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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 43 38
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,153 635 854
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.86% 4.99% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 5.46% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 442 638
10th Percentile £390 £357 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £670 £712
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.91% -2.68% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 18
10th Percentile £20.89 - £35.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £29.07 £41.56
Median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +6.60% -8.37%
75th Percentile £35.73 £60.31 £54.03
90th Percentile £40.54 £65.00 £66.92
England median hourly rate £73.12 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.41% +16.93% -23.67%

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 15,060 11,622 15,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.41% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,095 7,890 11,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 170 337
10th Percentile £18.13 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.37 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Modelling in London over the 6 months to 30 March 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 30 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 +31 144 £550 -3.08% 101
West London +2 28 £603 +2.82% 10
South London -9 12 £475 -1.30% 3
East London +2 8 £450 -28.00% 5
North London +2 1 £495 -30.62% 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
1 104 (9.02%) Apache Spark
2 64 (5.55%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (4.51%) Apache
4 34 (2.95%) Confluence
5 22 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.39%) Appian
7 10 (0.87%) Camunda
8 9 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.69%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.61%) CMS
10 7 (0.61%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.087%) nginx
12 1 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 48 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Trello
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.43%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.35%) Findur
7 3 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.26%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.17%) Actimize
8 2 (0.17%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 423 (36.69%) Azure
2 312 (27.06%) Power Platform
3 299 (25.93%) AWS
4 151 (13.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 109 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 103 (8.93%) Snowflake
7 101 (8.76%) GCP
8 95 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (8.07%) Amazon S3
10 84 (7.29%) Serverless
11 79 (6.85%) dbt
12 74 (6.42%) GitHub
13 53 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (4.51%) Power Automate
15 40 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 39 (3.38%) PowerApps
17 33 (2.86%) Collibra
17 33 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
18 26 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
18 26 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.43%) RTP
2 4 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.26%) Firewall
3 3 (0.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) NAS
4 2 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.087%) 4G
5 1 (0.087%) 5G
5 1 (0.087%) DNS
5 1 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.087%) MQTT
5 1 (0.087%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (23.94%) Power BI
2 238 (20.64%) Data Warehouse
3 134 (11.62%) Metadata
4 124 (10.75%) Data Lake
5 90 (7.81%) SQL Server
6 71 (6.16%) Tableau
7 69 (5.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (5.81%) NoSQL
9 62 (5.38%) Snowflake Schema
10 57 (4.94%) Delta Lake
11 52 (4.51%) BigQuery
12 51 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 48 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
14 47 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
15 44 (3.82%) Relational Database
16 39 (3.38%) Data Vault
17 38 (3.30%) Star Schema
18 37 (3.21%) Big Data
19 34 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 29 (2.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 109 (9.45%) Git
2 81 (7.03%) JIRA
3 29 (2.52%) ERwin
4 20 (1.73%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.56%) GitLab
6 17 (1.47%) MLflow
7 12 (1.04%) PowerDesigner
8 10 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.52%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.52%) JMeter
10 3 (0.26%) Maven
10 3 (0.26%) MSTest
10 3 (0.26%) Selenium
10 3 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.17%) git-flow
11 2 (0.17%) LSMW
11 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 384 (33.30%) Finance
2 349 (30.27%) Social Skills
3 240 (20.82%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (10.23%) Banking
5 108 (9.37%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (3.04%) Marketing
8 30 (2.60%) Financial Institution
9 28 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (2.43%) Retail
10 24 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.56%) Billing
13 16 (1.39%) Front Office
14 14 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.04%) Back Office
16 11 (0.95%) Legal
17 10 (0.87%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 280 (24.28%) Data Engineer
2 186 (16.13%) Architect
3 169 (14.66%) Analyst
4 162 (14.05%) Developer
5 137 (11.88%) Senior
6 128 (11.10%) Lead
7 95 (8.24%) Data Architect
8 94 (8.15%) Business Analyst
9 68 (5.90%) Data Analyst
10 65 (5.64%) Data Modeller
11 44 (3.82%) Consultant
11 44 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
12 43 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (3.56%) Azure Data Engineer
14 39 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 33 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 30 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
17 27 (2.34%) Lead Data Engineer
17 27 (2.34%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (9.19%) PySpark
2 80 (6.94%) Kafka
3 74 (6.42%) REST
4 37 (3.21%) .NET
5 35 (3.04%) JSON
6 33 (2.86%) OAuth
7 27 (2.34%) Pandas
7 27 (2.34%) XML
8 25 (2.17%) SOAP
9 24 (2.08%) Great Expectations
10 23 (1.99%) Middleware
11 22 (1.91%) Node.js
11 22 (1.91%) RESTful
12 19 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
14 17 (1.47%) pytest
14 17 (1.47%) Web Services
15 16 (1.39%) OAuth2
15 16 (1.39%) OpenAPI
16 15 (1.30%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.63%) Data Structures
3 66 (5.72%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (4.25%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.34%) Reference Data
8 25 (2.17%) CMDB
9 20 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.56%) Reinsurance
11 16 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
11 16 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.04%) Equities
14 11 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.87%) Derivative
15 10 (0.87%) Fixed Income
15 10 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.73%) Linux
2 18 (1.56%) Unix
3 7 (0.61%) Windows
4 3 (0.26%) zOS
5 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (37.90%) Analytics
2 373 (32.35%) ETL
3 338 (29.31%) Agile
4 334 (28.97%) Business Intelligence
5 292 (25.33%) Data Engineering
6 288 (24.98%) Data Governance
7 282 (24.46%) Data Pipeline
8 279 (24.20%) CI/CD
9 223 (19.34%) DevOps
10 222 (19.25%) Data Architecture
11 209 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
12 192 (16.65%) AI
13 188 (16.31%) Migration
14 177 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 150 (13.01%) Decision-Making
16 145 (12.58%) Validation
17 139 (12.06%) Data Integration
18 132 (11.45%) Visualisation
19 113 (9.80%) Data Science
20 110 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 595 (51.60%) SQL
2 411 (35.65%) Python
3 76 (6.59%) Java
4 65 (5.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 63 (5.46%) C#
6 59 (5.12%) Scala
7 30 (2.60%) JavaScript
8 24 (2.08%) R
9 21 (1.82%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.65%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.39%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 12 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.95%) Bicep
14 11 (0.95%) Ruby
15 6 (0.52%) Bash
16 5 (0.43%) Korn
16 5 (0.43%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.43%) SAS Macro
16 5 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 225 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 181 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 79 (6.85%) Degree
4 41 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.04%) CBAP
9 11 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.95%) IIBA
10 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.43%) CISSP
14 4 (0.35%) CFA
14 4 (0.35%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.35%) ISEB
14 4 (0.35%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 364 (31.57%) Data Quality
2 87 (7.55%) GDPR
3 65 (5.64%) QA
4 18 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.21%) PMO
6 11 (0.95%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.69%) NIST
8 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.52%) MiFID
9 5 (0.43%) GRC
10 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.35%) IFRS
10 4 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.26%) Basel III
11 3 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.26%) SLA
11 3 (0.26%) WCAG
12 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (4.25%) Docker
2 6 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 107 (9.28%) Terraform
2 47 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.43%) Grafana
4 5 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.43%) SCCM
5 4 (0.35%) Ansible
6 1 (0.087%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.087%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.087%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 222 (19.25%) Databricks
2 202 (17.52%) Microsoft
3 87 (7.55%) Oracle
4 63 (5.46%) ServiceNow
5 57 (4.94%) Salesforce
6 55 (4.77%) SAP
7 40 (3.47%) Google
8 30 (2.60%) Informatica
9 23 (1.99%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.91%) Workday
11 15 (1.30%) Guidewire
12 14 (1.21%) IBM
13 13 (1.13%) Sparx
14 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.95%) Pega
15 10 (0.87%) Palantir
16 9 (0.78%) Ariba
16 9 (0.78%) Foundry
16 9 (0.78%) UiPath
17 8 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere