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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 38 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 922 679 899
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.35% 4.92% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 5.44% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 461 644
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £456 £463 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year - -4.94% -3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £540 £568
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.85% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 21
10th Percentile £21.74 £38.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £25.58 £46.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.86 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.23% +6.06% -14.66%
75th Percentile £37.81 £60.38 £61.75
90th Percentile £41.98 £65.00 £64.53
England median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -19.44% +11.34% -29.45%

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 13,214 12,475 16,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.00% 90.45% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,766 7,927 11,738
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 320
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.89 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.84
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%

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 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +17 119 £525 -9.48% 81
West London -9 17 £603 +14.76% 10
East London +1 8 £495 -20.80% 4
South London -5 6 £500 +1.22% 13
North London +6 1 - - 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 79 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 53 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.01%) Apache
4 24 (2.60%) Confluence
5 12 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.19%) Appian
7 8 (0.87%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.87%) Camunda
8 6 (0.65%) CMS
9 5 (0.54%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.33%) Luigi
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.33%) Trello
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.54%) Endur
5 5 (0.54%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.33%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.22%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 337 (36.55%) Azure
2 250 (27.11%) Power Platform
3 237 (25.70%) AWS
4 124 (13.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 99 (10.74%) Snowflake
6 79 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 78 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (8.24%) GCP
9 73 (7.92%) Serverless
10 66 (7.16%) Amazon S3
11 64 (6.94%) dbt
12 54 (5.86%) GitHub
13 45 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (4.23%) Power Automate
15 30 (3.25%) PowerApps
16 28 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
18 26 (2.82%) Collibra
18 26 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.43%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) NAS
2 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.22%) RFID
2 2 (0.22%) VPN
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (24.30%) Power BI
2 196 (21.26%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (12.26%) Metadata
4 97 (10.52%) Data Lake
5 76 (8.24%) SQL Server
6 71 (7.70%) NoSQL
7 61 (6.62%) Tableau
8 56 (6.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (5.64%) Data Vault
10 50 (5.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 44 (4.77%) Relational Database
12 40 (4.34%) Delta Lake
13 39 (4.23%) Star Schema
14 38 (4.12%) Big Data
14 38 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
15 35 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (2.82%) BigQuery
19 25 (2.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 85 (9.22%) Git
2 70 (7.59%) JIRA
3 41 (4.45%) ERwin
4 17 (1.84%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.74%) ER Studio
6 13 (1.41%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.30%) MLflow
8 11 (1.19%) GitLab
9 7 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.43%) JMeter
11 3 (0.33%) Maven
11 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.22%) LSMW
12 2 (0.22%) Selenium
13 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 289 (31.34%) Finance
2 284 (30.80%) Social Skills
3 168 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.09%) Banking
5 69 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.58%) Retail
7 28 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.04%) Marketing
8 26 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.39%) Front Office
10 21 (2.28%) Investment Banking
11 20 (2.17%) Back Office
12 19 (2.06%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.19%) Billing
16 10 (1.08%) Law
17 9 (0.98%) Local Government
17 9 (0.98%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 216 (23.43%) Data Engineer
2 152 (16.49%) Architect
3 139 (15.08%) Analyst
4 118 (12.80%) Developer
5 106 (11.50%) Lead
6 96 (10.41%) Senior
7 91 (9.87%) Business Analyst
8 88 (9.54%) Data Architect
9 66 (7.16%) Data Modeller
10 55 (5.97%) Data Analyst
11 49 (5.31%) Consultant
12 43 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (4.45%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
15 28 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 25 (2.71%) Snowflake Engineer
18 24 (2.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 23 (2.49%) Technical Business Analyst
20 22 (2.39%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (9.33%) PySpark
2 57 (6.18%) Kafka
3 56 (6.07%) REST
4 28 (3.04%) .NET
5 24 (2.60%) JSON
6 22 (2.39%) OAuth
6 22 (2.39%) XML
7 19 (2.06%) Node.js
7 19 (2.06%) Pandas
7 19 (2.06%) RESTful
8 17 (1.84%) SOAP
9 15 (1.63%) Web Services
10 14 (1.52%) Middleware
11 13 (1.41%) scikit-learn
12 12 (1.30%) .NET Core
12 12 (1.30%) HTML
12 12 (1.30%) OpenAPI
13 11 (1.19%) Great Expectations
14 10 (1.08%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.98%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 78 (8.46%) Data Structures
2 67 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 47 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
3 47 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.60%) Reinsurance
5 23 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.95%) Reference Data
8 14 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.41%) Equities
10 12 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.19%) Derivative
12 10 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.08%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.87%) CMDB
14 8 (0.87%) Replication
14 8 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.08%) Linux
1 10 (1.08%) Unix
2 2 (0.22%) zOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (34.27%) Analytics
2 296 (32.10%) Agile
3 289 (31.34%) ETL
4 274 (29.72%) Business Intelligence
5 263 (28.52%) Data Governance
6 223 (24.19%) Data Engineering
7 210 (22.78%) Data Pipeline
8 183 (19.85%) Data Architecture
9 181 (19.63%) CI/CD
10 179 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
11 166 (18.00%) DevOps
12 154 (16.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 142 (15.40%) Migration
14 141 (15.29%) AI
15 131 (14.21%) Data Integration
16 116 (12.58%) Visualisation
17 102 (11.06%) Decision-Making
18 100 (10.85%) Data Science
19 97 (10.52%) Data Analysis
20 93 (10.09%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 477 (51.74%) SQL
2 315 (34.16%) Python
3 59 (6.40%) Java
4 47 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 47 (5.10%) Scala
5 46 (4.99%) C#
6 23 (2.49%) R
7 22 (2.39%) JavaScript
8 17 (1.84%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.19%) Bicep
10 11 (1.19%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.76%) Bash
13 5 (0.54%) Korn
13 5 (0.54%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.43%) ABAP
15 3 (0.33%) Ruby
15 3 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 155 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.59%) Degree
4 33 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.04%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.08%) CBAP
9 10 (1.08%) IIBA
10 7 (0.76%) CFA
10 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.43%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.33%) ISEB
12 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (30.91%) Data Quality
2 76 (8.24%) GDPR
3 44 (4.77%) QA
4 17 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.87%) PMO
6 7 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.76%) MiFID
7 6 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.65%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.43%) NIST
10 3 (0.33%) Basel III
10 3 (0.33%) IFRS
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.22%) NCSC
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (3.69%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 68 (7.38%) Terraform
2 35 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.33%) Ansible
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 179 (19.41%) Databricks
2 148 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.40%) Oracle
4 53 (5.75%) SAP
5 39 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 39 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.71%) Google
7 21 (2.28%) Informatica
8 20 (2.17%) Guidewire
8 20 (2.17%) Sparx
9 12 (1.30%) IBM
10 10 (1.08%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.98%) Pega
11 9 (0.98%) Workday
12 8 (0.87%) Ariba
12 8 (0.87%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.76%) Confluent
13 7 (0.76%) ESRI
13 7 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
13 7 (0.76%) Palantir