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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 43 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,366 744 749
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.71% 5.54% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 5.98% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 513 514
10th Percentile £400 £408 £400
25th Percentile £453 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £523 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.24% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 5
10th Percentile - £31.47 £47.45
25th Percentile £26.51 £35.31 £49.25
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -13.86% +2.02%
75th Percentile £52.63 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £66.40 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £43.50 £43.91
% change year-on-year +26.44% -0.94% -12.18%

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 18,089 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,828 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £663 £675 £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 300 251 180
10th Percentile £16.68 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +7 191 £575 -4.17% 170
West London +14 48 £520 -0.95% 42
South London - 13 £530 - 17
East London +1 6 £470 -30.37% 17
North London -1 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
1 110 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (5.12%) Apache Spark
3 60 (4.39%) Apache
4 37 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 33 (2.42%) Confluence
6 10 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.73%) SAS
7 4 (0.29%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Mendix
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.073%) Luigi
Applications
1 46 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.073%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 21 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 14 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
5 12 (0.88%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.37%) Findur
8 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.37%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.37%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.29%) Endur
9 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.29%) Quorum
9 4 (0.29%) R3 Corda
9 4 (0.29%) Ripple
10 3 (0.22%) Maximo
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 460 (33.67%) Azure
2 347 (25.40%) AWS
3 287 (21.01%) Power Platform
4 165 (12.08%) Snowflake
5 156 (11.42%) dbt
6 152 (11.13%) GCP
7 119 (8.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 105 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 99 (7.25%) GitHub
10 88 (6.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 80 (5.86%) Serverless
12 76 (5.56%) Amazon S3
13 53 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (3.07%) Power Automate
16 38 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
16 38 (2.78%) PowerApps
17 37 (2.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 33 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.44%) SSL
2 3 (0.22%) BGP
2 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (0.22%) Firewall
2 3 (0.22%) FTP
2 3 (0.22%) HTTP
2 3 (0.22%) Network Security
2 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
2 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
3 2 (0.15%) TACACS
3 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.15%) VPN
3 2 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.073%) 5G
4 1 (0.073%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.073%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.073%) RTP
4 1 (0.073%) SMS
4 1 (0.073%) SNMP
4 1 (0.073%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (19.99%) Power BI
2 267 (19.55%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (14.20%) Metadata
4 110 (8.05%) Data Lake
5 78 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 72 (5.27%) BigQuery
7 70 (5.12%) Relational Database
8 67 (4.90%) NoSQL
9 65 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
9 65 (4.76%) Tableau
10 63 (4.61%) Delta Lake
11 59 (4.32%) Power Query
12 58 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 58 (4.25%) Snowflake Schema
13 56 (4.10%) Star Schema
14 41 (3.00%) Semantic Layer
15 40 (2.93%) Data Vault
16 38 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
17 37 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
18 33 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 110 (8.05%) Git
2 78 (5.71%) JIRA
3 38 (2.78%) GitLab
4 35 (2.56%) ERwin
5 24 (1.76%) ER Studio
6 20 (1.46%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
8 11 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.73%) MLflow
10 9 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.51%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.51%) Maven
12 6 (0.44%) Ant
12 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.44%) Gradle
12 6 (0.44%) JUnit
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
14 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.29%) Mockito
General
1 492 (36.02%) Finance
2 376 (27.53%) Social Skills
3 242 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (14.13%) Banking
5 142 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.81%) Retail
7 41 (3.00%) Marketing
8 39 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (2.71%) Investment Banking
10 36 (2.64%) Front Office
11 34 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (2.34%) Legal
13 27 (1.98%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.32%) Billing
17 15 (1.10%) Aviation
18 13 (0.95%) General Ledger
18 13 (0.95%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 319 (23.35%) Architect
2 318 (23.28%) Data Engineer
3 199 (14.57%) Analyst
3 199 (14.57%) Senior
4 158 (11.57%) Developer
5 157 (11.49%) Data Architect
6 128 (9.37%) Lead
7 95 (6.95%) Business Analyst
8 85 (6.22%) Data Analyst
9 82 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 65 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (4.69%) Data Modeller
12 44 (3.22%) Snowflake Engineer
13 40 (2.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 38 (2.78%) Senior Developer
15 37 (2.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 33 (2.42%) Consultant
17 31 (2.27%) Databricks Engineer
18 30 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
18 30 (2.20%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (8.64%) REST
2 117 (8.57%) PySpark
3 97 (7.10%) Terraform
4 96 (7.03%) Kafka
5 59 (4.32%) SOAP
6 47 (3.44%) JSON
7 45 (3.29%) .NET
8 44 (3.22%) Middleware
9 39 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
10 33 (2.42%) Spring
11 32 (2.34%) Spring Boot
12 31 (2.27%) RESTful
13 29 (2.12%) XML
14 27 (1.98%) OAuth
15 26 (1.90%) React
16 22 (1.61%) Node.js
17 20 (1.46%) Web Services
18 19 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
19 18 (1.32%) GraphQL
19 18 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.08%) Cloud Native
2 118 (8.64%) Data Structures
3 102 (7.47%) Product Ownership
4 81 (5.93%) Onboarding
5 75 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
6 47 (3.44%) Reference Data
7 43 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
8 33 (2.42%) CMDB
9 32 (2.34%) Replication
10 27 (1.98%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 22 (1.61%) Reinsurance
14 21 (1.54%) Derivative
15 17 (1.24%) Taxonomies
16 14 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
17 13 (0.95%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.68%) Linux
2 19 (1.39%) Unix
3 13 (0.95%) Windows
4 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (36.90%) Analytics
2 378 (27.67%) Agile
3 358 (26.21%) Data Pipeline
3 358 (26.21%) ETL
4 351 (25.70%) Data Governance
5 344 (25.18%) CI/CD
6 342 (25.04%) Business Intelligence
7 322 (23.57%) Data Engineering
8 303 (22.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 280 (20.50%) AI
10 267 (19.55%) Data Architecture
11 249 (18.23%) DevOps
12 236 (17.28%) Migration
12 236 (17.28%) Validation
13 196 (14.35%) Data Transformation
14 191 (13.98%) Decision-Making
15 173 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
16 153 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 144 (10.54%) Data Integration
18 143 (10.47%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 672 (49.19%) SQL
2 420 (30.75%) Python
3 89 (6.52%) Java
4 83 (6.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 56 (4.10%) C#
6 54 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 43 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 36 (2.64%) Apex Code
9 34 (2.49%) Scala
10 25 (1.83%) PL/SQL
10 25 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.10%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.02%) SOQL
13 10 (0.73%) LookML
13 10 (0.73%) Ruby
13 10 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.59%) R
14 8 (0.59%) SOSL
15 7 (0.51%) Bicep
15 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 228 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 190 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.69%) Degree
4 29 (2.12%) Azure Certification
5 25 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.73%) PMP
14 8 (0.59%) CISSP
15 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.37%) GCIA
17 4 (0.29%) CCSP
17 4 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 60 (4.39%) GDPR
3 56 (4.10%) QA
4 30 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.10%) GRC
6 12 (0.88%) PMO
7 11 (0.81%) SLA
8 9 (0.66%) IFRS
8 9 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.59%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.44%) IFRS 17
10 6 (0.44%) MiFID
10 6 (0.44%) NCSC
11 5 (0.37%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.29%) ISO 15022
13 3 (0.22%) HL7
13 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
14 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 47 (3.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.15%) RACF
2 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.88%) Ansible
3 9 (0.66%) Control-M
3 9 (0.66%) Grafana
4 8 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.44%) 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 (0.073%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.073%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.073%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.073%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.073%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.073%) Istio
7 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.073%) Nagios
7 1 (0.073%) WMI
Vendors
1 249 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 232 (16.98%) Databricks
3 124 (9.08%) Oracle
4 92 (6.73%) Salesforce
5 58 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.81%) SAP
7 47 (3.44%) Google
8 34 (2.49%) Informatica
9 19 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.32%) Foundry
11 15 (1.10%) Workday
12 14 (1.02%) Alteryx
12 14 (1.02%) Palantir
13 13 (0.95%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.88%) Sparx
14 12 (0.88%) Splunk
15 11 (0.81%) IBM
15 11 (0.81%) Talend
16 8 (0.59%) Denodo
16 8 (0.59%) OpenAI