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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 941 680 892
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.35% 4.90% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 5.41% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 460 640
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £457 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.89% -3.62%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £694
90th Percentile £738 £776 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 21
10th Percentile £21.74 £39.38 £35.00
25th Percentile £25.58 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.86 £54.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +9.09% -12.39%
75th Percentile £37.81 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £41.98 £68.75 £64.53
England median hourly rate £43.50 £55.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year -21.62% +15.63% -31.43%

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 13,486 12,571 16,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.07% 90.51% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,936 7,985 11,699
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 £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 158 330
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.81 £19.52
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +15.40% -19.12%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.11 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.13 £72.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

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 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 30 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 30 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 +17 122 £525 -8.70% 81
West London -10 20 £603 +17.56% 8
East London +3 8 £495 -20.80% 4
South London -7 6 £500 +1.22% 9
North London +4 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 81 (8.61%) Apache Spark
2 53 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (4.04%) Apache
4 26 (2.76%) Confluence
5 13 (1.38%) Appian
5 13 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.85%) ArcGIS
6 8 (0.85%) Camunda
7 6 (0.64%) CMS
7 6 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Luigi
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.32%) Trello
7 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 26 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.85%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.53%) Endur
5 5 (0.53%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.32%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.21%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 345 (36.66%) Azure
2 258 (27.42%) Power Platform
3 245 (26.04%) AWS
4 129 (13.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 100 (10.63%) Snowflake
6 83 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 81 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (8.40%) GCP
9 73 (7.76%) Serverless
10 68 (7.23%) Amazon S3
11 65 (6.91%) dbt
12 56 (5.95%) GitHub
13 45 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (4.36%) Power Automate
15 31 (3.29%) PowerApps
16 29 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
18 26 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
19 25 (2.66%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.43%) HTTP
2 2 (0.21%) NAS
2 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.21%) RFID
2 2 (0.21%) RTP
2 2 (0.21%) VPN
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (24.76%) Power BI
2 197 (20.94%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (12.33%) Metadata
4 102 (10.84%) Data Lake
5 79 (8.40%) SQL Server
6 74 (7.86%) NoSQL
7 65 (6.91%) Tableau
8 58 (6.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (5.42%) Data Vault
9 51 (5.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 43 (4.57%) Delta Lake
10 43 (4.57%) Relational Database
11 39 (4.14%) Star Schema
12 38 (4.04%) Big Data
12 38 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
13 35 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 30 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (2.98%) BigQuery
16 27 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 26 (2.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 86 (9.14%) Git
2 74 (7.86%) JIRA
3 43 (4.57%) ERwin
4 17 (1.81%) ER Studio
5 16 (1.70%) PowerDesigner
6 13 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 13 (1.38%) MLflow
7 10 (1.06%) GitLab
8 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.43%) JMeter
10 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.21%) LSMW
11 2 (0.21%) Maven
11 2 (0.21%) Selenium
11 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.11%) Toad
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 299 (31.77%) Finance
2 288 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 171 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (9.99%) Banking
5 70 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.51%) Retail
7 29 (3.08%) Marketing
8 27 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.34%) Front Office
10 21 (2.23%) Back Office
10 21 (2.23%) Investment Banking
11 20 (2.13%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.17%) Billing
15 10 (1.06%) Law
16 9 (0.96%) Local Government
17 8 (0.85%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 223 (23.70%) Data Engineer
2 156 (16.58%) Architect
3 140 (14.88%) Analyst
4 121 (12.86%) Developer
5 110 (11.69%) Lead
6 98 (10.41%) Senior
7 93 (9.88%) Business Analyst
8 90 (9.56%) Data Architect
9 64 (6.80%) Data Modeller
10 55 (5.84%) Data Analyst
11 49 (5.21%) Consultant
12 43 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (4.36%) Azure Data Engineer
14 38 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
15 29 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 26 (2.76%) Snowflake Engineer
18 25 (2.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 24 (2.55%) Technical Business Analyst
20 22 (2.34%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (9.25%) PySpark
2 59 (6.27%) Kafka
3 58 (6.16%) REST
4 28 (2.98%) .NET
5 24 (2.55%) JSON
5 24 (2.55%) XML
6 23 (2.44%) OAuth
6 23 (2.44%) Pandas
7 19 (2.02%) Node.js
7 19 (2.02%) RESTful
8 18 (1.91%) SOAP
9 16 (1.70%) Web Services
10 14 (1.49%) Middleware
10 14 (1.49%) scikit-learn
11 13 (1.38%) Great Expectations
11 13 (1.38%) OpenAPI
12 12 (1.28%) .NET Core
12 12 (1.28%) HTML
13 10 (1.06%) NumPy
13 10 (1.06%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.61%) Data Structures
2 70 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 49 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (2.66%) Reinsurance
6 21 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.02%) Reference Data
8 15 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.38%) Equities
10 12 (1.28%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.17%) Derivative
12 10 (1.06%) CMDB
12 10 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.85%) Replication
14 8 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.28%) Linux
1 12 (1.28%) Unix
2 2 (0.21%) zOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (34.43%) Analytics
2 299 (31.77%) Agile
3 297 (31.56%) ETL
4 279 (29.65%) Business Intelligence
5 264 (28.06%) Data Governance
6 230 (24.44%) Data Engineering
7 215 (22.85%) Data Pipeline
8 186 (19.77%) Data Architecture
9 185 (19.66%) CI/CD
10 183 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
11 170 (18.07%) DevOps
12 157 (16.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 146 (15.52%) Migration
14 145 (15.41%) AI
15 130 (13.82%) Data Integration
16 121 (12.86%) Visualisation
17 103 (10.95%) Decision-Making
18 102 (10.84%) Data Science
19 96 (10.20%) Data Analysis
20 92 (9.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 486 (51.65%) SQL
2 320 (34.01%) Python
3 58 (6.16%) Java
4 49 (5.21%) Scala
5 48 (5.10%) C#
6 47 (4.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (2.44%) R
8 22 (2.34%) JavaScript
9 17 (1.81%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.28%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.17%) Bicep
12 10 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.85%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.64%) Bash
14 6 (0.64%) Korn
15 5 (0.53%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.43%) ABAP
17 3 (0.32%) LookML
17 3 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 163 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 138 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.65%) Degree
4 34 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.06%) CBAP
9 10 (1.06%) IIBA
10 7 (0.74%) CFA
10 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.43%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.32%) ISEB
12 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (31.14%) Data Quality
2 77 (8.18%) GDPR
3 48 (5.10%) QA
4 17 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.85%) PMO
7 6 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.64%) MiFID
7 6 (0.64%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.43%) NIST
10 3 (0.32%) Basel III
11 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.21%) NCSC
11 2 (0.21%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) PERC
System Software
1 35 (3.72%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 71 (7.55%) Terraform
2 35 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.32%) Ansible
4 3 (0.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.21%) 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
1 187 (19.87%) Databricks
2 153 (16.26%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.27%) Oracle
4 54 (5.74%) SAP
5 40 (4.25%) Salesforce
5 40 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 27 (2.87%) Google
7 22 (2.34%) Informatica
8 20 (2.13%) Guidewire
9 19 (2.02%) Sparx
10 11 (1.17%) IBM
11 10 (1.06%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.06%) Workday
12 9 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.96%) Pega
13 8 (0.85%) Ariba
14 7 (0.74%) Charles River
14 7 (0.74%) ESRI
14 7 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (0.74%) Palantir