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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 40 37
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,018 657 900
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.54% 4.87% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.24% 5.36% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 445 661
10th Percentile £375 £361 £413
25th Percentile £457 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £794 £800
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 18
10th Percentile £20.04 £29.07 £35.44
25th Percentile £21.32 £36.56 £42.50
Median hourly rate £23.54 £54.00 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -56.40% +9.64% -8.37%
75th Percentile £25.67 £63.44 £59.84
90th Percentile £26.90 £66.25 £66.92
England median hourly rate £69.44 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +25.12% +20.18% -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 14,060 12,254 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.32% 90.76% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,407 7,894 11,682
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% - -7.82%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 348
10th Percentile £17.85 £21.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £55.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +18 132 £525 -4.72% 65
West London -7 22 £603 +20.50% 15
South London -11 9 £487 -0.05% 4
East London +5 7 £473 -24.40% 5
North London +3 1 £495 -30.62% 7
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 88 (8.64%) Apache Spark
2 48 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (4.13%) Apache
4 28 (2.75%) Confluence
5 15 (1.47%) Appian
5 15 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.88%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.69%) Camunda
7 7 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.59%) CMS
9 5 (0.49%) SAS
10 4 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.098%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.098%) nginx
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.49%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.49%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.39%) Endur
6 4 (0.39%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.29%) Findur
7 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.29%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.20%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SRM
8 2 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 379 (37.23%) Azure
2 280 (27.50%) Power Platform
3 268 (26.33%) AWS
4 143 (14.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 108 (10.61%) Snowflake
6 98 (9.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 90 (8.84%) GCP
8 83 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (8.15%) Serverless
9 77 (7.56%) Amazon S3
10 69 (6.78%) dbt
11 55 (5.40%) GitHub
12 52 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (4.72%) Power Automate
14 36 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 33 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
16 32 (3.14%) PowerApps
17 28 (2.75%) Collibra
18 25 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (2.26%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.39%) HTTP
2 3 (0.29%) RTP
3 2 (0.20%) NAS
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) RFID
3 2 (0.20%) VPN
4 1 (0.098%) 4G
4 1 (0.098%) 5G
4 1 (0.098%) DNS
4 1 (0.098%) Firewall
4 1 (0.098%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (24.66%) Power BI
2 212 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (12.87%) Metadata
4 116 (11.39%) Data Lake
5 85 (8.35%) SQL Server
6 68 (6.68%) NoSQL
7 65 (6.39%) Tableau
8 64 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 60 (5.89%) Snowflake Schema
10 54 (5.30%) Delta Lake
11 50 (4.91%) Data Vault
12 44 (4.32%) Relational Database
13 43 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (3.93%) BigQuery
15 39 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (3.83%) Big Data
16 38 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
17 31 (3.05%) Star Schema
18 28 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 27 (2.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 92 (9.04%) Git
2 78 (7.66%) JIRA
3 42 (4.13%) ERwin
4 17 (1.67%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.57%) MLflow
6 15 (1.47%) ER Studio
6 15 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.28%) GitLab
8 9 (0.88%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.39%) JMeter
10 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.20%) LSMW
11 2 (0.20%) Selenium
11 2 (0.20%) Toad
12 1 (0.098%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.098%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.098%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.098%) TestRail
General
1 325 (31.93%) Finance
2 321 (31.53%) Social Skills
3 192 (18.86%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.53%) Banking
5 81 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 38 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.14%) Retail
8 31 (3.05%) Marketing
9 25 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 22 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.57%) Back Office
13 15 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.38%) Front Office
15 13 (1.28%) Billing
16 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.98%) Publishing
17 9 (0.88%) Law
17 9 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 242 (23.77%) Data Engineer
2 167 (16.40%) Architect
3 155 (15.23%) Analyst
4 128 (12.57%) Developer
5 126 (12.38%) Lead
6 112 (11.00%) Senior
7 97 (9.53%) Business Analyst
7 97 (9.53%) Data Architect
8 70 (6.88%) Data Modeller
9 60 (5.89%) Data Analyst
10 51 (5.01%) Consultant
11 45 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (4.13%) Azure Data Engineer
13 38 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
14 31 (3.05%) Snowflake Engineer
15 30 (2.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 28 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 27 (2.65%) Lead Data Engineer
17 27 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (2.46%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (9.53%) PySpark
2 63 (6.19%) REST
3 60 (5.89%) Kafka
4 27 (2.65%) .NET
4 27 (2.65%) Pandas
5 25 (2.46%) JSON
6 24 (2.36%) OAuth
7 23 (2.26%) XML
8 21 (2.06%) RESTful
8 21 (2.06%) SOAP
9 19 (1.87%) Middleware
9 19 (1.87%) Node.js
10 17 (1.67%) Great Expectations
10 17 (1.67%) scikit-learn
10 17 (1.67%) Web Services
11 15 (1.47%) OpenAPI
12 14 (1.38%) Lightning Web Components
13 12 (1.18%) NumPy
13 12 (1.18%) pytest
14 11 (1.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.64%) Data Structures
2 76 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.55%) Reinsurance
6 25 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (2.36%) Reference Data
8 20 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.67%) CMDB
10 16 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.47%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
13 11 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.98%) Equities
14 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.88%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.28%) Linux
1 13 (1.28%) Unix
2 5 (0.49%) Windows
3 3 (0.29%) zOS
4 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (37.03%) Analytics
2 330 (32.42%) ETL
3 323 (31.73%) Agile
4 304 (29.86%) Business Intelligence
5 281 (27.60%) Data Governance
6 255 (25.05%) Data Engineering
7 231 (22.69%) Data Pipeline
8 220 (21.61%) CI/CD
9 205 (20.14%) Data Architecture
10 191 (18.76%) DevOps
11 190 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
12 167 (16.40%) AI
13 160 (15.72%) Migration
13 160 (15.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 133 (13.06%) Data Integration
15 125 (12.28%) Visualisation
16 117 (11.49%) Validation
17 115 (11.30%) Data Science
18 113 (11.10%) Decision-Making
19 99 (9.72%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 519 (50.98%) SQL
2 348 (34.18%) Python
3 53 (5.21%) Java
3 53 (5.21%) Scala
4 52 (5.11%) C#
5 50 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (2.46%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.96%) R
8 19 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.38%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 12 (1.18%) Bicep
12 10 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.59%) Korn
13 6 (0.59%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.39%) ABAP
14 4 (0.39%) Bash
14 4 (0.39%) SOQL
15 3 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 174 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 145 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.07%) Degree
4 33 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.95%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.18%) CBAP
11 11 (1.08%) IIBA
12 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.39%) CFA
15 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.39%) ISEB
15 4 (0.39%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (31.53%) Data Quality
2 81 (7.96%) GDPR
3 51 (5.01%) QA
4 20 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.08%) PMO
6 9 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.79%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.59%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.59%) MiFID
9 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.39%) NIST
10 4 (0.39%) WCAG
11 3 (0.29%) Basel III
12 2 (0.20%) GRC
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SLA
13 1 (0.098%) PERC
System Software
1 43 (4.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.098%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 91 (8.94%) Terraform
2 39 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.49%) Grafana
5 4 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.39%) SCCM
6 3 (0.29%) Ansible
7 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.098%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 210 (20.63%) Databricks
2 173 (16.99%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.58%) Oracle
4 58 (5.70%) SAP
5 52 (5.11%) Salesforce
6 51 (5.01%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.95%) Google
8 25 (2.46%) Informatica
9 21 (2.06%) Guidewire
10 18 (1.77%) Sparx
11 14 (1.38%) Workday
12 13 (1.28%) IBM
13 12 (1.18%) MuleSoft
14 11 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.88%) Ariba
15 9 (0.88%) Pega
15 9 (0.88%) UiPath
16 8 (0.79%) Automation Anywhere
16 8 (0.79%) ESRI
16 8 (0.79%) Palantir