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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 42 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 856 764 911
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.04% 4.82% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 5.38% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 517 643
10th Percentile £400 £363 £408
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 13
10th Percentile £33.63 £40.00 £35.13
25th Percentile £35.31 £49.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £40.50 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +6.06% -14.66%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.75 £61.75
90th Percentile - £65.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £57.30 £46.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +23.23% -6.06% -25.00%

All Process and 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 13,062 14,204 17,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.11% 89.64% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,608 9,158 12,720
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £771 £800 £800
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 171 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%

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 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +12 118 £525 -12.50% 37
West London -17 11 £525 -8.14% 8
East London 0 5 £585 +9.35% 8
South London -3 4 £487 -15.26% 2
North London +3 1 - - 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 65 (7.59%) Apache Spark
2 57 (6.66%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.86%) Apache
4 17 (1.99%) Confluence
5 15 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.58%) Camunda
6 5 (0.58%) CMS
6 5 (0.58%) JBoss
6 5 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.58%) SAS
7 4 (0.47%) Appian
7 4 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.47%) Luigi
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 27 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (1.17%) Endur
5 8 (0.93%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.93%) Temenos T24
6 5 (0.58%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.35%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.35%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.35%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.23%) HFM
9 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.23%) SAP GTS
9 2 (0.23%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 288 (33.64%) Azure
2 221 (25.82%) Power Platform
3 219 (25.58%) AWS
4 106 (12.38%) Snowflake
5 88 (10.28%) GCP
6 84 (9.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 65 (7.59%) dbt
8 61 (7.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 58 (6.78%) Serverless
10 52 (6.07%) Amazon S3
11 50 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (5.84%) GitHub
12 36 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (4.09%) Power Automate
14 34 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
15 32 (3.74%) PowerApps
16 27 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
17 25 (2.92%) Collibra
17 25 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (2.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.47%) HTTP
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
2 2 (0.23%) Internet
2 2 (0.23%) NAS
3 1 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (22.31%) Power BI
2 185 (21.61%) Data Warehouse
3 127 (14.84%) Metadata
4 86 (10.05%) Data Lake
5 67 (7.83%) NoSQL
6 57 (6.66%) Tableau
7 48 (5.61%) Big Data
8 46 (5.37%) Data Vault
9 45 (5.26%) Relational Database
10 44 (5.14%) SQL Server
11 43 (5.02%) Snowflake Schema
12 38 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (4.21%) BigQuery
13 36 (4.21%) Power Query
14 31 (3.62%) Star Schema
15 26 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (2.57%) Delta Lake
17 19 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
18 18 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 76 (8.88%) Git
2 44 (5.14%) JIRA
3 43 (5.02%) ERwin
4 21 (2.45%) PowerDesigner
5 17 (1.99%) ER Studio
6 14 (1.64%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.29%) GitLab
8 5 (0.58%) Maven
9 4 (0.47%) MLflow
10 3 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.35%) Selenium
10 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.35%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.12%) Gradle
12 1 (0.12%) MSTest
12 1 (0.12%) TestNG
General
1 291 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 268 (31.31%) Finance
3 175 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.51%) Banking
5 70 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.21%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.39%) Front Office
8 28 (3.27%) Retail
9 27 (3.15%) Back Office
9 27 (3.15%) Marketing
10 24 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.64%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.29%) Legal
15 11 (1.29%) Local Government
16 10 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 172 (20.09%) Architect
2 162 (18.93%) Data Engineer
3 138 (16.12%) Analyst
4 107 (12.50%) Developer
5 94 (10.98%) Data Architect
6 83 (9.70%) Senior
7 79 (9.23%) Business Analyst
7 79 (9.23%) Lead
8 70 (8.18%) Data Modeller
9 59 (6.89%) Consultant
10 57 (6.66%) Data Analyst
11 34 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
12 33 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (3.50%) Azure Data Engineer
14 25 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (2.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 22 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (2.45%) Azure Architect
16 21 (2.45%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.22%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (8.18%) PySpark
2 44 (5.14%) Kafka
3 34 (3.97%) REST
4 29 (3.39%) .NET
5 25 (2.92%) JSON
6 22 (2.57%) HTML
7 20 (2.34%) XML
8 19 (2.22%) RESTful
9 16 (1.87%) Middleware
9 16 (1.87%) Node.js
10 15 (1.75%) SOAP
11 12 (1.40%) Pandas
12 11 (1.29%) Spring
13 10 (1.17%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.17%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.17%) OAuth
14 9 (1.05%) CSS
14 9 (1.05%) Web Services
15 8 (0.93%) scikit-learn
15 8 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.18%) Data Structures
2 58 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 57 (6.66%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.45%) Reference Data
6 20 (2.34%) Algorithms
6 20 (2.34%) Reinsurance
7 19 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.52%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.40%) Derivative
10 12 (1.40%) Equities
10 12 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
11 11 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.05%) CMDB
13 9 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.40%) Unix
2 11 (1.29%) Linux
3 3 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (33.18%) Analytics
2 270 (31.54%) Agile
3 250 (29.21%) Data Governance
4 244 (28.50%) Business Intelligence
5 237 (27.69%) ETL
6 185 (21.61%) Data Engineering
7 178 (20.79%) Data Pipeline
8 167 (19.51%) Data Architecture
9 163 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
10 143 (16.71%) CI/CD
11 128 (14.95%) DevOps
12 127 (14.84%) Data Integration
13 124 (14.49%) Visualisation
14 118 (13.79%) Migration
15 117 (13.67%) AI
16 115 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 94 (10.98%) Decision-Making
18 92 (10.75%) Data Analysis
19 90 (10.51%) Data Science
20 81 (9.46%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 425 (49.65%) SQL
2 287 (33.53%) Python
3 74 (8.64%) Java
4 45 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (4.44%) C#
6 33 (3.86%) Scala
7 32 (3.74%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.15%) R
9 13 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.29%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.17%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.70%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.58%) Bash
14 5 (0.58%) Bicep
14 5 (0.58%) C++
15 4 (0.47%) ABAP
15 4 (0.47%) Korn
15 4 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 121 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 94 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.83%) Degree
4 24 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.34%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.58%) CFA
11 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.35%) CBAP
12 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 72 (8.41%) GDPR
3 41 (4.79%) QA
4 19 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.29%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.05%) MiFID
7 7 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.70%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.58%) PMO
9 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.47%) HL7
10 4 (0.47%) IFRS
11 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) DICOM
11 2 (0.23%) GxP
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (3.50%) Docker
2 5 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (5.61%) Terraform
2 32 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.12%) Puppet
5 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 140 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 139 (16.24%) Databricks
3 57 (6.66%) Oracle
4 43 (5.02%) SAP
5 41 (4.79%) Google
6 40 (4.67%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.92%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.22%) Sparx
9 17 (1.99%) Informatica
10 13 (1.52%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.40%) Guidewire
11 12 (1.40%) Palantir
12 11 (1.29%) Foundry
13 10 (1.17%) Bloomberg
14 9 (1.05%) Charles River
14 9 (1.05%) Workday
15 8 (0.93%) Talend
15 8 (0.93%) Temenos
16 7 (0.82%) Alteryx
16 7 (0.82%) Pega