 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) RTP
2 3 (0.25%) Firewall
2 3 (0.25%) FTP
2 3 (0.25%) HTTP
2 3 (0.25%) VPN
3 2 (0.17%) Network Security
3 2 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.17%) RFID
4 1 (0.083%) 4G
4 1 (0.083%) 5G
4 1 (0.083%) DNS
4 1 (0.083%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.083%) NAS
4 1 (0.083%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (22.43%) Power BI
2 228 (18.87%) Data Warehouse
3 140 (11.59%) Metadata
4 131 (10.84%) Data Lake
5 93 (7.70%) SQL Server
6 81 (6.71%) Tableau
7 66 (5.46%) Delta Lake
8 65 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 64 (5.30%) BigQuery
10 58 (4.80%) NoSQL
11 57 (4.72%) Snowflake Schema
12 55 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 52 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
14 49 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
14 49 (4.06%) Relational Database
15 42 (3.48%) Star Schema
16 40 (3.31%) Data Vault
17 35 (2.90%) Power Query
18 33 (2.73%) Big Data
19 32 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 111 (9.19%) Git
2 84 (6.95%) JIRA
3 31 (2.57%) ERwin
4 21 (1.74%) GitLab
5 19 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.32%) MLflow
7 15 (1.24%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.91%) ER Studio
8 11 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.41%) JMeter
10 4 (0.33%) Maven
11 3 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.25%) MSTest
12 2 (0.17%) Ant
12 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.17%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.17%) Gradle
12 2 (0.17%) LSMW
12 2 (0.17%) Selenium
12 2 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 418 (34.60%) Finance
2 335 (27.73%) Social Skills
3 249 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (10.93%) Banking
5 115 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.06%) Marketing
8 34 (2.81%) Financial Institution
9 26 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (1.90%) Legal
10 23 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.74%) Front Office
13 19 (1.57%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.49%) Billing
14 18 (1.49%) Retail
15 15 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.75%) Aviation
16 9 (0.75%) Law
16 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 287 (23.76%) Data Engineer
2 207 (17.14%) Architect
3 179 (14.82%) Analyst
4 167 (13.82%) Developer
5 159 (13.16%) Senior
6 126 (10.43%) Lead
7 101 (8.36%) Data Architect
8 94 (7.78%) Business Analyst
9 78 (6.46%) Data Analyst
10 65 (5.38%) Data Modeller
11 54 (4.47%) Senior Data Engineer
12 41 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 40 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
14 39 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
15 38 (3.15%) Azure Data Engineer
16 37 (3.06%) Consultant
17 34 (2.81%) Snowflake Engineer
18 33 (2.73%) Senior Developer
18 33 (2.73%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 30 (2.48%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (8.53%) PySpark
2 87 (7.20%) REST
3 82 (6.79%) Kafka
4 43 (3.56%) .NET
5 35 (2.90%) JSON
5 35 (2.90%) OAuth
6 33 (2.73%) SOAP
7 27 (2.24%) Middleware
7 27 (2.24%) RESTful
8 25 (2.07%) Pandas
9 24 (1.99%) Node.js
9 24 (1.99%) XML
10 22 (1.82%) Great Expectations
10 22 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
11 21 (1.74%) Lightning Web Components
12 19 (1.57%) Web Services
13 17 (1.41%) pytest
14 16 (1.32%) React
15 15 (1.24%) Apache Avro
15 15 (1.24%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 112 (9.27%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.03%) Data Structures
3 71 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 62 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 41 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.24%) CMDB
7 27 (2.24%) Reference Data
8 25 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.82%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
13 18 (1.49%) Reinsurance
14 17 (1.41%) Derivative
15 16 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (1.24%) Equities
17 14 (1.16%) Low-Code
18 12 (0.99%) Fixed Income
19 11 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.41%) Linux
2 14 (1.16%) Unix
3 9 (0.75%) Windows
4 3 (0.25%) zOS
5 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (36.51%) Analytics
2 375 (31.04%) ETL
3 355 (29.39%) Agile
4 327 (27.07%) Business Intelligence
5 300 (24.83%) CI/CD
6 297 (24.59%) Data Pipeline
7 284 (23.51%) Data Governance
8 283 (23.43%) Data Engineering
9 241 (19.95%) DevOps
10 222 (18.38%) Data Architecture
11 207 (17.14%) AI
11 207 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
12 199 (16.47%) Migration
13 177 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 172 (14.24%) Decision-Making
15 171 (14.16%) Validation
16 127 (10.51%) Data Integration
17 124 (10.26%) Visualisation
18 119 (9.85%) Integration Patterns
19 113 (9.35%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 603 (49.92%) SQL
2 409 (33.86%) Python
3 84 (6.95%) Java
4 68 (5.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 67 (5.55%) C#
6 58 (4.80%) Scala
7 37 (3.06%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.48%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.90%) R
10 21 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.66%) Apex Code
11 20 (1.66%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.91%) Ruby
13 10 (0.83%) Bicep
14 8 (0.66%) SOQL
15 7 (0.58%) Bash
15 7 (0.58%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.41%) SAS Macro
17 4 (0.33%) LookML
Qualifications
1 217 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 173 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.37%) Degree
4 40 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.08%) CBAP
7 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.99%) IIBA
9 8 (0.66%) CISSP
9 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.41%) ISEB
13 4 (0.33%) CISM
13 4 (0.33%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (31.21%) Data Quality
2 90 (7.45%) GDPR
3 65 (5.38%) QA
4 18 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.99%) PMO
6 9 (0.75%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.66%) NIST
8 7 (0.58%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.58%) MiFID
8 7 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.41%) GRC
11 4 (0.33%) IFRS
11 4 (0.33%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) WCAG
12 3 (0.25%) Basel III
13 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (4.22%) Docker
2 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) HDFS
3 1 (0.083%) RACF
Systems Management
1 111 (9.19%) Terraform
2 49 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.66%) Grafana
5 7 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.41%) Ansible
6 5 (0.41%) SCCM
7 1 (0.083%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.083%) QRadar
7 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 229 (18.96%) Databricks
2 212 (17.55%) Microsoft
3 96 (7.95%) Oracle
4 68 (5.63%) ServiceNow
5 63 (5.22%) Salesforce
6 59 (4.88%) SAP
7 44 (3.64%) Google
8 29 (2.40%) Informatica
9 28 (2.32%) Workday
10 18 (1.49%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.24%) Guidewire
12 13 (1.08%) IBM
13 11 (0.91%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.83%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.83%) Foundry
14 10 (0.83%) Palantir
15 9 (0.75%) Confluent
15 9 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.75%) Pega
15 9 (0.75%) UiPath