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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 39
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,075 657 861
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.67% 4.99% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.40% 5.48% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 448 636
10th Percentile £375 £359 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £701
90th Percentile £738 £791 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 20
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £21.32 £32.04 £41.25
Median hourly rate £23.54 £52.50 £47.28
Median % change year-on-year -55.16% +11.05% -12.04%
75th Percentile £25.67 £61.88 £53.84
90th Percentile £26.90 £65.00 £65.33
England median hourly rate £69.22 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.19% +16.93% -28.40%

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 14,518 11,989 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.05% 90.98% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,761 7,892 11,520
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 162 352
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £56.25 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £77.25 £69.95
England median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%

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 8 March 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
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 8 March 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 +15 139 £550 -1.65% 95
West London -1 25 £603 +20.50% 11
South London -10 9 £487 +1.25% 3
East London +2 8 £450 -28.00% 6
North London +1 1 £495 -30.62% 6
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 92 (8.56%) Apache Spark
2 53 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (4.00%) Apache
4 32 (2.98%) Confluence
5 20 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.40%) Appian
7 9 (0.84%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.74%) Camunda
9 7 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.56%) CMS
11 5 (0.47%) SAS
12 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.093%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.093%) nginx
14 1 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.58%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (1.02%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.56%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.47%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.28%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.28%) Findur
8 3 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.28%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.19%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.19%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 393 (36.56%) Azure
2 292 (27.16%) Power Platform
3 281 (26.14%) AWS
4 148 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 109 (10.14%) Snowflake
6 103 (9.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 92 (8.56%) GCP
8 86 (8.00%) Serverless
9 83 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
10 82 (7.63%) Amazon S3
11 69 (6.42%) dbt
12 59 (5.49%) GitHub
13 54 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (4.74%) Power Automate
15 38 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (3.53%) PowerApps
16 33 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
17 31 (2.88%) Collibra
18 25 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (2.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.37%) HTTP
2 3 (0.28%) RTP
2 3 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) NAS
3 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.19%) RFID
4 1 (0.093%) 4G
4 1 (0.093%) 5G
4 1 (0.093%) DNS
4 1 (0.093%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.093%) MQTT
4 1 (0.093%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (24.09%) Power BI
2 223 (20.74%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (11.91%) Metadata
4 118 (10.98%) Data Lake
5 89 (8.28%) SQL Server
6 68 (6.33%) Tableau
7 66 (6.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 66 (6.14%) NoSQL
8 62 (5.77%) Snowflake Schema
9 55 (5.12%) Delta Lake
10 48 (4.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 47 (4.37%) Data Vault
12 45 (4.19%) Relational Database
13 44 (4.09%) BigQuery
14 42 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
14 42 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (3.44%) Big Data
16 31 (2.88%) Star Schema
17 30 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 28 (2.60%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 99 (9.21%) Git
2 75 (6.98%) JIRA
3 36 (3.35%) ERwin
4 18 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.49%) MLflow
5 16 (1.49%) PowerDesigner
6 14 (1.30%) GitLab
7 12 (1.12%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.37%) JMeter
10 3 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.19%) LSMW
11 2 (0.19%) Toad
12 1 (0.093%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.093%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.093%) Maven
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.093%) Selenium
12 1 (0.093%) Zephyr
General
1 350 (32.56%) Finance
2 334 (31.07%) Social Skills
3 207 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (10.05%) Banking
5 95 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 39 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.98%) Marketing
8 31 (2.88%) Retail
9 26 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.33%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.95%) Investment Banking
13 19 (1.77%) Front Office
14 16 (1.49%) Billing
14 16 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.21%) Back Office
16 12 (1.12%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.93%) Law
17 10 (0.93%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 244 (22.70%) Data Engineer
2 178 (16.56%) Architect
3 159 (14.79%) Analyst
4 147 (13.67%) Developer
5 129 (12.00%) Lead
6 122 (11.35%) Senior
7 98 (9.12%) Business Analyst
8 97 (9.02%) Data Architect
9 68 (6.33%) Data Modeller
10 62 (5.77%) Data Analyst
11 52 (4.84%) Consultant
12 45 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
13 42 (3.91%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
15 38 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 31 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
18 28 (2.60%) Power BI Developer
18 28 (2.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 26 (2.42%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (9.02%) PySpark
2 65 (6.05%) REST
3 62 (5.77%) Kafka
4 34 (3.16%) .NET
5 28 (2.60%) JSON
6 27 (2.51%) OAuth
6 27 (2.51%) Pandas
7 25 (2.33%) XML
8 24 (2.23%) Node.js
8 24 (2.23%) RESTful
9 21 (1.95%) SOAP
10 20 (1.86%) Middleware
11 18 (1.67%) Great Expectations
12 17 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
13 16 (1.49%) scikit-learn
13 16 (1.49%) Web Services
14 15 (1.40%) OpenAPI
15 13 (1.21%) OAuth2
16 12 (1.12%) NumPy
16 12 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.19%) Data Structures
3 59 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (4.84%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (2.42%) Reference Data
6 24 (2.23%) Reinsurance
7 21 (1.95%) CMDB
7 21 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.21%) Equities
11 13 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.12%) Derivative
12 12 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.02%) Fixed Income
14 10 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.40%) Linux
2 13 (1.21%) Unix
3 6 (0.56%) Windows
4 3 (0.28%) zOS
5 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (37.21%) Analytics
2 339 (31.53%) ETL
3 334 (31.07%) Agile
4 313 (29.12%) Business Intelligence
5 280 (26.05%) Data Governance
6 267 (24.84%) Data Engineering
7 247 (22.98%) CI/CD
8 244 (22.70%) Data Pipeline
9 212 (19.72%) Data Architecture
10 208 (19.35%) DevOps
11 202 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
12 173 (16.09%) AI
13 172 (16.00%) Migration
14 168 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 134 (12.47%) Data Integration
16 127 (11.81%) Decision-Making
17 125 (11.63%) Visualisation
18 121 (11.26%) Validation
19 114 (10.60%) Data Science
20 100 (9.30%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 543 (50.51%) SQL
2 377 (35.07%) Python
3 62 (5.77%) Java
4 58 (5.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 56 (5.21%) C#
5 56 (5.21%) Scala
6 28 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.05%) R
8 21 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.49%) Apex Code
11 14 (1.30%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.02%) Bicep
13 10 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) Bash
14 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.47%) Korn
16 4 (0.37%) SAS Macro
16 4 (0.37%) SOQL
16 4 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 191 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 155 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.35%) Degree
4 37 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.12%) CBAP
11 11 (1.02%) IIBA
12 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.37%) CFA
14 4 (0.37%) CISSP
14 4 (0.37%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.37%) ISEB
15 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (30.79%) Data Quality
2 86 (8.00%) GDPR
3 58 (5.40%) QA
4 20 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.93%) PMO
6 9 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.65%) NIST
9 6 (0.56%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.56%) MiFID
10 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.37%) IFRS
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.28%) Basel III
12 3 (0.28%) GRC
12 3 (0.28%) SLA
12 3 (0.28%) WCAG
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (4.09%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.093%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 97 (9.02%) Terraform
2 43 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.47%) Grafana
4 5 (0.47%) SCCM
5 4 (0.37%) Ansible
5 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.093%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 215 (20.00%) Databricks
2 179 (16.65%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.33%) Oracle
4 59 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 58 (5.40%) Salesforce
6 54 (5.02%) SAP
7 30 (2.79%) Google
8 25 (2.33%) Informatica
9 21 (1.95%) Workday
10 20 (1.86%) Guidewire
11 16 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.40%) Sparx
13 13 (1.21%) IBM
14 12 (1.12%) OpenAI
15 11 (1.02%) Pega
16 9 (0.84%) Ariba
16 9 (0.84%) UiPath
17 8 (0.74%) Automation Anywhere
17 8 (0.74%) Bloomberg
17 8 (0.74%) Charles River