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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 41 49
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 1,355 726 746
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.75% 5.43% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 5.87% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 502 517
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £26.51 £28.52 £39.38
25th Percentile £30.13 £32.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £42.25 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -13.86% -19.84%
75th Percentile £57.06 £53.75 £52.25
90th Percentile £67.63 - £53.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £43.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +40.23% +4.82% -26.55%

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 17,880 12,372 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.50% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,699 8,236 9,976
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 191
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.16% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +13 183 £550 -8.33% 71
West London +17 47 £520 -0.95% 31
South London - 13 £530 - 5
East London -1 4 £475 -29.63% 8
North London -3 1 £178 - 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 (7.68%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (5.46%) Apache Spark
3 59 (4.35%) Apache
4 34 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 32 (2.36%) Confluence
6 11 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.81%) SAS
7 5 (0.37%) Camunda
8 4 (0.30%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.22%) Appian
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.074%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 50 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.074%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 22 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.11%) Aladdin
2 15 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
4 12 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.37%) Findur
6 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.37%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.30%) Endur
7 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.30%) Quorum
7 4 (0.30%) R3 Corda
7 4 (0.30%) Ripple
7 4 (0.30%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 447 (32.99%) Azure
2 338 (24.94%) AWS
3 296 (21.85%) Power Platform
4 153 (11.29%) GCP
5 144 (10.63%) dbt
5 144 (10.63%) Snowflake
6 117 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 101 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
8 88 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 81 (5.98%) GitHub
10 72 (5.31%) Amazon S3
11 70 (5.17%) Serverless
12 45 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (3.17%) Power Automate
13 43 (3.17%) PowerApps
14 39 (2.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 37 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
16 36 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 28 (2.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.44%) SSL
2 5 (0.37%) Firewall
3 4 (0.30%) Network Security
4 3 (0.22%) BGP
4 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (0.22%) FTP
4 3 (0.22%) NX-OS
4 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.15%) HTTP
5 2 (0.15%) RTP
5 2 (0.15%) TACACS
5 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.15%) Wireless
6 1 (0.074%) 5G
6 1 (0.074%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.074%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.074%) SMS
6 1 (0.074%) SNMP
6 1 (0.074%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (20.37%) Power BI
2 267 (19.70%) Data Warehouse
3 187 (13.80%) Metadata
4 102 (7.53%) Data Lake
5 76 (5.61%) BigQuery
5 76 (5.61%) Tableau
6 75 (5.54%) SQL Server
7 68 (5.02%) Relational Database
8 61 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
9 60 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 60 (4.43%) NoSQL
10 57 (4.21%) Delta Lake
11 56 (4.13%) Star Schema
12 54 (3.99%) Power Query
12 54 (3.99%) Snowflake Schema
13 38 (2.80%) Data Vault
13 38 (2.80%) Semantic Layer
14 36 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
15 35 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 97 (7.16%) Git
2 79 (5.83%) JIRA
3 39 (2.88%) ERwin
4 35 (2.58%) GitLab
5 26 (1.92%) ER Studio
6 20 (1.48%) Jenkins
7 14 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
8 9 (0.66%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.44%) Ant
11 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.44%) MLflow
12 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.37%) Maven
13 4 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.30%) Gradle
13 4 (0.30%) JMeter
13 4 (0.30%) JUnit
13 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 490 (36.16%) Finance
2 372 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 248 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (14.10%) Banking
5 152 (11.22%) Public Sector
6 47 (3.47%) Retail
7 38 (2.80%) Marketing
8 36 (2.66%) Investment Banking
9 35 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (2.51%) Legal
11 33 (2.44%) Front Office
12 32 (2.36%) Financial Institution
13 31 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (1.92%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.25%) Billing
17 14 (1.03%) Aviation
18 13 (0.96%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 308 (22.73%) Architect
2 294 (21.70%) Data Engineer
3 197 (14.54%) Analyst
4 182 (13.43%) Senior
5 171 (12.62%) Developer
6 147 (10.85%) Data Architect
7 132 (9.74%) Lead
8 93 (6.86%) Business Analyst
9 85 (6.27%) Data Analyst
10 73 (5.39%) Data Modeller
11 66 (4.87%) Senior Data Engineer
12 65 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (3.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 42 (3.10%) Senior Developer
14 38 (2.80%) Snowflake Engineer
15 36 (2.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 34 (2.51%) Power BI Developer
17 32 (2.36%) Technical Architect
17 32 (2.36%) Technical Leader
18 31 (2.29%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (9.15%) REST
2 109 (8.04%) PySpark
3 96 (7.08%) Kafka
4 90 (6.64%) Terraform
5 60 (4.43%) SOAP
6 51 (3.76%) JSON
7 44 (3.25%) .NET
8 42 (3.10%) Middleware
9 41 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
10 31 (2.29%) Spring
11 30 (2.21%) Spring Boot
12 29 (2.14%) XML
13 28 (2.07%) RESTful
14 26 (1.92%) OAuth
15 25 (1.85%) Node.js
16 23 (1.70%) React
17 18 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
17 18 (1.33%) Web Services
18 16 (1.18%) GraphQL
19 15 (1.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 106 (7.82%) Data Structures
3 97 (7.16%) Product Ownership
4 82 (6.05%) Legacy Systems
5 75 (5.54%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.76%) Reference Data
7 47 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.66%) CMDB
9 27 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.85%) Replication
11 22 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.55%) Derivative
13 19 (1.40%) Reinsurance
14 18 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (1.11%) AI Agents
17 14 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
17 14 (1.03%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.99%) Linux
2 23 (1.70%) Unix
3 15 (1.11%) Windows
4 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (36.68%) Analytics
2 374 (27.60%) Agile
3 352 (25.98%) ETL
4 347 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
5 344 (25.39%) Data Pipeline
6 335 (24.72%) CI/CD
7 331 (24.43%) Data Governance
8 305 (22.51%) Data Engineering
9 285 (21.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 258 (19.04%) Data Architecture
11 251 (18.52%) DevOps
12 248 (18.30%) AI
13 233 (17.20%) Migration
14 221 (16.31%) Validation
15 195 (14.39%) Decision-Making
16 185 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
17 183 (13.51%) Data Transformation
18 153 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 152 (11.22%) Integration Patterns
20 136 (10.04%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 655 (48.34%) SQL
2 406 (29.96%) Python
3 93 (6.86%) Java
4 88 (6.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 57 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 56 (4.13%) C#
7 40 (2.95%) Apex Code
8 37 (2.73%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.21%) Scala
10 25 (1.85%) PL/SQL
11 24 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 16 (1.18%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.03%) SOQL
14 13 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.89%) Ruby
16 10 (0.74%) R
17 8 (0.59%) SOSL
18 7 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
19 5 (0.37%) LookML
20 4 (0.30%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 237 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 195 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.72%) Degree
4 30 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.89%) CISSP
9 12 (0.89%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.44%) CCSP
13 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.44%) GCIH
13 6 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (31.88%) Data Quality
2 71 (5.24%) GDPR
3 59 (4.35%) QA
4 29 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.25%) GRC
6 13 (0.96%) PMO
7 10 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 9 (0.66%) IFRS
8 9 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.52%) SLA
10 6 (0.44%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.44%) MiFID
11 5 (0.37%) IFRS 17
11 5 (0.37%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.37%) NIST
12 4 (0.30%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) GxP
13 3 (0.22%) HL7
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (3.47%) Docker
2 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.074%) RACF
4 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.96%) Ansible
3 9 (0.66%) Control-M
4 7 (0.52%) Grafana
5 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.15%) QRadar
6 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.074%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.074%) Argo
7 1 (0.074%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.074%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.074%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.074%) Istio
7 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.074%) Nagios
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.074%) WMI
Vendors
1 234 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 217 (16.01%) Databricks
3 120 (8.86%) Oracle
4 92 (6.79%) Salesforce
5 61 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.84%) SAP
7 48 (3.54%) Google
8 33 (2.44%) Informatica
9 22 (1.62%) MuleSoft
9 22 (1.62%) Workday
10 15 (1.11%) Palantir
11 14 (1.03%) Foundry
12 12 (0.89%) Alteryx
12 12 (0.89%) IBM
12 12 (0.89%) Sparx
12 12 (0.89%) Splunk
13 10 (0.74%) Bloomberg
14 9 (0.66%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.59%) Confluent
15 8 (0.59%) Murex