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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 49 36
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,203 601 889
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.92% 4.73% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.78% 5.14% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 418 663
10th Percentile £394 £363 £415
25th Percentile £456 £450 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £715
90th Percentile £750 £770 £835
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 18
10th Percentile £20.89 - £35.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £29.07 £41.56
Median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +6.60% -8.37%
75th Percentile £35.73 £60.31 £53.44
90th Percentile £40.54 £65.00 £62.58
England median hourly rate £79.00 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +42.34% +20.18% -14.08%

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 15,467 11,685 15,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 91.96% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 7,937 11,324
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £429 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £758 £803 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.98 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £63.50 £66.70
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +31 151 £550 -3.51% 99
West London +4 33 £603 -3.60% 9
South London -9 11 £469 -2.60% 3
East London -1 10 £450 -28.00% 10
North London +1 1 £495 -30.62%
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
1 105 (8.73%) Apache Spark
2 65 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (4.32%) Apache
4 34 (2.83%) Confluence
5 25 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.41%) Appian
7 11 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.83%) Camunda
9 7 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.58%) CMS
9 7 (0.58%) SAS
10 4 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.083%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.083%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 46 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.58%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.50%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.33%) Findur
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.33%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.17%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 444 (36.91%) Azure
2 313 (26.02%) Power Platform
3 301 (25.02%) AWS
4 155 (12.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 114 (9.48%) GCP
6 113 (9.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 102 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (8.48%) Snowflake
8 98 (8.15%) Amazon S3
9 85 (7.07%) Serverless
10 83 (6.90%) dbt
11 70 (5.82%) GitHub
12 54 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (4.41%) Power Automate
14 43 (3.57%) PowerApps
15 41 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 37 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
17 35 (2.91%) Collibra
18 26 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
19 24 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) RTP
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
3 3 (0.25%) Firewall
3 3 (0.25%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) FTP
4 2 (0.17%) NAS
4 2 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.083%) 4G
5 1 (0.083%) 5G
5 1 (0.083%) DNS
5 1 (0.083%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.083%) MQTT
5 1 (0.083%) Network Security
5 1 (0.083%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (22.86%) Power BI
2 234 (19.45%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (11.89%) Metadata
4 126 (10.47%) Data Lake
5 93 (7.73%) SQL Server
6 80 (6.65%) Tableau
7 70 (5.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 66 (5.49%) NoSQL
8 66 (5.49%) Snowflake Schema
9 60 (4.99%) BigQuery
9 60 (4.99%) Delta Lake
10 58 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 52 (4.32%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
13 43 (3.57%) Data Vault
13 43 (3.57%) Relational Database
13 43 (3.57%) Star Schema
14 35 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (2.74%) Big Data
16 29 (2.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 113 (9.39%) Git
2 80 (6.65%) JIRA
3 33 (2.74%) ERwin
4 19 (1.58%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.50%) GitLab
6 17 (1.41%) MLflow
7 16 (1.33%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.67%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.42%) JMeter
11 3 (0.25%) Maven
11 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.17%) git-flow
12 2 (0.17%) LSMW
12 2 (0.17%) MSTest
12 2 (0.17%) Selenium
12 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 406 (33.75%) Finance
2 353 (29.34%) Social Skills
3 249 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (9.98%) Banking
5 114 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 45 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (3.33%) Marketing
8 29 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 26 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (2.16%) Retail
10 24 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.58%) Front Office
12 19 (1.58%) Legal
13 18 (1.50%) Billing
13 18 (1.50%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.83%) Back Office
15 10 (0.83%) Law
15 10 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 288 (23.94%) Data Engineer
2 207 (17.21%) Architect
3 177 (14.71%) Analyst
4 160 (13.30%) Developer
5 148 (12.30%) Senior
6 129 (10.72%) Lead
7 101 (8.40%) Data Architect
8 96 (7.98%) Business Analyst
9 70 (5.82%) Data Modeller
10 69 (5.74%) Data Analyst
11 50 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
12 45 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
13 43 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (3.41%) Consultant
15 39 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 38 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 34 (2.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 34 (2.83%) Snowflake Engineer
18 27 (2.24%) Data Business Analyst
19 26 (2.16%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (8.56%) PySpark
2 79 (6.57%) REST
3 78 (6.48%) Kafka
4 43 (3.57%) .NET
5 36 (2.99%) JSON
6 35 (2.91%) OAuth
7 29 (2.41%) SOAP
8 28 (2.33%) XML
9 26 (2.16%) Middleware
9 26 (2.16%) Pandas
10 24 (2.00%) Great Expectations
11 23 (1.91%) Node.js
11 23 (1.91%) RESTful
12 20 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
13 19 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
14 18 (1.50%) pytest
14 18 (1.50%) Web Services
15 16 (1.33%) OAuth2
16 15 (1.25%) scikit-learn
17 14 (1.16%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 112 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.81%) Data Structures
3 70 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
4 56 (4.66%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.33%) Reference Data
8 26 (2.16%) CMDB
9 22 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.58%) Reinsurance
12 18 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
13 15 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.25%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.00%) Equities
15 11 (0.91%) Clustering
15 11 (0.91%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.41%) Linux
2 16 (1.33%) Unix
3 8 (0.67%) Windows
4 3 (0.25%) zOS
5 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (36.49%) Analytics
2 379 (31.50%) ETL
3 362 (30.09%) Agile
4 335 (27.85%) Business Intelligence
5 297 (24.69%) Data Pipeline
6 294 (24.44%) Data Governance
7 292 (24.27%) Data Engineering
8 289 (24.02%) CI/CD
9 238 (19.78%) DevOps
10 231 (19.20%) Data Architecture
11 208 (17.29%) AI
12 207 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
13 194 (16.13%) Migration
14 182 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 166 (13.80%) Decision-Making
16 156 (12.97%) Validation
17 142 (11.80%) Data Integration
18 127 (10.56%) Visualisation
19 123 (10.22%) Integration Patterns
20 119 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 607 (50.46%) SQL
2 418 (34.75%) Python
3 79 (6.57%) Java
4 66 (5.49%) C#
5 64 (5.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (5.32%) Scala
6 34 (2.83%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.00%) R
9 19 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.50%) Apex Code
10 18 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.91%) Bicep
11 11 (0.91%) Ruby
12 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.50%) Bash
13 6 (0.50%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.50%) SOQL
14 5 (0.42%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 226 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 181 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.23%) Degree
4 40 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.00%) CBAP
9 11 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.91%) IIBA
10 9 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.58%) CISSP
13 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.42%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.33%) CFA
15 4 (0.33%) ISEB
15 4 (0.33%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (30.76%) Data Quality
2 96 (7.98%) GDPR
3 64 (5.32%) QA
4 20 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.25%) PMO
6 12 (1.00%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.67%) NIST
8 6 (0.50%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.33%) GRC
10 4 (0.33%) IFRS
10 4 (0.33%) MiFID
10 4 (0.33%) WCAG
11 3 (0.25%) Basel III
11 3 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (3.91%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) HDFS
3 1 (0.083%) RACF
Systems Management
1 115 (9.56%) Terraform
2 46 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.58%) Grafana
4 7 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.42%) SCCM
6 4 (0.33%) Ansible
7 1 (0.083%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 236 (19.62%) Databricks
2 212 (17.62%) Microsoft
3 92 (7.65%) Oracle
4 65 (5.40%) ServiceNow
5 61 (5.07%) Salesforce
6 59 (4.90%) SAP
7 44 (3.66%) Google
8 28 (2.33%) Informatica
9 25 (2.08%) Workday
10 20 (1.66%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.25%) IBM
12 14 (1.16%) Guidewire
13 12 (1.00%) Palantir
13 12 (1.00%) Pega
13 12 (1.00%) Sparx
14 11 (0.91%) Foundry
14 11 (0.91%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.83%) Ariba
15 10 (0.83%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.75%) Confluent