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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 43 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,385 741 755
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.82% 5.49% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 5.93% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 515 520
10th Percentile £400 £408 £400
25th Percentile £451 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -5.24% -0.23% -7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 5
10th Percentile - £31.47 £47.45
25th Percentile £26.51 £35.31 £49.25
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -13.86% -8.18%
75th Percentile £52.63 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £66.40 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £48.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +45.83% +19.03% -19.35%

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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +12 189 £553 -7.83% 92
West London +15 46 £520 -0.95% 27
South London - 14 £525 - 9
East London +1 6 £470 -30.37% 7
North London -3 1 £178 -
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
1 115 (8.30%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (5.49%) Apache Spark
3 68 (4.91%) Apache
4 37 (2.67%) SharePoint
5 30 (2.17%) Confluence
6 11 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.79%) SAS
7 4 (0.29%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.22%) Appian
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.14%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.072%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.072%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 21 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
3 14 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
5 12 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.79%) Aladdin
6 11 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.36%) Findur
7 5 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.36%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.36%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.29%) Endur
8 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.29%) Quorum
8 4 (0.29%) R3 Corda
8 4 (0.29%) Ripple
9 3 (0.22%) Maximo
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 464 (33.50%) Azure
2 349 (25.20%) AWS
3 293 (21.16%) Power Platform
4 163 (11.77%) Snowflake
5 160 (11.55%) dbt
6 155 (11.19%) GCP
7 122 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 110 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
9 101 (7.29%) GitHub
10 89 (6.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 77 (5.56%) Amazon S3
12 76 (5.49%) Serverless
13 50 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (2.74%) Power Automate
14 38 (2.74%) PowerApps
15 37 (2.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 36 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
17 32 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (2.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.43%) SSL
2 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) BGP
3 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (0.22%) FTP
3 3 (0.22%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
3 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
4 2 (0.14%) RTP
4 2 (0.14%) TACACS
4 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.14%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.072%) 5G
5 1 (0.072%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.072%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.072%) SMS
5 1 (0.072%) SNMP
5 1 (0.072%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (20.07%) Data Warehouse
1 278 (20.07%) Power BI
2 198 (14.30%) Metadata
3 114 (8.23%) Data Lake
4 79 (5.70%) SQL Server
5 77 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 72 (5.20%) Tableau
7 70 (5.05%) Relational Database
8 69 (4.98%) NoSQL
9 66 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
10 63 (4.55%) Delta Lake
11 61 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 60 (4.33%) Snowflake Schema
12 60 (4.33%) Star Schema
13 58 (4.19%) Power Query
14 41 (2.96%) Semantic Layer
15 39 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (2.74%) Data Vault
17 37 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
18 32 (2.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 108 (7.80%) Git
2 78 (5.63%) JIRA
3 38 (2.74%) ERwin
3 38 (2.74%) GitLab
4 25 (1.81%) ER Studio
5 20 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
7 11 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.58%) MLflow
10 7 (0.51%) Maven
10 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.43%) Ant
11 6 (0.43%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.43%) Gradle
11 6 (0.43%) JUnit
12 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 491 (35.45%) Finance
2 379 (27.36%) Social Skills
3 245 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (13.72%) Banking
5 147 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 53 (3.83%) Retail
7 43 (3.10%) Marketing
8 39 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.45%) Front Office
9 34 (2.45%) Investment Banking
10 33 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (2.31%) Legal
12 27 (1.95%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.30%) Billing
16 15 (1.08%) Aviation
17 13 (0.94%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.87%) General Ledger
18 12 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 324 (23.39%) Data Engineer
2 320 (23.10%) Architect
3 200 (14.44%) Senior
4 197 (14.22%) Analyst
5 163 (11.77%) Developer
6 158 (11.41%) Data Architect
7 128 (9.24%) Lead
8 92 (6.64%) Business Analyst
9 84 (6.06%) Data Analyst
10 78 (5.63%) Senior Data Engineer
11 68 (4.91%) Data Modeller
12 63 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
13 43 (3.10%) Snowflake Engineer
14 40 (2.89%) Senior Developer
15 39 (2.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 38 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 31 (2.24%) Consultant
17 31 (2.24%) Technical Architect
18 30 (2.17%) Power BI Developer
19 29 (2.09%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (8.81%) REST
2 119 (8.59%) PySpark
3 97 (7.00%) Kafka
4 95 (6.86%) Terraform
5 60 (4.33%) SOAP
6 48 (3.47%) JSON
7 46 (3.32%) .NET
8 44 (3.18%) Middleware
9 40 (2.89%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (2.45%) Spring
11 33 (2.38%) Spring Boot
12 30 (2.17%) RESTful
13 27 (1.95%) XML
14 25 (1.81%) React
15 24 (1.73%) OAuth
16 21 (1.52%) Node.js
17 19 (1.37%) GraphQL
17 19 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
17 19 (1.37%) Web Services
18 16 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 117 (8.45%) Data Structures
3 96 (6.93%) Product Ownership
4 78 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 49 (3.54%) Reference Data
7 46 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (2.53%) CMDB
9 28 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 28 (2.02%) Replication
10 24 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.66%) Reinsurance
12 22 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.44%) Derivative
14 16 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.16%) Taxonomies
15 15 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.95%) Linux
2 23 (1.66%) Unix
3 14 (1.01%) Windows
4 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (37.40%) Analytics
2 382 (27.58%) Agile
3 367 (26.50%) ETL
4 365 (26.35%) Data Pipeline
5 354 (25.56%) Data Governance
6 351 (25.34%) CI/CD
7 349 (25.20%) Business Intelligence
8 329 (23.75%) Data Engineering
9 294 (21.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 277 (20.00%) AI
11 268 (19.35%) Data Architecture
12 257 (18.56%) DevOps
13 243 (17.55%) Migration
14 236 (17.04%) Validation
15 196 (14.15%) Data Transformation
16 192 (13.86%) Decision-Making
17 180 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
18 156 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 148 (10.69%) Integration Patterns
20 144 (10.40%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 686 (49.53%) SQL
2 422 (30.47%) Python
3 91 (6.57%) Java
4 87 (6.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 56 (4.04%) C#
6 55 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 41 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 37 (2.67%) Apex Code
9 34 (2.45%) Scala
10 26 (1.88%) PL/SQL
11 25 (1.81%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.08%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.01%) SOQL
14 13 (0.94%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.87%) Ruby
16 10 (0.72%) R
17 9 (0.65%) LookML
18 8 (0.58%) SOSL
19 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
20 6 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 241 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 200 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.55%) Degree
4 30 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 29 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.65%) CISSP
13 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.43%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.36%) CCSP
15 5 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 470 (33.94%) Data Quality
2 64 (4.62%) GDPR
3 60 (4.33%) QA
4 29 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.23%) GRC
6 13 (0.94%) PMO
7 11 (0.79%) SLA
8 10 (0.72%) Solvency II
9 9 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.58%) IFRS
10 8 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.43%) MiFID
11 6 (0.43%) NCSC
12 5 (0.36%) IFRS 17
12 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.29%) ISO 15022
14 3 (0.22%) HL7
14 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 52 (3.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.14%) RACF
2 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.94%) Ansible
3 9 (0.65%) Control-M
3 9 (0.65%) Grafana
4 8 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.14%) Argo
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.14%) QRadar
6 2 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.072%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.072%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.072%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.072%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.072%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.072%) Istio
7 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.072%) Nagios
7 1 (0.072%) WMI
Vendors
1 248 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 231 (16.68%) Databricks
3 128 (9.24%) Oracle
4 91 (6.57%) Salesforce
5 60 (4.33%) ServiceNow
6 53 (3.83%) SAP
7 51 (3.68%) Google
8 36 (2.60%) Informatica
9 21 (1.52%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.23%) Foundry
11 16 (1.16%) Workday
12 15 (1.08%) Palantir
13 13 (0.94%) Alteryx
14 12 (0.87%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.87%) IBM
14 12 (0.87%) Sparx
14 12 (0.87%) Splunk
14 12 (0.87%) Talend
15 8 (0.58%) Confluent
15 8 (0.58%) CyberArk