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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 44 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,309 668 839
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.69% 5.00% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 5.43% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 462 605
10th Percentile £394 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 13
10th Percentile £27.91 - £35.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -8.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.85 £58.75 £53.35
England median hourly rate £69.00 £48.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.75% +12.94% -20.93%

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 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 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 8 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 8 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 +16 165 £568 -5.42% 65
West London +12 39 £603 +17.56% 14
South London -1 8 £463 -2.63% 5
East London -1 7 £475 -29.63% 5
North London +2 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 84 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (5.58%) Apache Spark
3 48 (3.67%) Apache
4 38 (2.90%) Confluence
5 28 (2.14%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.69%) Appian
7 9 (0.69%) SAS
8 6 (0.46%) Camunda
9 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.076%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.076%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.076%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.076%) Luigi
12 1 (0.076%) nginx
Applications
1 48 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.22%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.61%) Findur
5 8 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.46%) SAP BPC
6 6 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.38%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.31%) Endur
8 4 (0.31%) Maximo
8 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.31%) Quorum
8 4 (0.31%) R3 Corda
8 4 (0.31%) Ripple
9 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 450 (34.38%) Azure
2 321 (24.52%) AWS
3 316 (24.14%) Power Platform
4 147 (11.23%) GCP
5 122 (9.32%) dbt
5 122 (9.32%) Snowflake
6 115 (8.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 102 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
8 87 (6.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 84 (6.42%) Amazon S3
10 71 (5.42%) GitHub
11 70 (5.35%) Serverless
12 52 (3.97%) Power Automate
13 45 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (3.36%) PowerApps
15 40 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
16 39 (2.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 33 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
18 28 (2.14%) Collibra
19 26 (1.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) Firewall
1 5 (0.38%) RTP
2 4 (0.31%) 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 (0.076%) 4G
5 1 (0.076%) DNS
5 1 (0.076%) SMS
5 1 (0.076%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (21.85%) Power BI
2 228 (17.42%) Data Warehouse
3 158 (12.07%) Metadata
4 114 (8.71%) Data Lake
5 84 (6.42%) Tableau
6 77 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 74 (5.65%) BigQuery
8 64 (4.89%) Snowflake Schema
9 63 (4.81%) Delta Lake
10 60 (4.58%) Relational Database
11 53 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 50 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
13 48 (3.67%) NoSQL
13 48 (3.67%) Star Schema
14 46 (3.51%) Power Query
15 43 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
15 43 (3.28%) Data Vault
16 36 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
17 29 (2.22%) Looker
18 28 (2.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 103 (7.87%) Git
2 91 (6.95%) JIRA
3 37 (2.83%) ERwin
4 28 (2.14%) GitLab
5 19 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 18 (1.38%) ER Studio
7 15 (1.15%) PowerDesigner
8 9 (0.69%) MLflow
8 9 (0.69%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.46%) Ant
9 6 (0.46%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.46%) Maven
9 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.31%) Gradle
11 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.23%) MSTest
12 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.15%) git-flow
General
1 488 (37.28%) Finance
2 354 (27.04%) Social Skills
3 255 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (12.91%) Banking
5 140 (10.70%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (3.13%) Marketing
8 36 (2.75%) Retail
9 33 (2.52%) Legal
10 30 (2.29%) Financial Institution
11 29 (2.22%) Front Office
11 29 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (2.06%) Investment Banking
13 25 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.15%) Billing
16 14 (1.07%) Aviation
16 14 (1.07%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 299 (22.84%) Data Engineer
2 266 (20.32%) Architect
3 199 (15.20%) Analyst
4 189 (14.44%) Developer
5 168 (12.83%) Senior
6 128 (9.78%) Data Architect
7 126 (9.63%) Lead
8 98 (7.49%) Business Analyst
9 83 (6.34%) Data Analyst
10 77 (5.88%) Data Modeller
11 58 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
12 55 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 39 (2.98%) Senior Developer
15 38 (2.90%) Snowflake Engineer
16 37 (2.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 36 (2.75%) Power BI Developer
18 35 (2.67%) Technical Architect
19 32 (2.44%) Consultant
20 31 (2.37%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (7.87%) REST
2 88 (6.72%) PySpark
3 80 (6.11%) Kafka
4 49 (3.74%) SOAP
5 44 (3.36%) .NET
5 44 (3.36%) JSON
6 38 (2.90%) Lightning Web Components
7 35 (2.67%) Middleware
8 29 (2.22%) RESTful
9 26 (1.99%) Node.js
9 26 (1.99%) XML
10 25 (1.91%) OAuth
11 21 (1.60%) Web Services
12 20 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
12 20 (1.53%) Pandas
13 19 (1.45%) Spring
14 18 (1.38%) React
15 16 (1.22%) Great Expectations
15 16 (1.22%) Spring Boot
16 14 (1.07%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 130 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.72%) Data Structures
3 84 (6.42%) Legacy Systems
4 76 (5.81%) Product Ownership
5 58 (4.43%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.98%) Reference Data
7 38 (2.90%) CMDB
7 38 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.68%) Derivative
10 22 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.68%) Reinsurance
11 21 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.15%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.07%) Equities
15 14 (1.07%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.22%) Linux
2 13 (0.99%) Unix
3 11 (0.84%) Windows
4 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (38.27%) Analytics
2 369 (28.19%) Agile
3 363 (27.73%) ETL
4 346 (26.43%) Business Intelligence
5 335 (25.59%) Data Pipeline
6 319 (24.37%) CI/CD
7 287 (21.93%) Data Governance
8 286 (21.85%) Data Engineering
9 244 (18.64%) Data Architecture
10 241 (18.41%) DevOps
11 231 (17.65%) AI
12 216 (16.50%) Migration
13 203 (15.51%) Validation
14 201 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
15 198 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 189 (14.44%) Decision-Making
17 137 (10.47%) Data Transformation
18 127 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 125 (9.55%) Integration Patterns
20 122 (9.32%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 613 (46.83%) SQL
2 420 (32.09%) Python
3 88 (6.72%) Java
4 81 (6.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 68 (5.19%) C#
6 49 (3.74%) JavaScript
7 39 (2.98%) Scala
8 36 (2.75%) Apex Code
9 34 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.07%) R
12 14 (1.07%) SOQL
13 10 (0.76%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.76%) Ruby
14 8 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
15 7 (0.53%) SOSL
16 6 (0.46%) Bash
16 6 (0.46%) LookML
16 6 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 219 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 179 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 71 (5.42%) Degree
4 33 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.92%) CISSP
7 12 (0.92%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.61%) CBAP
10 8 (0.61%) IIBA
10 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.61%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.46%) PMP
12 6 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (29.87%) Data Quality
2 87 (6.65%) GDPR
3 61 (4.66%) QA
4 22 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.07%) PMO
6 11 (0.84%) GRC
7 10 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.53%) IFRS
9 6 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.46%) SLA
10 5 (0.38%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.38%) MiFID
10 5 (0.38%) NIST
11 4 (0.31%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.31%) WCAG
12 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.23%) NCSC
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 50 (3.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.076%) HDFS
3 1 (0.076%) RACF
Systems Management
1 104 (7.94%) Terraform
2 48 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.76%) Ansible
4 9 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.46%) Grafana
5 6 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.38%) SCCM
7 2 (0.15%) Control-M
7 2 (0.15%) QRadar
8 1 (0.076%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.076%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 226 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 209 (15.97%) Databricks
3 109 (8.33%) Oracle
4 91 (6.95%) Salesforce
5 63 (4.81%) ServiceNow
6 48 (3.67%) Google
6 48 (3.67%) SAP
7 28 (2.14%) Workday
8 27 (2.06%) Informatica
9 22 (1.68%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.07%) Palantir
11 13 (0.99%) Bloomberg
12 12 (0.92%) Splunk
13 11 (0.84%) Foundry
14 10 (0.76%) IBM
15 9 (0.69%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.69%) Murex
16 8 (0.61%) Anaplan
17 7 (0.53%) Refinitiv
18 6 (0.46%) Sparx