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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 47 38
Rank change year-on-year +19 -9 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,199 613 860
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.93% 4.84% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.77% 5.28% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 426 643
10th Percentile £385 £361 £413
25th Percentile £454 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £714
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 17
10th Percentile £20.89 - £35.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £27.71 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +8.25% -9.77%
75th Percentile £35.73 £60.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £40.54 £65.00 £62.86
England median hourly rate £76.80 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +38.38% +20.18% -26.70%

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 15,430 11,609 15,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.20% 91.65% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,356 7,870 11,343
10th Percentile £352 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £801 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 332
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.54 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.86 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +29 150 £550 -1.87% 101
West London +2 33 £603 -0.50% 10
South London -13 12 £475 -1.30% 3
East London 0 10 £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 (8.67%) Apache Spark
2 65 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (4.42%) Apache
4 34 (2.84%) Confluence
5 23 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.50%) Appian
7 11 (0.92%) Camunda
7 11 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.67%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.58%) CMS
9 7 (0.58%) SAS
10 4 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.083%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.083%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 48 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.50%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.42%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.33%) Findur
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.17%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 443 (36.95%) Azure
2 318 (26.52%) Power Platform
3 303 (25.27%) AWS
4 157 (13.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 113 (9.42%) GCP
6 111 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 105 (8.76%) Snowflake
8 101 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (7.84%) Amazon S3
10 84 (7.01%) Serverless
11 82 (6.84%) dbt
12 73 (6.09%) GitHub
13 53 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (4.17%) Power Automate
15 41 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 39 (3.25%) PowerApps
17 35 (2.92%) Collibra
18 34 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
19 26 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
20 24 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) RTP
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
3 3 (0.25%) Firewall
3 3 (0.25%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) FTP
4 2 (0.17%) NAS
4 2 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.083%) 4G
5 1 (0.083%) 5G
5 1 (0.083%) DNS
5 1 (0.083%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.083%) MQTT
5 1 (0.083%) Network Security
5 1 (0.083%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (23.52%) Power BI
2 243 (20.27%) Data Warehouse
3 142 (11.84%) Metadata
4 129 (10.76%) Data Lake
5 90 (7.51%) SQL Server
6 80 (6.67%) Tableau
7 69 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (5.59%) NoSQL
9 66 (5.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 61 (5.09%) Delta Lake
11 58 (4.84%) BigQuery
12 54 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 49 (4.09%) Amazon Athena
13 49 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
14 42 (3.50%) Data Vault
15 41 (3.42%) Relational Database
16 40 (3.34%) Star Schema
17 34 (2.84%) Big Data
17 34 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 29 (2.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 112 (9.34%) Git
2 79 (6.59%) JIRA
3 32 (2.67%) ERwin
4 18 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.42%) GitLab
5 17 (1.42%) MLflow
6 14 (1.17%) PowerDesigner
7 11 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.67%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.50%) JMeter
10 3 (0.25%) Maven
10 3 (0.25%) MSTest
10 3 (0.25%) Selenium
10 3 (0.25%) 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
1 400 (33.36%) Finance
2 363 (30.28%) Social Skills
3 254 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (10.01%) Banking
5 114 (9.51%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.17%) Marketing
8 31 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 29 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (2.25%) Retail
11 25 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.75%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.67%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.58%) Billing
15 18 (1.50%) Front Office
16 17 (1.42%) Legal
17 15 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (1.00%) Back Office
19 10 (0.83%) Law
19 10 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 289 (24.10%) Data Engineer
2 208 (17.35%) Architect
3 176 (14.68%) Analyst
4 162 (13.51%) Developer
5 141 (11.76%) Senior
6 125 (10.43%) Lead
7 102 (8.51%) Data Architect
8 97 (8.09%) Business Analyst
9 72 (6.01%) Data Analyst
10 70 (5.84%) Data Modeller
11 47 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
12 46 (3.84%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (3.67%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (3.42%) Consultant
15 40 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 33 (2.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 33 (2.75%) Snowflake Engineer
18 29 (2.42%) Technical Architect
19 28 (2.34%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (8.76%) PySpark
2 79 (6.59%) Kafka
2 79 (6.59%) REST
3 39 (3.25%) .NET
4 35 (2.92%) JSON
5 33 (2.75%) OAuth
6 29 (2.42%) SOAP
7 27 (2.25%) Pandas
7 27 (2.25%) XML
8 25 (2.09%) Middleware
9 24 (2.00%) Great Expectations
9 24 (2.00%) RESTful
10 23 (1.92%) Node.js
11 20 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
12 19 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
13 18 (1.50%) pytest
13 18 (1.50%) Web Services
14 16 (1.33%) OAuth2
15 15 (1.25%) scikit-learn
16 14 (1.17%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 93 (7.76%) Data Structures
3 69 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.34%) Reference Data
7 26 (2.17%) CMDB
8 22 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.58%) Reinsurance
11 18 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
12 16 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.33%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.00%) Equities
15 11 (0.92%) Clustering
16 10 (0.83%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.50%) Linux
2 17 (1.42%) Unix
3 8 (0.67%) Windows
4 3 (0.25%) zOS
5 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (37.45%) Analytics
2 381 (31.78%) ETL
3 356 (29.69%) Agile
4 341 (28.44%) Business Intelligence
5 297 (24.77%) Data Engineering
5 297 (24.77%) Data Governance
6 295 (24.60%) Data Pipeline
7 290 (24.19%) CI/CD
8 238 (19.85%) DevOps
9 234 (19.52%) Data Architecture
10 212 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (17.43%) AI
12 190 (15.85%) Migration
13 186 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 164 (13.68%) Decision-Making
15 153 (12.76%) Validation
16 146 (12.18%) Data Integration
17 135 (11.26%) Visualisation
18 121 (10.09%) Integration Patterns
19 117 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 607 (50.63%) SQL
2 417 (34.78%) Python
3 77 (6.42%) Java
4 66 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (5.34%) C#
6 60 (5.00%) Scala
7 32 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.09%) R
8 25 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 19 (1.58%) Apex Code
10 17 (1.42%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.92%) Bicep
12 11 (0.92%) Ruby
13 9 (0.75%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.50%) Bash
14 6 (0.50%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.50%) SOQL
15 5 (0.42%) Korn
15 5 (0.42%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 229 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 182 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 80 (6.67%) Degree
4 42 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.00%) CBAP
9 11 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.92%) IIBA
10 10 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.58%) CISSP
12 7 (0.58%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.42%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.33%) CFA
14 4 (0.33%) ISEB
14 4 (0.33%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (31.19%) Data Quality
2 90 (7.51%) GDPR
3 65 (5.42%) QA
4 19 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.25%) PMO
6 11 (0.92%) Solvency II
7 9 (0.75%) NIST
8 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.50%) MiFID
10 5 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.42%) GRC
11 4 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.33%) IFRS
11 4 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.25%) Basel III
12 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.25%) SLA
12 3 (0.25%) WCAG
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (3.92%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) HDFS
3 1 (0.083%) RACF
Systems Management
1 110 (9.17%) Terraform
2 46 (3.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.42%) Grafana
4 5 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.42%) SCCM
5 4 (0.33%) Ansible
6 1 (0.083%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.083%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 234 (19.52%) Databricks
2 206 (17.18%) Microsoft
3 90 (7.51%) Oracle
4 66 (5.50%) ServiceNow
5 64 (5.34%) Salesforce
6 58 (4.84%) SAP
7 42 (3.50%) Google
8 29 (2.42%) Informatica
9 24 (2.00%) Workday
10 22 (1.83%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.25%) Guidewire
12 14 (1.17%) IBM
13 13 (1.08%) Sparx
14 12 (1.00%) Palantir
14 12 (1.00%) Pega
15 11 (0.92%) Foundry
15 11 (0.92%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.75%) Ariba
16 9 (0.75%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.75%) UiPath