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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,331 681 813
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.72% 5.02% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 5.45% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 465 576
10th Percentile £401 £400 £403
25th Percentile £456 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £693
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.42% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 10
10th Percentile £41.08 - £35.00
25th Percentile £41.19 £29.07 £36.56
Median hourly rate £51.75 £43.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.97% -3.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £64.56 £53.75 £51.38
90th Percentile £70.08 £58.75 £51.75
England median hourly rate £69.72 £48.00 £40.41
% change year-on-year +45.25% +18.78% -26.52%

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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +18 175 £552 -8.08% 77
West London +18 42 £520 +1.46% 13
South London -7 8 £463 - 2
East London +1 6 £475 -29.63% 5
North London -1 2 £336 -
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 86 (6.46%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 57 (4.28%) Apache
4 37 (2.78%) Confluence
5 29 (2.18%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.83%) SAS
7 7 (0.53%) Appian
8 6 (0.45%) Camunda
9 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.075%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.075%) Luigi
12 1 (0.075%) nginx
Applications
1 45 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (1.28%) Aladdin
4 14 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.60%) Findur
8 7 (0.53%) SAP BPC
8 7 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.38%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.30%) Endur
10 4 (0.30%) Maximo
10 4 (0.30%) Quorum
10 4 (0.30%) Ripple
10 4 (0.30%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 450 (33.81%) Azure
2 322 (24.19%) AWS
3 311 (23.37%) Power Platform
4 151 (11.34%) GCP
5 130 (9.77%) dbt
6 126 (9.47%) Snowflake
7 121 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 100 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
9 88 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 85 (6.39%) Amazon S3
11 70 (5.26%) Serverless
12 65 (4.88%) GitHub
13 50 (3.76%) Power Automate
14 45 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
15 44 (3.31%) PowerApps
16 42 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
17 39 (2.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 29 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
19 25 (1.88%) Collibra
19 25 (1.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) Firewall
1 5 (0.38%) RTP
2 4 (0.30%) Network Security
2 4 (0.30%) SSL
3 3 (0.23%) FTP
3 3 (0.23%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.075%) 4G
5 1 (0.075%) DNS
5 1 (0.075%) SMS
5 1 (0.075%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (21.19%) Power BI
2 238 (17.88%) Data Warehouse
3 174 (13.07%) Metadata
4 117 (8.79%) Data Lake
5 80 (6.01%) Tableau
6 78 (5.86%) BigQuery
7 65 (4.88%) SQL Server
8 62 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 61 (4.58%) Snowflake Schema
10 56 (4.21%) Delta Lake
11 51 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (3.68%) NoSQL
13 48 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
13 48 (3.61%) Star Schema
14 44 (3.31%) Power Query
15 42 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 37 (2.78%) Data Vault
17 30 (2.25%) Semantic Layer
18 29 (2.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 105 (7.89%) Git
2 86 (6.46%) JIRA
3 38 (2.85%) ERwin
4 29 (2.18%) GitLab
5 22 (1.65%) ER Studio
6 20 (1.50%) Jenkins
7 15 (1.13%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.45%) Ant
10 6 (0.45%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.45%) Maven
11 5 (0.38%) MLflow
12 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.30%) Gradle
13 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.23%) MSTest
13 3 (0.23%) Toad
14 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
14 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 494 (37.11%) Finance
2 353 (26.52%) Social Skills
3 265 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (12.85%) Banking
5 141 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (3.16%) Marketing
7 34 (2.55%) Legal
7 34 (2.55%) Retail
8 30 (2.25%) Front Office
8 30 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.18%) Financial Institution
9 29 (2.18%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 25 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.13%) Billing
13 14 (1.05%) Aviation
13 14 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.05%) Publishing
14 13 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (22.01%) Architect
2 291 (21.86%) Data Engineer
3 197 (14.80%) Analyst
4 191 (14.35%) Developer
5 174 (13.07%) Senior
6 135 (10.14%) Data Architect
7 128 (9.62%) Lead
8 94 (7.06%) Business Analyst
9 86 (6.46%) Data Analyst
10 77 (5.79%) Data Modeller
11 62 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
12 61 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
13 45 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 41 (3.08%) Senior Developer
15 36 (2.70%) Technical Architect
16 35 (2.63%) Snowflake Engineer
17 34 (2.55%) Power BI Developer
17 34 (2.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 33 (2.48%) Lead Data Engineer
19 32 (2.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (8.49%) REST
2 93 (6.99%) PySpark
3 81 (6.09%) Kafka
4 59 (4.43%) SOAP
5 47 (3.53%) JSON
6 44 (3.31%) .NET
7 40 (3.01%) Lightning Web Components
7 40 (3.01%) Middleware
8 33 (2.48%) XML
9 27 (2.03%) RESTful
10 26 (1.95%) Node.js
11 25 (1.88%) OAuth
12 20 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
12 20 (1.50%) Spring
12 20 (1.50%) Web Services
13 19 (1.43%) React
14 17 (1.28%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.13%) HTML
15 15 (1.13%) Pandas
16 14 (1.05%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 133 (9.99%) Cloud Native
2 108 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 86 (6.46%) Legacy Systems
4 83 (6.24%) Product Ownership
5 63 (4.73%) Onboarding
6 44 (3.31%) CMDB
7 43 (3.23%) Reference Data
8 39 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.58%) Derivative
14 19 (1.43%) Reinsurance
15 18 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
16 16 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (1.13%) Taxonomies
18 13 (0.98%) Fixed Income
19 12 (0.90%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.65%) Linux
2 17 (1.28%) Unix
3 13 (0.98%) Windows
4 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (38.17%) Analytics
2 367 (27.57%) Agile
3 357 (26.82%) ETL
4 356 (26.75%) Business Intelligence
5 340 (25.54%) Data Pipeline
6 316 (23.74%) CI/CD
7 300 (22.54%) Data Governance
8 298 (22.39%) Data Engineering
9 255 (19.16%) Data Architecture
10 237 (17.81%) DevOps
11 230 (17.28%) AI
12 216 (16.23%) Migration
13 206 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 205 (15.40%) Validation
15 190 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
16 178 (13.37%) Decision-Making
17 143 (10.74%) Data Transformation
18 139 (10.44%) Integration Patterns
19 135 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 124 (9.32%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 622 (46.73%) SQL
2 415 (31.18%) Python
3 91 (6.84%) Java
4 79 (5.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 63 (4.73%) C#
6 53 (3.98%) JavaScript
7 40 (3.01%) Apex Code
8 36 (2.70%) Scala
9 35 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.80%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.20%) SOQL
12 14 (1.05%) R
13 11 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.83%) Ruby
14 9 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.60%) SOSL
16 7 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.45%) Cypher
17 6 (0.45%) LookML
Qualifications
1 225 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 179 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.73%) Degree
4 30 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 30 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.13%) DV Cleared
7 12 (0.90%) CISSP
7 12 (0.90%) DBS Check
7 12 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.60%) PMI Certification
8 8 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (0.45%) CCSP
10 6 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.45%) GCIH
10 6 (0.45%) PMP
10 6 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (29.45%) Data Quality
2 81 (6.09%) GDPR
3 63 (4.73%) QA
4 27 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.13%) PMO
6 14 (1.05%) GRC
7 10 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.60%) SLA
9 7 (0.53%) IFRS
10 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.38%) MiFID
11 5 (0.38%) NIST
12 4 (0.30%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.30%) NCSC
12 4 (0.30%) WCAG
13 2 (0.15%) HL7
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 46 (3.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.075%) HDFS
3 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.075%) RACF
Systems Management
1 96 (7.21%) Terraform
2 47 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.75%) Ansible
4 9 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.53%) Grafana
6 6 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.38%) SCCM
8 4 (0.30%) Control-M
9 2 (0.15%) QRadar
9 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.075%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.075%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.075%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.075%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.075%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.075%) Nagios
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 229 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 204 (15.33%) Databricks
3 112 (8.41%) Oracle
4 95 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 69 (5.18%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.21%) SAP
7 50 (3.76%) Google
8 29 (2.18%) Workday
9 25 (1.88%) Informatica
10 24 (1.80%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.13%) Palantir
12 13 (0.98%) Bloomberg
13 12 (0.90%) Foundry
14 11 (0.83%) Splunk
15 10 (0.75%) IBM
16 9 (0.68%) Alteryx
16 9 (0.68%) Murex
17 8 (0.60%) Anaplan
17 8 (0.60%) CyberArk
18 7 (0.53%) Ariba