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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 44 44
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,369 697 775
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.80% 5.12% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 5.55% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 481 548
10th Percentile £400 £403 £400
25th Percentile £455 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 8
10th Percentile £41.08 £28.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.19 £29.07 £39.69
Median hourly rate £51.75 £40.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -17.35% -6.67%
75th Percentile £64.56 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.08 £54.25 £52.35
England median hourly rate £70.00 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +60.92% +7.87% -21.32%

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 17,923 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.03% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +19 189 £552 -6.13% 76
West London +14 47 £520 -0.95% 19
South London -8 8 £463 - 4
East London +2 5 £450 -33.33% 5
North London -3 1 £178 - 2
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 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 60 (4.38%) Apache
4 38 (2.78%) Confluence
5 35 (2.56%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.88%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) Camunda
9 4 (0.29%) Appian
9 4 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.073%) Luigi
12 1 (0.073%) Mendix
Applications
1 47 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (1.24%) Aladdin
4 14 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.58%) Findur
8 7 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 6 (0.44%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.29%) Endur
11 4 (0.29%) Maximo
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.29%) Quorum
11 4 (0.29%) R3 Corda
11 4 (0.29%) Ripple
11 4 (0.29%) SAP MDG
11 4 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
12 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 463 (33.82%) Azure
2 340 (24.84%) AWS
3 317 (23.16%) Power Platform
4 158 (11.54%) GCP
5 140 (10.23%) dbt
6 138 (10.08%) Snowflake
7 122 (8.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 107 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (6.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 81 (5.92%) Amazon S3
11 74 (5.41%) GitHub
12 72 (5.26%) Serverless
13 51 (3.73%) Power Automate
14 49 (3.58%) PowerApps
15 44 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
17 39 (2.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 36 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
19 25 (1.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 24 (1.75%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) Firewall
1 5 (0.37%) SSL
2 4 (0.29%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) FTP
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.15%) RTP
4 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.073%) 4G
5 1 (0.073%) DNS
5 1 (0.073%) SMS
5 1 (0.073%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (21.04%) Power BI
2 262 (19.14%) Data Warehouse
3 176 (12.86%) Metadata
4 111 (8.11%) Data Lake
5 79 (5.77%) Tableau
6 77 (5.62%) BigQuery
7 68 (4.97%) SQL Server
8 64 (4.67%) Relational Database
9 61 (4.46%) Snowflake Schema
10 58 (4.24%) Delta Lake
11 55 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 53 (3.87%) NoSQL
12 53 (3.87%) Star Schema
13 51 (3.73%) Power Query
14 47 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
15 40 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (2.78%) Data Vault
17 37 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
18 34 (2.48%) Semantic Layer
19 31 (2.26%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 107 (7.82%) Git
2 89 (6.50%) JIRA
3 39 (2.85%) ERwin
4 31 (2.26%) GitLab
5 25 (1.83%) ER Studio
6 21 (1.53%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.17%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.44%) Ant
10 6 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.44%) Maven
11 4 (0.29%) Gradle
11 4 (0.29%) JMeter
11 4 (0.29%) MLflow
12 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.22%) MSTest
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 515 (37.62%) Finance
2 370 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 266 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (13.66%) Banking
5 140 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.21%) Retail
7 40 (2.92%) Marketing
8 38 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (2.56%) Front Office
10 34 (2.48%) Legal
11 32 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (2.34%) Investment Banking
12 30 (2.19%) Financial Institution
13 27 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.24%) Aviation
15 17 (1.24%) Billing
16 14 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.02%) Publishing
17 13 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 303 (22.13%) Architect
2 300 (21.91%) Data Engineer
3 204 (14.90%) Analyst
4 188 (13.73%) Developer
5 184 (13.44%) Senior
6 138 (10.08%) Data Architect
7 129 (9.42%) Lead
8 95 (6.94%) Business Analyst
9 88 (6.43%) Data Analyst
10 82 (5.99%) Data Modeller
11 65 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
12 63 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 43 (3.14%) Senior Developer
15 37 (2.70%) Power BI Developer
15 37 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
16 36 (2.63%) Technical Architect
17 35 (2.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 33 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
19 30 (2.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (8.25%) REST
2 104 (7.60%) PySpark
3 83 (6.06%) Kafka
4 61 (4.46%) SOAP
5 48 (3.51%) JSON
6 46 (3.36%) .NET
7 43 (3.14%) Middleware
8 41 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
9 31 (2.26%) XML
10 28 (2.05%) Node.js
10 28 (2.05%) RESTful
11 23 (1.68%) OAuth
12 22 (1.61%) React
13 20 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (1.46%) Spring
14 19 (1.39%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.39%) Web Services
15 15 (1.10%) HTML
16 14 (1.02%) GraphQL
16 14 (1.02%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 109 (7.96%) Data Structures
3 93 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 87 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
5 65 (4.75%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.43%) Reference Data
7 46 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
8 40 (2.92%) CMDB
9 31 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.61%) Derivative
13 21 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.46%) Reinsurance
15 19 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
17 14 (1.02%) Equities
17 14 (1.02%) Fixed Income
17 14 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.61%) Linux
2 17 (1.24%) Unix
3 12 (0.88%) Windows
4 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.073%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (38.64%) Analytics
2 386 (28.20%) Agile
3 370 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
4 366 (26.73%) ETL
5 348 (25.42%) Data Pipeline
6 330 (24.11%) CI/CD
7 327 (23.89%) Data Governance
8 302 (22.06%) Data Engineering
9 261 (19.07%) Data Architecture
10 248 (18.12%) DevOps
11 241 (17.60%) AI
12 231 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 225 (16.44%) Migration
14 215 (15.70%) Validation
15 197 (14.39%) Decision-Making
15 197 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
16 170 (12.42%) Data Transformation
17 154 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 149 (10.88%) Integration Patterns
19 139 (10.15%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 655 (47.85%) SQL
2 425 (31.04%) Python
3 90 (6.57%) Java
4 86 (6.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 63 (4.60%) C#
6 57 (4.16%) JavaScript
7 40 (2.92%) Apex Code
8 37 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 33 (2.41%) Scala
10 26 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.83%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.17%) SOQL
13 14 (1.02%) R
14 13 (0.95%) PowerShell
15 12 (0.88%) Ruby
16 9 (0.66%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.58%) SOSL
18 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
19 6 (0.44%) Cypher
20 5 (0.37%) LookML
Qualifications
1 234 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 191 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.67%) Degree
4 31 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.88%) CISSP
8 12 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 11 (0.80%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.44%) CCSP
12 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.44%) GCIH
12 6 (0.44%) PMP
13 5 (0.37%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (29.88%) Data Quality
2 75 (5.48%) GDPR
3 62 (4.53%) QA
4 29 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.17%) GRC
6 15 (1.10%) PMO
7 12 (0.88%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.66%) SLA
10 8 (0.58%) IFRS
11 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (0.44%) MiFID
12 5 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.37%) NIST
13 4 (0.29%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.29%) WCAG
14 3 (0.22%) GxP
14 3 (0.22%) HL7
14 3 (0.22%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (3.58%) Docker
2 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.073%) HDFS
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.073%) RACF
Systems Management
1 90 (6.57%) Terraform
2 50 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.73%) Ansible
4 8 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.51%) Grafana
6 6 (0.44%) Control-M
6 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.15%) QRadar
8 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.073%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.073%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.073%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.073%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.073%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.073%) Istio
9 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.073%) Nagios
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 228 (16.65%) Microsoft
2 213 (15.56%) Databricks
3 116 (8.47%) Oracle
4 95 (6.94%) Salesforce
5 64 (4.67%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.09%) SAP
7 52 (3.80%) Google
8 26 (1.90%) Informatica
9 25 (1.83%) Workday
10 24 (1.75%) MuleSoft
11 17 (1.24%) Palantir
12 14 (1.02%) Foundry
13 13 (0.95%) Bloomberg
14 11 (0.80%) IBM
14 11 (0.80%) Splunk
15 9 (0.66%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.66%) Murex
16 8 (0.58%) Anaplan
16 8 (0.58%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.58%) Guidewire