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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 39 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,067 652 868
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.65% 4.99% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 5.49% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 448 639
10th Percentile £375 £359 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £703
90th Percentile £738 £791 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 20
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £21.32 £32.04 £41.25
Median hourly rate £23.54 £52.50 £47.28
Median % change year-on-year -55.16% +11.05% -12.04%
75th Percentile £25.67 £61.88 £53.84
90th Percentile £26.90 £65.00 £65.33
England median hourly rate £69.22 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.19% +16.93% -28.40%

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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
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 9 March 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 +16 137 £550 -1.65% 75
West London +2 25 £603 +20.50% 17
South London -10 9 £487 +1.25% 3
East London +2 8 £450 -28.00% 13
North London +1 1 £495 -30.62% 6
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 (8.62%) Apache Spark
2 52 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (4.03%) Apache
4 32 (3.00%) Confluence
5 20 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.41%) Appian
7 9 (0.84%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.75%) Camunda
9 7 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.56%) CMS
11 5 (0.47%) SAS
12 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.094%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.094%) nginx
14 1 (0.094%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.094%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (1.03%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.56%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.47%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.28%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.28%) Findur
8 3 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.28%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.19%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.19%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 389 (36.46%) Azure
2 291 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 276 (25.87%) AWS
4 148 (13.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 106 (9.93%) Snowflake
6 103 (9.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 89 (8.34%) GCP
8 84 (7.87%) Serverless
9 83 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (7.59%) Amazon S3
11 69 (6.47%) dbt
12 59 (5.53%) GitHub
13 52 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (4.78%) Power Automate
15 38 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (3.56%) PowerApps
16 33 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
17 31 (2.91%) Collibra
18 25 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (2.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.37%) HTTP
2 3 (0.28%) RTP
2 3 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) NAS
3 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.19%) RFID
4 1 (0.094%) 4G
4 1 (0.094%) 5G
4 1 (0.094%) DNS
4 1 (0.094%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.094%) MQTT
4 1 (0.094%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (24.27%) Power BI
2 221 (20.71%) Data Warehouse
3 125 (11.72%) Metadata
4 118 (11.06%) Data Lake
5 89 (8.34%) SQL Server
6 68 (6.37%) Tableau
7 66 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 65 (6.09%) NoSQL
9 59 (5.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 55 (5.15%) Delta Lake
11 47 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 46 (4.31%) Data Vault
13 45 (4.22%) Relational Database
14 44 (4.12%) BigQuery
15 42 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
16 41 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
17 37 (3.47%) Big Data
18 30 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 29 (2.72%) Star Schema
20 28 (2.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 99 (9.28%) Git
2 74 (6.94%) JIRA
3 35 (3.28%) ERwin
4 18 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.50%) MLflow
6 15 (1.41%) PowerDesigner
7 14 (1.31%) GitLab
8 11 (1.03%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.37%) JMeter
11 3 (0.28%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.19%) LSMW
12 2 (0.19%) Toad
13 1 (0.094%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.094%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.094%) Maven
13 1 (0.094%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.094%) Selenium
13 1 (0.094%) Zephyr
General
1 348 (32.61%) Finance
2 331 (31.02%) Social Skills
3 205 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (10.12%) Banking
5 94 (8.81%) Public Sector
6 39 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.91%) Marketing
7 31 (2.91%) Retail
8 25 (2.34%) Financial Institution
8 25 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.78%) Front Office
12 16 (1.50%) Billing
12 16 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.22%) Back Office
14 12 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.94%) Law
15 10 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 243 (22.77%) Data Engineer
2 175 (16.40%) Architect
3 158 (14.81%) Analyst
4 147 (13.78%) Developer
5 129 (12.09%) Lead
6 122 (11.43%) Senior
7 98 (9.18%) Business Analyst
8 95 (8.90%) Data Architect
9 67 (6.28%) Data Modeller
10 61 (5.72%) Data Analyst
11 50 (4.69%) Consultant
12 45 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
13 42 (3.94%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
15 38 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 31 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.62%) Power BI Developer
17 28 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
18 27 (2.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 26 (2.44%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (9.00%) PySpark
2 64 (6.00%) REST
3 62 (5.81%) Kafka
4 34 (3.19%) .NET
5 28 (2.62%) JSON
6 27 (2.53%) OAuth
6 27 (2.53%) Pandas
7 25 (2.34%) XML
8 24 (2.25%) RESTful
9 23 (2.16%) Node.js
10 20 (1.87%) SOAP
11 19 (1.78%) Middleware
12 18 (1.69%) Great Expectations
13 16 (1.50%) Lightning Web Components
13 16 (1.50%) scikit-learn
13 16 (1.50%) Web Services
14 15 (1.41%) OpenAPI
15 13 (1.22%) OAuth2
16 12 (1.12%) NumPy
16 12 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 87 (8.15%) Data Structures
3 59 (5.53%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.44%) Reference Data
6 24 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (2.25%) Reinsurance
7 21 (1.97%) CMDB
7 21 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
9 14 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.22%) Equities
10 13 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.12%) Derivative
12 11 (1.03%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.41%) Linux
2 13 (1.22%) Unix
3 6 (0.56%) Windows
4 3 (0.28%) zOS
5 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (37.11%) Analytics
2 337 (31.58%) ETL
3 331 (31.02%) Agile
4 312 (29.24%) Business Intelligence
5 274 (25.68%) Data Governance
6 264 (24.74%) Data Engineering
7 247 (23.15%) CI/CD
8 243 (22.77%) Data Pipeline
9 210 (19.68%) Data Architecture
10 207 (19.40%) DevOps
11 199 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
12 172 (16.12%) AI
13 171 (16.03%) Migration
14 168 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 133 (12.46%) Data Integration
16 126 (11.81%) Decision-Making
17 123 (11.53%) Visualisation
18 121 (11.34%) Validation
19 114 (10.68%) Data Science
20 98 (9.18%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 541 (50.70%) SQL
2 374 (35.05%) Python
3 60 (5.62%) Java
4 58 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 56 (5.25%) C#
5 56 (5.25%) Scala
6 27 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.06%) R
8 21 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.41%) Apex Code
11 13 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.03%) Bicep
13 10 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) Bash
14 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.47%) Korn
16 4 (0.37%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.37%) SOQL
16 4 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 191 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 155 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.22%) Degree
4 35 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.12%) CBAP
10 11 (1.03%) IIBA
11 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.37%) CFA
13 4 (0.37%) CISSP
13 4 (0.37%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.37%) ISEB
14 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (30.74%) Data Quality
2 83 (7.78%) GDPR
3 58 (5.44%) QA
4 19 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.94%) PMO
6 8 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.75%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.66%) NIST
8 6 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.56%) MiFID
9 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.37%) IFRS
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.28%) Basel III
11 3 (0.28%) GRC
11 3 (0.28%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) WCAG
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (4.12%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.094%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 97 (9.09%) Terraform
2 43 (4.03%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.47%) Grafana
4 5 (0.47%) SCCM
5 4 (0.37%) Ansible
5 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.094%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 214 (20.06%) Databricks
2 178 (16.68%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.37%) Oracle
4 59 (5.53%) ServiceNow
5 57 (5.34%) Salesforce
6 53 (4.97%) SAP
7 30 (2.81%) Google
8 25 (2.34%) Informatica
9 20 (1.87%) Guidewire
9 20 (1.87%) Workday
10 16 (1.50%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.41%) Sparx
12 13 (1.22%) IBM
13 12 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 11 (1.03%) Pega
15 9 (0.84%) Ariba
15 9 (0.84%) UiPath
16 8 (0.75%) Automation Anywhere
16 8 (0.75%) Bloomberg
16 8 (0.75%) Charles River