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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 42 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 842 757 915
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.02% 4.79% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 5.35% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 513 640
10th Percentile £400 £363 £405
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £529 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 13
10th Percentile £33.63 £39.38 £35.13
25th Percentile £35.31 £47.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £40.50 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +6.06% -14.66%
75th Percentile £44.75 £58.06 £61.75
90th Percentile - £65.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £57.30 £50.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year +13.47% +1.51% -24.62%

All Process and 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 12,890 14,145 17,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.50% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,461 9,134 12,846
10th Percentile £335 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.21% -3.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 170 241
10th Percentile £18.06 £17.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +3.36% -6.97%
75th Percentile £47.38 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.80 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 November 2025.

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
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 November 2025. 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 +14 123 £525 -14.29% 37
West London -13 10 £525 -8.14% 9
East London +2 5 £585 +9.35% 7
South London -4 4 £487 -15.26% 3
North London +2 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 62 (7.36%) Apache Spark
2 57 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.28%) Apache
4 20 (2.38%) Confluence
5 16 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.59%) Camunda
6 5 (0.59%) CMS
6 5 (0.59%) JBoss
6 5 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.59%) SAS
7 4 (0.48%) Appian
7 4 (0.48%) Luigi
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 39 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 28 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (1.19%) Endur
5 8 (0.95%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.95%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.71%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.48%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.36%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.24%) HFM
9 2 (0.24%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 283 (33.61%) Azure
2 221 (26.25%) Power Platform
3 215 (25.53%) AWS
4 105 (12.47%) Snowflake
5 92 (10.93%) GCP
6 76 (9.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 68 (8.08%) dbt
8 57 (6.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 52 (6.18%) Serverless
10 50 (5.94%) Amazon S3
11 48 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (5.46%) GitHub
13 36 (4.28%) Power Automate
14 34 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
15 33 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (3.80%) PowerApps
17 26 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
18 23 (2.73%) Collibra
18 23 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
19 18 (2.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.36%) HTTP
2 2 (0.24%) Firewall
2 2 (0.24%) Internet
2 2 (0.24%) NAS
3 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (22.68%) Power BI
2 187 (22.21%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (14.73%) Metadata
4 87 (10.33%) Data Lake
5 60 (7.13%) NoSQL
6 55 (6.53%) Tableau
7 47 (5.58%) Relational Database
8 45 (5.34%) Big Data
8 45 (5.34%) Data Vault
8 45 (5.34%) SQL Server
9 44 (5.23%) Snowflake Schema
10 37 (4.39%) BigQuery
10 37 (4.39%) Power Query
11 35 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 33 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (3.68%) Star Schema
14 27 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
15 23 (2.73%) Delta Lake
16 18 (2.14%) Looker
17 17 (2.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (8.08%) Git
2 48 (5.70%) ERwin
3 47 (5.58%) JIRA
4 21 (2.49%) PowerDesigner
5 20 (2.38%) ER Studio
6 12 (1.43%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.31%) GitLab
8 5 (0.59%) Maven
9 3 (0.36%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.36%) MLflow
9 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.36%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.12%) Gradle
11 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.12%) MSTest
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 284 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 264 (31.35%) Finance
3 171 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (10.45%) Banking
5 68 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.39%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.44%) Retail
8 28 (3.33%) Front Office
9 27 (3.21%) Back Office
9 27 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (3.21%) Marketing
10 22 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.66%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.43%) Local Government
13 12 (1.43%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.31%) Legal
15 9 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (20.90%) Architect
2 158 (18.76%) Data Engineer
3 133 (15.80%) Analyst
4 103 (12.23%) Developer
5 98 (11.64%) Data Architect
6 78 (9.26%) Lead
6 78 (9.26%) Senior
7 75 (8.91%) Business Analyst
8 73 (8.67%) Data Modeller
9 57 (6.77%) Consultant
10 56 (6.65%) Data Analyst
11 33 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (2.97%) Azure Data Engineer
13 25 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
14 24 (2.85%) Azure Architect
15 23 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 21 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
17 19 (2.26%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.24%) PySpark
2 40 (4.75%) Kafka
3 33 (3.92%) REST
4 27 (3.21%) .NET
5 24 (2.85%) JSON
6 22 (2.61%) HTML
7 19 (2.26%) XML
8 18 (2.14%) RESTful
9 16 (1.90%) Middleware
10 15 (1.78%) SOAP
11 14 (1.66%) Node.js
12 13 (1.54%) Web Services
13 12 (1.43%) Pandas
14 10 (1.19%) CSS
14 10 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (1.19%) Spring
15 9 (1.07%) .NET Core
15 9 (1.07%) OAuth
16 8 (0.95%) scikit-learn
16 8 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.08%) Data Structures
2 57 (6.77%) Product Ownership
3 54 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.49%) Reference Data
5 21 (2.49%) Reinsurance
6 20 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 16 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.54%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.43%) Derivative
10 12 (1.43%) Equities
11 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.19%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.31%) Unix
2 10 (1.19%) Linux
3 3 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (34.44%) Analytics
2 264 (31.35%) Agile
3 245 (29.10%) Business Intelligence
4 242 (28.74%) Data Governance
5 235 (27.91%) ETL
6 178 (21.14%) Data Engineering
7 172 (20.43%) Data Pipeline
8 169 (20.07%) Data Architecture
9 160 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
10 133 (15.80%) CI/CD
11 124 (14.73%) Visualisation
12 123 (14.61%) Data Integration
13 122 (14.49%) DevOps
14 116 (13.78%) AI
15 110 (13.06%) Migration
15 110 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 92 (10.93%) Data Analysis
16 92 (10.93%) Data Science
17 91 (10.81%) Decision-Making
18 81 (9.62%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 422 (50.12%) SQL
2 277 (32.90%) Python
3 71 (8.43%) Java
4 46 (5.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 36 (4.28%) C#
6 31 (3.68%) JavaScript
7 29 (3.44%) Scala
8 27 (3.21%) R
9 15 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.19%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.95%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.71%) ABAP
13 6 (0.71%) Bash
13 6 (0.71%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.71%) VBA
14 5 (0.59%) C++
15 4 (0.48%) C
15 4 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 119 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 94 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.72%) Degree
4 21 (2.49%) Azure Certification
4 21 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.59%) CFA
10 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.36%) CBAP
11 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.24%) CISSP
12 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (24.47%) Data Quality
2 71 (8.43%) GDPR
3 38 (4.51%) QA
4 19 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.07%) MiFID
6 9 (1.07%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.59%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.48%) HL7
10 4 (0.48%) IFRS
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) DICOM
11 2 (0.24%) GxP
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.24%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (3.44%) Docker
2 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (5.46%) Terraform
2 31 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.59%) Ansible
4 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.12%) Puppet
5 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 144 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 129 (15.32%) Databricks
3 56 (6.65%) Oracle
4 45 (5.34%) SAP
5 40 (4.75%) Google
6 37 (4.39%) Salesforce
7 22 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.26%) Sparx
9 16 (1.90%) Informatica
10 15 (1.78%) Guidewire
11 12 (1.43%) Palantir
12 11 (1.31%) Foundry
12 11 (1.31%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.19%) Bloomberg
13 10 (1.19%) Workday
14 9 (1.07%) Charles River
15 8 (0.95%) Temenos
16 7 (0.83%) Alteryx
16 7 (0.83%) Pega
16 7 (0.83%) Talend