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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 41 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,366 732 741
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.81% 5.52% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 5.97% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 511 513
10th Percentile £400 £408 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -1.14% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 5
10th Percentile - £28.52 £47.45
25th Percentile £26.51 £32.50 £49.25
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -13.86% -10.22%
75th Percentile £52.63 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £66.40 - -
England median hourly rate £50.25 £43.50 £43.91
% change year-on-year +15.52% -0.94% -30.30%

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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +14 184 £553 -3.83% 93
West London +15 47 £520 -0.95% 38
South London - 14 £525 - 11
East London -1 4 £475 -29.63% 8
North London 0 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
1 110 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 67 (4.90%) Apache
4 37 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 32 (2.34%) Confluence
6 12 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.81%) SAS
8 4 (0.29%) Camunda
8 4 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.22%) Appian
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.073%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 49 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 22 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 14 (1.02%) Aladdin
3 14 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
5 12 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 10 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.37%) Findur
7 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.37%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.29%) Endur
8 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.29%) Quorum
8 4 (0.29%) R3 Corda
8 4 (0.29%) Ripple
8 4 (0.29%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.22%) Maximo
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 457 (33.46%) Azure
2 343 (25.11%) AWS
3 293 (21.45%) Power Platform
4 157 (11.49%) Snowflake
5 154 (11.27%) GCP
6 152 (11.13%) dbt
7 118 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 109 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (6.73%) GitHub
10 85 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 75 (5.49%) Serverless
12 74 (5.42%) Amazon S3
13 49 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (2.93%) Power Automate
15 40 (2.93%) PowerApps
16 39 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 37 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
18 31 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (2.27%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.44%) SSL
2 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) BGP
3 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (0.22%) FTP
3 3 (0.22%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
3 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
4 2 (0.15%) RTP
4 2 (0.15%) TACACS
4 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.073%) 5G
5 1 (0.073%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.073%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.073%) SMS
5 1 (0.073%) SNMP
5 1 (0.073%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (20.20%) Power BI
2 272 (19.91%) Data Warehouse
3 191 (13.98%) Metadata
4 108 (7.91%) Data Lake
5 77 (5.64%) BigQuery
5 77 (5.64%) SQL Server
6 72 (5.27%) Tableau
7 70 (5.12%) Relational Database
8 66 (4.83%) NoSQL
9 63 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
10 62 (4.54%) Delta Lake
11 59 (4.32%) Star Schema
12 58 (4.25%) Snowflake Schema
13 57 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 57 (4.17%) Power Query
14 40 (2.93%) Semantic Layer
15 38 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 38 (2.78%) Data Vault
16 34 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
17 33 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 103 (7.54%) Git
2 81 (5.93%) JIRA
3 38 (2.78%) ERwin
4 37 (2.71%) GitLab
5 25 (1.83%) ER Studio
6 20 (1.46%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.95%) PowerDesigner
8 9 (0.66%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.59%) MLflow
10 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.44%) Ant
11 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.44%) Maven
12 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.37%) Gradle
12 5 (0.37%) JUnit
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 486 (35.58%) Finance
2 379 (27.75%) Social Skills
3 251 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (13.76%) Banking
5 150 (10.98%) Public Sector
6 50 (3.66%) Retail
7 41 (3.00%) Marketing
8 37 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (2.64%) Investment Banking
10 35 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (2.42%) Front Office
12 31 (2.27%) Legal
13 28 (2.05%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (1.68%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.24%) Billing
17 14 (1.02%) Aviation
18 13 (0.95%) Manufacturing
19 12 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 314 (22.99%) Architect
1 314 (22.99%) Data Engineer
2 195 (14.28%) Analyst
3 192 (14.06%) Senior
4 166 (12.15%) Developer
5 152 (11.13%) Data Architect
6 131 (9.59%) Lead
7 89 (6.52%) Business Analyst
8 85 (6.22%) Data Analyst
9 72 (5.27%) Senior Data Engineer
10 69 (5.05%) Data Modeller
11 63 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (3.00%) Senior Developer
12 41 (3.00%) Snowflake Engineer
13 39 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 37 (2.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 32 (2.34%) Technical Architect
16 31 (2.27%) Power BI Developer
17 30 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
17 30 (2.20%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (8.93%) REST
2 115 (8.42%) PySpark
3 97 (7.10%) Kafka
4 92 (6.73%) Terraform
5 59 (4.32%) SOAP
6 49 (3.59%) JSON
7 46 (3.37%) .NET
8 42 (3.07%) Lightning Web Components
8 42 (3.07%) Middleware
9 32 (2.34%) Spring
10 31 (2.27%) Spring Boot
11 30 (2.20%) RESTful
12 27 (1.98%) XML
13 25 (1.83%) OAuth
13 25 (1.83%) React
14 21 (1.54%) Node.js
15 19 (1.39%) Web Services
16 18 (1.32%) GraphQL
16 18 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
17 15 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 129 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 113 (8.27%) Data Structures
3 95 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 80 (5.86%) Legacy Systems
5 75 (5.49%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.73%) Reference Data
7 46 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (2.56%) CMDB
9 29 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 28 (2.05%) Replication
11 25 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
12 23 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.54%) AI Agents
13 21 (1.54%) Derivative
14 20 (1.46%) Reinsurance
15 16 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (1.02%) Fixed Income
16 14 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.98%) Linux
2 23 (1.68%) Unix
3 14 (1.02%) Windows
4 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.073%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (37.19%) Analytics
2 381 (27.89%) Agile
3 363 (26.57%) ETL
4 354 (25.92%) Data Pipeline
5 347 (25.40%) Business Intelligence
6 344 (25.18%) Data Governance
7 342 (25.04%) CI/CD
8 319 (23.35%) Data Engineering
9 292 (21.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 271 (19.84%) AI
11 261 (19.11%) Data Architecture
12 252 (18.45%) DevOps
13 236 (17.28%) Migration
14 230 (16.84%) Validation
15 193 (14.13%) Decision-Making
16 187 (13.69%) Data Transformation
17 181 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
18 155 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 148 (10.83%) Integration Patterns
20 140 (10.25%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 672 (49.19%) SQL
2 421 (30.82%) Python
3 91 (6.66%) Java
4 87 (6.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 59 (4.32%) C#
6 55 (4.03%) JavaScript
7 40 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 39 (2.86%) Apex Code
9 34 (2.49%) Scala
10 25 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.76%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.17%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.02%) SOQL
14 13 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.88%) Ruby
16 9 (0.66%) R
17 8 (0.59%) LookML
17 8 (0.59%) SOSL
18 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
19 6 (0.44%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 238 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 198 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.76%) Degree
4 31 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.88%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.66%) CISSP
12 7 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.44%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.37%) CCSP
14 5 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 455 (33.31%) Data Quality
2 66 (4.83%) GDPR
3 59 (4.32%) QA
4 29 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.24%) GRC
6 13 (0.95%) PMO
7 11 (0.81%) SLA
8 10 (0.73%) Solvency II
9 9 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.59%) IFRS
11 6 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.44%) MiFID
12 5 (0.37%) IFRS 17
12 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
13 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.22%) HL7
14 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.22%) SEPA
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 50 (3.66%) Docker
2 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.073%) RACF
4 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.88%) Ansible
3 9 (0.66%) Control-M
4 8 (0.59%) Grafana
5 7 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.15%) QRadar
7 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.073%) Apache Ranger
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
8 1 (0.073%) WMI
Vendors
1 245 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 225 (16.47%) Databricks
3 122 (8.93%) Oracle
4 91 (6.66%) Salesforce
5 60 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 53 (3.88%) SAP
7 51 (3.73%) Google
8 34 (2.49%) Informatica
9 22 (1.61%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.32%) Foundry
11 17 (1.24%) Workday
12 16 (1.17%) Palantir
13 13 (0.95%) Alteryx
14 12 (0.88%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.88%) Sparx
14 12 (0.88%) Splunk
15 11 (0.81%) IBM
16 10 (0.73%) Talend
17 8 (0.59%) CyberArk
17 8 (0.59%) Murex