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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,354 757 737
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.65% 5.62% 4.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 6.07% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 515 501
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -0.23% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile - £31.13 £40.63
25th Percentile £26.51 £34.38 £47.00
Median hourly rate £35.20 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% -13.86% +2.02%
75th Percentile £56.88 £49.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £67.63 £53.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +26.44% +7.87% -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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +7 190 £575 -4.17% 159
West London +13 49 £520 +1.46% 42
South London - 12 £535 - 11
East London 0 6 £470 -30.37% 11
North London -1 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
1 113 (8.35%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (5.24%) Apache Spark
3 61 (4.51%) Apache
4 37 (2.73%) SharePoint
5 36 (2.66%) Confluence
6 10 (0.74%) SAS
7 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.30%) CMS
8 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) Appian
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) CICS
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 45 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.074%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 20 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 13 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 12 (0.89%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.37%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.30%) Endur
7 4 (0.30%) Findur
7 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.30%) Quorum
7 4 (0.30%) R3 Corda
7 4 (0.30%) Ripple
7 4 (0.30%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.22%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 465 (34.34%) Azure
2 345 (25.48%) AWS
3 279 (20.61%) Power Platform
4 174 (12.85%) Snowflake
5 158 (11.67%) dbt
6 154 (11.37%) GCP
7 120 (8.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 104 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (7.02%) GitHub
10 88 (6.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 79 (5.83%) Serverless
12 75 (5.54%) Amazon S3
13 53 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
15 37 (2.73%) Power Automate
15 37 (2.73%) PowerApps
16 35 (2.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 32 (2.36%) SaaS
18 31 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.44%) SSL
2 3 (0.22%) BGP
2 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (0.22%) Firewall
2 3 (0.22%) FTP
2 3 (0.22%) HTTP
2 3 (0.22%) Network Security
2 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
2 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
3 2 (0.15%) TACACS
3 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.15%) VPN
3 2 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.074%) 5G
4 1 (0.074%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.074%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.074%) SMS
4 1 (0.074%) SNMP
4 1 (0.074%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (19.65%) Data Warehouse
2 265 (19.57%) Power BI
3 192 (14.18%) Metadata
4 109 (8.05%) Data Lake
5 73 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 72 (5.32%) BigQuery
7 71 (5.24%) NoSQL
8 68 (5.02%) Relational Database
9 67 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
9 67 (4.95%) Tableau
10 64 (4.73%) Delta Lake
11 58 (4.28%) Power Query
12 56 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 56 (4.14%) Snowflake Schema
13 52 (3.84%) Star Schema
14 42 (3.10%) Data Vault
15 39 (2.88%) Semantic Layer
16 36 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
17 35 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
18 33 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 109 (8.05%) Git
2 78 (5.76%) JIRA
3 37 (2.73%) GitLab
4 35 (2.58%) ERwin
5 24 (1.77%) ER Studio
6 22 (1.62%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.74%) MLflow
10 9 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.52%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.52%) Gradle
11 7 (0.52%) JUnit
11 7 (0.52%) Maven
12 6 (0.44%) Ant
12 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.37%) Mockito
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
14 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 486 (35.89%) Finance
2 374 (27.62%) Social Skills
3 239 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (14.55%) Banking
5 139 (10.27%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.14%) Retail
7 41 (3.03%) Marketing
8 40 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (2.73%) Front Office
9 37 (2.73%) Investment Banking
10 33 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 30 (2.22%) Legal
12 27 (1.99%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.26%) Aviation
14 17 (1.26%) Billing
15 16 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.96%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (23.12%) Architect
2 310 (22.90%) Data Engineer
3 203 (14.99%) Senior
4 200 (14.77%) Analyst
5 162 (11.96%) Data Architect
6 153 (11.30%) Developer
7 126 (9.31%) Lead
8 98 (7.24%) Business Analyst
9 84 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 82 (6.06%) Data Analyst
11 64 (4.73%) Data Modeller
12 62 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
13 44 (3.25%) Snowflake Engineer
14 40 (2.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 38 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 37 (2.73%) Senior Developer
17 36 (2.66%) Consultant
18 31 (2.29%) Data Business Analyst
18 31 (2.29%) Databricks Engineer
18 31 (2.29%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (8.71%) REST
2 113 (8.35%) PySpark
3 101 (7.46%) Kafka
4 97 (7.16%) Terraform
5 58 (4.28%) SOAP
6 44 (3.25%) JSON
7 43 (3.18%) .NET
8 41 (3.03%) Middleware
9 37 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (2.51%) Spring
11 33 (2.44%) Spring Boot
12 31 (2.29%) RESTful
13 27 (1.99%) XML
14 26 (1.92%) OAuth
15 25 (1.85%) React
16 22 (1.62%) Web Services
17 21 (1.55%) Node.js
18 19 (1.40%) GraphQL
18 19 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
19 17 (1.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 119 (8.79%) Data Structures
3 107 (7.90%) Product Ownership
4 78 (5.76%) Onboarding
5 73 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (3.55%) Reference Data
7 38 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (2.58%) CMDB
9 34 (2.51%) Replication
10 29 (2.14%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.92%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
13 23 (1.70%) Reinsurance
14 22 (1.62%) Derivative
14 22 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.33%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
16 13 (0.96%) Fixed Income
17 12 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.70%) Linux
2 18 (1.33%) Unix
3 13 (0.96%) Windows
4 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (36.85%) Analytics
2 373 (27.55%) Agile
3 355 (26.22%) Data Pipeline
4 351 (25.92%) ETL
5 350 (25.85%) Data Governance
6 334 (24.67%) CI/CD
7 333 (24.59%) Business Intelligence
8 319 (23.56%) Data Engineering
9 305 (22.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 280 (20.68%) AI
11 269 (19.87%) Data Architecture
12 247 (18.24%) DevOps
13 239 (17.65%) Migration
14 235 (17.36%) Validation
15 198 (14.62%) Data Transformation
16 190 (14.03%) Decision-Making
17 171 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
18 154 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 144 (10.64%) Data Integration
20 135 (9.97%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 666 (49.19%) SQL
2 408 (30.13%) Python
3 83 (6.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 79 (5.83%) Java
5 55 (4.06%) JavaScript
6 53 (3.91%) C#
7 44 (3.25%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.58%) Scala
9 34 (2.51%) Apex Code
10 24 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 13 (0.96%) SOQL
13 10 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.66%) R
15 8 (0.59%) SOSL
16 7 (0.52%) Bicep
16 7 (0.52%) LookML
16 7 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.44%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 218 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 183 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 69 (5.10%) Degree
4 29 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 26 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.03%) PMI Certification
10 13 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.89%) PMP
12 11 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.59%) CISSP
13 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.37%) GCIA
15 4 (0.30%) CCSP
15 4 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.30%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (35.16%) Data Quality
2 63 (4.65%) GDPR
3 53 (3.91%) QA
4 29 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.11%) GRC
6 12 (0.89%) SLA
7 9 (0.66%) IFRS
7 9 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 9 (0.66%) PMO
7 9 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.44%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.44%) MiFID
8 6 (0.44%) NCSC
8 6 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.37%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.30%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.22%) HL7
11 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.22%) SEPA
12 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 50 (3.69%) Docker
2 3 (0.22%) RACF
3 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.074%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.96%) Ansible
3 11 (0.81%) Grafana
4 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.66%) Control-M
6 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.15%) Argo
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.15%) QRadar
7 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.074%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.074%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.074%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.074%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.074%) Istio
8 1 (0.074%) Nagios
8 1 (0.074%) WMI
Vendors
1 242 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 237 (17.50%) Databricks
3 107 (7.90%) Oracle
4 90 (6.65%) Salesforce
5 59 (4.36%) ServiceNow
6 50 (3.69%) SAP
7 45 (3.32%) Google
8 31 (2.29%) Informatica
9 17 (1.26%) Foundry
9 17 (1.26%) Workday
10 15 (1.11%) MuleSoft
11 13 (0.96%) Bloomberg
11 13 (0.96%) Palantir
11 13 (0.96%) Sparx
11 13 (0.96%) Splunk
12 12 (0.89%) Alteryx
12 12 (0.89%) IBM
13 11 (0.81%) Talend
14 9 (0.66%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.59%) Denodo