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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 40 37
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,048 664 880
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.62% 4.93% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 5.44% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 449 645
10th Percentile £369 £360 £413
25th Percentile £457 £455 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 19
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £21.32 £36.56 £41.88
Median hourly rate £23.54 £54.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.40% +11.34% -9.77%
75th Percentile £25.67 £63.44 £57.94
90th Percentile £26.90 £66.25 £66.13
England median hourly rate £69.44 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +25.12% +20.18% -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 14,309 12,214 16,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.33% 90.73% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,601 7,904 11,472
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 158 346
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +20 135 £525 -4.72% 58
West London -1 24 £603 +20.50% 12
South London -11 9 £487 -0.05% 4
East London +1 8 £450 -28.00% 5
North London +2 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 89 (8.49%) Apache Spark
2 50 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (4.01%) Apache
4 29 (2.77%) Confluence
5 17 (1.62%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.43%) Appian
7 9 (0.86%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.67%) Camunda
10 6 (0.57%) CMS
10 6 (0.57%) SAS
11 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.095%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.095%) nginx
13 1 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.48%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.48%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.38%) Endur
7 3 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.29%) Findur
7 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.19%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.19%) Maximo
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.19%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 386 (36.83%) Azure
2 290 (27.67%) Power Platform
3 271 (25.86%) AWS
4 146 (13.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 107 (10.21%) Snowflake
6 101 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 91 (8.68%) GCP
8 87 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
9 83 (7.92%) Serverless
10 78 (7.44%) Amazon S3
11 70 (6.68%) dbt
12 55 (5.25%) GitHub
13 52 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (4.87%) Power Automate
15 37 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (3.34%) PowerApps
17 34 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (2.67%) Collibra
19 25 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
20 23 (2.19%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.38%) HTTP
2 3 (0.29%) RTP
3 2 (0.19%) NAS
3 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.19%) RFID
3 2 (0.19%) VPN
4 1 (0.095%) 4G
4 1 (0.095%) 5G
4 1 (0.095%) DNS
4 1 (0.095%) Firewall
4 1 (0.095%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.095%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (24.71%) Power BI
2 216 (20.61%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (12.60%) Metadata
4 118 (11.26%) Data Lake
5 86 (8.21%) SQL Server
6 68 (6.49%) NoSQL
7 66 (6.30%) Tableau
8 64 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 62 (5.92%) Snowflake Schema
10 54 (5.15%) Delta Lake
11 49 (4.68%) Data Vault
12 43 (4.10%) Relational Database
13 42 (4.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 42 (4.01%) BigQuery
14 39 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
14 39 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
15 38 (3.63%) Big Data
16 30 (2.86%) Star Schema
17 29 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 28 (2.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 95 (9.06%) Git
2 78 (7.44%) JIRA
3 39 (3.72%) ERwin
4 16 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.53%) MLflow
4 16 (1.53%) PowerDesigner
5 13 (1.24%) GitLab
6 12 (1.15%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.86%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.38%) JMeter
9 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.19%) LSMW
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
10 2 (0.19%) Toad
11 1 (0.095%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.095%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.095%) Maven
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.095%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 337 (32.16%) Finance
2 331 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 195 (18.61%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.92%) Banking
5 84 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.15%) Retail
8 32 (3.05%) Marketing
9 26 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.81%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.62%) Front Office
14 16 (1.53%) Back Office
15 14 (1.34%) Billing
15 14 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.95%) Law
16 10 (0.95%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.95%) Publishing
17 9 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 246 (23.47%) Data Engineer
2 174 (16.60%) Architect
3 156 (14.89%) Analyst
4 140 (13.36%) Developer
5 126 (12.02%) Lead
6 117 (11.16%) Senior
7 98 (9.35%) Data Architect
8 96 (9.16%) Business Analyst
9 69 (6.58%) Data Modeller
10 61 (5.82%) Data Analyst
11 52 (4.96%) Consultant
12 46 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
13 43 (4.10%) Azure Data Engineer
14 39 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
15 33 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 31 (2.96%) Snowflake Engineer
17 30 (2.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 28 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
19 26 (2.48%) Lead Data Engineer
20 25 (2.39%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (9.35%) PySpark
2 63 (6.01%) REST
3 61 (5.82%) Kafka
4 29 (2.77%) .NET
5 28 (2.67%) Pandas
6 26 (2.48%) JSON
7 24 (2.29%) OAuth
7 24 (2.29%) XML
8 22 (2.10%) RESTful
9 21 (2.00%) SOAP
10 19 (1.81%) Middleware
10 19 (1.81%) Node.js
11 17 (1.62%) Great Expectations
11 17 (1.62%) scikit-learn
12 16 (1.53%) Web Services
13 15 (1.43%) OpenAPI
14 14 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
15 12 (1.15%) HTML
15 12 (1.15%) NumPy
15 12 (1.15%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.68%) Data Structures
2 80 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 56 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (2.39%) Reinsurance
6 24 (2.29%) Reference Data
7 20 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.81%) CMDB
9 16 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.43%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.05%) Equities
13 11 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.95%) Derivative
14 10 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.24%) Linux
1 13 (1.24%) Unix
2 5 (0.48%) Windows
3 3 (0.29%) zOS
4 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (37.21%) Analytics
2 335 (31.97%) ETL
3 332 (31.68%) Agile
4 313 (29.87%) Business Intelligence
5 285 (27.19%) Data Governance
6 260 (24.81%) Data Engineering
7 238 (22.71%) Data Pipeline
8 230 (21.95%) CI/CD
9 208 (19.85%) Data Architecture
10 197 (18.80%) DevOps
11 193 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
12 172 (16.41%) AI
13 168 (16.03%) Migration
14 161 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 135 (12.88%) Data Integration
16 128 (12.21%) Visualisation
17 121 (11.55%) Validation
18 119 (11.35%) Data Science
19 118 (11.26%) Decision-Making
20 99 (9.45%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 532 (50.76%) SQL
2 359 (34.26%) Python
3 58 (5.53%) Java
4 54 (5.15%) C#
4 54 (5.15%) Scala
5 51 (4.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.00%) R
8 20 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 12 (1.15%) Bicep
12 10 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.57%) Korn
13 6 (0.57%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.38%) ABAP
14 4 (0.38%) Bash
14 4 (0.38%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 181 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 150 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 72 (6.87%) Degree
4 33 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.15%) CBAP
11 11 (1.05%) IIBA
12 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.38%) CFA
15 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.38%) ISEB
15 4 (0.38%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (31.01%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.82%) GDPR
3 54 (5.15%) QA
4 20 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.15%) PMO
6 9 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.57%) MiFID
9 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.38%) NIST
10 4 (0.38%) WCAG
11 3 (0.29%) Basel III
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS
11 3 (0.29%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.19%) NCSC
13 1 (0.095%) PERC
System Software
1 44 (4.20%) Docker
2 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.095%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 94 (8.97%) Terraform
2 41 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.48%) Grafana
4 5 (0.48%) SCCM
5 4 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.29%) Ansible
7 1 (0.095%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.095%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 214 (20.42%) Databricks
2 180 (17.18%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.49%) Oracle
4 57 (5.44%) SAP
5 54 (5.15%) Salesforce
5 54 (5.15%) ServiceNow
6 31 (2.96%) Google
7 25 (2.39%) Informatica
8 20 (1.91%) Guidewire
9 17 (1.62%) Sparx
10 16 (1.53%) Workday
11 13 (1.24%) IBM
11 13 (1.24%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.95%) Pega
14 9 (0.86%) Ariba
14 9 (0.86%) Palantir
14 9 (0.86%) UiPath
15 8 (0.76%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (0.76%) Foundry