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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 919 673 891
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.30% 4.85% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 5.36% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 459 644
10th Percentile £363 £364 £413
25th Percentile £456 £465 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year - -5.05% -3.45%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £564
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.66% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile £21.74 £39.38 £35.44
25th Percentile £25.58 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.86 £52.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.23% +4.48% -13.36%
75th Percentile £37.81 £58.06 £61.75
90th Percentile £41.98 £65.00 £66.92
England median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year -17.14% +5.53% -28.93%

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 13,291 12,555 16,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.17% 90.44% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,813 8,005 11,559
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -7.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 154 294
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £32.98 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +12.45% -12.32%
75th Percentile £55.25 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +13 116 £525 -9.48% 78
West London -11 18 £603 +14.76% 10
East London -1 7 £473 -24.40% 4
South London -6 6 £500 +1.22% 7
North London +5 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 79 (8.60%) Apache Spark
2 50 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (3.92%) Apache
4 24 (2.61%) Confluence
5 12 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.20%) Appian
7 8 (0.87%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.76%) Camunda
9 6 (0.65%) CMS
10 5 (0.54%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.33%) Luigi
11 3 (0.33%) SAS
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.54%) Endur
5 5 (0.54%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.33%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.33%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.33%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.22%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 330 (35.91%) Azure
2 253 (27.53%) Power Platform
3 233 (25.35%) AWS
4 123 (13.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 93 (10.12%) Snowflake
6 80 (8.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 76 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (8.27%) GCP
8 72 (7.83%) Serverless
9 65 (7.07%) Amazon S3
10 64 (6.96%) dbt
11 53 (5.77%) GitHub
12 44 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (4.13%) Power Automate
14 31 (3.37%) Collibra
14 31 (3.37%) PowerApps
15 28 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
16 26 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (2.72%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.44%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) NAS
2 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.22%) RFID
2 2 (0.22%) VPN
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (24.70%) Power BI
2 200 (21.76%) Data Warehouse
3 117 (12.73%) Metadata
4 97 (10.55%) Data Lake
5 77 (8.38%) SQL Server
6 70 (7.62%) NoSQL
7 60 (6.53%) Tableau
8 55 (5.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (5.66%) Data Vault
10 46 (5.01%) Snowflake Schema
11 45 (4.90%) Relational Database
12 40 (4.35%) Big Data
13 39 (4.24%) Delta Lake
14 38 (4.13%) Star Schema
15 37 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
16 35 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
18 27 (2.94%) BigQuery
18 27 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 25 (2.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 83 (9.03%) Git
2 70 (7.62%) JIRA
3 41 (4.46%) ERwin
4 17 (1.85%) PowerDesigner
5 16 (1.74%) ER Studio
6 13 (1.41%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.31%) MLflow
8 11 (1.20%) GitLab
9 7 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.44%) JMeter
11 3 (0.33%) Maven
11 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.22%) LSMW
12 2 (0.22%) Selenium
13 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 288 (31.34%) Finance
2 283 (30.79%) Social Skills
3 170 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.34%) Banking
5 68 (7.40%) Public Sector
6 34 (3.70%) Retail
7 29 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (3.05%) Marketing
9 26 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.50%) Front Office
10 23 (2.50%) Investment Banking
11 21 (2.29%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.07%) Back Office
12 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.41%) Billing
13 13 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.09%) Law
14 10 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.98%) Local Government
16 7 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 210 (22.85%) Data Engineer
2 154 (16.76%) Architect
3 139 (15.13%) Analyst
4 112 (12.19%) Developer
5 104 (11.32%) Lead
6 95 (10.34%) Senior
7 92 (10.01%) Data Architect
8 90 (9.79%) Business Analyst
9 66 (7.18%) Data Modeller
10 56 (6.09%) Data Analyst
11 50 (5.44%) Consultant
12 43 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (4.46%) Azure Data Engineer
14 36 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
15 26 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (2.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 23 (2.50%) Technical Business Analyst
18 22 (2.39%) Technical Analyst
19 21 (2.29%) Data Business Analyst
19 21 (2.29%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (9.47%) PySpark
2 55 (5.98%) Kafka
3 52 (5.66%) REST
4 28 (3.05%) .NET
5 24 (2.61%) JSON
6 22 (2.39%) OAuth
6 22 (2.39%) XML
7 20 (2.18%) Pandas
8 19 (2.07%) Node.js
8 19 (2.07%) RESTful
9 18 (1.96%) SOAP
10 17 (1.85%) Web Services
11 14 (1.52%) Middleware
11 14 (1.52%) scikit-learn
12 13 (1.41%) HTML
13 12 (1.31%) .NET Core
13 12 (1.31%) OpenAPI
14 10 (1.09%) Great Expectations
14 10 (1.09%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.98%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 78 (8.49%) Data Structures
2 63 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 46 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (5.01%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.72%) Reinsurance
5 23 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.96%) Reference Data
8 16 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.41%) Equities
10 12 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.20%) Derivative
12 10 (1.09%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.87%) CMDB
14 8 (0.87%) Replication
15 7 (0.76%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.09%) Linux
1 10 (1.09%) Unix
2 2 (0.22%) zOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (34.39%) Analytics
2 290 (31.56%) Agile
3 282 (30.69%) ETL
4 277 (30.14%) Business Intelligence
5 266 (28.94%) Data Governance
6 221 (24.05%) Data Engineering
7 207 (22.52%) Data Pipeline
8 186 (20.24%) Data Architecture
9 183 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
10 175 (19.04%) CI/CD
11 159 (17.30%) DevOps
12 152 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 140 (15.23%) AI
13 140 (15.23%) Migration
14 134 (14.58%) Data Integration
15 117 (12.73%) Visualisation
16 106 (11.53%) Decision-Making
17 101 (10.99%) Data Science
18 97 (10.55%) Data Analysis
19 93 (10.12%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 477 (51.90%) SQL
2 314 (34.17%) Python
3 58 (6.31%) Java
4 46 (5.01%) C#
4 46 (5.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 46 (5.01%) Scala
5 23 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.39%) R
7 18 (1.96%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.31%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.20%) Bicep
9 11 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.76%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.76%) Bash
12 5 (0.54%) Korn
12 5 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.44%) ABAP
13 4 (0.44%) VBA
14 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.29%) Degree
4 35 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.76%) CFA
10 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.65%) CBAP
11 6 (0.65%) IIBA
12 4 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.33%) ISEB
13 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.33%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (31.01%) Data Quality
2 78 (8.49%) GDPR
3 42 (4.57%) QA
4 18 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.87%) PMO
6 7 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.76%) MiFID
7 6 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.65%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.44%) NIST
10 3 (0.33%) Basel III
10 3 (0.33%) IFRS
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (3.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (7.18%) Terraform
2 35 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.33%) Ansible
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 181 (19.70%) Databricks
2 146 (15.89%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.64%) Oracle
4 51 (5.55%) SAP
5 39 (4.24%) Salesforce
6 38 (4.13%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.26%) Google
8 21 (2.29%) Informatica
9 20 (2.18%) Guidewire
9 20 (2.18%) Sparx
10 12 (1.31%) IBM
11 10 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.98%) Alteryx
12 9 (0.98%) Pega
13 8 (0.87%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.87%) Workday
14 7 (0.76%) Confluent
14 7 (0.76%) ESRI
14 7 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (0.76%) Palantir