Data Modelling Job Trends in the North of England

Data Modelling
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 181 107
Rank change year-on-year +68 -74 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 342 120 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.42% 1.25% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.42% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 250 95 140
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £53,750 £45,485
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,782 £68,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year +4.09% -0.73% +1.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,020 8,435 10,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.89% 88.02% 80.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,635 4,073 5,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -2.67% -8.99%
75th Percentile £74,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,600
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the North of England

Data Modelling
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
North West +66 158 £62,500 +4.17% 162
Yorkshire +3 102 £68,510 +1.50% 71
North East +5 82 £65,000 +31.98% 35
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 28 (8.19%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (7.89%) Apache Spark
3 23 (6.73%) Apache
4 18 (5.26%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (1.17%) CMS
6 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.17%) WordPress
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 9 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.63%) SAP MDG
3 8 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.75%) SAP MDG-BP
5 4 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (1.17%) SAP ERP
5 4 (1.17%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 124 (36.26%) Azure
2 100 (29.24%) Power Platform
3 95 (27.78%) AWS
4 46 (13.45%) GCP
5 30 (8.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (7.89%) Amazon S3
7 25 (7.31%) Snowflake
8 24 (7.02%) Serverless
9 22 (6.43%) dbt
10 20 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (5.85%) GitHub
11 16 (4.68%) Amazon EMR
11 16 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.09%) Amazon ECR
13 12 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.51%) Power Automate
14 10 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (2.92%) Google Analytics
14 10 (2.92%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.88%) LTE
1 3 (0.88%) SMS
2 1 (0.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (27.49%) Power BI
2 91 (26.61%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (16.08%) Metadata
4 29 (8.48%) SQL Server
5 24 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (6.43%) Data Lake
7 21 (6.14%) Relational Database
8 20 (5.85%) BigQuery
8 20 (5.85%) Semantic Layer
9 17 (4.97%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (4.97%) DynamoDB
9 17 (4.97%) Star Schema
9 17 (4.97%) Tableau
10 16 (4.68%) Big Data
11 15 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (4.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (3.80%) Delta Lake
13 11 (3.22%) Power Query
14 10 (2.92%) Metadata Repository
14 10 (2.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (9.94%) Git
2 21 (6.14%) GitLab
3 4 (1.17%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.88%) Ant
4 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.88%) JIRA
4 3 (0.88%) MLflow
4 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.58%) Jasmine
5 2 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.58%) YouTrack
6 1 (0.29%) Mocha
6 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 106 (30.99%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (19.59%) Finance
4 39 (11.40%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (9.36%) Manufacturing
7 28 (8.19%) Retail
8 20 (5.85%) Legal
9 19 (5.56%) Marketing
10 9 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.46%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.17%) Law
13 4 (1.17%) Local Government
14 3 (0.88%) Billing
14 3 (0.88%) Police
14 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.58%) Advertising
15 2 (0.58%) Banking
15 2 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 103 (30.12%) Data Engineer
2 75 (21.93%) Architect
3 73 (21.35%) Senior
4 72 (21.05%) Data Architect
5 50 (14.62%) Developer
6 44 (12.87%) Lead
7 40 (11.70%) Analyst
8 25 (7.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (6.14%) Data Analyst
9 21 (6.14%) Senior Architect
9 21 (6.14%) Senior Data Architect
10 15 (4.39%) Databricks Engineer
11 14 (4.09%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 14 (4.09%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.51%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.22%) Business Analyst
13 11 (3.22%) Consultant
14 10 (2.92%) Lead Data Engineer
15 9 (2.63%) Salesforce Developer
16 8 (2.34%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.99%) PySpark
2 34 (9.94%) Terraform
3 33 (9.65%) REST
4 21 (6.14%) Node.js
5 15 (4.39%) React
6 14 (4.09%) CSS
7 13 (3.80%) Middleware
8 10 (2.92%) Kafka
9 9 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
10 8 (2.34%) .NET
10 8 (2.34%) SOAP
11 7 (2.05%) Visualforce
12 5 (1.46%) ARM Templates
12 5 (1.46%) JSON
13 4 (1.17%) NestJS
13 4 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.17%) pgvector
13 4 (1.17%) PostGIS
13 4 (1.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.65%) Data Structures
2 23 (6.73%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.75%) Replication
8 6 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.75%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.46%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.17%) Derivative
10 4 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.88%) Clustering
11 3 (0.88%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.58%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (42.69%) Analytics
2 128 (37.43%) Business Intelligence
3 108 (31.58%) Data Engineering
4 106 (30.99%) Decision-Making
5 104 (30.41%) Data Governance
5 104 (30.41%) Data Pipeline
6 100 (29.24%) CI/CD
7 95 (27.78%) Data Architecture
8 89 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
9 88 (25.73%) Agile
10 84 (24.56%) ETL
10 84 (24.56%) Mentoring
11 79 (23.10%) AI
12 62 (18.13%) DevOps
13 60 (17.54%) Technical Leadership
14 56 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (15.79%) Data Strategy
16 53 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
17 52 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
18 44 (12.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 178 (52.05%) SQL
2 119 (34.80%) Python
3 26 (7.60%) TypeScript
4 23 (6.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (4.09%) Java
6 10 (2.92%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.63%) Apex Code
7 9 (2.63%) C#
8 8 (2.34%) Scala
9 6 (1.75%) R
10 5 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.17%) Bash
12 3 (0.88%) ABAP
12 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.88%) SOQL
12 3 (0.88%) SOSL
13 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.94%) Degree
4 17 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.22%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.17%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.58%) CSPO
12 1 (0.29%) ACCA
12 1 (0.29%) CIMA
12 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (44.74%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.02%) GDPR
3 15 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.46%) QA
System Software
1 37 (10.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 64 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.08%) Databricks
3 23 (6.73%) SAP
4 18 (5.26%) Google
4 18 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.92%) Foundry
5 10 (2.92%) Oracle
6 6 (1.75%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.46%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.46%) Palantir
8 4 (1.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.88%) Ariba
9 3 (0.88%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.88%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.58%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.58%) Informatica
11 1 (0.29%) Actian
11 1 (0.29%) Aderant
11 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.29%) Trend Micro