Senior Data Modeller Contracts

Senior Data Modeller
UK

The median Senior Data Modeller daily rate in the UK is £511, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 574 706
Rank change year-on-year +61 +132 +131
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Modeller 7 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.018% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.020% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £456 £611 £549
25th Percentile £463 £643 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £700 £863
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% -18.84% +43.75%
75th Percentile £568 £763 £981
90th Percentile £575 £813 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 - £549
% change year-on-year - - -8.50%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +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 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Data Modeller
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Modeller in the UK

Senior Data Modeller
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Modeller in the UK

Senior Data Modeller
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Modeller within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +57 6 £478 -31.79% 2
UK excluding London - 5 £545 - 4
London +34 2 £450 -35.71%
North West - 2 £525 - 2
South East - 2 £511 -
North of England - 2 £525 - 2
Work from Home +40 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £575 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Modeller in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) ERwin
3 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) Databricks
4 3 (42.86%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Degree
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) Data Security
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (28.57%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) SAP
5 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (28.57%) Data Vault
5 2 (28.57%) ER Studio
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (28.57%) Physical Data Model
5 2 (28.57%) IDERA
5 2 (28.57%) Finance

Senior 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) Big Data
3 2 (28.57%) Data Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Metadata
3 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (14.29%) Bigtable
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) Data Mart
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Star Schema
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) ERwin
2 2 (28.57%) ER Studio
2 2 (28.57%) PowerDesigner
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Derivative
1 1 (14.29%) OTC Derivatives
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Design
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Inmon Methodology
4 2 (28.57%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Physical Data Model
5 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
5 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) IDERA
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) SAP