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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,342 771 751
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.54% 5.76% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.35% 6.23% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 519 506
10th Percentile £400 £413 £381
25th Percentile £450 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile - £34.38 £39.50
25th Percentile £26.51 £37.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £57.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -13.86% +2.02%
75th Percentile £61.50 £51.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £53.75 -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £43.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +40.23% +7.87% -19.35%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £668 £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 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +6 194 £575 +4.55% 140
West London +11 43 £520 +1.46% 19
South London +4 16 £530 +6.11% 10
East London +5 6 £470 -19.66% 9
North London -3 1 £178 - 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
1 117 (8.72%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (4.99%) Apache Spark
3 59 (4.40%) Apache
4 36 (2.68%) Confluence
5 33 (2.46%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.75%) 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%) Mendix
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.075%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.075%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 47 (3.50%) 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 17 (1.27%) 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%) Cloudability
9 3 (0.22%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 448 (33.38%) Azure
2 338 (25.19%) AWS
3 272 (20.27%) Power Platform
4 180 (13.41%) Snowflake
5 159 (11.85%) dbt
6 145 (10.80%) GCP
7 117 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 103 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (7.00%) GitHub
10 85 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 80 (5.96%) Serverless
12 72 (5.37%) Amazon S3
13 52 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.83%) Power Automate
16 37 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (2.53%) Azure Databricks
17 34 (2.53%) PowerApps
17 34 (2.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 33 (2.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.45%) SSL
2 4 (0.30%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) BGP
3 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (0.22%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
3 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
4 2 (0.15%) TACACS
4 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.15%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.075%) 5G
5 1 (0.075%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.075%) FTP
5 1 (0.075%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.075%) SNMP
5 1 (0.075%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (19.82%) Data Warehouse
2 260 (19.37%) Power BI
3 194 (14.46%) Metadata
4 111 (8.27%) Data Lake
5 73 (5.44%) SQL Server
6 71 (5.29%) BigQuery
7 68 (5.07%) NoSQL
7 68 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (5.07%) Relational Database
8 62 (4.62%) Power Query
9 61 (4.55%) Delta Lake
10 59 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 59 (4.40%) Tableau
11 52 (3.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 47 (3.50%) Star Schema
13 40 (2.98%) Semantic Layer
14 38 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
15 37 (2.76%) Data Vault
16 35 (2.61%) Oracle Database
17 34 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 113 (8.42%) Git
2 77 (5.74%) JIRA
3 37 (2.76%) GitLab
4 29 (2.16%) ERwin
5 22 (1.64%) ER Studio
5 22 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.82%) MLflow
8 9 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.52%) JUnit
10 7 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.45%) Ant
11 6 (0.45%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.45%) Gradle
11 6 (0.45%) Maven
12 5 (0.37%) Mockito
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 459 (34.20%) Finance
2 377 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 237 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (14.75%) Banking
5 148 (11.03%) Public Sector
6 59 (4.40%) Retail
7 40 (2.98%) Marketing
8 39 (2.91%) Investment Banking
9 37 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 35 (2.61%) Front Office
11 30 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 26 (1.94%) Legal
13 24 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (1.56%) Billing
16 15 (1.12%) Aviation
17 14 (1.04%) Telecoms
18 13 (0.97%) Law
18 13 (0.97%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 305 (22.73%) Data Engineer
2 295 (21.98%) Architect
3 210 (15.65%) Senior
4 203 (15.13%) Analyst
5 160 (11.92%) Developer
6 158 (11.77%) Data Architect
7 126 (9.39%) Lead
8 104 (7.75%) Business Analyst
9 82 (6.11%) Data Analyst
9 82 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 55 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (3.95%) Data Modeller
12 43 (3.20%) Consultant
13 42 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 42 (3.13%) Snowflake Engineer
14 38 (2.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 37 (2.76%) Senior Developer
16 33 (2.46%) Power BI Developer
16 33 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
17 30 (2.24%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (8.64%) PySpark
2 115 (8.57%) REST
3 98 (7.30%) Kafka
4 96 (7.15%) Terraform
5 56 (4.17%) SOAP
6 45 (3.35%) Middleware
7 41 (3.06%) .NET
8 40 (2.98%) JSON
9 37 (2.76%) Lightning Web Components
10 33 (2.46%) Spring
11 32 (2.38%) Spring Boot
12 30 (2.24%) RESTful
13 26 (1.94%) XML
14 25 (1.86%) OAuth
15 24 (1.79%) React
15 24 (1.79%) Web Services
16 21 (1.56%) HTML
17 19 (1.42%) Node.js
17 19 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
18 16 (1.19%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.46%) Data Structures
2 111 (8.27%) Cloud Native
3 105 (7.82%) Product Ownership
4 80 (5.96%) Onboarding
5 77 (5.74%) Legacy Systems
6 51 (3.80%) Reference Data
7 40 (2.98%) Replication
8 39 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
9 36 (2.68%) CMDB
10 33 (2.46%) Management Information System
11 28 (2.09%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.94%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.71%) Reinsurance
14 22 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (1.56%) Derivative
16 17 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
17 14 (1.04%) Fixed Income
18 12 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
18 12 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.94%) Linux
2 19 (1.42%) Unix
3 14 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.30%) zOS
5 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (37.93%) Analytics
2 363 (27.05%) Agile
3 353 (26.30%) Data Governance
4 348 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
5 339 (25.26%) CI/CD
6 335 (24.96%) Business Intelligence
7 334 (24.89%) ETL
8 322 (23.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 315 (23.47%) Data Engineering
10 280 (20.86%) AI
11 255 (19.00%) Data Architecture
12 243 (18.11%) Migration
13 235 (17.51%) DevOps
13 235 (17.51%) Validation
14 202 (15.05%) Data Transformation
15 184 (13.71%) Decision-Making
16 164 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
17 163 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 142 (10.58%) Data Integration
19 141 (10.51%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 671 (50.00%) SQL
2 404 (30.10%) Python
3 86 (6.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (5.22%) Java
5 56 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 49 (3.65%) C#
7 42 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 33 (2.46%) Apex Code
9 28 (2.09%) Scala
10 25 (1.86%) PL/SQL
11 23 (1.71%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.04%) PowerShell
13 12 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.89%) SOQL
14 10 (0.75%) Bicep
15 9 (0.67%) LookML
16 8 (0.60%) SOSL
17 7 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.45%) Cypher
18 6 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 235 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 203 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 72 (5.37%) Degree
4 31 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.86%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.97%) PMI Certification
11 12 (0.89%) PMP
12 10 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.45%) CISSP
14 6 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.37%) GCIA
16 4 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.30%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 499 (37.18%) Data Quality
2 59 (4.40%) GDPR
3 52 (3.87%) QA
4 28 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.12%) GRC
6 12 (0.89%) SLA
7 9 (0.67%) IFRS
8 8 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.60%) PMO
8 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) HL7
13 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 47 (3.50%) 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 47 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.97%) Ansible
2 13 (0.97%) Grafana
3 10 (0.75%) Control-M
4 8 (0.60%) 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
1 242 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 228 (16.99%) Databricks
3 110 (8.20%) Oracle
4 84 (6.26%) Salesforce
5 57 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 45 (3.35%) Google
7 44 (3.28%) SAP
8 34 (2.53%) Informatica
9 15 (1.12%) Foundry
10 14 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.04%) Talend
10 14 (1.04%) Workday
11 13 (0.97%) Splunk
12 12 (0.89%) Palantir
12 12 (0.89%) Sparx
13 11 (0.82%) Bloomberg
13 11 (0.82%) IBM
14 9 (0.67%) Adobe
14 9 (0.67%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.67%) OpenAI