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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 47 43
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,244 605 829
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.78% 5.01% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 5.43% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 417 608
10th Percentile £400 £379 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £771 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 14
10th Percentile £25.81 £28.52 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.73 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.75 £52.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +9.38% -10.70%
75th Percentile £64.56 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.08 £62.50 £54.01
England median hourly rate £75.90 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +44.57% +16.67% +24.14%

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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +18 150 £575 +4.55% 94
West London +7 38 £603 +12.09% 11
East London +3 11 £450 -33.33% 9
South London -5 9 £463 -2.63% 4
North London 0 2 £336 -
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 92 (7.40%) Apache Spark
2 75 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (4.10%) Apache
4 36 (2.89%) Confluence
5 22 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.05%) Appian
7 9 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.64%) SAS
9 7 (0.56%) Camunda
10 4 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.080%) Anypoint
Applications
1 44 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.16%) Trello
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.05%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.56%) Findur
7 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.48%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.40%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
9 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.32%) Quorum
9 4 (0.32%) R3 Corda
9 4 (0.32%) Ripple
10 3 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
10 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 450 (36.17%) Azure
2 306 (24.60%) AWS
2 306 (24.60%) Power Platform
3 136 (10.93%) Azure Data Factory
4 132 (10.61%) GCP
5 109 (8.76%) dbt
6 102 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (8.20%) Snowflake
7 95 (7.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 87 (6.99%) Amazon S3
9 72 (5.79%) Serverless
10 67 (5.39%) GitHub
11 47 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (3.46%) Power Automate
13 35 (2.81%) PowerApps
14 32 (2.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 28 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (2.17%) Collibra
16 27 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) RTP
2 4 (0.32%) Firewall
2 4 (0.32%) VPN
3 3 (0.24%) FTP
3 3 (0.24%) Network Security
4 2 (0.16%) 5G
4 2 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.16%) RFID
5 1 (0.080%) 4G
5 1 (0.080%) DNS
5 1 (0.080%) SMS
5 1 (0.080%) SNMP
5 1 (0.080%) SSL
5 1 (0.080%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.080%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (22.19%) Power BI
2 228 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
3 140 (11.25%) Metadata
4 123 (9.89%) Data Lake
5 96 (7.72%) SQL Server
6 80 (6.43%) Tableau
7 69 (5.55%) BigQuery
8 67 (5.39%) Delta Lake
9 60 (4.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 56 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
11 55 (4.42%) Relational Database
12 53 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 51 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 50 (4.02%) NoSQL
15 46 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (3.62%) Star Schema
17 43 (3.46%) Data Vault
18 37 (2.97%) Power Query
19 29 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 28 (2.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (8.84%) Git
2 91 (7.32%) JIRA
3 36 (2.89%) ERwin
4 26 (2.09%) GitLab
5 15 (1.21%) ER Studio
5 15 (1.21%) PowerDesigner
6 14 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.13%) MLflow
7 13 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.48%) Maven
9 5 (0.40%) JMeter
10 4 (0.32%) Gradle
11 3 (0.24%) Ant
11 3 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.24%) MSTest
11 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.16%) Selenium
12 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 459 (36.90%) Finance
2 324 (26.05%) Social Skills
3 247 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (12.30%) Banking
5 127 (10.21%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.05%) Marketing
8 34 (2.73%) Financial Institution
9 28 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.01%) Legal
11 24 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.85%) Front Office
13 22 (1.77%) Retail
14 20 (1.61%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.37%) Billing
16 14 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.05%) Aviation
18 10 (0.80%) Publishing
19 8 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 304 (24.44%) Data Engineer
2 227 (18.25%) Architect
3 176 (14.15%) Analyst
4 173 (13.91%) Developer
5 169 (13.59%) Senior
6 134 (10.77%) Lead
7 112 (9.00%) Data Architect
8 90 (7.23%) Business Analyst
9 71 (5.71%) Data Modeller
10 70 (5.63%) Data Analyst
11 63 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
12 44 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 39 (3.14%) Senior Developer
13 39 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (2.73%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (2.73%) Snowflake Engineer
15 34 (2.73%) Technical Architect
16 33 (2.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 30 (2.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (7.96%) PySpark
2 95 (7.64%) REST
3 78 (6.27%) Kafka
4 39 (3.14%) .NET
5 35 (2.81%) JSON
5 35 (2.81%) SOAP
6 33 (2.65%) OAuth
7 31 (2.49%) Lightning Web Components
8 29 (2.33%) RESTful
9 28 (2.25%) Middleware
10 27 (2.17%) Pandas
11 26 (2.09%) Node.js
12 24 (1.93%) XML
13 21 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (1.61%) Web Services
15 19 (1.53%) Great Expectations
16 18 (1.45%) Spring
17 17 (1.37%) pytest
17 17 (1.37%) React
18 15 (1.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 95 (7.64%) Data Structures
3 72 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 71 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (3.05%) Reference Data
8 30 (2.41%) CMDB
9 28 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.85%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.77%) Reinsurance
12 21 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
16 16 (1.29%) Derivative
16 16 (1.29%) Equities
17 14 (1.13%) Low-Code
18 13 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
19 12 (0.96%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.29%) Linux
2 14 (1.13%) Unix
3 10 (0.80%) Windows
4 3 (0.24%) zOS
5 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (37.46%) Analytics
2 377 (30.31%) ETL
3 354 (28.46%) Agile
4 326 (26.21%) Business Intelligence
5 319 (25.64%) Data Pipeline
6 317 (25.48%) CI/CD
7 287 (23.07%) Data Engineering
8 274 (22.03%) Data Governance
9 245 (19.69%) Data Architecture
10 242 (19.45%) DevOps
11 213 (17.12%) AI
12 204 (16.40%) Migration
13 200 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
14 186 (14.95%) Validation
15 175 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
16 171 (13.75%) Decision-Making
17 124 (9.97%) Integration Patterns
18 120 (9.65%) Data Integration
19 117 (9.41%) Data Transformation
20 116 (9.32%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 609 (48.95%) SQL
2 410 (32.96%) Python
3 93 (7.48%) Java
4 71 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 63 (5.06%) C#
6 49 (3.94%) Scala
7 34 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 31 (2.49%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.41%) Apex Code
10 25 (2.01%) PL/SQL
11 23 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.21%) R
13 12 (0.96%) Ruby
14 9 (0.72%) SOQL
15 8 (0.64%) Bicep
16 7 (0.56%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.48%) Bash
17 6 (0.48%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 222 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 180 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 73 (5.87%) Degree
4 36 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.05%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.96%) CBAP
8 12 (0.96%) IIBA
9 11 (0.88%) CISSP
9 11 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.64%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.48%) CCSP
12 6 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.48%) GCIH
12 6 (0.48%) ISEB
12 6 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (31.11%) Data Quality
2 79 (6.35%) GDPR
3 63 (5.06%) QA
4 17 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.96%) PMO
6 8 (0.64%) ISO 20022
6 8 (0.64%) NIST
6 8 (0.64%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.56%) GRC
7 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.48%) SLA
9 5 (0.40%) IFRS
9 5 (0.40%) MiFID
10 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.32%) WCAG
11 3 (0.24%) NCSC
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 53 (4.26%) Docker
2 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.080%) HDFS
3 1 (0.080%) RACF
Systems Management
1 108 (8.68%) Terraform
2 45 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.56%) Ansible
4 7 (0.56%) Grafana
5 6 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.40%) SCCM
7 2 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.080%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.080%) QRadar
8 1 (0.080%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 222 (17.85%) Databricks
2 218 (17.52%) Microsoft
3 106 (8.52%) Oracle
4 78 (6.27%) Salesforce
5 66 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 53 (4.26%) SAP
7 43 (3.46%) Google
8 28 (2.25%) Informatica
9 27 (2.17%) Workday
10 17 (1.37%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.96%) Guidewire
11 12 (0.96%) IBM
12 10 (0.80%) Bloomberg
12 10 (0.80%) Splunk
13 9 (0.72%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.72%) Confluent
13 9 (0.72%) Foundry
13 9 (0.72%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.72%) Palantir
13 9 (0.72%) Sparx