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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 46 37
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,185 612 863
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.91% 4.83% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.73% 5.27% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 428 645
10th Percentile £388 £360 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £661 £715
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 17
10th Percentile £20.89 - £35.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +8.25% -9.77%
75th Percentile £35.73 £60.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £40.54 £65.00 £62.86
England median hourly rate £73.12 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.41% +16.93% -26.70%

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 15,334 11,605 15,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.40% 91.50% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,290 7,873 11,381
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 169 333
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.18 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%
75th Percentile £56.25 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £65.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +29 149 £550 -0.18% 101
West London +5 32 £603 -0.50% 10
South London -8 12 £475 -1.30% 3
East London +2 9 £473 -24.40% 5
North London +2 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
1 105 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 67 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (4.56%) Apache
4 34 (2.87%) Confluence
5 23 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.52%) Appian
7 11 (0.93%) Camunda
7 11 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.68%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.59%) CMS
9 7 (0.59%) SAS
10 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.084%) nginx
12 1 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 49 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.51%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.42%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.34%) Findur
7 4 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.17%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 434 (36.62%) Azure
2 317 (26.75%) Power Platform
3 302 (25.49%) AWS
4 154 (13.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 109 (9.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 108 (9.11%) GCP
7 104 (8.78%) Snowflake
8 97 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (8.02%) Amazon S3
10 84 (7.09%) Serverless
11 83 (7.00%) dbt
12 73 (6.16%) GitHub
13 53 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (4.22%) Power Automate
15 41 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (3.21%) PowerApps
17 35 (2.95%) Collibra
18 33 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
19 27 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
20 24 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) RTP
2 4 (0.34%) HTTP
3 3 (0.25%) Firewall
3 3 (0.25%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) FTP
4 2 (0.17%) NAS
4 2 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.084%) 4G
5 1 (0.084%) 5G
5 1 (0.084%) DNS
5 1 (0.084%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.084%) MQTT
5 1 (0.084%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (23.63%) Power BI
2 244 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
3 139 (11.73%) Metadata
4 127 (10.72%) Data Lake
5 89 (7.51%) SQL Server
6 79 (6.67%) Tableau
7 68 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 65 (5.49%) NoSQL
8 65 (5.49%) Snowflake Schema
9 59 (4.98%) Delta Lake
10 54 (4.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 54 (4.56%) BigQuery
11 49 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
12 46 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
13 41 (3.46%) Data Vault
14 40 (3.38%) Star Schema
15 38 (3.21%) Relational Database
16 34 (2.87%) Big Data
16 34 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 28 (2.36%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 111 (9.37%) Git
2 79 (6.67%) JIRA
3 31 (2.62%) ERwin
4 20 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.52%) GitLab
6 17 (1.43%) MLflow
7 13 (1.10%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.93%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.51%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.51%) JMeter
10 3 (0.25%) Maven
10 3 (0.25%) MSTest
10 3 (0.25%) Selenium
10 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.17%) git-flow
11 2 (0.17%) LSMW
11 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 394 (33.25%) Finance
2 360 (30.38%) Social Skills
3 249 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (10.04%) Banking
5 113 (9.54%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (3.04%) Marketing
8 30 (2.53%) Financial Institution
9 29 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (2.45%) Retail
10 23 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.77%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 19 (1.60%) Billing
14 17 (1.43%) Front Office
15 16 (1.35%) Legal
16 14 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.01%) Back Office
18 10 (0.84%) Law
18 10 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 285 (24.05%) Data Engineer
2 202 (17.05%) Architect
3 173 (14.60%) Analyst
4 163 (13.76%) Developer
5 138 (11.65%) Senior
6 127 (10.72%) Lead
7 100 (8.44%) Data Architect
8 97 (8.19%) Business Analyst
9 70 (5.91%) Data Analyst
9 70 (5.91%) Data Modeller
10 46 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
11 43 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.54%) Consultant
13 41 (3.46%) Azure Data Engineer
14 39 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 38 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (2.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 32 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
17 29 (2.45%) Technical Architect
18 27 (2.28%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (8.69%) PySpark
2 81 (6.84%) Kafka
3 78 (6.58%) REST
4 39 (3.29%) .NET
5 35 (2.95%) JSON
6 34 (2.87%) OAuth
7 29 (2.45%) SOAP
8 27 (2.28%) Pandas
8 27 (2.28%) XML
9 25 (2.11%) Middleware
10 24 (2.03%) Great Expectations
10 24 (2.03%) RESTful
11 23 (1.94%) Node.js
12 21 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
14 18 (1.52%) pytest
14 18 (1.52%) Web Services
15 16 (1.35%) OAuth2
16 15 (1.27%) scikit-learn
17 14 (1.18%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.11%) Cloud Native
2 92 (7.76%) Data Structures
3 67 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.45%) Reference Data
8 25 (2.11%) CMDB
9 22 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.52%) Reinsurance
12 17 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
13 16 (1.35%) Low-Code
14 15 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.01%) Equities
16 10 (0.84%) Derivative
16 10 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.52%) Linux
2 17 (1.43%) Unix
3 8 (0.68%) Windows
4 3 (0.25%) zOS
5 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (37.47%) Analytics
2 378 (31.90%) ETL
3 352 (29.70%) Agile
4 337 (28.44%) Business Intelligence
5 294 (24.81%) Data Engineering
6 292 (24.64%) Data Governance
6 292 (24.64%) Data Pipeline
7 290 (24.47%) CI/CD
8 232 (19.58%) DevOps
9 230 (19.41%) Data Architecture
10 210 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
11 199 (16.79%) AI
12 188 (15.86%) Migration
13 183 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 156 (13.16%) Decision-Making
15 151 (12.74%) Validation
16 147 (12.41%) Data Integration
17 134 (11.31%) Visualisation
18 119 (10.04%) Integration Patterns
19 117 (9.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 601 (50.72%) SQL
2 410 (34.60%) Python
3 76 (6.41%) Java
4 64 (5.40%) C#
4 64 (5.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 60 (5.06%) Scala
6 32 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 24 (2.03%) R
8 23 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 20 (1.69%) Apex Code
10 17 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.93%) Bicep
12 11 (0.93%) Ruby
13 9 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.51%) Bash
14 6 (0.51%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.51%) SOQL
15 5 (0.42%) LookML
15 5 (0.42%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 227 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 182 (15.36%) SC Cleared
3 81 (6.84%) Degree
4 42 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.01%) CBAP
9 11 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.93%) IIBA
10 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.59%) CISSP
12 7 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.34%) CFA
13 4 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.34%) ISEB
13 4 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 371 (31.31%) Data Quality
2 90 (7.59%) GDPR
3 64 (5.40%) QA
4 19 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.27%) PMO
6 11 (0.93%) Solvency II
7 9 (0.76%) NIST
8 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.59%) MiFID
9 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.42%) GRC
11 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.34%) IFRS
11 4 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.25%) Basel III
12 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.25%) SLA
12 3 (0.25%) WCAG
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (4.05%) Docker
2 6 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.084%) HDFS
3 1 (0.084%) RACF
Systems Management
1 111 (9.37%) Terraform
2 47 (3.97%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.42%) Grafana
4 5 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.42%) SCCM
5 4 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.084%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.084%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 230 (19.41%) Databricks
2 205 (17.30%) Microsoft
3 92 (7.76%) Oracle
4 64 (5.40%) Salesforce
4 64 (5.40%) ServiceNow
5 57 (4.81%) SAP
6 41 (3.46%) Google
7 30 (2.53%) Informatica
8 23 (1.94%) Workday
9 21 (1.77%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.27%) IBM
11 14 (1.18%) Guidewire
11 14 (1.18%) Sparx
12 12 (1.01%) Palantir
12 12 (1.01%) Pega
13 11 (0.93%) Foundry
13 11 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.76%) Ariba
14 9 (0.76%) UiPath
15 8 (0.68%) Bloomberg