Data Modelling Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Modelling
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 117 109
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 142 106 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.17% 2.19% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.45% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 115 84 178
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,188 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year - +9.79% +9.30%
75th Percentile £74,375 £68,750 £66,003
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,575 £77,500
England median annual salary £69,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.15% -3.70% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,920 4,324 9,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.72% 89.25% 82.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,243 2,585 7,110
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £61,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the Midlands

Data Modelling
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +1 108 £60,000 +2.13% 69
East Midlands -44 32 £51,825 -19.96% 50
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (6.34%) SAS
2 5 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.70%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (44.37%) Power Platform
2 62 (43.66%) Azure
3 27 (19.01%) AWS
4 17 (11.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (9.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (9.86%) GCP
6 11 (7.75%) Snowflake
7 10 (7.04%) Power Automate
8 8 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.93%) PowerApps
10 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.82%) SaaS
12 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.11%) dbt
12 3 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.41%) Serverless
14 1 (0.70%) AWS Step Functions
14 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 1 (0.70%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (44.37%) Power BI
2 19 (13.38%) Power Query
3 18 (12.68%) Data Lake
4 16 (11.27%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (10.56%) Metadata
6 11 (7.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.93%) Pentaho
9 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.52%) Tableau
11 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.82%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.11%) SAP BW
12 3 (2.11%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.41%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 2 (1.41%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.41%) MySQL
13 2 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.75%) JIRA
2 9 (6.34%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 40 (28.17%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (26.76%) Finance
3 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
4 21 (14.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (13.38%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.45%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (7.04%) Retail
8 4 (2.82%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.11%) Marketing
9 3 (2.11%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.41%) Legal
10 2 (1.41%) Local Government
10 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.70%) Games
11 1 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (20.42%) Analyst
2 28 (19.72%) Architect
2 28 (19.72%) Data Engineer
3 26 (18.31%) Data Architect
4 25 (17.61%) Developer
5 23 (16.20%) Senior
6 19 (13.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 16 (11.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 13 (9.15%) Lead
9 11 (7.75%) Power BI Developer
10 10 (7.04%) Data Analyst
11 9 (6.34%) Business Analyst
11 9 (6.34%) Business Developer
11 9 (6.34%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (5.63%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 8 (5.63%) Data Business Analyst
12 8 (5.63%) Lead Architect
12 8 (5.63%) Lead Data Architect
12 8 (5.63%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (4.23%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.45%) EDI
2 4 (2.82%) .NET
3 2 (1.41%) Laravel
3 2 (1.41%) PySpark
3 2 (1.41%) React
3 2 (1.41%) REST
3 2 (1.41%) RESTful
4 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.70%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.70%) Flask
4 1 (0.70%) Flutter
4 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.70%) gRPC
4 1 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.70%) Kafka
4 1 (0.70%) Pandas
4 1 (0.70%) React Native
4 1 (0.70%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.41%) CMDB
5 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.41%) Hackathon
5 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.70%) Replication
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Android
1 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (50.70%) Business Intelligence
2 65 (45.77%) Analytics
3 46 (32.39%) Decision-Making
4 45 (31.69%) Agile
4 45 (31.69%) ETL
5 37 (26.06%) Data Architecture
6 34 (23.94%) Data Governance
7 33 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (22.54%) Data Engineering
9 23 (16.20%) Actionable Insight
9 23 (16.20%) Data Pipeline
9 23 (16.20%) Roadmaps
10 20 (14.08%) Data Strategy
11 19 (13.38%) Data Integration
11 19 (13.38%) Mentoring
12 18 (12.68%) CI/CD
12 18 (12.68%) DevOps
13 16 (11.27%) Business Strategy
13 16 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.27%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (54.23%) SQL
2 32 (22.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 30 (21.13%) Python
4 11 (7.75%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.23%) Bash
6 3 (2.11%) Scala
6 3 (2.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.41%) Bicep
7 2 (1.41%) C#
7 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.41%) PHP
7 2 (1.41%) R
8 1 (0.70%) Java
8 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (9.15%) Degree
2 10 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (26.06%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.34%) GDPR
3 5 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.82%) QA
5 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) GRC
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.82%) Terraform
2 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Control-M
3 1 (0.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (22.54%) Databricks
2 26 (18.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.04%) SAP
4 8 (5.63%) Oracle
4 8 (5.63%) Talend
5 7 (4.93%) Informatica
5 7 (4.93%) Sparx
6 6 (4.23%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.23%) Google
7 5 (3.52%) IBM
8 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.41%) Zend
9 1 (0.70%) BMC
9 1 (0.70%) Denodo
9 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.70%) Planon
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce