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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 45 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,349 691 794
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.79% 5.08% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 5.51% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 481 560
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £456 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £580
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -4.31% -3.33%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 8
10th Percentile £41.08 £28.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.19 £29.07 £39.69
Median hourly rate £51.75 £40.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -17.35% -16.60%
75th Percentile £64.56 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.08 £54.25 £52.35
England median hourly rate £69.72 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +60.28% +7.87% -23.19%

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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +20 180 £550 -4.35% 48
West London +13 43 £520 -0.95% 19
South London -11 8 £463 - 2
East London +2 5 £450 -33.33% 6
North London 0 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 87 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (5.63%) Apache Spark
3 59 (4.37%) Apache
4 36 (2.67%) Confluence
5 32 (2.37%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.82%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) Appian
8 5 (0.37%) Camunda
9 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.074%) Luigi
12 1 (0.074%) Mendix
Applications
1 47 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.074%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (1.26%) Aladdin
4 14 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.59%) Findur
8 6 (0.44%) SAP BPC
8 6 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.37%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.30%) Endur
10 4 (0.30%) Maximo
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.30%) Quorum
10 4 (0.30%) R3 Corda
10 4 (0.30%) Ripple
10 4 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 460 (34.10%) Azure
2 329 (24.39%) AWS
3 315 (23.35%) Power Platform
4 154 (11.42%) GCP
5 135 (10.01%) dbt
6 128 (9.49%) Snowflake
7 122 (9.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 104 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
9 88 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 85 (6.30%) Amazon S3
11 71 (5.26%) Serverless
12 68 (5.04%) GitHub
13 51 (3.78%) Power Automate
14 47 (3.48%) PowerApps
15 45 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
17 40 (2.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 32 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
19 26 (1.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 24 (1.78%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) Firewall
1 5 (0.37%) SSL
2 4 (0.30%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) FTP
3 3 (0.22%) RTP
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.074%) 4G
5 1 (0.074%) DNS
5 1 (0.074%) SMS
5 1 (0.074%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (21.20%) Power BI
2 248 (18.38%) Data Warehouse
3 175 (12.97%) Metadata
4 115 (8.52%) Data Lake
5 79 (5.86%) Tableau
6 77 (5.71%) BigQuery
7 68 (5.04%) SQL Server
8 64 (4.74%) Relational Database
9 61 (4.52%) Snowflake Schema
10 57 (4.23%) Delta Lake
11 52 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 52 (3.85%) Star Schema
12 49 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
13 47 (3.48%) NoSQL
13 47 (3.48%) Power Query
14 41 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
16 36 (2.67%) Data Vault
17 31 (2.30%) Big Data
17 31 (2.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 106 (7.86%) Git
2 87 (6.45%) JIRA
3 38 (2.82%) ERwin
4 31 (2.30%) GitLab
5 24 (1.78%) ER Studio
6 20 (1.48%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.19%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.44%) Ant
10 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.44%) Maven
11 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.30%) Gradle
12 4 (0.30%) MLflow
13 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.22%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.22%) MSTest
14 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
General
1 498 (36.92%) Finance
2 364 (26.98%) Social Skills
3 268 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (13.05%) Banking
5 142 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (3.04%) Marketing
7 38 (2.82%) Retail
8 34 (2.52%) Legal
9 33 (2.45%) Front Office
10 32 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (2.08%) Financial Institution
11 28 (2.08%) Investment Banking
12 27 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.26%) Billing
15 15 (1.11%) Aviation
16 14 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 295 (21.87%) Data Engineer
2 294 (21.79%) Architect
3 200 (14.83%) Analyst
4 190 (14.08%) Developer
5 180 (13.34%) Senior
6 134 (9.93%) Data Architect
7 131 (9.71%) Lead
8 91 (6.75%) Business Analyst
9 88 (6.52%) Data Analyst
10 80 (5.93%) Data Modeller
11 61 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
11 61 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 44 (3.26%) Senior Developer
14 36 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
14 36 (2.67%) Technical Architect
15 35 (2.59%) Power BI Developer
15 35 (2.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 32 (2.37%) Data Business Analyst
17 31 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (8.52%) REST
2 98 (7.26%) PySpark
3 82 (6.08%) Kafka
4 62 (4.60%) SOAP
5 49 (3.63%) JSON
6 47 (3.48%) .NET
7 41 (3.04%) Lightning Web Components
7 41 (3.04%) Middleware
8 31 (2.30%) XML
9 29 (2.15%) RESTful
10 26 (1.93%) Node.js
11 24 (1.78%) OAuth
12 20 (1.48%) React
12 20 (1.48%) Spring
12 20 (1.48%) Web Services
13 19 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
13 19 (1.41%) Spring Boot
14 15 (1.11%) HTML
15 14 (1.04%) Pandas
15 14 (1.04%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 110 (8.15%) Data Structures
3 88 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 86 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
5 65 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.56%) Reference Data
7 44 (3.26%) CMDB
8 43 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.78%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.63%) Derivative
13 21 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
14 19 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.33%) Reinsurance
16 17 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (1.04%) Equities
17 14 (1.04%) Fixed Income
17 14 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.56%) Linux
2 16 (1.19%) Unix
3 15 (1.11%) Windows
4 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (38.92%) Analytics
2 376 (27.87%) Agile
3 365 (27.06%) Business Intelligence
4 362 (26.83%) ETL
5 342 (25.35%) Data Pipeline
6 328 (24.31%) CI/CD
7 315 (23.35%) Data Governance
8 306 (22.68%) Data Engineering
9 254 (18.83%) Data Architecture
10 243 (18.01%) DevOps
11 239 (17.72%) AI
12 220 (16.31%) Migration
13 218 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 213 (15.79%) Validation
15 191 (14.16%) Decision-Making
15 191 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
16 160 (11.86%) Data Transformation
17 148 (10.97%) Integration Patterns
18 144 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 134 (9.93%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 643 (47.66%) SQL
2 419 (31.06%) Python
3 91 (6.75%) Java
4 82 (6.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (4.74%) C#
6 56 (4.15%) JavaScript
7 41 (3.04%) Apex Code
8 36 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 35 (2.59%) Scala
10 24 (1.78%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.78%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.19%) SOQL
12 13 (0.96%) PowerShell
12 13 (0.96%) R
13 12 (0.89%) Ruby
14 9 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.59%) SOSL
16 7 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.44%) Cypher
18 5 (0.37%) LookML
Qualifications
1 228 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 185 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.74%) Degree
4 31 (2.30%) Azure Certification
4 31 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.89%) CISSP
7 12 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.82%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.59%) PMI Certification
9 8 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.44%) CCSP
11 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.44%) GCIH
11 6 (0.44%) PMP
12 5 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 404 (29.95%) Data Quality
2 78 (5.78%) GDPR
3 61 (4.52%) QA
4 29 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.11%) GRC
5 15 (1.11%) PMO
6 10 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 9 (0.67%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) IFRS
9 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.44%) MiFID
10 5 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.37%) NIST
11 4 (0.30%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.30%) WCAG
12 3 (0.22%) NCSC
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 48 (3.56%) Docker
2 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.074%) HDFS
3 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.074%) RACF
Systems Management
1 93 (6.89%) Terraform
2 49 (3.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.74%) Ansible
4 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.52%) Grafana
6 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) SCCM
8 4 (0.30%) Control-M
9 2 (0.15%) QRadar
9 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.074%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.074%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.074%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.074%) Istio
10 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.074%) Nagios
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 229 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 210 (15.57%) Databricks
3 112 (8.30%) Oracle
4 97 (7.19%) Salesforce
5 69 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.08%) SAP
7 50 (3.71%) Google
8 28 (2.08%) Workday
9 25 (1.85%) Informatica
10 24 (1.78%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.33%) Palantir
12 15 (1.11%) Foundry
13 13 (0.96%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.89%) Splunk
15 10 (0.74%) IBM
16 9 (0.67%) Alteryx
17 8 (0.59%) Anaplan
17 8 (0.59%) CyberArk
17 8 (0.59%) Guidewire
17 8 (0.59%) Murex