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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 46 45
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,279 627 823
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.76% 5.07% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.62% 5.49% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 438 602
10th Percentile £388 £395 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £699
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
England median daily rate £523 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.42% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 13
10th Percentile £27.91 £28.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.85 £60.63 £54.05
England median hourly rate £72.50 £45.73 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.54% +7.60% +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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +15 156 £560 -1.75% 37
West London +8 38 £603 +20.50% 12
East London +6 11 £450 -33.33% 6
South London -4 9 £463 -2.63% 2
North London +2 2 £336 - 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 80 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 77 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (3.83%) Apache
4 35 (2.74%) Confluence
5 24 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.94%) Appian
7 9 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.63%) SAS
9 6 (0.47%) Camunda
10 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.078%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.078%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 44 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.78%) 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 23 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.63%) Findur
3 8 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.47%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.31%) Quorum
6 4 (0.31%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.31%) Ripple
7 3 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 451 (35.26%) Azure
2 317 (24.78%) Power Platform
3 315 (24.63%) AWS
4 133 (10.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 132 (10.32%) GCP
6 111 (8.68%) dbt
6 111 (8.68%) Snowflake
7 102 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (7.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 85 (6.65%) Amazon S3
10 74 (5.79%) Serverless
11 73 (5.71%) GitHub
12 48 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (3.60%) Power Automate
14 37 (2.89%) PowerApps
15 36 (2.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 32 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
17 30 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (2.19%) Collibra
19 27 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.39%) RTP
2 5 (0.39%) VPN
3 4 (0.31%) Network Security
4 3 (0.23%) FTP
5 2 (0.16%) 5G
5 2 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.16%) RFID
5 2 (0.16%) SSL
5 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.16%) Wireless
6 1 (0.078%) 4G
6 1 (0.078%) DNS
6 1 (0.078%) SMS
6 1 (0.078%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (22.52%) Power BI
2 227 (17.75%) Data Warehouse
3 151 (11.81%) Metadata
4 127 (9.93%) Data Lake
5 94 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 86 (6.72%) Tableau
7 70 (5.47%) BigQuery
8 65 (5.08%) Delta Lake
9 63 (4.93%) Relational Database
10 62 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 55 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
12 50 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 49 (3.83%) Star Schema
14 48 (3.75%) NoSQL
15 46 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 45 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
17 44 (3.44%) Data Vault
18 41 (3.21%) Power Query
19 28 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 25 (1.95%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 105 (8.21%) Git
2 94 (7.35%) JIRA
3 36 (2.81%) ERwin
4 26 (2.03%) GitLab
5 19 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.33%) ER Studio
7 15 (1.17%) PowerDesigner
8 13 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.94%) MLflow
10 6 (0.47%) Ant
10 6 (0.47%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.47%) Maven
10 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.39%) JMeter
12 4 (0.31%) Gradle
13 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.23%) MSTest
14 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.16%) git-flow
14 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 466 (36.43%) Finance
2 334 (26.11%) Social Skills
3 246 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (12.67%) Banking
5 134 (10.48%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (3.13%) Marketing
8 33 (2.58%) Financial Institution
9 28 (2.19%) Legal
10 26 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (1.95%) Front Office
11 25 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 24 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.80%) Retail
14 16 (1.25%) Billing
15 14 (1.09%) Aviation
16 13 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.94%) Publishing
18 9 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 303 (23.69%) Data Engineer
2 241 (18.84%) Architect
3 186 (14.54%) Developer
4 184 (14.39%) Analyst
5 177 (13.84%) Senior
6 132 (10.32%) Lead
7 119 (9.30%) Data Architect
8 94 (7.35%) Business Analyst
9 74 (5.79%) Data Analyst
10 73 (5.71%) Data Modeller
11 62 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
12 47 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 45 (3.52%) Senior Developer
13 45 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (2.74%) Power BI Developer
14 35 (2.74%) Technical Architect
15 34 (2.66%) Snowflake Engineer
16 33 (2.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 31 (2.42%) Consultant
18 29 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (7.97%) REST
2 90 (7.04%) PySpark
3 82 (6.41%) Kafka
4 41 (3.21%) .NET
5 40 (3.13%) SOAP
6 36 (2.81%) JSON
7 34 (2.66%) RESTful
8 33 (2.58%) Lightning Web Components
9 31 (2.42%) OAuth
10 30 (2.35%) Middleware
11 26 (2.03%) Node.js
11 26 (2.03%) Pandas
11 26 (2.03%) Web Services
12 25 (1.95%) XML
13 21 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (1.56%) React
14 20 (1.56%) Spring
15 18 (1.41%) Great Expectations
16 17 (1.33%) pytest
16 17 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.70%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.66%) Data Structures
3 79 (6.18%) Legacy Systems
4 72 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 51 (3.99%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (3.05%) Reference Data
8 33 (2.58%) CMDB
9 28 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.95%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.95%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.41%) Derivative
15 16 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
16 15 (1.17%) Equities
17 14 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (1.09%) Fixed Income
17 14 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.25%) Linux
2 14 (1.09%) Unix
3 10 (0.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.16%) zOS
5 1 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (37.84%) Analytics
2 380 (29.71%) ETL
3 360 (28.15%) Agile
4 336 (26.27%) Business Intelligence
5 324 (25.33%) CI/CD
6 321 (25.10%) Data Pipeline
7 285 (22.28%) Data Engineering
8 274 (21.42%) Data Governance
9 252 (19.70%) Data Architecture
10 244 (19.08%) DevOps
11 231 (18.06%) AI
12 215 (16.81%) Migration
13 196 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
14 195 (15.25%) Validation
15 185 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 178 (13.92%) Decision-Making
17 132 (10.32%) Data Transformation
18 122 (9.54%) Integration Patterns
19 121 (9.46%) Visualisation
20 120 (9.38%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 605 (47.30%) SQL
2 411 (32.13%) Python
3 91 (7.11%) Java
4 74 (5.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (5.16%) C#
6 43 (3.36%) Scala
7 40 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 34 (2.66%) TypeScript
9 32 (2.50%) Apex Code
10 24 (1.88%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.25%) R
12 14 (1.09%) SOQL
13 12 (0.94%) Ruby
14 9 (0.70%) Bicep
15 7 (0.55%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
15 7 (0.55%) SOSL
16 6 (0.47%) Bash
16 6 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 226 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 185 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 72 (5.63%) Degree
4 34 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.86%) CISSP
8 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.78%) CBAP
9 10 (0.78%) IIBA
9 10 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.47%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.47%) CCSP
12 6 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.47%) GCIH
12 6 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (30.65%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.41%) GDPR
3 64 (5.00%) QA
4 14 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.02%) PMO
6 10 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.70%) GRC
7 9 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.63%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.63%) NIST
9 6 (0.47%) IFRS
9 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.47%) SLA
10 5 (0.39%) MiFID
11 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.31%) WCAG
12 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (4.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.078%) HDFS
3 1 (0.078%) RACF
Systems Management
1 110 (8.60%) Terraform
2 48 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.63%) Ansible
5 7 (0.55%) Grafana
5 7 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.39%) SCCM
7 2 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.078%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.078%) QRadar
8 1 (0.078%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 221 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 214 (16.73%) Databricks
3 108 (8.44%) Oracle
4 84 (6.57%) Salesforce
5 68 (5.32%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.38%) SAP
7 44 (3.44%) Google
8 28 (2.19%) Informatica
9 27 (2.11%) Workday
10 18 (1.41%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.02%) IBM
12 12 (0.94%) Bloomberg
12 12 (0.94%) Guidewire
13 11 (0.86%) Alteryx
13 11 (0.86%) Palantir
14 10 (0.78%) Splunk
15 9 (0.70%) Confluent
15 9 (0.70%) Foundry
15 9 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 8 (0.63%) Sparx