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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 48 40
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,247 582 840
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.81% 4.82% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.71% 5.22% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 402 616
10th Percentile £400 £375 £418
25th Percentile £455 £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 £750 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 15
10th Percentile £21.74 £28.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £25.58 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £35.11 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% +8.25% -9.77%
75th Percentile £48.19 £53.75 £52.75
90th Percentile £56.18 £60.63 £60.37
England median hourly rate £76.80 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +46.29% +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 16,181 11,140 15,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.43% 92.20% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,808 7,503 11,081
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 182 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £30.90 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% +10.68% -29.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £63.23 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +16 149 £575 +4.55% 78
West London +2 39 £603 +12.09% 7
East London +4 12 £450 -33.33% 9
South London -8 9 £463 -2.63% 3
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 97 (7.78%) Apache Spark
2 72 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (4.17%) Apache
4 34 (2.73%) Confluence
5 23 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.12%) Appian
7 9 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.64%) Camunda
8 8 (0.64%) SAS
9 5 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.080%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.080%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.080%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 46 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.24%) Trello
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.04%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.48%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.40%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.40%) Findur
7 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 456 (36.57%) Azure
2 304 (24.38%) Power Platform
3 303 (24.30%) AWS
4 144 (11.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 131 (10.51%) GCP
6 106 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (8.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 99 (7.94%) dbt
8 99 (7.94%) Snowflake
9 85 (6.82%) Amazon S3
10 71 (5.69%) Serverless
11 67 (5.37%) GitHub
12 44 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (3.45%) Power Automate
14 35 (2.81%) PowerApps
15 31 (2.49%) Collibra
15 31 (2.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 30 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
18 26 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
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%) SSL
5 1 (0.080%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.080%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (21.89%) Power BI
2 229 (18.36%) Data Warehouse
3 144 (11.55%) Metadata
4 127 (10.18%) Data Lake
5 96 (7.70%) SQL Server
6 84 (6.74%) Tableau
7 70 (5.61%) BigQuery
8 68 (5.45%) Delta Lake
9 60 (4.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 58 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 55 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
12 53 (4.25%) Relational Database
13 51 (4.09%) NoSQL
14 48 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 45 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
16 43 (3.45%) Data Vault
16 43 (3.45%) Star Schema
17 37 (2.97%) Power Query
18 30 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 29 (2.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (8.82%) Git
2 87 (6.98%) JIRA
3 36 (2.89%) ERwin
4 24 (1.92%) GitLab
5 17 (1.36%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.20%) ER Studio
6 15 (1.20%) PowerDesigner
7 14 (1.12%) MLflow
7 14 (1.12%) 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%) LSMW
12 2 (0.16%) Selenium
12 2 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 458 (36.73%) Finance
2 327 (26.22%) Social Skills
3 247 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (11.95%) Banking
5 126 (10.10%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.05%) Marketing
8 33 (2.65%) Financial Institution
9 27 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.92%) Legal
10 24 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.84%) Front Office
12 20 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 20 (1.60%) Retail
13 18 (1.44%) Billing
14 14 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (0.96%) Aviation
16 9 (0.72%) Publishing
17 8 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 299 (23.98%) Data Engineer
2 225 (18.04%) Architect
3 178 (14.27%) Analyst
4 169 (13.55%) Developer
5 166 (13.31%) Senior
6 135 (10.83%) Lead
7 111 (8.90%) Data Architect
8 93 (7.46%) Business Analyst
9 73 (5.85%) Data Analyst
10 71 (5.69%) Data Modeller
11 57 (4.57%) Senior Data Engineer
12 43 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 38 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
13 38 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
14 37 (2.97%) Senior Developer
15 36 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
16 35 (2.81%) Technical Architect
17 33 (2.65%) Snowflake Engineer
18 32 (2.57%) Consultant
18 32 (2.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (8.02%) PySpark
2 92 (7.38%) REST
3 82 (6.58%) Kafka
4 39 (3.13%) .NET
5 36 (2.89%) SOAP
6 35 (2.81%) JSON
7 33 (2.65%) OAuth
8 30 (2.41%) Lightning Web Components
9 28 (2.25%) Middleware
10 26 (2.09%) Pandas
10 26 (2.09%) RESTful
11 24 (1.92%) XML
12 23 (1.84%) Node.js
13 22 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
14 21 (1.68%) Great Expectations
15 20 (1.60%) Web Services
16 17 (1.36%) pytest
16 17 (1.36%) React
17 15 (1.20%) Apache Avro
18 14 (1.12%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 115 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 95 (7.62%) Data Structures
3 73 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
4 70 (5.61%) Product Ownership
5 42 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (2.97%) Reference Data
8 33 (2.65%) CMDB
9 28 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.68%) Reinsurance
12 20 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.44%) Derivative
13 18 (1.44%) Equities
14 17 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
16 15 (1.20%) Low-Code
17 13 (1.04%) Fixed Income
18 12 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.36%) Linux
2 14 (1.12%) Unix
3 10 (0.80%) Windows
4 3 (0.24%) zOS
5 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (37.13%) Analytics
2 374 (29.99%) ETL
3 349 (27.99%) Agile
4 328 (26.30%) Business Intelligence
5 312 (25.02%) Data Pipeline
6 307 (24.62%) CI/CD
7 290 (23.26%) Data Engineering
8 288 (23.10%) Data Governance
9 245 (19.65%) DevOps
10 244 (19.57%) Data Architecture
11 210 (16.84%) AI
12 205 (16.44%) Migration
13 203 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
14 188 (15.08%) Validation
15 178 (14.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 172 (13.79%) Decision-Making
17 129 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
18 123 (9.86%) Data Integration
19 122 (9.78%) Visualisation
20 114 (9.14%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 608 (48.76%) SQL
2 413 (33.12%) Python
3 89 (7.14%) Java
4 72 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (5.13%) C#
6 54 (4.33%) Scala
7 34 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.33%) Apex Code
9 28 (2.25%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 23 (1.84%) T-SQL
12 18 (1.44%) R
13 11 (0.88%) Ruby
14 9 (0.72%) Bicep
14 9 (0.72%) SOQL
15 7 (0.56%) Bash
15 7 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.48%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 220 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 176 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 74 (5.93%) Degree
4 37 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.04%) CBAP
8 12 (0.96%) DBS Check
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%) CCSP
12 6 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.48%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.48%) GCIH
12 6 (0.48%) ISEB
12 6 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (31.60%) Data Quality
2 84 (6.74%) GDPR
3 67 (5.37%) QA
4 17 (1.36%) 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%) MiFID
9 5 (0.40%) IFRS
9 5 (0.40%) SLA
10 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.32%) WCAG
11 3 (0.24%) Basel III
12 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 52 (4.17%) Docker
2 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.080%) HDFS
3 1 (0.080%) RACF
Systems Management
1 107 (8.58%) Terraform
2 49 (3.93%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.64%) Ansible
4 8 (0.64%) Grafana
5 7 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.40%) SCCM
7 1 (0.080%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.080%) QRadar
7 1 (0.080%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 231 (18.52%) Databricks
2 213 (17.08%) Microsoft
3 102 (8.18%) Oracle
4 77 (6.17%) Salesforce
5 68 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.49%) SAP
7 44 (3.53%) Google
8 27 (2.17%) Informatica
8 27 (2.17%) Workday
9 18 (1.44%) MuleSoft
10 12 (0.96%) Guidewire
10 12 (0.96%) IBM
11 10 (0.80%) Alteryx
11 10 (0.80%) Bloomberg
11 10 (0.80%) Splunk
12 9 (0.72%) Confluent
12 9 (0.72%) Foundry
12 9 (0.72%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.72%) Palantir
12 9 (0.72%) Sparx