Data Modelling Job Trends in the City of London

Data Modelling
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 72 67
Rank change year-on-year +31 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 94 102 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.18% 3.84% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.02% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 69 67 93
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,800 £54,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £111,250 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £105,500 £112,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £78,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.94% +5.00% -1.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,946 2,539 2,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.53% 95.49% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 1,626 2,414
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,625 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £116,875 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the City of London

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) Apache
3 2 (2.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) Luigi
4 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.06%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (51.06%) Azure
2 39 (41.49%) Power Platform
3 23 (24.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (21.28%) AWS
5 17 (18.09%) GCP
6 16 (17.02%) Snowflake
7 9 (9.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (7.45%) dbt
9 5 (5.32%) GitHub
10 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (4.26%) Serverless
11 3 (3.19%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.13%) Fivetran
12 2 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (41.49%) Power BI
2 36 (38.30%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (21.28%) Data Lake
4 16 (17.02%) SQL Server
5 9 (9.57%) Power Query
6 8 (8.51%) Metadata
7 7 (7.45%) Oracle Database
7 7 (7.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (6.38%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (5.32%) BigQuery
9 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.32%) Tableau
10 4 (4.26%) Hadoop
10 4 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (4.26%) Star Schema
11 3 (3.19%) Data Mining
11 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
11 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
11 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) ERwin
2 6 (6.38%) Git
3 2 (2.13%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.13%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (55.32%) Finance
2 41 (43.62%) Social Skills
3 24 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.64%) Banking
5 9 (9.57%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.45%) Law
7 6 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.26%) International Banking
8 4 (4.26%) Legal
9 3 (3.19%) Billing
9 3 (3.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.19%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.13%) Advertising
10 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.13%) Marketing
10 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.13%) Retail
11 1 (1.06%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 26 (27.66%) Architect
2 22 (23.40%) Data Engineer
3 21 (22.34%) Lead
4 16 (17.02%) Data Architect
5 12 (12.77%) Analyst
6 11 (11.70%) Senior
6 11 (11.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Data Analyst
8 8 (8.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Developer
9 7 (7.45%) Lead Architect
9 7 (7.45%) Lead Data Architect
10 6 (6.38%) Database Architect
10 6 (6.38%) Oracle Architect
11 4 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (3.19%) Azure Architect
12 3 (3.19%) Consultant
12 3 (3.19%) Data Manager
12 3 (3.19%) Project Manager
12 3 (3.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) Kafka
2 3 (3.19%) PySpark
3 2 (2.13%) XML
4 1 (1.06%) .NET
4 1 (1.06%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.06%) CrewAI
4 1 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.06%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.06%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.06%) JSON
4 1 (1.06%) LangChain
4 1 (1.06%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.06%) LDAP
4 1 (1.06%) Node.js
4 1 (1.06%) OAuth
4 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.06%) ODBC
4 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.06%) React
4 1 (1.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.26%) Credit Risk
4 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.26%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.13%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.06%) Replication
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Linux
1 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.32%) Analytics
2 48 (51.06%) ETL
3 47 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (43.62%) Data Governance
5 39 (41.49%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (41.49%) Decision-Making
6 26 (27.66%) Agile
7 25 (26.60%) Data Architecture
8 22 (23.40%) AI
8 22 (23.40%) Data Engineering
8 22 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (20.21%) Data Science
9 19 (20.21%) Roadmaps
10 18 (19.15%) Data Analysis
10 18 (19.15%) Data Strategy
10 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (17.02%) Data Management
11 16 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (14.89%) Data Analytics
12 14 (14.89%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 48 (51.06%) SQL
2 41 (43.62%) Python
3 19 (20.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (9.57%) T-SQL
5 6 (6.38%) Java
6 5 (5.32%) Scala
7 3 (3.19%) C#
7 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.06%) Go
9 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Degree
2 10 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (6.38%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.38%) OCP
4 6 (6.38%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (4.26%) SnowPro
5 4 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.13%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.06%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.89%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.70%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.38%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.13%) Docker
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Data Guard
1 6 (6.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (6.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (5.32%) Terraform
3 4 (4.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.13%) Ansible
5 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (37.23%) Microsoft
2 23 (24.47%) Databricks
3 8 (8.51%) Oracle
4 6 (6.38%) Delphix
5 5 (5.32%) Google
6 4 (4.26%) Informatica
7 2 (2.13%) Dell
7 2 (2.13%) IBM
8 1 (1.06%) Confluent
8 1 (1.06%) Foundry
8 1 (1.06%) Palantir
8 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.06%) SAP