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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 111 98
Rank change year-on-year -14 -13 +61
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 164 188 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 2.07% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.28% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 116 81 169
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,415 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -
75th Percentile £75,313 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Yorkshire +16 97 £70,000 +33.33% 42
North West -31 56 £65,000 +9.51% 64
North East +8 11 £55,000 -1.08% 16
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 10 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.49%) Apache
3 6 (3.66%) Confluence
4 3 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.22%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 79 (48.17%) Azure
2 56 (34.15%) AWS
3 36 (21.95%) Power Platform
4 33 (20.12%) Serverless
5 18 (10.98%) SaaS
6 12 (7.32%) Snowflake
7 11 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.88%) GCP
10 7 (4.27%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.66%) dbt
12 4 (2.44%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.83%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (20.12%) Power BI
3 25 (15.24%) Data Lake
3 25 (15.24%) Metadata
4 18 (10.98%) SQL Server
5 15 (9.15%) Data Vault
5 15 (9.15%) NoSQL
6 12 (7.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.49%) DynamoDB
8 8 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.27%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.66%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.05%) Delta Lake
11 5 (3.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.44%) Power Query
13 3 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.83%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 10 (6.10%) JIRA
2 7 (4.27%) Git
3 6 (3.66%) GitLab
4 4 (2.44%) JUnit
General
1 72 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 44 (26.83%) Finance
3 39 (23.78%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.93%) Retail
5 9 (5.49%) Advertising
5 9 (5.49%) Banking
6 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.66%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.44%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Games
11 2 (1.22%) Law
12 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.61%) Legal
12 1 (0.61%) Marketing
12 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (31.10%) Senior
2 50 (30.49%) Architect
3 42 (25.61%) Data Engineer
4 32 (19.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 21 (12.80%) Data Architect
6 17 (10.37%) Developer
7 16 (9.76%) Analyst
8 13 (7.93%) Applications Architect
8 13 (7.93%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Azure Data Engineer
10 11 (6.71%) Software Architect
11 9 (5.49%) Business Analyst
12 7 (4.27%) Insight Manager
12 7 (4.27%) Snowflake Developer
13 6 (3.66%) Data Manager
14 5 (3.05%) Business Manager
14 5 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 5 (3.05%) Lead
15 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Architect
15 4 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.27%) Kafka
2 5 (3.05%) REST
3 4 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.44%) CSS
3 4 (2.44%) gRPC
3 4 (2.44%) HTML
3 4 (2.44%) Pandas
3 4 (2.44%) RESTful
3 4 (2.44%) Spring
3 4 (2.44%) Spring Batch
3 4 (2.44%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.83%) Snowpark
5 2 (1.22%) .NET
5 2 (1.22%) Django
5 2 (1.22%) React
6 1 (0.61%) Flask
6 1 (0.61%) JSON
6 1 (0.61%) Node.js
6 1 (0.61%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.63%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.32%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.27%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.66%) Taxonomies
6 5 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.83%) Semantic Web
9 2 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.22%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.22%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.61%) NVMe
10 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.61%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.27%) Mentoring
2 47 (28.66%) Agile
3 46 (28.05%) Data Governance
4 42 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (24.39%) Analytics
5 40 (24.39%) ETL
5 40 (24.39%) Migration
6 38 (23.17%) CI/CD
6 38 (23.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 34 (20.73%) Microservices
8 33 (20.12%) Data Engineering
9 30 (18.29%) Data Integration
9 30 (18.29%) Data Science
9 30 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (17.68%) Data Architecture
11 27 (16.46%) Computer Science
11 27 (16.46%) Enterprise Architecture
11 27 (16.46%) TOGAF
12 26 (15.85%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 79 (48.17%) SQL
2 76 (46.34%) Python
3 31 (18.90%) Java
4 29 (17.68%) JavaScript
5 28 (17.07%) TypeScript
6 24 (14.63%) C#
7 10 (6.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (4.27%) ANSI SQL
9 4 (2.44%) R
10 3 (1.83%) VBA
11 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 33 (20.12%) Degree
2 27 (16.46%) AWS Certification
3 26 (15.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (15.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (14.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (14.63%) Azure Certification
5 24 (14.63%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (4.88%) Security Cleared
7 6 (3.66%) SC Cleared
8 5 (3.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.61%) ACCA
10 1 (0.61%) CIMA
10 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.61%) MBA
10 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.05%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.61%) PMO
4 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Firmware
2 1 (0.61%) KVM
2 1 (0.61%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 5 (3.05%) Terraform
2 2 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (28.66%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.46%) Databricks
3 9 (5.49%) Oracle
4 4 (2.44%) Informatica
5 3 (1.83%) Google
5 3 (1.83%) Sparx
5 3 (1.83%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.22%) SAP
7 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.61%) ESRI
7 1 (0.61%) iManage
7 1 (0.61%) Planon
7 1 (0.61%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.61%) Talend
7 1 (0.61%) Workday