Data Modeller Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Modeller
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Modeller daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, 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 263 309 407
Rank change year-on-year +46 +98 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Data Modeller 41 36 70
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 56
10th Percentile £414 £413 £386
25th Percentile £450 £472 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £791
90th Percentile £648 £688 £988
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Modeller
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Modeller in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Modeller trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Modeller
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Modeller.

Data Modeller daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modeller
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Modeller over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Modeller daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modeller Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Modeller in the job title.

1 37 (90.24%) Data Modelling
2 20 (48.78%) Logical Data Model
3 19 (46.34%) SQL
4 17 (41.46%) ERwin
5 15 (36.59%) ETL
5 15 (36.59%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (34.15%) Physical Data Model
6 14 (34.15%) Relational Database
7 13 (31.71%) Finance
8 10 (24.39%) Data Governance
8 10 (24.39%) Data Quality
8 10 (24.39%) Data Architecture
8 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (24.39%) Metadata
9 9 (21.95%) ER Studio
9 9 (21.95%) Banking
10 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (19.51%) Data Lake
10 8 (19.51%) AWS
10 8 (19.51%) Analytics
11 7 (17.07%) NoSQL
11 7 (17.07%) Oracle
11 7 (17.07%) RDBMS
11 7 (17.07%) Data Management
12 6 (14.63%) Python
12 6 (14.63%) Metadata Management
12 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
12 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (14.63%) Sparx

Data Modeller Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Azure
3 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.44%) Collibra
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (34.15%) Relational Database
3 10 (24.39%) Metadata
4 8 (19.51%) Data Lake
5 7 (17.07%) NoSQL
5 7 (17.07%) RDBMS
6 5 (12.20%) Big Data
6 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (9.76%) Power BI
7 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.88%) Delta Lake
8 2 (4.88%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (4.88%) MySQL
8 2 (4.88%) OLAP
8 2 (4.88%) Oracle OLAP
8 2 (4.88%) Parquet
8 2 (4.88%) SAP BW
8 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
8 2 (4.88%) Tableau
9 1 (2.44%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 17 (41.46%) ERwin
2 9 (21.95%) ER Studio
3 2 (4.88%) PowerDesigner
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Banking
4 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Retail
6 4 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
7 3 (7.32%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
7 3 (7.32%) Retail Banking
8 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.44%) Front Office
9 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) PySpark
2 1 (2.44%) FHIR
2 1 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.44%) FpML
2 1 (2.44%) JSON
2 1 (2.44%) Kafka
2 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Data Fabric
1 4 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.88%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.44%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.44%) Derivative
3 1 (2.44%) OTC Derivatives
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (90.24%) Data Modelling
2 20 (48.78%) Logical Data Model
3 15 (36.59%) ETL
4 14 (34.15%) Physical Data Model
5 10 (24.39%) Data Architecture
5 10 (24.39%) Data Governance
6 8 (19.51%) Analytics
6 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (17.07%) Data Management
8 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
8 6 (14.63%) Metadata Management
8 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.20%) Data Strategy
9 5 (12.20%) Ontologies
10 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis
10 4 (9.76%) Data Integration
10 4 (9.76%) Dimensional Modelling
10 4 (9.76%) Domain-Driven Design
10 4 (9.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) SQL
2 6 (14.63%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) R
4 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Oracle
2 6 (14.63%) Sparx
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
4 3 (7.32%) Databricks
4 3 (7.32%) IBM
5 2 (4.88%) Workday
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft