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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 40 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,341 763 755
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.63% 5.70% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 6.15% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 508 508
10th Percentile £400 £413 £388
25th Percentile £450 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £755 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -4.11% -0.45% -4.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile - £34.38 £40.63
25th Percentile £26.51 £37.75 £47.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -13.86% +2.02%
75th Percentile £63.63 £51.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £71.13 £53.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £62.40 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +43.45% +7.87% -27.01%

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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £664 £663 £675
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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +12 191 £575 - 124
West London +14 43 £520 +1.46% 16
South London - 16 £530 - 6
East London +3 6 £470 -30.37% 8
North London -1 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
1 118 (8.80%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 60 (4.47%) Apache
4 37 (2.76%) Confluence
5 34 (2.54%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.67%) SAS
7 7 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.30%) CMS
8 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.15%) CICS
9 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Mendix
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.075%) Camunda
10 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 44 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.075%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 19 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
2 13 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.82%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.37%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.30%) Findur
8 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.30%) Quorum
8 4 (0.30%) R3 Corda
8 4 (0.30%) Ripple
8 4 (0.30%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.22%) Endur
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 456 (34.00%) Azure
2 336 (25.06%) AWS
3 278 (20.73%) Power Platform
4 180 (13.42%) Snowflake
5 165 (12.30%) dbt
6 150 (11.19%) GCP
7 116 (8.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 104 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (7.01%) GitHub
10 86 (6.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 76 (5.67%) Serverless
12 72 (5.37%) Amazon S3
13 51 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
14 50 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (2.91%) Power Automate
16 38 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
16 38 (2.83%) PowerApps
17 34 (2.54%) SaaS
18 32 (2.39%) Azure Databricks
18 32 (2.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.45%) SSL
2 3 (0.22%) BGP
2 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (0.22%) Firewall
2 3 (0.22%) HTTP
2 3 (0.22%) Network Security
2 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
2 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
3 2 (0.15%) TACACS
3 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.15%) VPN
3 2 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.075%) 5G
4 1 (0.075%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.075%) FTP
4 1 (0.075%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.075%) SNMP
4 1 (0.075%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (19.69%) Data Warehouse
1 264 (19.69%) Power BI
2 194 (14.47%) Metadata
3 109 (8.13%) Data Lake
4 75 (5.59%) BigQuery
5 73 (5.44%) SQL Server
6 68 (5.07%) NoSQL
7 67 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 65 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
9 61 (4.55%) Power Query
9 61 (4.55%) Tableau
10 60 (4.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (4.47%) Delta Lake
11 54 (4.03%) Snowflake Schema
12 48 (3.58%) Star Schema
13 43 (3.21%) Data Vault
14 40 (2.98%) Semantic Layer
15 37 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
15 37 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
16 33 (2.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 110 (8.20%) Git
2 77 (5.74%) JIRA
3 38 (2.83%) GitLab
4 33 (2.46%) ERwin
5 24 (1.79%) ER Studio
6 22 (1.64%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.75%) MLflow
10 9 (0.67%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.52%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.52%) JUnit
12 6 (0.45%) Ant
12 6 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.45%) Gradle
12 6 (0.45%) Maven
13 5 (0.37%) Mockito
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
14 4 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 465 (34.68%) Finance
2 378 (28.19%) Social Skills
3 238 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (14.62%) Banking
5 146 (10.89%) Public Sector
6 58 (4.33%) Retail
7 39 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (2.91%) Marketing
8 38 (2.83%) Investment Banking
9 37 (2.76%) Front Office
10 32 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
11 28 (2.09%) Legal
12 25 (1.86%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.49%) Billing
15 15 (1.12%) Aviation
15 15 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.89%) Back Office
17 12 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 305 (22.74%) Data Engineer
2 299 (22.30%) Architect
3 212 (15.81%) Senior
4 200 (14.91%) Analyst
5 159 (11.86%) Data Architect
6 157 (11.71%) Developer
7 127 (9.47%) Lead
8 101 (7.53%) Business Analyst
9 84 (6.26%) Senior Data Engineer
10 80 (5.97%) Data Analyst
11 59 (4.40%) Data Modeller
12 56 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
13 44 (3.28%) Snowflake Engineer
14 41 (3.06%) Consultant
15 40 (2.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 40 (2.98%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 36 (2.68%) Senior Developer
17 32 (2.39%) Power BI Developer
17 32 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
18 30 (2.24%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (8.72%) REST
2 114 (8.50%) PySpark
3 99 (7.38%) Kafka
4 96 (7.16%) Terraform
5 57 (4.25%) SOAP
6 45 (3.36%) .NET
7 44 (3.28%) Middleware
8 43 (3.21%) JSON
9 34 (2.54%) Lightning Web Components
10 32 (2.39%) Spring
11 31 (2.31%) Spring Boot
12 30 (2.24%) RESTful
13 27 (2.01%) XML
14 26 (1.94%) OAuth
15 24 (1.79%) Web Services
16 23 (1.72%) React
17 20 (1.49%) HTML
18 19 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
19 18 (1.34%) Node.js
20 17 (1.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.17%) Data Structures
2 114 (8.50%) Cloud Native
3 104 (7.76%) Product Ownership
4 76 (5.67%) Onboarding
5 75 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
6 49 (3.65%) Reference Data
7 39 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.91%) Replication
8 36 (2.68%) CMDB
9 32 (2.39%) Management Information System
10 28 (2.09%) AI Agents
11 27 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (1.79%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.72%) Derivative
13 23 (1.72%) Reinsurance
14 21 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.04%) Fixed Income
17 12 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.94%) Linux
2 19 (1.42%) Unix
3 14 (1.04%) Windows
4 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (37.43%) Analytics
2 363 (27.07%) Agile
3 349 (26.03%) Data Pipeline
4 346 (25.80%) Data Governance
5 338 (25.21%) ETL
6 336 (25.06%) Business Intelligence
7 333 (24.83%) CI/CD
8 319 (23.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 313 (23.34%) Data Engineering
10 285 (21.25%) AI
11 259 (19.31%) Data Architecture
12 238 (17.75%) Migration
13 237 (17.67%) DevOps
14 233 (17.38%) Validation
15 202 (15.06%) Data Transformation
16 187 (13.94%) Decision-Making
17 168 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
18 157 (11.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 143 (10.66%) Data Integration
20 138 (10.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 671 (50.04%) SQL
2 404 (30.13%) Python
3 83 (6.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (5.15%) Java
5 57 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 52 (3.88%) C#
7 41 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 32 (2.39%) Apex Code
8 32 (2.39%) Scala
9 27 (2.01%) PL/SQL
10 25 (1.86%) T-SQL
11 14 (1.04%) PowerShell
12 12 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.89%) SOQL
13 10 (0.75%) Bicep
14 9 (0.67%) LookML
15 8 (0.60%) SOSL
16 6 (0.45%) Cypher
16 6 (0.45%) R
16 6 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 231 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 196 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.22%) Degree
4 29 (2.16%) Azure Certification
4 29 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.97%) PMI Certification
10 12 (0.89%) PMP
11 11 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.45%) CISSP
13 6 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.37%) GCIA
15 4 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.30%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (36.54%) Data Quality
2 61 (4.55%) GDPR
3 52 (3.88%) QA
4 27 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.12%) GRC
6 12 (0.89%) SLA
7 9 (0.67%) IFRS
7 9 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.60%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) IFRS 17
9 6 (0.45%) MiFID
9 6 (0.45%) NCSC
9 6 (0.45%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.37%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.30%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.22%) SEPA
13 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
13 2 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (3.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.15%) RACF
2 2 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.075%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.97%) Ansible
2 13 (0.97%) Grafana
3 10 (0.75%) Control-M
4 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.15%) Argo
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.15%) QRadar
6 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.075%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.075%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.075%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.075%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.075%) Istio
7 1 (0.075%) Nagios
7 1 (0.075%) WMI
Vendors
1 248 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 229 (17.08%) Databricks
3 107 (7.98%) Oracle
4 80 (5.97%) Salesforce
5 59 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 47 (3.50%) SAP
7 44 (3.28%) Google
8 33 (2.46%) Informatica
9 16 (1.19%) Workday
10 15 (1.12%) Foundry
11 14 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.89%) Bloomberg
12 12 (0.89%) Sparx
12 12 (0.89%) Splunk
12 12 (0.89%) Talend
13 11 (0.82%) IBM
13 11 (0.82%) Palantir
14 10 (0.75%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.67%) Adobe
15 9 (0.67%) OpenAI