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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 42 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 817 737 908
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.95% 4.75% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.44% 5.33% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 492 620
10th Percentile £405 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £487 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £596
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.48% -0.71%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £34.00 £38.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £43.75 £39.07
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% +9.65% -21.61%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £50.15 £54.55 £65.00
England median hourly rate £48.00 £40.33 £48.50
% change year-on-year +19.03% -16.86% -24.81%

All Process and 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 12,690 13,828 18,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.41% 89.13% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,349 8,905 13,142
10th Percentile £331 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.50% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 162 248
10th Percentile £17.69 £17.28 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.89 £24.63 £21.44
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £46.88 £55.94 £60.44
90th Percentile £64.90 £80.68 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +27.14%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 +5 115 £550 -8.33% 490
West London -13 11 £525 -8.14% 20
East London 0 5 £585 +13.59% 13
South London -4 4 £487 -15.26% 9
North London - 1 - - 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 60 (7.34%) Apache Spark
2 56 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (4.28%) Apache
4 19 (2.33%) Confluence
5 15 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.61%) Camunda
6 5 (0.61%) JBoss
6 5 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.61%) SAS
7 4 (0.49%) Appian
7 4 (0.49%) CMS
7 4 (0.49%) Luigi
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 36 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 21 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (1.35%) Endur
5 8 (0.98%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.98%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.73%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.49%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.37%) Loan IQ
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.24%) HFM
10 2 (0.24%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.24%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 280 (34.27%) Azure
2 215 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 212 (25.95%) AWS
4 101 (12.36%) GCP
5 97 (11.87%) Snowflake
6 74 (9.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (8.20%) dbt
8 53 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 48 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 48 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (5.88%) GitHub
10 46 (5.63%) Serverless
11 32 (3.92%) Power Automate
12 30 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (3.55%) PowerApps
14 27 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
15 26 (3.18%) Collibra
16 25 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.96%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.49%) Firewall
2 3 (0.37%) Internet
3 2 (0.24%) SSL
4 1 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.12%) MQTT
4 1 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (22.64%) Data Warehouse
2 184 (22.52%) Power BI
3 116 (14.20%) Metadata
4 88 (10.77%) Data Lake
5 59 (7.22%) Tableau
6 53 (6.49%) NoSQL
7 48 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 47 (5.75%) Big Data
8 47 (5.75%) BigQuery
9 46 (5.63%) Data Vault
10 45 (5.51%) SQL Server
11 44 (5.39%) Snowflake Schema
12 36 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (4.16%) Star Schema
14 33 (4.04%) Power Query
15 30 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
17 23 (2.82%) Delta Lake
17 23 (2.82%) Looker
18 18 (2.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 64 (7.83%) Git
2 48 (5.88%) ERwin
3 43 (5.26%) JIRA
4 23 (2.82%) ER Studio
5 20 (2.45%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.22%) GitLab
7 9 (1.10%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.61%) Maven
9 3 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.12%) Gradle
11 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.12%) Postman
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 270 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 251 (30.72%) Finance
3 163 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.40%) Banking
5 64 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.16%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.55%) Retail
8 27 (3.30%) Front Office
9 26 (3.18%) Back Office
9 26 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (2.94%) Marketing
11 22 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.35%) Legal
15 11 (1.35%) Local Government
15 11 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 174 (21.30%) Architect
2 152 (18.60%) Data Engineer
3 128 (15.67%) Analyst
4 98 (12.00%) Data Architect
5 92 (11.26%) Developer
6 78 (9.55%) Lead
6 78 (9.55%) Senior
7 75 (9.18%) Data Modeller
8 66 (8.08%) Business Analyst
9 54 (6.61%) Consultant
9 54 (6.61%) Data Analyst
10 31 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
12 26 (3.18%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (2.82%) Azure Architect
13 23 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (2.33%) Technical Architect
16 18 (2.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 17 (2.08%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.34%) PySpark
2 41 (5.02%) Kafka
3 35 (4.28%) REST
4 25 (3.06%) .NET
5 21 (2.57%) JSON
6 20 (2.45%) HTML
7 17 (2.08%) XML
8 16 (1.96%) Middleware
8 16 (1.96%) RESTful
9 15 (1.84%) SOAP
10 14 (1.71%) Node.js
10 14 (1.71%) Web Services
11 12 (1.47%) Pandas
12 11 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.22%) CSS
13 10 (1.22%) Spring
14 9 (1.10%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.10%) React
15 8 (0.98%) scikit-learn
15 8 (0.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.08%) Data Structures
2 54 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 50 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 25 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.82%) Reinsurance
6 22 (2.69%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.57%) Reference Data
8 20 (2.45%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.71%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.59%) Equities
12 13 (1.59%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.35%) Derivative
14 10 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (1.10%) Low-Code
15 9 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.35%) Unix
2 9 (1.10%) Linux
3 3 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (34.03%) Analytics
2 248 (30.35%) Agile
3 242 (29.62%) Business Intelligence
4 232 (28.40%) Data Governance
5 227 (27.78%) ETL
6 172 (21.05%) Data Architecture
7 171 (20.93%) Data Engineering
8 161 (19.71%) Data Pipeline
9 155 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
10 129 (15.79%) CI/CD
11 123 (15.06%) Data Integration
12 120 (14.69%) Visualisation
13 119 (14.57%) DevOps
14 111 (13.59%) AI
15 106 (12.97%) Migration
16 103 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
17 97 (11.87%) Data Analysis
18 93 (11.38%) Decision-Making
19 86 (10.53%) Data Science
20 78 (9.55%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 412 (50.43%) SQL
2 276 (33.78%) Python
3 70 (8.57%) Java
4 43 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 34 (4.16%) C#
6 28 (3.43%) Scala
7 27 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.57%) R
9 15 (1.84%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.35%) Apex Code
12 10 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.98%) VBA
14 7 (0.86%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.73%) ABAP
15 6 (0.73%) Bash
15 6 (0.73%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.49%) C
16 4 (0.49%) C++
17 3 (0.37%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 112 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 86 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.71%) Degree
4 20 (2.45%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.61%) CFA
11 4 (0.49%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.37%) CBAP
12 3 (0.37%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.24%) CISSP
13 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (24.24%) Data Quality
2 67 (8.20%) GDPR
3 37 (4.53%) QA
4 18 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.86%) MiFID
6 7 (0.86%) Solvency II
7 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.61%) PMO
9 4 (0.49%) HL7
10 3 (0.37%) IFRS
10 3 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.37%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) DICOM
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) GxP
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (3.43%) Docker
2 8 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (6.24%) Terraform
2 31 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.12%) Puppet
5 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 137 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 122 (14.93%) Databricks
3 57 (6.98%) Oracle
4 51 (6.24%) Google
5 43 (5.26%) SAP
6 39 (4.77%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.33%) Sparx
8 17 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.96%) Informatica
10 12 (1.47%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.35%) Palantir
12 10 (1.22%) Foundry
12 10 (1.22%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.10%) Workday
14 8 (0.98%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.98%) Charles River
14 8 (0.98%) Talend
14 8 (0.98%) Temenos
15 7 (0.86%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.86%) MicroStrategy