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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 46 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 749 756 945
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.57% 4.64% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 5.20% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 519 643
10th Percentile £409 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £715
90th Percentile £775 £775 £799
England median daily rate £549 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.23% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £31.47 £47.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.31 £49.25 £35.32
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% +2.02% -17.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile - - £64.70
England median hourly rate £43.50 £43.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -12.18% -13.79%

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 12,450 14,539 19,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.59% 89.26% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,698 14,258
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 180 225
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling 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 18 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Modelling in London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +12 111 £600 +2.35% 91
West London -14 9 £513 -4.65% 18
East London +10 7 £675 +25.58% 2
North London - 2 - - 2
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 58 (7.74%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (5.74%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.74%) Apache
4 19 (2.54%) Confluence
5 10 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.80%) Luigi
7 5 (0.67%) JBoss
7 5 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.67%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 37 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.74%) Endur
3 11 (1.47%) Aladdin
3 11 (1.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (1.07%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.53%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.40%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.27%) HFM
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.27%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 265 (35.38%) Azure
2 178 (23.77%) Power Platform
3 169 (22.56%) AWS
4 106 (14.15%) GCP
5 83 (11.08%) Snowflake
6 65 (8.68%) dbt
7 59 (7.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 56 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 41 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (5.07%) GitHub
11 35 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 27 (3.60%) Collibra
13 25 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.20%) Serverless
15 21 (2.80%) Power Automate
16 20 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (2.67%) PowerApps
17 16 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (2.14%) SaaS
18 14 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.80%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) Internet
2 3 (0.40%) SSL
3 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (22.96%) Data Warehouse
2 158 (21.09%) Power BI
3 95 (12.68%) Metadata
4 88 (11.75%) Data Lake
5 57 (7.61%) BigQuery
6 52 (6.94%) Tableau
7 47 (6.28%) NoSQL
8 43 (5.74%) Snowflake Schema
9 41 (5.47%) Big Data
10 39 (5.21%) Data Vault
11 37 (4.94%) SQL Server
11 37 (4.94%) Star Schema
12 34 (4.54%) Relational Database
13 31 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (4.14%) Power Query
14 23 (3.07%) Delta Lake
14 23 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
15 22 (2.94%) Looker
16 20 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (2.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 51 (6.81%) Git
2 40 (5.34%) JIRA
3 36 (4.81%) ERwin
4 20 (2.67%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.60%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (0.93%) GitLab
7 5 (0.67%) Maven
8 4 (0.53%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.40%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.40%) Subversion
9 3 (0.40%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.27%) Selenium
10 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Gradle
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) TestNG
General
1 236 (31.51%) Finance
2 234 (31.24%) Social Skills
3 148 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (11.88%) Banking
5 51 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.67%) Investment Banking
7 26 (3.47%) Retail
8 24 (3.20%) Front Office
9 21 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.80%) Marketing
10 20 (2.67%) Back Office
10 20 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.87%) Legal
12 13 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.74%) Local Government
13 12 (1.60%) Corporate Banking
13 12 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 161 (21.50%) Architect
2 141 (18.83%) Data Engineer
3 130 (17.36%) Analyst
4 98 (13.08%) Data Architect
5 97 (12.95%) Developer
6 84 (11.21%) Senior
7 61 (8.14%) Data Modeller
8 60 (8.01%) Data Analyst
9 56 (7.48%) Business Analyst
10 47 (6.28%) Lead
11 45 (6.01%) Consultant
12 28 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
13 26 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (3.34%) Azure Data Engineer
15 22 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 18 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
16 18 (2.40%) Technical Architect
17 17 (2.27%) Azure Architect
18 16 (2.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.28%) PySpark
2 37 (4.94%) Kafka
3 28 (3.74%) REST
4 24 (3.20%) HTML
5 17 (2.27%) JSON
6 16 (2.14%) .NET
7 15 (2.00%) RESTful
8 14 (1.87%) React
9 13 (1.74%) Node.js
9 13 (1.74%) SOAP
9 13 (1.74%) Web Services
9 13 (1.74%) XML
10 11 (1.47%) Middleware
10 11 (1.47%) Spring
11 10 (1.34%) CSS
11 10 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (1.07%) Pandas
13 7 (0.93%) Flask
13 7 (0.93%) OAuth
13 7 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.41%) Data Structures
2 51 (6.81%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 25 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 21 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.40%) Reinsurance
8 16 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.87%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.87%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.74%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.60%) Equities
12 11 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.20%) Derivative
15 8 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.67%) Linux
2 4 (0.53%) Unix
3 3 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (31.78%) Analytics
2 212 (28.30%) Business Intelligence
3 209 (27.90%) ETL
4 207 (27.64%) Agile
5 202 (26.97%) Data Governance
6 149 (19.89%) Data Architecture
6 149 (19.89%) Data Pipeline
7 142 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (18.42%) Data Engineering
9 124 (16.56%) Visualisation
10 112 (14.95%) Data Integration
11 108 (14.42%) CI/CD
12 98 (13.08%) Decision-Making
13 94 (12.55%) DevOps
14 90 (12.02%) Migration
15 86 (11.48%) Data Analysis
15 86 (11.48%) Data Science
16 84 (11.21%) Artificial Intelligence
17 80 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 79 (10.55%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 385 (51.40%) SQL
2 240 (32.04%) Python
3 65 (8.68%) Java
4 40 (5.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (3.60%) Scala
6 26 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.94%) C#
8 19 (2.54%) R
9 15 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.34%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.20%) VBA
13 7 (0.93%) ABAP
14 6 (0.80%) Bash
15 5 (0.67%) VB
16 4 (0.53%) TypeScript
17 3 (0.40%) C
17 3 (0.40%) C++
17 3 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 83 (11.08%) Security Cleared
2 66 (8.81%) Degree
3 60 (8.01%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.67%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.40%) CBAP
10 3 (0.40%) CFA
11 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.27%) PhD
11 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.27%) PMP
11 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.13%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (21.63%) Data Quality
2 56 (7.48%) GDPR
3 32 (4.27%) QA
4 24 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (1.07%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.53%) HL7
7 4 (0.53%) IFRS
7 4 (0.53%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.53%) MiFID
7 4 (0.53%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.40%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.27%) DICOM
9 2 (0.27%) GxP
9 2 (0.27%) PMO
9 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 24 (3.20%) Docker
2 6 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (6.41%) Terraform
2 24 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.93%) Ansible
4 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 120 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 110 (14.69%) Databricks
3 62 (8.28%) Oracle
4 57 (7.61%) Google
5 36 (4.81%) Salesforce
5 36 (4.81%) SAP
6 24 (3.20%) Informatica
7 15 (2.00%) Sparx
8 10 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.20%) Talend
9 9 (1.20%) Teradata
10 8 (1.07%) Temenos
11 7 (0.93%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.93%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.93%) Foundry
11 7 (0.93%) OpenLink
11 7 (0.93%) Palantir
12 6 (0.80%) Charles River
12 6 (0.80%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.80%) Workday