Data Modelling Job Trends

Data Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 121 103
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,550 1,124 2,461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.57% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.75% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 993 587 1,524
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Modelling
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 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
England +17 1,364 £68,510 +1.50% 708
UK excluding London +5 758 £65,000 +8.33% 468
London +36 633 £80,000 +6.67% 359
Work from Home +33 526 £70,000 +7.69% 340
North of England +49 230 £70,932 +23.36% 126
South East -21 190 £60,000 -7.69% 174
Midlands +1 149 £60,000 -4.00% 79
Yorkshire +19 114 £75,000 +25.00% 43
West Midlands +7 110 £60,000 - 50
North West +14 98 £68,750 +30.95% 61
Scotland +6 65 £70,000 +16.18% 20
South West -71 58 £54,575 -9.04% 28
East of England +9 57 £67,500 - 24
East Midlands -24 37 £51,825 -19.96% 29
North East -23 18 £65,000 +6.20% 24
Wales -19 8 £67,586 +80.23% 15
Northern Ireland -38 1 - - 7

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 142 (9.16%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (5.48%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.74%) Apache
4 33 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
6 18 (1.16%) Confluence
6 18 (1.16%) SAS
7 11 (0.71%) Appian
7 11 (0.71%) CMS
8 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.26%) Camunda
9 4 (0.26%) IIS
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.13%) CICS
11 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 72 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
6 2 (0.13%) Windchill
7 1 (0.065%) Notion
7 1 (0.065%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 35 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.03%) SAP MDG
3 13 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.77%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.52%) SAP MDG-BP
5 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-F
8 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
10 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.065%) FIS Private Capital Suite
11 1 (0.065%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 1 (0.065%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 708 (45.68%) Azure
2 431 (27.81%) Power Platform
3 365 (23.55%) AWS
4 220 (14.19%) GCP
5 192 (12.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 170 (10.97%) Snowflake
7 144 (9.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 143 (9.23%) dbt
9 141 (9.10%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (5.61%) Serverless
11 69 (4.45%) GitHub
12 65 (4.19%) Amazon S3
13 62 (4.00%) Power Automate
14 52 (3.35%) SaaS
15 47 (3.03%) PowerApps
16 45 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
17 38 (2.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 35 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (2.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 28 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.06%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) HTTP
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
2 3 (0.19%) NGN
2 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) 4G
3 2 (0.13%) 5G
3 2 (0.13%) LTE
3 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.065%) CTI
4 1 (0.065%) DHCP
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) Internet
4 1 (0.065%) Modbus
4 1 (0.065%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.065%) SMS
4 1 (0.065%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (25.35%) Power BI
2 326 (21.03%) Data Warehouse
3 205 (13.23%) Data Lake
4 192 (12.39%) Metadata
5 119 (7.68%) SQL Server
6 116 (7.48%) Tableau
7 102 (6.58%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (5.29%) BigQuery
10 70 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
11 68 (4.39%) NoSQL
12 56 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 55 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
14 53 (3.42%) Power Query
15 45 (2.90%) Looker
16 43 (2.77%) MySQL
17 41 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
18 40 (2.58%) Star Schema
19 39 (2.52%) Semantic Layer
20 38 (2.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 119 (7.68%) Git
2 50 (3.23%) JIRA
3 40 (2.58%) MLflow
4 19 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.10%) Postman
6 16 (1.03%) ERwin
7 10 (0.65%) GitLab
8 9 (0.58%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.26%) Toad
12 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.19%) Gradle
12 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.19%) Maven
12 3 (0.19%) NUnit
12 3 (0.19%) TestNG
12 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.13%) Mockito
General
1 523 (33.74%) Social Skills
2 501 (32.32%) Finance
3 432 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (7.42%) Public Sector
6 75 (4.84%) Marketing
7 69 (4.45%) Law
8 51 (3.29%) Banking
9 50 (3.23%) Retail
10 46 (2.97%) Financial Institution
11 43 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.74%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.55%) Legal
16 21 (1.35%) Advertising
17 17 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.97%) Retail Banking
19 14 (0.90%) Billing
19 14 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 357 (23.03%) Data Engineer
2 329 (21.23%) Architect
3 314 (20.26%) Senior
4 210 (13.55%) Data Architect
5 203 (13.10%) Analyst
6 186 (12.00%) Developer
7 172 (11.10%) Lead
8 119 (7.68%) Data Analyst
9 91 (5.87%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (4.90%) Consultant
11 57 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.03%) Business Analyst
12 47 (3.03%) Data Modeller
13 45 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
14 44 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
15 42 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
15 42 (2.71%) Senior Architect
16 37 (2.39%) Senior Developer
17 36 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
18 35 (2.26%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (9.42%) REST
2 106 (6.84%) Kafka
3 98 (6.32%) PySpark
4 75 (4.84%) SOAP
5 65 (4.19%) .NET
6 58 (3.74%) JSON
6 58 (3.74%) Lightning Web Components
7 55 (3.55%) Middleware
8 50 (3.23%) React
8 50 (3.23%) RESTful
9 47 (3.03%) CSS
10 45 (2.90%) XML
11 39 (2.52%) PyTorch
11 39 (2.52%) scikit-learn
11 39 (2.52%) TensorFlow
12 37 (2.39%) HTML
12 37 (2.39%) LangChain
13 34 (2.19%) Node.js
14 31 (2.00%) Visualforce
15 30 (1.94%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 124 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 107 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 50 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 46 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
8 40 (2.58%) Low-Code
9 39 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 32 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.68%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.48%) Clustering
14 21 (1.35%) Social Media
15 19 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.23%) Replication
16 16 (1.03%) AI Agents
17 15 (0.97%) e-Learning
18 14 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.10%) Windows
2 12 (0.77%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Android
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (45.55%) Analytics
2 522 (33.68%) Business Intelligence
3 482 (31.10%) ETL
4 481 (31.03%) Data Governance
5 436 (28.13%) Data Engineering
6 409 (26.39%) Data Pipeline
7 407 (26.26%) Agile
8 376 (24.26%) CI/CD
9 371 (23.94%) AI
10 360 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
11 353 (22.77%) Decision-Making
12 344 (22.19%) Data Architecture
13 317 (20.45%) DevOps
14 230 (14.84%) Mentoring
15 220 (14.19%) Machine Learning
16 212 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 182 (11.74%) Data Integration
18 174 (11.23%) Data Strategy
19 170 (10.97%) Roadmaps
20 169 (10.90%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 802 (51.74%) SQL
2 670 (43.23%) Python
3 125 (8.06%) Java
4 96 (6.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 86 (5.55%) JavaScript
6 70 (4.52%) C#
7 64 (4.13%) TypeScript
8 53 (3.42%) Apex Code
9 45 (2.90%) Scala
10 43 (2.77%) T-SQL
11 36 (2.32%) PowerShell
12 31 (2.00%) R
13 23 (1.48%) Bash
14 17 (1.10%) SOQL
14 17 (1.10%) SOSL
15 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.77%) C++
17 10 (0.65%) Perl
17 10 (0.65%) VBA
18 8 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 191 (12.32%) Degree
2 147 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 93 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 36 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 23 (1.48%) DV Cleared
11 22 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.90%) ACCA
13 14 (0.90%) CIMA
14 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.45%) PMP
15 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.26%) CBAP
17 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (31.61%) Data Quality
2 100 (6.45%) GDPR
3 51 (3.29%) QA
4 48 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.58%) SLA
8 7 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.45%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.32%) GRC
9 5 (0.32%) IFRS
9 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 5 (0.32%) MiFID
10 3 (0.19%) PERC
11 2 (0.13%) HL7
11 2 (0.13%) WCAG
12 1 (0.065%) NIST
12 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.065%) PMO
12 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 66 (4.26%) Docker
2 13 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.065%) iptables
Systems Management
1 87 (5.61%) Terraform
2 63 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.84%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.065%) Argo
9 1 (0.065%) QRadar
9 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 328 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 319 (20.58%) Databricks
3 112 (7.23%) Salesforce
4 104 (6.71%) Oracle
5 85 (5.48%) SAP
6 50 (3.23%) Informatica
7 46 (2.97%) Google
8 32 (2.06%) Cloudera
8 32 (2.06%) Palantir
9 31 (2.00%) Foundry
9 31 (2.00%) Talend
10 24 (1.55%) OpenAI
11 23 (1.48%) Dell
12 21 (1.35%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.23%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.10%) Sparx
15 12 (0.77%) Automation Anywhere
15 12 (0.77%) IBM
15 12 (0.77%) UiPath
16 11 (0.71%) Workday