Data Modelling Job Trends in the South West

Data Modelling
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 126 127
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 43 65 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.85% 1.56% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.83% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 32 34 61
10th Percentile £41,993 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £46,308 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,350 £58,721 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -2.54% +9.78%
75th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,620 3,550 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.51% 85.42% 89.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,491 1,780 3,234
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,875 £40,236 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,100
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 South West

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the South West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the South West

Data Modelling
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bristol -10 22 £70,000 +8.93% 16
Dorset +5 8 £60,850 +10.64% 9
Devon +4 7 £64,350 -8.07% 10
Gloucestershire +17 4 £95,000 +67.40% 6
Wiltshire +4 2 £43,953 +9.88% 4
Data Modelling
England

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (6.98%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Windchill
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.33%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) Power Platform
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 7 (16.28%) AWS
3 7 (16.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Stack
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.65%) dbt
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub
6 2 (4.65%) Slack
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.33%) OCI
7 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (41.86%) Power BI
2 12 (27.91%) Metadata
3 10 (23.26%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (11.63%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (11.63%) Metadata Repository
6 4 (9.30%) MySQL
6 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
6 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
6 4 (9.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.98%) CockroachDB
7 3 (6.98%) OLAP
7 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.65%) Ataccama
8 2 (4.65%) ClickHouse
8 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
8 2 (4.65%) Looker
8 2 (4.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
1 3 (6.98%) Gradle
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.98%) JUnit
1 3 (6.98%) Maven
1 3 (6.98%) TestNG
2 2 (4.65%) Checkstyle
2 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.65%) ESLint
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Mockito
2 2 (4.65%) Selenium
2 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (34.88%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
2 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Marketing
5 3 (6.98%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.65%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.33%) Electronics
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Data Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Architect
2 9 (20.93%) Data Architect
2 9 (20.93%) Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Data Governance Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Data Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Django Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Data Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) REST
2 4 (9.30%) PySpark
3 3 (6.98%) Spring
3 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.98%) Spring MVC
4 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.65%) CSS
4 2 (4.65%) Django
4 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) JWT
4 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 2 (4.65%) OAuth
4 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
4 2 (4.65%) React
4 2 (4.65%) Spring Security
4 2 (4.65%) Swagger
5 1 (2.33%) Hugging Face
5 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Reference Data
2 3 (6.98%) Private Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.65%) IoT
3 2 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Analytics
1 20 (46.51%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (34.88%) Data Architecture
4 14 (32.56%) ETL
5 12 (27.91%) Decision-Making
6 11 (25.58%) Agile
6 11 (25.58%) Data Management
6 11 (25.58%) DevOps
7 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
7 10 (23.26%) Data Governance
8 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
9 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
9 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (16.28%) Data Analysis
9 7 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.28%) Visualisation
10 6 (13.95%) AI
10 6 (13.95%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) SQL
2 20 (46.51%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) Java
4 4 (9.30%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) Groovy
7 1 (2.33%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) R
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
7 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 7 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.33%) OCA
5 1 (2.33%) OCP
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
5 1 (2.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
4 1 (2.33%) P3O
4 1 (2.33%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
2 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.33%) Control-M
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) Oracle
3 5 (11.63%) Databricks
4 3 (6.98%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) Palantir
5 2 (4.65%) SAP
5 2 (4.65%) Splunk
6 1 (2.33%) BMC
6 1 (2.33%) Foundry
6 1 (2.33%) IBM
6 1 (2.33%) Siemens
6 1 (2.33%) Talend