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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 48 37
Rank change year-on-year +21 -11 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,203 601 888
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.87% 4.72% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.74% 5.13% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 418 663
10th Percentile £394 £363 £420
25th Percentile £456 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £714
90th Percentile £750 £769 £835
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 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £35.73 £60.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £40.54 £65.00 £62.86
England median hourly rate £79.00 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +42.34% +20.18% -14.08%

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 15,550 11,711 15,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 91.99% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,406 7,955 11,321
10th Percentile £355 £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 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 168 333
10th Percentile £18.66 £16.48 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.57 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £63.75 £66.70
England median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +31 149 £550 -1.79% 49
West London +4 33 £603 -3.60% 14
South London -7 12 £469 -2.60% 10
East London 0 10 £450 -28.00% 15
North London +1 1 £495 -30.62%
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
1 101 (8.40%) Apache Spark
2 65 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (4.24%) Apache
4 34 (2.83%) Confluence
5 23 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.33%) Appian
7 10 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.75%) Camunda
9 7 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.58%) SAS
10 6 (0.50%) CMS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.083%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 47 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.50%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.25%) Trello
6 1 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 27 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.50%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.33%) Findur
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.33%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
9 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 442 (36.74%) Azure
2 309 (25.69%) Power Platform
3 297 (24.69%) AWS
4 153 (12.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 115 (9.56%) GCP
6 113 (9.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 101 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (8.40%) Snowflake
8 96 (7.98%) Amazon S3
9 84 (6.98%) dbt
9 84 (6.98%) Serverless
10 70 (5.82%) GitHub
11 53 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (4.24%) Power Automate
13 42 (3.49%) PowerApps
14 40 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
16 33 (2.74%) Collibra
17 26 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) RTP
2 4 (0.33%) 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 (0.083%) 4G
5 1 (0.083%) 5G
5 1 (0.083%) DNS
5 1 (0.083%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.083%) MQTT
5 1 (0.083%) Network Security
5 1 (0.083%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (22.69%) Power BI
2 236 (19.62%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (11.72%) Metadata
4 126 (10.47%) Data Lake
5 95 (7.90%) SQL Server
6 81 (6.73%) Tableau
7 69 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 65 (5.40%) NoSQL
9 63 (5.24%) Snowflake Schema
10 62 (5.15%) BigQuery
11 61 (5.07%) Delta Lake
12 58 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 51 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
14 48 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
15 43 (3.57%) Data Vault
15 43 (3.57%) Relational Database
15 43 (3.57%) Star Schema
16 35 (2.91%) Big Data
16 35 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 31 (2.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 112 (9.31%) Git
2 82 (6.82%) JIRA
3 33 (2.74%) ERwin
4 18 (1.50%) GitLab
5 17 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.33%) MLflow
6 16 (1.33%) PowerDesigner
7 11 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.67%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.42%) JMeter
10 3 (0.25%) Maven
10 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.17%) git-flow
11 2 (0.17%) LSMW
11 2 (0.17%) MSTest
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
11 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 414 (34.41%) Finance
2 350 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 251 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (10.31%) Banking
5 114 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 46 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.16%) Marketing
8 31 (2.58%) Financial Institution
9 26 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (2.00%) Retail
12 23 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.58%) Front Office
13 19 (1.58%) Legal
14 18 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.41%) Billing
16 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.91%) Aviation
18 10 (0.83%) Back Office
18 10 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 286 (23.77%) Data Engineer
2 208 (17.29%) Architect
3 177 (14.71%) Analyst
4 162 (13.47%) Developer
5 153 (12.72%) Senior
6 126 (10.47%) Lead
7 101 (8.40%) Data Architect
8 98 (8.15%) Business Analyst
9 70 (5.82%) Data Modeller
10 69 (5.74%) Data Analyst
11 51 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
12 44 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
13 42 (3.49%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (3.41%) Consultant
15 39 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 39 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (2.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 34 (2.83%) Snowflake Engineer
17 27 (2.24%) Power BI Developer
17 27 (2.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (8.31%) PySpark
2 78 (6.48%) REST
3 75 (6.23%) Kafka
4 44 (3.66%) .NET
5 36 (2.99%) JSON
6 35 (2.91%) OAuth
7 29 (2.41%) SOAP
8 28 (2.33%) XML
9 25 (2.08%) Middleware
9 25 (2.08%) Pandas
10 23 (1.91%) Great Expectations
10 23 (1.91%) Node.js
10 23 (1.91%) RESTful
11 22 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
12 19 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (1.50%) pytest
13 18 (1.50%) Web Services
14 16 (1.33%) OAuth2
15 14 (1.16%) FastAPI
16 13 (1.08%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 111 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.06%) Data Structures
3 72 (5.99%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 35 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.33%) Reference Data
8 27 (2.24%) CMDB
9 23 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.58%) Reinsurance
12 18 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
13 15 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.25%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.00%) Equities
16 11 (0.91%) Clustering
16 11 (0.91%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.50%) Linux
2 16 (1.33%) Unix
3 8 (0.67%) Windows
4 3 (0.25%) zOS
5 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (36.82%) Analytics
2 377 (31.34%) ETL
3 364 (30.26%) Agile
4 332 (27.60%) Business Intelligence
5 295 (24.52%) Data Pipeline
6 290 (24.11%) CI/CD
7 289 (24.02%) Data Governance
8 286 (23.77%) Data Engineering
9 236 (19.62%) DevOps
10 227 (18.87%) Data Architecture
11 207 (17.21%) AI
11 207 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
12 199 (16.54%) Migration
13 178 (14.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 170 (14.13%) Decision-Making
15 161 (13.38%) Validation
16 133 (11.06%) Data Integration
17 125 (10.39%) Visualisation
18 120 (9.98%) Integration Patterns
19 118 (9.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 604 (50.21%) SQL
2 411 (34.16%) Python
3 79 (6.57%) Java
4 67 (5.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (5.49%) C#
6 60 (4.99%) Scala
7 34 (2.83%) JavaScript
8 26 (2.16%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.91%) R
10 19 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.50%) Apex Code
11 18 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.91%) Bicep
12 11 (0.91%) Ruby
13 9 (0.75%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.50%) Bash
14 6 (0.50%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.50%) SOQL
15 5 (0.42%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 223 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 179 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.23%) Degree
4 40 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.00%) CBAP
9 11 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.91%) IIBA
10 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.58%) CISSP
11 7 (0.58%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.42%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.33%) CFA
14 4 (0.33%) ISEB
14 4 (0.33%) SnowPro
15 3 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (31.01%) Data Quality
2 93 (7.73%) GDPR
3 65 (5.40%) QA
4 18 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.16%) PMO
6 12 (1.00%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.67%) NIST
8 6 (0.50%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.33%) GRC
10 4 (0.33%) IFRS
10 4 (0.33%) MiFID
10 4 (0.33%) WCAG
11 3 (0.25%) Basel III
11 3 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (3.91%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) HDFS
3 1 (0.083%) RACF
Systems Management
1 114 (9.48%) Terraform
2 46 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.58%) Grafana
4 7 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.42%) Ansible
5 5 (0.42%) SCCM
6 1 (0.083%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 230 (19.12%) Databricks
2 214 (17.79%) Microsoft
3 94 (7.81%) Oracle
4 65 (5.40%) ServiceNow
5 62 (5.15%) SAP
6 60 (4.99%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.57%) Google
8 28 (2.33%) Informatica
9 27 (2.24%) Workday
10 20 (1.66%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.25%) IBM
12 13 (1.08%) Guidewire
13 12 (1.00%) Sparx
14 11 (0.91%) Palantir
14 11 (0.91%) Pega
15 10 (0.83%) Ariba
15 10 (0.83%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.83%) Foundry
15 10 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.75%) Confluent