Data Modelling Job Trends in the South East

Data Modelling
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 89 165
Rank change year-on-year -65 +76 -30
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 193 281 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.13% 3.17% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 3.60% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 139 63 103
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £48,959 £45,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +20.37%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £92,250
England median annual salary £69,973 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% -3.57% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,261 7,810 11,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.53% 88.02% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,749 4,182 7,232
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the South East over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the South East

Data Modelling
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Thames Valley -40 107 £60,000 +17.07% 34
Buckinghamshire +38 52 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Berkshire -61 38 £55,000 +3.29% 17
Kent -3 25 £47,500 -32.14% 3
Oxfordshire -10 17 £63,750 +18.60% 6
Surrey -43 17 £61,250 -5.77% 9
Hampshire -64 16 £80,000 +1.59% 10
East Sussex -6 15 £85,000 -5.56% 1
Middlesex +36 6 £57,500 -36.11% 2
West Sussex -16 4 £85,000 +19.30% 3
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.04%) PTC Creo
2 2 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.04%) Windchill
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.04%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 2 (1.04%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Finacle
2 1 (0.52%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 98 (50.78%) Azure
2 62 (32.12%) Power Platform
3 34 (17.62%) AWS
4 24 (12.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (11.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.70%) dbt
8 10 (5.18%) Snowflake
9 8 (4.15%) GitHub
10 6 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.11%) Fivetran
10 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (2.59%) GCP
11 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.59%) SaaS
12 4 (2.07%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.55%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.55%) Prefect
13 3 (1.55%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (30.05%) Power BI
2 28 (14.51%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (14.51%) SQL Server
3 20 (10.36%) Metadata
4 16 (8.29%) Data Lake
5 13 (6.74%) MongoDB
6 12 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (6.22%) Relational Database
7 10 (5.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.15%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.11%) Airbyte
9 6 (3.11%) Tableau
10 5 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.59%) Redis
10 5 (2.59%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (2.59%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.55%) MySQL
11 3 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (12.95%) Git
2 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.55%) JIRA
3 2 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 61 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 55 (28.50%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (18.65%) Finance
4 15 (7.77%) Law
5 13 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.70%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.59%) Banking
10 4 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.55%) Games
11 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Retail
12 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Legal
12 2 (1.04%) Marketing
13 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Publishing
13 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 52 (26.94%) Architect
2 50 (25.91%) Data Engineer
3 32 (16.58%) Data Architect
3 32 (16.58%) Senior
4 27 (13.99%) Developer
5 20 (10.36%) Lead
6 18 (9.33%) Analyst
7 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Engineer
8 12 (6.22%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.70%) Azure Architect
10 10 (5.18%) Azure Data Architect
10 10 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.63%) Azure Data Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.33%) REST
2 17 (8.81%) .NET
3 10 (5.18%) Ajax
3 10 (5.18%) CSS
3 10 (5.18%) CSS3
3 10 (5.18%) HTML
3 10 (5.18%) HTML5
3 10 (5.18%) jQuery
3 10 (5.18%) JSON
3 10 (5.18%) LESS
3 10 (5.18%) Sass
3 10 (5.18%) XML
4 9 (4.66%) Lightning Web Components
4 9 (4.66%) Middleware
4 9 (4.66%) SOAP
5 8 (4.15%) Kafka
6 6 (3.11%) React
6 6 (3.11%) RESTful
7 5 (2.59%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.59%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.55%) Social Media
6 3 (1.55%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.04%) AS400
7 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.04%) Life Science
7 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.59%) Linux
2 3 (1.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.86%) Analytics
2 73 (37.82%) Business Intelligence
3 72 (37.31%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (36.27%) ETL
5 59 (30.57%) Data Governance
6 57 (29.53%) AI
6 57 (29.53%) Decision-Making
7 53 (27.46%) Agile
8 52 (26.94%) DevOps
9 45 (23.32%) Data Engineering
10 44 (22.80%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (21.24%) CI/CD
12 35 (18.13%) Machine Learning
13 34 (17.62%) Data Strategy
14 31 (16.06%) Data Architecture
15 30 (15.54%) Computer Science
15 30 (15.54%) Visualisation
16 27 (13.99%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
18 25 (12.95%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 104 (53.89%) SQL
2 82 (42.49%) Python
3 23 (11.92%) C#
4 19 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.29%) Java
6 13 (6.74%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (4.66%) Apex Code
9 8 (4.15%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.55%) Go
10 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.04%) R
12 1 (0.52%) ABAP
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (19.69%) Degree
2 27 (13.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.74%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.59%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.55%) ICAEW
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.04%) MCAD
8 1 (0.52%) ACCA
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CCA
8 1 (0.52%) CFA
8 1 (0.52%) CIMA
8 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (35.75%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.74%) QA
3 10 (5.18%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.63%) GDPR
5 3 (1.55%) PMO
6 2 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (3.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.63%) Terraform
3 5 (2.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.99%) Databricks
3 13 (6.74%) Salesforce
4 12 (6.22%) Oracle
5 5 (2.59%) SAP
6 3 (1.55%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.04%) Informatica
7 2 (1.04%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.04%) PTC
7 2 (1.04%) RedGate
7 2 (1.04%) Talend
8 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.52%) FIS
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) Temenos