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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 44 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,365 710 757
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.77% 5.22% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.60% 5.66% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 493 533
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £452 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £41.08 £28.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.19 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.75 £40.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -19.80% -19.84%
75th Percentile £64.56 £51.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.08 £53.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £70.00 £43.50 £40.41
% change year-on-year +60.92% +7.64% -19.18%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £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 £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 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +15 181 £552 -8.08% 59
West London +16 47 £520 +1.46% 23
South London +4 15 £475 - 8
East London +3 5 £450 -33.33% 8
North London -3 1 £178 - 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
1 102 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (5.42%) Apache Spark
3 60 (4.40%) Apache
4 36 (2.64%) Confluence
5 34 (2.49%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.88%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) Camunda
9 4 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.22%) Appian
10 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) Mendix
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.073%) Luigi
Applications
1 49 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.073%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.10%) Aladdin
4 14 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.59%) Findur
7 8 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.44%) SAP BPC
9 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.29%) Endur
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.29%) Quorum
10 4 (0.29%) R3 Corda
10 4 (0.29%) Ripple
10 4 (0.29%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.22%) Maximo
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 454 (33.26%) Azure
2 346 (25.35%) AWS
3 309 (22.64%) Power Platform
4 153 (11.21%) GCP
5 141 (10.33%) dbt
6 138 (10.11%) Snowflake
7 119 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 106 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
9 88 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 79 (5.79%) Amazon S3
11 78 (5.71%) GitHub
12 72 (5.27%) Serverless
13 46 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (3.37%) Power Automate
14 44 (3.22%) PowerApps
15 39 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 37 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
16 37 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
17 31 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 25 (1.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.44%) SSL
2 5 (0.37%) Firewall
3 4 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.22%) FTP
4 3 (0.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.15%) 5G
5 2 (0.15%) BGP
5 2 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.15%) HTTP
5 2 (0.15%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.15%) RTP
5 2 (0.15%) TACACS
5 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.15%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.15%) Wireless
6 1 (0.073%) 4G
6 1 (0.073%) DNS
6 1 (0.073%) SMS
6 1 (0.073%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (20.66%) Power BI
2 266 (19.49%) Data Warehouse
3 175 (12.82%) Metadata
4 109 (7.99%) Data Lake
5 78 (5.71%) Tableau
6 75 (5.49%) BigQuery
7 71 (5.20%) SQL Server
8 67 (4.91%) Relational Database
9 60 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
10 59 (4.32%) Delta Lake
11 57 (4.18%) NoSQL
11 57 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 54 (3.96%) Star Schema
14 53 (3.88%) Power Query
15 39 (2.86%) Data Vault
15 39 (2.86%) Semantic Layer
16 37 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
17 31 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 107 (7.84%) Git
2 88 (6.45%) JIRA
3 38 (2.78%) ERwin
4 32 (2.34%) GitLab
5 25 (1.83%) ER Studio
6 20 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 14 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.81%) 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
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.22%) MSTest
General
1 501 (36.70%) Finance
2 375 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 258 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (13.77%) Banking
5 148 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.15%) Retail
7 41 (3.00%) Marketing
8 36 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.64%) Front Office
9 34 (2.49%) Legal
10 33 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (2.27%) Financial Institution
11 31 (2.27%) Investment Banking
12 26 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.32%) Billing
15 16 (1.17%) Aviation
16 14 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 304 (22.27%) Architect
2 301 (22.05%) Data Engineer
3 197 (14.43%) Analyst
4 184 (13.48%) Senior
5 177 (12.97%) Developer
6 137 (10.04%) Data Architect
7 131 (9.60%) Lead
8 91 (6.67%) Business Analyst
9 83 (6.08%) Data Analyst
10 75 (5.49%) Data Modeller
11 65 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 64 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 41 (3.00%) Senior Developer
15 37 (2.71%) Power BI Developer
16 36 (2.64%) Snowflake Engineer
16 36 (2.64%) Technical Architect
17 34 (2.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 30 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
18 30 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (8.50%) REST
2 107 (7.84%) PySpark
3 87 (6.37%) Kafka
4 61 (4.47%) SOAP
5 51 (3.74%) JSON
6 49 (3.59%) .NET
7 41 (3.00%) Lightning Web Components
8 40 (2.93%) Middleware
9 31 (2.27%) XML
10 27 (1.98%) RESTful
11 26 (1.90%) Node.js
12 25 (1.83%) Spring
13 24 (1.76%) OAuth
13 24 (1.76%) Spring Boot
14 22 (1.61%) React
15 20 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
16 18 (1.32%) Web Services
17 15 (1.10%) GraphQL
17 15 (1.10%) YAML
18 14 (1.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 109 (7.99%) Data Structures
3 96 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 85 (6.23%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (5.20%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.52%) Reference Data
7 45 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.86%) CMDB
9 30 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.61%) Derivative
11 22 (1.61%) Replication
11 22 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (1.32%) Reinsurance
14 17 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
15 15 (1.10%) Fixed Income
15 15 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.83%) Linux
2 18 (1.32%) Unix
3 15 (1.10%) Windows
4 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.073%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (37.80%) Analytics
2 389 (28.50%) Agile
3 362 (26.52%) ETL
4 356 (26.08%) Business Intelligence
5 348 (25.49%) Data Pipeline
6 337 (24.69%) CI/CD
7 321 (23.52%) Data Governance
8 305 (22.34%) Data Engineering
9 257 (18.83%) Data Architecture
9 257 (18.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 254 (18.61%) DevOps
11 245 (17.95%) AI
12 232 (17.00%) Migration
13 220 (16.12%) Validation
14 197 (14.43%) Decision-Making
15 192 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
16 175 (12.82%) Data Transformation
17 151 (11.06%) Integration Patterns
18 150 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 139 (10.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 654 (47.91%) SQL
2 419 (30.70%) Python
3 92 (6.74%) Java
4 89 (6.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 62 (4.54%) C#
6 55 (4.03%) JavaScript
7 39 (2.86%) Apex Code
8 35 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 32 (2.34%) Scala
10 25 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.76%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.10%) SOQL
13 14 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 12 (0.88%) R
14 12 (0.88%) Ruby
15 9 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.59%) SOSL
17 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
18 5 (0.37%) LookML
18 5 (0.37%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 241 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 197 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.32%) Degree
4 30 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 29 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.88%) CISSP
8 12 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.81%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.44%) CCSP
13 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.44%) GCIH
13 6 (0.44%) PMP
13 6 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 414 (30.33%) Data Quality
2 71 (5.20%) GDPR
3 64 (4.69%) QA
4 29 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.25%) GRC
5 17 (1.25%) PMO
6 10 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (0.73%) Solvency II
7 9 (0.66%) IFRS
7 9 (0.66%) SLA
8 6 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.44%) MiFID
9 5 (0.37%) NIST
10 4 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.29%) WCAG
11 3 (0.22%) GxP
11 3 (0.22%) HL7
11 3 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (3.59%) Docker
2 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.073%) RACF
3 1 (0.073%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (6.96%) Terraform
2 51 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.88%) Ansible
4 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.51%) Control-M
5 7 (0.51%) Grafana
6 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) QRadar
7 2 (0.15%) SCCM
7 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.073%) Argo
8 1 (0.073%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.073%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.073%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.073%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.073%) Istio
8 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.073%) Nagios
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 231 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 210 (15.38%) Databricks
3 117 (8.57%) Oracle
4 95 (6.96%) Salesforce
5 64 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 53 (3.88%) SAP
7 51 (3.74%) Google
8 27 (1.98%) Informatica
9 25 (1.83%) Workday
10 23 (1.68%) MuleSoft
11 17 (1.25%) Palantir
12 15 (1.10%) Foundry
13 12 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 12 (0.88%) Splunk
14 11 (0.81%) IBM
15 9 (0.66%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.66%) Murex
16 8 (0.59%) Anaplan
16 8 (0.59%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.59%) Guidewire