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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 900 706 911
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.26% 4.80% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 5.33% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 472 662
10th Percentile £382 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £465 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -8.20% -0.05%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £799
England median daily rate £526 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -3.56% -5.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 15
10th Percentile £28.67 £39.38 £35.25
25th Percentile £30.11 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% +5.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £40.13 £58.06 £63.13
90th Percentile £42.90 £65.00 £64.81
England median hourly rate £57.30 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +9.14% +5.00% -27.27%

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 13,132 13,242 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.11% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,660 8,491 11,705
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 162 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.73 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +8.46% -15.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.19 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +11 118 £525 -10.45% 180
West London -12 16 £600 +9.79% 13
East London 0 6 £495 -20.80% 8
South London -5 5 £500 -0.10% 32
North London +4 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 73 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 52 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.00%) Apache
4 22 (2.44%) Confluence
5 13 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.89%) Appian
7 7 (0.78%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.78%) Camunda
8 6 (0.67%) CMS
9 5 (0.56%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.33%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) JBoss
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.22%) Trello
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.89%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.78%) Endur
6 6 (0.67%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.33%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.33%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
9 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.22%) SAP SRM
9 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 314 (34.89%) Azure
2 243 (27.00%) Power Platform
3 217 (24.11%) AWS
4 104 (11.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 98 (10.89%) Snowflake
6 78 (8.67%) GCP
7 73 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 66 (7.33%) Serverless
9 64 (7.11%) dbt
10 62 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
11 61 (6.78%) Amazon S3
12 44 (4.89%) GitHub
13 41 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (4.11%) Power Automate
15 32 (3.56%) PowerApps
16 30 (3.33%) Collibra
16 30 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
18 23 (2.56%) Azure Functions
19 22 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.44%) HTTP
2 3 (0.33%) Firewall
3 2 (0.22%) NAS
4 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) MQTT
4 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.11%) RFID
4 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (23.78%) Power BI
2 196 (21.78%) Data Warehouse
3 122 (13.56%) Metadata
4 86 (9.56%) Data Lake
5 72 (8.00%) NoSQL
6 60 (6.67%) Tableau
7 57 (6.33%) SQL Server
8 51 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (5.22%) Relational Database
10 46 (5.11%) Data Vault
11 45 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 40 (4.44%) Big Data
13 36 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (3.78%) Star Schema
15 32 (3.56%) BigQuery
15 32 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
16 31 (3.44%) Power Query
17 28 (3.11%) Delta Lake
18 27 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
19 24 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 84 (9.33%) Git
2 58 (6.44%) JIRA
3 39 (4.33%) ERwin
4 19 (2.11%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.78%) ER Studio
6 13 (1.44%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.22%) GitLab
8 7 (0.78%) MLflow
9 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.33%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.33%) JMeter
10 3 (0.33%) Maven
10 3 (0.33%) Selenium
10 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.22%) LSMW
12 1 (0.11%) MSTest
12 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 290 (32.22%) Finance
1 290 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 175 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (10.56%) Banking
4 74 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 31 (3.44%) Investment Banking
6 30 (3.33%) Marketing
6 30 (3.33%) Retail
7 29 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (3.00%) Front Office
9 25 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 22 (2.44%) Back Office
11 18 (2.00%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.44%) Local Government
14 12 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.22%) Billing
15 11 (1.22%) Legal
16 9 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 175 (19.44%) Data Engineer
2 169 (18.78%) Architect
3 147 (16.33%) Analyst
4 105 (11.67%) Developer
5 95 (10.56%) Lead
6 94 (10.44%) Data Architect
7 91 (10.11%) Business Analyst
8 87 (9.67%) Senior
9 65 (7.22%) Data Modeller
10 58 (6.44%) Data Analyst
11 55 (6.11%) Consultant
12 37 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
13 35 (3.89%) Azure Data Engineer
14 32 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (2.67%) Technical Business Analyst
17 23 (2.56%) Technical Analyst
18 22 (2.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 21 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
20 20 (2.22%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (9.22%) PySpark
2 49 (5.44%) Kafka
3 42 (4.67%) REST
4 29 (3.22%) .NET
5 24 (2.67%) JSON
6 23 (2.56%) XML
7 20 (2.22%) Node.js
8 18 (2.00%) SOAP
9 17 (1.89%) Pandas
10 16 (1.78%) Middleware
10 16 (1.78%) OAuth
11 15 (1.67%) HTML
11 15 (1.67%) RESTful
12 12 (1.33%) .NET Core
13 11 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (1.22%) scikit-learn
13 11 (1.22%) Web Services
14 9 (1.00%) OAuth2
14 9 (1.00%) OpenAPI
14 9 (1.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 63 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 54 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.56%) Reference Data
6 22 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.33%) Reinsurance
8 15 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.56%) Equities
10 13 (1.44%) Derivative
11 12 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.33%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.22%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.11%) CMDB
14 9 (1.00%) Replication
15 8 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.11%) Linux
1 10 (1.11%) Unix
2 1 (0.11%) Windows
2 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (33.11%) Analytics
2 277 (30.78%) Agile
3 269 (29.89%) Business Intelligence
4 266 (29.56%) Data Governance
5 254 (28.22%) ETL
6 202 (22.44%) Data Engineering
7 183 (20.33%) Data Pipeline
8 182 (20.22%) Data Architecture
9 177 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
10 153 (17.00%) CI/CD
11 147 (16.33%) DevOps
12 139 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 132 (14.67%) Migration
14 131 (14.56%) Data Integration
15 128 (14.22%) AI
16 121 (13.44%) Visualisation
17 100 (11.11%) Data Analysis
17 100 (11.11%) Decision-Making
18 92 (10.22%) Data Science
19 84 (9.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 457 (50.78%) SQL
2 298 (33.11%) Python
3 62 (6.89%) Java
4 46 (5.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (4.67%) C#
6 39 (4.33%) Scala
7 27 (3.00%) R
8 26 (2.89%) JavaScript
9 15 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.22%) Apex Code
12 10 (1.11%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.00%) Bicep
13 9 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.56%) ABAP
14 5 (0.56%) Bash
14 5 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.44%) Korn
15 4 (0.44%) VBA
16 2 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 140 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 116 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.33%) Degree
4 30 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.78%) CFA
11 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.44%) CBAP
12 4 (0.44%) IIBA
12 4 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (28.22%) Data Quality
2 78 (8.67%) GDPR
3 44 (4.89%) QA
4 19 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.11%) MiFID
6 9 (1.00%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.78%) PMO
8 6 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.67%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.44%) Basel III
11 3 (0.33%) IFRS
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.33%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.22%) DICOM
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (3.44%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 56 (6.22%) Terraform
2 32 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.44%) Ansible
3 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
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
1 168 (18.67%) Databricks
2 148 (16.44%) Microsoft
3 54 (6.00%) Oracle
4 52 (5.78%) SAP
5 44 (4.89%) Salesforce
6 36 (4.00%) Google
7 32 (3.56%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.11%) Sparx
9 17 (1.89%) Informatica
10 16 (1.78%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.11%) IBM
13 9 (1.00%) Alteryx
13 9 (1.00%) Charles River
13 9 (1.00%) Pega
14 8 (0.89%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.89%) Workday
15 7 (0.78%) Palantir
16 6 (0.67%) Foundry
16 6 (0.67%) Talend