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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 45 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,279 641 831
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.64% 4.97% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 5.39% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 441 598
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £451 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £696
90th Percentile £750 £775 £816
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 14
10th Percentile £27.91 - £35.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -9.38% -10.70%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.85 £58.75 £54.01
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +35.42% +12.94% +17.24%

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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +17 156 £553 -7.83% 96
West London +11 37 £603 +20.50% 18
East London +2 8 £450 -33.33% 7
South London +2 8 £463 -2.63% 1
North London +2 2 £336 - 2
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 83 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 75 (5.86%) Apache Spark
3 48 (3.75%) Apache
4 37 (2.89%) Confluence
5 27 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.78%) Appian
6 10 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.63%) SAS
8 6 (0.47%) Camunda
9 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.078%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.078%) nginx
11 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.17%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.63%) Findur
6 7 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.47%) SAP BPC
7 6 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
9 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.31%) Quorum
9 4 (0.31%) R3 Corda
9 4 (0.31%) Ripple
10 3 (0.23%) Endur
10 3 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
10 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 442 (34.56%) Azure
2 314 (24.55%) AWS
3 309 (24.16%) Power Platform
4 140 (10.95%) GCP
5 120 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 119 (9.30%) Snowflake
7 117 (9.15%) dbt
8 102 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
9 86 (6.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 81 (6.33%) Amazon S3
11 70 (5.47%) GitHub
12 67 (5.24%) Serverless
13 48 (3.75%) Power Automate
14 43 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (3.21%) PowerApps
16 38 (2.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 36 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
18 32 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
19 27 (2.11%) Collibra
20 25 (1.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) Firewall
1 5 (0.39%) RTP
2 4 (0.31%) Network Security
3 3 (0.23%) FTP
3 3 (0.23%) VPN
4 2 (0.16%) 5G
4 2 (0.16%) SSL
4 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.16%) Wireless
5 1 (0.078%) 4G
5 1 (0.078%) DNS
5 1 (0.078%) SMS
5 1 (0.078%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (21.89%) Power BI
2 224 (17.51%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (12.04%) Metadata
4 116 (9.07%) Data Lake
5 82 (6.41%) SQL Server
5 82 (6.41%) Tableau
6 72 (5.63%) BigQuery
7 64 (5.00%) Delta Lake
8 63 (4.93%) Snowflake Schema
9 60 (4.69%) Relational Database
10 53 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 52 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
12 47 (3.67%) NoSQL
13 46 (3.60%) Star Schema
14 43 (3.36%) Data Vault
15 42 (3.28%) Power Query
16 41 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
17 38 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
18 28 (2.19%) Big Data
18 28 (2.19%) Looker
Development Applications
1 104 (8.13%) Git
2 94 (7.35%) JIRA
3 37 (2.89%) ERwin
4 25 (1.95%) GitLab
5 18 (1.41%) ER Studio
5 18 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.17%) PowerDesigner
7 11 (0.86%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.78%) MLflow
9 6 (0.47%) Ant
9 6 (0.47%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.47%) Maven
9 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.31%) Gradle
11 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.23%) JMeter
11 3 (0.23%) MSTest
12 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.16%) Toad
12 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 479 (37.45%) Finance
2 345 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 249 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (13.21%) Banking
5 135 (10.56%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.05%) Marketing
8 31 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 31 (2.42%) Legal
8 31 (2.42%) Retail
9 28 (2.19%) Front Office
9 28 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.03%) Investment Banking
11 24 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.09%) Aviation
12 14 (1.09%) Billing
13 13 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 12 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 296 (23.14%) Data Engineer
2 249 (19.47%) Architect
3 193 (15.09%) Analyst
4 186 (14.54%) Developer
5 168 (13.14%) Senior
6 128 (10.01%) Lead
7 122 (9.54%) Data Architect
8 100 (7.82%) Business Analyst
9 76 (5.94%) Data Analyst
10 75 (5.86%) Data Modeller
11 56 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
12 48 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 41 (3.21%) Senior Developer
15 36 (2.81%) Power BI Developer
15 36 (2.81%) Snowflake Engineer
16 35 (2.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 35 (2.74%) Technical Architect
17 32 (2.50%) Data Business Analyst
18 31 (2.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (7.97%) REST
2 87 (6.80%) PySpark
3 82 (6.41%) Kafka
4 44 (3.44%) SOAP
5 43 (3.36%) .NET
6 41 (3.21%) JSON
7 36 (2.81%) Lightning Web Components
8 33 (2.58%) Middleware
9 31 (2.42%) RESTful
10 27 (2.11%) OAuth
11 26 (2.03%) XML
12 25 (1.95%) Node.js
13 23 (1.80%) Web Services
14 22 (1.72%) Pandas
15 20 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
15 20 (1.56%) Spring
16 19 (1.49%) React
17 17 (1.33%) Spring Boot
18 16 (1.25%) Great Expectations
19 15 (1.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.66%) Data Structures
3 78 (6.10%) Legacy Systems
4 74 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.97%) Reference Data
8 35 (2.74%) CMDB
9 30 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.80%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.64%) Derivative
13 20 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
15 15 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.17%) Taxonomies
16 14 (1.09%) Equities
16 14 (1.09%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.17%) Linux
2 13 (1.02%) Unix
3 10 (0.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.16%) zOS
5 1 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (38.23%) Analytics
2 366 (28.62%) Agile
3 365 (28.54%) ETL
4 335 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
5 324 (25.33%) Data Pipeline
6 318 (24.86%) CI/CD
7 283 (22.13%) Data Governance
8 281 (21.97%) Data Engineering
9 243 (19.00%) Data Architecture
10 241 (18.84%) DevOps
11 233 (18.22%) AI
12 212 (16.58%) Migration
13 200 (15.64%) Validation
14 196 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
15 194 (15.17%) Stakeholder Management
16 184 (14.39%) Decision-Making
17 130 (10.16%) Data Transformation
18 126 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 120 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
20 119 (9.30%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 599 (46.83%) SQL
2 410 (32.06%) Python
3 89 (6.96%) Java
4 75 (5.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 68 (5.32%) C#
6 46 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 39 (3.05%) Scala
8 34 (2.66%) Apex Code
8 34 (2.66%) TypeScript
9 26 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.09%) R
11 14 (1.09%) SOQL
12 11 (0.86%) Ruby
13 9 (0.70%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.55%) Bicep
14 7 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
14 7 (0.55%) SOSL
15 6 (0.47%) Bash
15 6 (0.47%) LookML
Qualifications
1 216 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 177 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 72 (5.63%) Degree
4 34 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.94%) CISSP
7 12 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.70%) CBAP
10 9 (0.70%) IIBA
11 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.47%) PMP
13 6 (0.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (30.10%) Data Quality
2 87 (6.80%) GDPR
3 62 (4.85%) QA
4 18 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.94%) PMO
6 10 (0.78%) GRC
6 10 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.55%) IFRS
8 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.47%) NIST
8 6 (0.47%) SLA
9 5 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.39%) MiFID
10 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.31%) WCAG
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 53 (4.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.078%) HDFS
3 1 (0.078%) RACF
Systems Management
1 104 (8.13%) Terraform
2 47 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.70%) Ansible
3 9 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.47%) Grafana
4 6 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.39%) SCCM
6 2 (0.16%) Control-M
6 2 (0.16%) QRadar
7 1 (0.078%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.078%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 218 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 211 (16.50%) Databricks
3 106 (8.29%) Oracle
4 89 (6.96%) Salesforce
5 64 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 49 (3.83%) SAP
7 47 (3.67%) Google
8 27 (2.11%) Workday
9 26 (2.03%) Informatica
10 22 (1.72%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.02%) Bloomberg
11 13 (1.02%) Palantir
12 11 (0.86%) IBM
12 11 (0.86%) Splunk
13 10 (0.78%) Alteryx
13 10 (0.78%) Foundry
14 8 (0.63%) Anaplan
14 8 (0.63%) Guidewire
14 8 (0.63%) Murex
15 7 (0.55%) SimCorp