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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 42 47
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,345 758 739
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.61% 5.63% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.44% 6.08% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 511 495
10th Percentile £400 £413 £394
25th Percentile £450 £472 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile - £34.38 £40.63
25th Percentile £26.51 £37.75 £47.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -13.86% +6.88%
75th Percentile £65.75 £51.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £53.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £62.40 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +43.45% +7.87% -19.35%

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 18,072 12,468 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.58% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,839 8,220 9,409
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 243 178
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +4 189 £575 - 129
West London +10 46 £520 +1.46% 32
South London - 12 £535 - 7
East London +4 7 £460 -31.85% 11
North London -1 1 £178 -
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
1 116 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (5.06%) Apache Spark
3 59 (4.39%) Apache
4 36 (2.68%) Confluence
5 34 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.67%) SAS
7 4 (0.30%) CMS
7 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.30%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 2 (0.15%) Camunda
9 2 (0.15%) CICS
9 2 (0.15%) Mendix
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.074%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 41 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.074%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 20 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 13 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 12 (0.89%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.37%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.30%) Endur
7 4 (0.30%) Findur
7 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.30%) Quorum
7 4 (0.30%) R3 Corda
7 4 (0.30%) Ripple
7 4 (0.30%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.22%) Maximo
8 3 (0.22%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 455 (33.83%) Azure
2 337 (25.06%) AWS
3 271 (20.15%) Power Platform
4 176 (13.09%) Snowflake
5 164 (12.19%) dbt
6 155 (11.52%) GCP
7 117 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 101 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (6.77%) GitHub
10 86 (6.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 79 (5.87%) Serverless
12 75 (5.58%) Amazon S3
13 53 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.83%) Power Automate
15 38 (2.83%) PowerApps
16 37 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
17 36 (2.68%) SaaS
18 35 (2.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 32 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.45%) SSL
2 3 (0.22%) BGP
2 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (0.22%) Firewall
2 3 (0.22%) FTP
2 3 (0.22%) HTTP
2 3 (0.22%) Network Security
2 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
2 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
3 2 (0.15%) TACACS
3 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.15%) VPN
3 2 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.074%) 5G
4 1 (0.074%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.074%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.074%) SMS
4 1 (0.074%) SNMP
4 1 (0.074%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (19.48%) Data Warehouse
2 258 (19.18%) Power BI
3 193 (14.35%) Metadata
4 108 (8.03%) Data Lake
5 76 (5.65%) BigQuery
6 72 (5.35%) SQL Server
7 68 (5.06%) NoSQL
8 66 (4.91%) Relational Database
8 66 (4.91%) Tableau
9 65 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
10 61 (4.54%) Delta Lake
11 59 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 58 (4.31%) Power Query
13 55 (4.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 49 (3.64%) Star Schema
15 42 (3.12%) Data Vault
16 40 (2.97%) Semantic Layer
17 35 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
18 34 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
19 32 (2.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 108 (8.03%) Git
2 75 (5.58%) JIRA
3 38 (2.83%) GitLab
4 35 (2.60%) ERwin
5 24 (1.78%) ER Studio
6 22 (1.64%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.82%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.74%) MLflow
9 10 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.52%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.52%) JUnit
12 6 (0.45%) Ant
12 6 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.45%) Gradle
12 6 (0.45%) Maven
13 5 (0.37%) Mockito
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
14 4 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 472 (35.09%) Finance
2 379 (28.18%) Social Skills
3 233 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (14.42%) Banking
5 140 (10.41%) Public Sector
6 59 (4.39%) Retail
7 40 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (2.97%) Marketing
8 38 (2.83%) Front Office
8 38 (2.83%) Investment Banking
9 33 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.30%) Legal
11 25 (1.86%) Financial Institution
12 23 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.34%) Billing
14 16 (1.19%) Aviation
15 15 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.89%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 311 (23.12%) Architect
2 305 (22.68%) Data Engineer
3 208 (15.46%) Senior
4 204 (15.17%) Analyst
5 162 (12.04%) Data Architect
6 150 (11.15%) Developer
7 126 (9.37%) Lead
8 104 (7.73%) Business Analyst
9 85 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
10 82 (6.10%) Data Analyst
11 63 (4.68%) Data Modeller
12 60 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
13 44 (3.27%) Snowflake Engineer
14 40 (2.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 37 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 37 (2.75%) Consultant
16 36 (2.68%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.30%) Data Business Analyst
17 31 (2.30%) Enterprise Architect
17 31 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (8.85%) REST
2 109 (8.10%) PySpark
3 98 (7.29%) Kafka
4 92 (6.84%) Terraform
5 58 (4.31%) SOAP
6 43 (3.20%) .NET
7 42 (3.12%) JSON
8 39 (2.90%) Middleware
9 36 (2.68%) Lightning Web Components
10 31 (2.30%) RESTful
10 31 (2.30%) Spring
11 30 (2.23%) Spring Boot
12 27 (2.01%) XML
13 25 (1.86%) OAuth
14 23 (1.71%) React
15 22 (1.64%) Web Services
16 19 (1.41%) GraphQL
16 19 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (1.34%) Node.js
18 17 (1.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.92%) Data Structures
2 117 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 105 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 77 (5.72%) Onboarding
5 72 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
6 49 (3.64%) Reference Data
7 38 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.68%) Replication
9 35 (2.60%) CMDB
10 29 (2.16%) Management Information System
11 28 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.93%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.71%) Reinsurance
14 22 (1.64%) Derivative
14 22 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
14 22 (1.64%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.04%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.89%) NHS
17 11 (0.82%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.78%) Linux
2 19 (1.41%) Unix
3 13 (0.97%) Windows
4 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (36.88%) Analytics
2 370 (27.51%) Agile
3 345 (25.65%) Data Governance
4 344 (25.58%) Data Pipeline
5 340 (25.28%) ETL
6 331 (24.61%) Business Intelligence
6 331 (24.61%) CI/CD
7 316 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 313 (23.27%) Data Engineering
9 282 (20.97%) AI
10 265 (19.70%) Data Architecture
11 237 (17.62%) DevOps
12 233 (17.32%) Migration
13 232 (17.25%) Validation
14 203 (15.09%) Data Transformation
15 192 (14.28%) Decision-Making
16 165 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
17 153 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 143 (10.63%) Data Integration
19 136 (10.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 660 (49.07%) SQL
2 401 (29.81%) Python
3 81 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 72 (5.35%) Java
5 54 (4.01%) JavaScript
6 52 (3.87%) C#
7 44 (3.27%) TypeScript
8 34 (2.53%) Scala
9 33 (2.45%) Apex Code
10 23 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 13 (0.97%) SOQL
13 10 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.67%) LookML
15 8 (0.59%) SOSL
16 7 (0.52%) Bicep
16 7 (0.52%) R
17 6 (0.45%) Cypher
17 6 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 223 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 189 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.20%) Degree
4 28 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 28 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (0.97%) PMI Certification
9 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.89%) PMP
10 11 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.59%) CISSP
11 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.37%) GCIA
13 4 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.30%) CCSP
13 4 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (35.46%) Data Quality
2 62 (4.61%) GDPR
3 52 (3.87%) QA
4 26 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.12%) GRC
6 12 (0.89%) SLA
7 9 (0.67%) IFRS
7 9 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.59%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) IFRS 17
9 6 (0.45%) MiFID
9 6 (0.45%) NCSC
9 6 (0.45%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.37%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.30%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.22%) HL7
12 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.22%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 47 (3.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.22%) RACF
3 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.97%) Ansible
3 11 (0.82%) Grafana
4 9 (0.67%) Control-M
4 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.15%) Argo
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.15%) QRadar
6 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.074%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.074%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.074%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.074%) Istio
7 1 (0.074%) Nagios
7 1 (0.074%) WMI
Vendors
1 238 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 229 (17.03%) Databricks
3 104 (7.73%) Oracle
4 85 (6.32%) Salesforce
5 59 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 50 (3.72%) SAP
7 46 (3.42%) Google
8 32 (2.38%) Informatica
9 17 (1.26%) Foundry
10 16 (1.19%) Workday
11 14 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.97%) Bloomberg
12 13 (0.97%) Palantir
12 13 (0.97%) Sparx
13 12 (0.89%) IBM
13 12 (0.89%) Splunk
14 11 (0.82%) Talend
15 10 (0.74%) Alteryx
16 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
17 8 (0.59%) Denodo