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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,256 627 826
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.74% 5.12% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.60% 5.55% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 432 608
10th Percentile £390 £388 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £769 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 14
10th Percentile £27.91 £28.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.25% -10.70%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.85 £60.63 £54.01
England median hourly rate £72.50 £45.73 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.54% +7.60% +17.24%

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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +12 152 £557 +1.18% 84
West London +9 39 £603 +20.50% 6
East London +6 11 £450 -33.33% 9
South London -6 9 £463 -2.63% 2
North London +2 2 £336 - 2
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 (6.85%) Apache Spark
2 74 (5.89%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (3.98%) Apache
4 35 (2.79%) Confluence
5 22 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.96%) Appian
7 9 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.64%) SAS
9 6 (0.48%) Camunda
10 4 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.080%) Anypoint
Applications
1 43 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.16%) Trello
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.56%) Findur
5 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.48%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.40%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.32%) Quorum
7 4 (0.32%) R3 Corda
7 4 (0.32%) Ripple
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 441 (35.11%) Azure
2 312 (24.84%) Power Platform
3 309 (24.60%) AWS
4 132 (10.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 131 (10.43%) GCP
6 109 (8.68%) dbt
7 103 (8.20%) Snowflake
8 100 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 86 (6.85%) Amazon S3
11 72 (5.73%) Serverless
12 69 (5.49%) GitHub
13 48 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (3.58%) Power Automate
15 36 (2.87%) PowerApps
16 34 (2.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 30 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
19 28 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
20 27 (2.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) RTP
2 4 (0.32%) Firewall
2 4 (0.32%) VPN
3 3 (0.24%) FTP
3 3 (0.24%) Network Security
4 2 (0.16%) 5G
4 2 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.16%) RFID
5 1 (0.080%) 4G
5 1 (0.080%) DNS
5 1 (0.080%) SMS
5 1 (0.080%) SNMP
5 1 (0.080%) SSL
5 1 (0.080%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.080%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (22.53%) Power BI
2 223 (17.75%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (11.39%) Metadata
4 123 (9.79%) Data Lake
5 95 (7.56%) SQL Server
6 83 (6.61%) Tableau
7 70 (5.57%) BigQuery
8 64 (5.10%) Delta Lake
9 58 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
10 56 (4.46%) Relational Database
11 54 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
12 49 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 46 (3.66%) Star Schema
14 45 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
14 45 (3.58%) NoSQL
15 43 (3.42%) Data Vault
16 38 (3.03%) Power Query
17 28 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 27 (2.15%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 105 (8.36%) Git
2 93 (7.40%) JIRA
3 36 (2.87%) ERwin
4 26 (2.07%) GitLab
5 15 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.19%) PowerDesigner
6 14 (1.11%) ER Studio
7 13 (1.04%) MLflow
7 13 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.48%) Maven
9 5 (0.40%) JMeter
10 4 (0.32%) Ant
10 4 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.32%) Gradle
10 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.24%) MSTest
12 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.16%) git-flow
12 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 456 (36.31%) Finance
2 330 (26.27%) Social Skills
3 243 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (12.58%) Banking
5 129 (10.27%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (3.18%) Marketing
7 33 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 28 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (2.07%) Legal
10 25 (1.99%) Front Office
11 24 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 24 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.75%) Retail
13 16 (1.27%) Billing
14 14 (1.11%) Aviation
14 14 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.80%) Publishing
16 8 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 302 (24.04%) Data Engineer
2 227 (18.07%) Architect
3 182 (14.49%) Analyst
4 179 (14.25%) Developer
5 169 (13.46%) Senior
6 136 (10.83%) Lead
7 108 (8.60%) Data Architect
8 93 (7.40%) Business Analyst
9 72 (5.73%) Data Analyst
10 70 (5.57%) Data Modeller
11 61 (4.86%) Senior Data Engineer
12 45 (3.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 42 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (3.26%) Senior Developer
15 36 (2.87%) Technical Architect
16 34 (2.71%) Snowflake Engineer
17 33 (2.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 32 (2.55%) Power BI Developer
19 31 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
19 31 (2.47%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (8.04%) REST
2 91 (7.25%) PySpark
3 80 (6.37%) Kafka
4 41 (3.26%) .NET
5 39 (3.11%) SOAP
6 38 (3.03%) JSON
7 33 (2.63%) OAuth
8 32 (2.55%) RESTful
9 31 (2.47%) Lightning Web Components
10 30 (2.39%) Middleware
11 27 (2.15%) Pandas
11 27 (2.15%) XML
12 25 (1.99%) Node.js
13 24 (1.91%) Web Services
14 22 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
15 19 (1.51%) Great Expectations
15 19 (1.51%) React
16 18 (1.43%) Spring
17 17 (1.35%) pytest
18 15 (1.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.64%) Data Structures
3 75 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
4 71 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 48 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (3.03%) Reference Data
8 33 (2.63%) CMDB
9 28 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.83%) Reinsurance
12 22 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.43%) Derivative
15 16 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
16 15 (1.19%) Equities
17 14 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (1.11%) Low-Code
18 13 (1.04%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.27%) Linux
2 14 (1.11%) Unix
3 9 (0.72%) Windows
4 2 (0.16%) zOS
5 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (37.50%) Analytics
2 378 (30.10%) ETL
3 355 (28.26%) Agile
4 331 (26.35%) Business Intelligence
5 317 (25.24%) CI/CD
5 317 (25.24%) Data Pipeline
6 284 (22.61%) Data Engineering
7 268 (21.34%) Data Governance
8 244 (19.43%) Data Architecture
9 241 (19.19%) DevOps
10 218 (17.36%) AI
11 207 (16.48%) Migration
12 197 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
13 188 (14.97%) Validation
14 175 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 172 (13.69%) Decision-Making
16 122 (9.71%) Integration Patterns
17 121 (9.63%) Data Transformation
18 118 (9.39%) Visualisation
19 116 (9.24%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 604 (48.09%) SQL
2 413 (32.88%) Python
3 92 (7.32%) Java
4 73 (5.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (5.25%) C#
6 45 (3.58%) Scala
7 39 (3.11%) JavaScript
8 33 (2.63%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.39%) Apex Code
10 24 (1.91%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.27%) R
12 12 (0.96%) Ruby
12 12 (0.96%) SOQL
13 8 (0.64%) Bicep
14 7 (0.56%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.48%) Bash
15 6 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 223 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 182 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 75 (5.97%) Degree
4 36 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.96%) CBAP
7 12 (0.96%) IIBA
8 11 (0.88%) CISSP
8 11 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.64%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.56%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.48%) GCIH
12 6 (0.48%) ISEB
12 6 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (30.73%) Data Quality
2 79 (6.29%) GDPR
3 62 (4.94%) QA
4 14 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.04%) PMO
6 9 (0.72%) GRC
7 8 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 8 (0.64%) NIST
7 8 (0.64%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.48%) SLA
10 5 (0.40%) IFRS
10 5 (0.40%) MiFID
11 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.32%) WCAG
12 3 (0.24%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 55 (4.38%) Docker
2 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.080%) HDFS
3 1 (0.080%) RACF
Systems Management
1 110 (8.76%) Terraform
2 47 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.56%) Ansible
5 6 (0.48%) Grafana
5 6 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.40%) SCCM
7 2 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.080%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.080%) QRadar
8 1 (0.080%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 219 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 212 (16.88%) Databricks
3 104 (8.28%) Oracle
4 79 (6.29%) Salesforce
5 68 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 53 (4.22%) SAP
7 45 (3.58%) Google
8 27 (2.15%) Informatica
8 27 (2.15%) Workday
9 18 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.04%) IBM
11 12 (0.96%) Bloomberg
11 12 (0.96%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.88%) Palantir
13 10 (0.80%) Splunk
14 9 (0.72%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.72%) Confluent
14 9 (0.72%) Foundry
14 9 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.64%) Sparx