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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 46 44
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,325 685 838
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.71% 5.06% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 5.49% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 470 597
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £453 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.88% -3.18% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 10
10th Percentile £27.91 - £35.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.07 £36.56
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -3.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.75 £51.38
90th Percentile £68.85 £58.75 £51.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.00 £40.41
% change year-on-year +35.42% +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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 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 15 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 15 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 +22 174 £557 -7.25% 30
West London +14 38 £563 +7.14% 11
South London -6 8 £463 -2.63% 2
East London +3 7 £475 -29.63% 4
North London -1 2 £336 - 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 87 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 51 (3.85%) Apache
4 38 (2.87%) Confluence
5 29 (2.19%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.68%) SAS
8 8 (0.60%) Appian
9 6 (0.45%) Camunda
10 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.30%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.075%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.075%) Luigi
13 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 49 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.21%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
5 11 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.60%) Findur
7 7 (0.53%) SAP BPC
8 6 (0.45%) 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%) Endur
10 4 (0.30%) Maximo
10 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.30%) Quorum
10 4 (0.30%) R3 Corda
10 4 (0.30%) Ripple
10 4 (0.30%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 450 (33.96%) Azure
2 324 (24.45%) AWS
3 314 (23.70%) Power Platform
4 150 (11.32%) GCP
5 128 (9.66%) dbt
6 126 (9.51%) Snowflake
7 115 (8.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 99 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
9 86 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 85 (6.42%) Amazon S3
11 70 (5.28%) Serverless
12 69 (5.21%) GitHub
13 51 (3.85%) Power Automate
14 45 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
15 44 (3.32%) PowerApps
16 41 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
17 39 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 31 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
19 27 (2.04%) Collibra
20 26 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) Firewall
1 5 (0.38%) RTP
2 4 (0.30%) Network Security
3 3 (0.23%) FTP
3 3 (0.23%) SSL
3 3 (0.23%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
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
1 285 (21.51%) Power BI
2 231 (17.43%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (12.91%) Metadata
4 116 (8.75%) Data Lake
5 83 (6.26%) Tableau
6 75 (5.66%) BigQuery
7 70 (5.28%) SQL Server
8 64 (4.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 60 (4.53%) Relational Database
10 57 (4.30%) Delta Lake
11 52 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (3.70%) NoSQL
12 49 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
13 47 (3.55%) Power Query
13 47 (3.55%) Star Schema
14 43 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
15 40 (3.02%) Data Vault
16 36 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
17 28 (2.11%) Big Data
17 28 (2.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 104 (7.85%) Git
2 90 (6.79%) JIRA
3 36 (2.72%) ERwin
4 29 (2.19%) GitLab
5 19 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 18 (1.36%) ER Studio
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
10 6 (0.45%) MLflow
11 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.30%) Gradle
12 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.23%) MSTest
13 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.15%) Selenium
13 2 (0.15%) Toad
General
1 490 (36.98%) Finance
2 354 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 260 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (12.60%) Banking
5 141 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.17%) Marketing
7 41 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.72%) Retail
9 34 (2.57%) Legal
10 30 (2.26%) Front Office
10 30 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 28 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.04%) Investment Banking
14 24 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.21%) Billing
16 14 (1.06%) Aviation
16 14 (1.06%) Publishing
17 13 (0.98%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 298 (22.49%) Data Engineer
2 285 (21.51%) Architect
3 200 (15.09%) Analyst
4 190 (14.34%) Developer
5 173 (13.06%) Senior
6 132 (9.96%) Data Architect
7 130 (9.81%) Lead
8 97 (7.32%) Business Analyst
9 84 (6.34%) Data Analyst
10 75 (5.66%) Data Modeller
11 60 (4.53%) Senior Data Engineer
12 59 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (3.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 40 (3.02%) Senior Developer
15 39 (2.94%) Snowflake Engineer
16 38 (2.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 35 (2.64%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (2.64%) Power BI Developer
17 35 (2.64%) Technical Architect
18 32 (2.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (8.00%) REST
2 86 (6.49%) PySpark
3 81 (6.11%) Kafka
4 52 (3.92%) SOAP
5 45 (3.40%) JSON
6 44 (3.32%) .NET
7 39 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
8 36 (2.72%) Middleware
9 31 (2.34%) XML
10 29 (2.19%) RESTful
11 26 (1.96%) Node.js
12 25 (1.89%) OAuth
13 20 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (1.51%) Spring
14 19 (1.43%) React
14 19 (1.43%) Web Services
15 17 (1.28%) Pandas
15 17 (1.28%) Spring Boot
16 15 (1.13%) Great Expectations
17 14 (1.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.62%) Data Structures
3 87 (6.57%) Legacy Systems
4 76 (5.74%) Product Ownership
5 60 (4.53%) Onboarding
6 43 (3.25%) CMDB
7 40 (3.02%) Reference Data
8 39 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
9 30 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.66%) Derivative
11 22 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.66%) Reinsurance
12 21 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.13%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.98%) Equities
15 13 (0.98%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.36%) Linux
2 15 (1.13%) Unix
3 13 (0.98%) Windows
4 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (38.26%) Analytics
2 367 (27.70%) Agile
3 360 (27.17%) ETL
4 349 (26.34%) Business Intelligence
5 337 (25.43%) Data Pipeline
6 317 (23.92%) CI/CD
7 292 (22.04%) Data Governance
8 289 (21.81%) Data Engineering
9 250 (18.87%) Data Architecture
10 238 (17.96%) DevOps
11 229 (17.28%) AI
12 219 (16.53%) Migration
13 199 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 199 (15.02%) Validation
14 197 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
15 185 (13.96%) Decision-Making
16 141 (10.64%) Data Transformation
17 135 (10.19%) Integration Patterns
18 130 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 122 (9.21%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 615 (46.42%) SQL
2 421 (31.77%) Python
3 92 (6.94%) Java
4 81 (6.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 67 (5.06%) C#
6 51 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 38 (2.87%) Apex Code
7 38 (2.87%) Scala
8 35 (2.64%) TypeScript
9 24 (1.81%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.13%) SOQL
12 14 (1.06%) R
13 11 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.83%) Ruby
14 8 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
14 8 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.53%) SOSL
16 6 (0.45%) Cypher
16 6 (0.45%) LookML
Qualifications
1 223 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 182 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.28%) Degree
4 32 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.91%) CISSP
8 12 (0.91%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.60%) CBAP
9 8 (0.60%) IIBA
9 8 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.45%) CCSP
11 6 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (29.36%) Data Quality
2 85 (6.42%) GDPR
3 62 (4.68%) QA
4 25 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.06%) GRC
5 14 (1.06%) PMO
6 10 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (0.75%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.53%) IFRS
7 7 (0.53%) SLA
8 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.38%) MiFID
9 5 (0.38%) NIST
10 4 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.30%) NCSC
10 4 (0.30%) WCAG
11 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 48 (3.62%) Docker
2 5 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.075%) HDFS
3 1 (0.075%) RACF
Systems Management
1 100 (7.55%) Terraform
2 49 (3.70%) 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 3 (0.23%) Control-M
9 2 (0.15%) QRadar
10 1 (0.075%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.075%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.075%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 226 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 204 (15.40%) Databricks
3 112 (8.45%) Oracle
4 94 (7.09%) Salesforce
5 67 (5.06%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.92%) SAP
7 50 (3.77%) Google
8 27 (2.04%) Informatica
8 27 (2.04%) Workday
9 22 (1.66%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.06%) Palantir
11 13 (0.98%) Bloomberg
12 12 (0.91%) Splunk
13 11 (0.83%) Foundry
14 10 (0.75%) IBM
15 9 (0.68%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.68%) Murex
16 8 (0.60%) Anaplan
17 7 (0.53%) Ariba
17 7 (0.53%) Refinitiv