Data Modelling Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Modelling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 144 140
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 668 577 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.26% 2.06% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.23% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 406 294 755
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £45,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,350 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.91% +0.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £75,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -1.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,938 25,822 50,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.31% 92.26% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 23,898 13,431 37,626
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the UK excluding London

Data Modelling
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
South East +10 175 £60,000 - 192
North of England -18 172 £70,000 +33.33% 127
Midlands -14 118 £60,000 - 94
West Midlands +7 93 £60,000 +4.35% 69
Yorkshire +4 92 £71,000 +35.24% 48
Scotland +10 87 £78,750 +27.28% 25
North West -26 69 £67,500 +35.00% 65
South West -59 51 £64,350 +17.00% 40
East of England +24 50 £57,500 -10.16% 25
East Midlands -32 23 £49,500 -23.55% 25
North East -17 11 £53,750 +7.50% 17
Wales -2 9 £67,586 +80.23% 10
Northern Ireland -27 6 £40,500 - 2
Data Modelling
UK

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.54%) Apache
3 16 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.10%) Confluence
4 14 (2.10%) SAS
5 13 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.45%) IIS
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.30%) Appian
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Mendix
8 2 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 54 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Windchill
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.05%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.90%) Markit EDM
3 4 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.15%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.15%) Primavera
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 341 (51.05%) Azure
2 177 (26.50%) Power Platform
3 123 (18.41%) AWS
4 112 (16.77%) Snowflake
5 84 (12.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 82 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (11.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 56 (8.38%) dbt
9 55 (8.23%) GitHub
10 53 (7.93%) GCP
11 45 (6.74%) Serverless
12 42 (6.29%) GitHub Copilot
13 39 (5.84%) SaaS
14 26 (3.89%) Amazon S3
14 26 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 18 (2.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 15 (2.25%) Power Automate
17 15 (2.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.60%) HTTP
2 3 (0.45%) Broadband
2 3 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.45%) VPN
3 2 (0.30%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.15%) MQTT
4 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.15%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (26.80%) Data Warehouse
2 166 (24.85%) Power BI
3 102 (15.27%) Metadata
4 68 (10.18%) Data Lake
5 60 (8.98%) SQL Server
6 33 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 31 (4.64%) Relational Database
8 30 (4.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (4.34%) MySQL
10 28 (4.19%) Power Query
11 27 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (3.14%) Tableau
14 19 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (2.25%) BigQuery
16 14 (2.10%) DynamoDB
17 12 (1.80%) Data Mining
17 12 (1.80%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 40 (5.99%) JIRA
2 34 (5.09%) Git
3 11 (1.65%) ERwin
4 9 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.05%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.05%) GitLab
6 6 (0.90%) JUnit
7 5 (0.75%) git-flow
8 4 (0.60%) Selenium
9 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.45%) Gradle
9 3 (0.45%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.45%) Maven
9 3 (0.45%) MLflow
9 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.45%) TestNG
9 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.30%) ESLint
10 2 (0.30%) Snyk
10 2 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 242 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 192 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
3 185 (27.69%) Finance
4 60 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.74%) Marketing
7 16 (2.40%) Law
8 15 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.10%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.50%) Banking
12 10 (1.50%) Legal
13 8 (1.20%) Advertising
13 8 (1.20%) Local Government
14 7 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.90%) Retail
16 4 (0.60%) Games
16 4 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (26.50%) Architect
2 142 (21.26%) Senior
3 129 (19.31%) Data Engineer
4 122 (18.26%) Data Architect
5 84 (12.57%) Developer
6 81 (12.13%) Analyst
7 57 (8.53%) Lead
8 48 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 33 (4.94%) Data Analyst
10 32 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 21 (3.14%) Azure Architect
11 21 (3.14%) Data Manager
12 20 (2.99%) Business Analyst
12 20 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (2.84%) Azure Data Architect
13 19 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 17 (2.54%) Applications Architect
14 17 (2.54%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.40%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (9.88%) REST
2 49 (7.34%) SOAP
3 31 (4.64%) Lightning Web Components
4 25 (3.74%) .NET
4 25 (3.74%) Kafka
4 25 (3.74%) React
5 20 (2.99%) CSS
5 20 (2.99%) PySpark
6 19 (2.84%) JSON
7 18 (2.69%) HTML
8 16 (2.40%) Middleware
8 16 (2.40%) XML
9 13 (1.95%) EDI
10 11 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.65%) RESTful
11 10 (1.50%) Node.js
11 10 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.35%) YAML
13 8 (1.20%) Visualforce
14 7 (1.05%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.18%) Product Ownership
2 55 (8.23%) Cloud Native
3 31 (4.64%) Data Structures
3 31 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.65%) Low-Code
7 11 (1.65%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.50%) Life Science
9 9 (1.35%) Biopharmaceutical
9 9 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.35%) Taxonomies
10 8 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.90%) Replication
12 5 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.75%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.45%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.05%) Linux
1 7 (1.05%) Windows
2 4 (0.60%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (38.92%) Analytics
2 229 (34.28%) Agile
3 214 (32.04%) Business Intelligence
4 206 (30.84%) ETL
5 181 (27.10%) Data Governance
6 167 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 167 (25.00%) DevOps
7 163 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (24.25%) Data Engineering
9 151 (22.60%) CI/CD
10 134 (20.06%) Mentoring
11 130 (19.46%) Decision-Making
12 120 (17.96%) Data Integration
13 119 (17.81%) Data Pipeline
14 118 (17.66%) AI
15 105 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (14.97%) Data Management
17 98 (14.67%) Coaching
18 82 (12.28%) Migration
19 69 (10.33%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 316 (47.31%) SQL
2 237 (35.48%) Python
3 56 (8.38%) JavaScript
4 55 (8.23%) Java
5 49 (7.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 44 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 43 (6.44%) C#
8 31 (4.64%) T-SQL
9 29 (4.34%) Apex Code
10 24 (3.59%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.10%) R
12 9 (1.35%) Bash
13 8 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.05%) Scala
15 5 (0.75%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (0.60%) PHP
16 4 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.60%) VBA
17 3 (0.45%) C++
17 3 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 90 (13.47%) Degree
2 48 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (6.14%) Security Cleared
4 32 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 29 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 24 (3.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 23 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (3.44%) Azure Certification
9 21 (3.14%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 9 (1.35%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.60%) CBAP
13 4 (0.60%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.60%) PMP
14 3 (0.45%) IIBA
14 3 (0.45%) SAP Certification
15 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
16 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (26.80%) Data Quality
2 54 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.59%) GDPR
4 20 (2.99%) QA
5 14 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.30%) PMO
9 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) P3O
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (2.10%) Docker
2 12 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Firmware
3 1 (0.15%) KVM
3 1 (0.15%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 25 (3.74%) Terraform
2 9 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.90%) Control-M
4 3 (0.45%) Ansible
4 3 (0.45%) Grafana
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) Argo
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 187 (27.99%) Microsoft
2 96 (14.37%) Databricks
3 49 (7.34%) Oracle
4 34 (5.09%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.19%) Informatica
5 28 (4.19%) SAP
6 20 (2.99%) Google
7 12 (1.80%) IBM
8 11 (1.65%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.50%) Sparx
9 10 (1.50%) Talend
10 9 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 8 (1.20%) Workday
12 5 (0.75%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.60%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.60%) Palantir
13 4 (0.60%) Pega
14 3 (0.45%) Dell
14 3 (0.45%) Foundry
14 3 (0.45%) TIBCO