Data Modeller Contracts

Data Modeller
UK

The median Data Modeller daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 508 592
Rank change year-on-year +81 +84 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Modeller 93 90 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 75 90
10th Percentile £400 £418 £361
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £763
90th Percentile £650 £695 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £548 £500 £537
% change year-on-year +9.50% -6.89% -10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.63
25th Percentile £21.25 - £31.56
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £38.75
75th Percentile £23.75 - £46.56
90th Percentile - - £50.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Data Modeller
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Modeller in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modeller in the UK

Data Modeller
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Modeller.

Daily rate trend for Data Modeller in the UK

Data Modeller
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modeller over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modeller in the UK

Data Modeller
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Modeller.

Hourly rate trend for Data Modeller in the UK

Data Modeller
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modeller within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
England +55 82 £525 -8.70% 17
London +30 44 £525 -8.70% 11
Work from Home +51 40 £500 -16.67% 8
UK excluding London +75 39 £548 +9.50% 9
South East +56 17 £550 -8.33% 3
North of England +26 12 £475 +11.76% 2
North West +11 6 £469 +10.29% 2
Scotland +15 5 £592 - 2
Midlands +21 4 £558 +11.50% 1
West Midlands +17 4 £558 +11.50% 1
North East - 4 £463 -
East of England +31 3 £525 -8.70% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £650 -

Data Modeller Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Data Modeller contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Modeller in the job title.

1 89 (95.70%) Data Modelling
2 45 (48.39%) ERwin
3 42 (45.16%) SQL
4 34 (36.56%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (34.41%) Logical Data Model
6 29 (31.18%) ETL
6 29 (31.18%) Finance
7 28 (30.11%) Physical Data Model
8 27 (29.03%) Relational Database
9 26 (27.96%) Data Architecture
9 26 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
9 26 (27.96%) Social Skills
10 25 (26.88%) Data Management
11 24 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (23.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (22.58%) Analytics
13 21 (22.58%) Azure
14 19 (20.43%) Data Governance
15 17 (18.28%) AWS
15 17 (18.28%) Metadata
15 17 (18.28%) Sparx
16 16 (17.20%) Data Lake
16 16 (17.20%) Data Quality
17 15 (16.13%) Data Structures
17 15 (16.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
18 14 (15.05%) Databricks
18 14 (15.05%) Data Strategy
18 14 (15.05%) ER Studio
18 14 (15.05%) NoSQL
18 14 (15.05%) Banking

Data Modeller Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.68%) Confluence
2 5 (5.38%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (8.60%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (16.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.58%) Azure
2 17 (18.28%) AWS
3 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.53%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.38%) GCP
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon Neptune
6 3 (3.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 3 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.15%) Collibra
7 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.08%) dbt
8 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (36.56%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (29.03%) Relational Database
3 17 (18.28%) Metadata
4 16 (17.20%) Data Lake
5 14 (15.05%) NoSQL
5 14 (15.05%) RDBMS
6 12 (12.90%) Big Data
7 11 (11.83%) Power BI
7 11 (11.83%) Tableau
8 10 (10.75%) Data Vault
9 9 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (8.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (7.53%) Star Schema
12 6 (6.45%) Data Mart
13 4 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
14 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (3.23%) Bigtable
14 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
14 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 45 (48.39%) ERwin
2 14 (15.05%) ER Studio
3 13 (13.98%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 29 (31.18%) Finance
2 26 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (27.96%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Banking
4 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (6.45%) Retail
6 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.23%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Front Office
9 2 (2.15%) Military
10 1 (1.08%) Legal
10 1 (1.08%) Local Government
10 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.30%) PySpark
2 2 (2.15%) FHIR
2 2 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.15%) FpML
2 2 (2.15%) JSON
2 2 (2.15%) XML
3 1 (1.08%) .NET
3 1 (1.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.13%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.38%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.30%) Data Fabric
3 4 (4.30%) Derivative
4 3 (3.23%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.08%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.08%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (95.70%) Data Modelling
2 32 (34.41%) Logical Data Model
3 29 (31.18%) ETL
4 28 (30.11%) Physical Data Model
5 26 (27.96%) Data Architecture
6 25 (26.88%) Data Management
7 24 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (23.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (22.58%) Analytics
10 19 (20.43%) Data Governance
11 14 (15.05%) Data Strategy
12 11 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (10.75%) Agile
13 10 (10.75%) Data Design
13 10 (10.75%) Data Science
13 10 (10.75%) Decision-Making
13 10 (10.75%) Kimball Methodology
14 9 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
15 8 (8.60%) Metadata Management
15 8 (8.60%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 42 (45.16%) SQL
2 14 (15.05%) Python
3 3 (3.23%) R
4 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.60%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.15%) GDPR
2 2 (2.15%) IFRS
2 2 (2.15%) IFRS 9
2 2 (2.15%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.15%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (18.28%) Sparx
2 14 (15.05%) Databricks
3 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.75%) Oracle
5 9 (9.68%) SAP
6 4 (4.30%) IDERA
7 3 (3.23%) IBM
7 3 (3.23%) Informatica
8 2 (2.15%) Workday