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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 111 104
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,498 1,074 2,388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 2.62% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.82% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 921 574 1,533
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -4.07% +0.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - +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 62,259 38,133 78,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.22% 93.03% 86.30%
Number of salaries quoted 38,393 22,512 58,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,184
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,487 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -7.94%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +8 1,299 £70,000 +7.69% 796
UK excluding London -22 723 £63,500 +5.83% 585
London +52 635 £77,500 +3.33% 335
Work from Home +29 558 £67,500 +4.25% 367
North of England +4 196 £70,466 +34.22% 151
South East -35 183 £60,000 -5.88% 200
Midlands -13 136 £60,000 - 102
West Midlands +8 105 £60,000 +4.35% 58
Yorkshire +9 99 £72,500 +26.09% 55
Scotland -5 82 £78,750 +25.00% 24
North West -26 79 £70,000 +33.33% 76
East of England -2 59 £65,000 - 55
South West -73 53 £55,200 +0.36% 47
East Midlands -44 29 £49,500 -23.55% 44
North East -15 18 £55,000 -1.08% 24
Wales -21 8 £67,586 +80.23% 13
Northern Ireland -33 6 £40,500 - 3

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
1 130 (8.68%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (5.54%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.67%) Apache
4 27 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.40%) Confluence
5 21 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.13%) SAS
7 15 (1.00%) Appian
8 10 (0.67%) CMS
9 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) Camunda
10 4 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.20%) IIS
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.13%) CICS
12 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.13%) Mendix
13 1 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
Applications
1 80 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.20%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) Windchill
8 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.067%) Notion
8 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.067%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.87%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.27%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
8 3 (0.20%) Misys Opics
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.067%) FIS Private Capital Suite
10 1 (0.067%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-BP
10 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-F
10 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-M
10 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 725 (48.40%) Azure
2 431 (28.77%) Power Platform
3 336 (22.43%) AWS
4 212 (14.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 205 (13.68%) Snowflake
6 204 (13.62%) GCP
7 171 (11.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 149 (9.95%) dbt
9 134 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
10 83 (5.54%) Serverless
11 77 (5.14%) GitHub
12 66 (4.41%) Amazon S3
13 55 (3.67%) Power Automate
14 51 (3.40%) SaaS
15 43 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (2.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 40 (2.67%) PowerApps
18 37 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 36 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
20 34 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.07%) Broadband
2 4 (0.27%) HTTP
3 3 (0.20%) NGN
3 3 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.20%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.067%) 4G
5 1 (0.067%) 5G
5 1 (0.067%) ADSL
5 1 (0.067%) CTI
5 1 (0.067%) DHCP
5 1 (0.067%) DNS
5 1 (0.067%) Internet
5 1 (0.067%) Modbus
5 1 (0.067%) MQTT
5 1 (0.067%) Network Security
5 1 (0.067%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.067%) SMS
5 1 (0.067%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (26.37%) Power BI
2 385 (25.70%) Data Warehouse
3 201 (13.42%) Data Lake
4 193 (12.88%) Metadata
5 127 (8.48%) SQL Server
6 114 (7.61%) Tableau
7 94 (6.28%) Relational Database
8 89 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 72 (4.81%) BigQuery
10 70 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 67 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
12 59 (3.94%) NoSQL
13 58 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 57 (3.81%) Power Query
15 51 (3.40%) Snowflake Schema
16 48 (3.20%) MySQL
17 46 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 43 (2.87%) Looker
19 32 (2.14%) Big Data
20 31 (2.07%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 101 (6.74%) Git
2 55 (3.67%) JIRA
3 40 (2.67%) MLflow
4 20 (1.34%) ERwin
4 20 (1.34%) Postman
5 14 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.67%) GitLab
7 8 (0.53%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.40%) JUnit
9 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.27%) git-flow
11 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.20%) Gradle
11 3 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.20%) Maven
11 3 (0.20%) NUnit
11 3 (0.20%) Selenium
11 3 (0.20%) TestNG
11 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 522 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 498 (33.24%) Finance
3 418 (27.90%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 76 (5.07%) Marketing
7 70 (4.67%) Law
8 61 (4.07%) Banking
9 55 (3.67%) Financial Institution
10 42 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (2.47%) Retail
12 32 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (1.94%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.54%) Legal
15 23 (1.54%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.40%) Advertising
17 19 (1.27%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
19 12 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 341 (22.76%) Architect
2 332 (22.16%) Data Engineer
3 299 (19.96%) Senior
4 230 (15.35%) Data Architect
5 203 (13.55%) Analyst
6 168 (11.21%) Developer
7 146 (9.75%) Lead
8 118 (7.88%) Data Analyst
9 96 (6.41%) Senior Data Engineer
10 65 (4.34%) Consultant
11 51 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.14%) Business Analyst
12 47 (3.14%) Lead Data Engineer
13 43 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
14 41 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
15 40 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 37 (2.47%) Senior Architect
17 33 (2.20%) Data Modeller
17 33 (2.20%) Senior Developer
18 32 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.54%) REST
2 101 (6.74%) Kafka
3 82 (5.47%) PySpark
4 67 (4.47%) SOAP
5 55 (3.67%) Lightning Web Components
6 54 (3.60%) .NET
7 52 (3.47%) RESTful
8 50 (3.34%) JSON
9 43 (2.87%) Middleware
9 43 (2.87%) PyTorch
9 43 (2.87%) TensorFlow
10 41 (2.74%) React
10 41 (2.74%) scikit-learn
11 39 (2.60%) XML
12 37 (2.47%) CSS
13 34 (2.27%) LangChain
14 33 (2.20%) OpenAPI
14 33 (2.20%) Swagger
15 32 (2.14%) HTML
16 30 (2.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 107 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 103 (6.88%) Product Ownership
4 61 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 49 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.94%) Low-Code
7 40 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 35 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 35 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (2.14%) Public Cloud
12 24 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.54%) Clustering
13 23 (1.54%) e-Learning
14 21 (1.40%) Reinsurance
15 16 (1.07%) Taxonomies
16 15 (1.00%) Fixed Income
17 14 (0.93%) FMCG
18 13 (0.87%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.87%) Windows
2 12 (0.80%) Linux
3 4 (0.27%) Android
3 4 (0.27%) Unix
4 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.067%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (47.80%) Analytics
2 520 (34.71%) Business Intelligence
3 500 (33.38%) ETL
4 451 (30.11%) Data Governance
5 448 (29.91%) Data Engineering
6 410 (27.37%) Agile
7 383 (25.57%) Data Pipeline
8 360 (24.03%) Decision-Making
9 358 (23.90%) Data Architecture
10 357 (23.83%) AI
11 345 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
12 344 (22.96%) CI/CD
13 293 (19.56%) DevOps
14 220 (14.69%) Data Integration
15 218 (14.55%) Mentoring
16 216 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 207 (13.82%) Machine Learning
18 196 (13.08%) Data Management
19 175 (11.68%) Data Science
20 167 (11.15%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 772 (51.54%) SQL
2 647 (43.19%) Python
3 111 (7.41%) Java
4 103 (6.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 86 (5.74%) JavaScript
6 73 (4.87%) C#
7 66 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.47%) Apex Code
9 47 (3.14%) T-SQL
10 41 (2.74%) Scala
11 34 (2.27%) R
12 31 (2.07%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.34%) Bash
14 19 (1.27%) C++
15 17 (1.13%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.67%) VBA
17 8 (0.53%) Go
17 8 (0.53%) Perl
17 8 (0.53%) SOQL
17 8 (0.53%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 196 (13.08%) Degree
2 133 (8.88%) Security Cleared
3 93 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 80 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (4.34%) Azure Certification
6 54 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 38 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.20%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (1.74%) DBS Check
11 24 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (1.54%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.93%) ACCA
13 14 (0.93%) CIMA
14 12 (0.80%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 8 (0.53%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.47%) PMP
17 5 (0.33%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.33%) SnowPro
18 4 (0.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 444 (29.64%) Data Quality
2 95 (6.34%) GDPR
3 73 (4.87%) Accessibility
4 43 (2.87%) QA
5 27 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 24 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.67%) SLA
9 8 (0.53%) MiFID
10 5 (0.33%) GRC
10 5 (0.33%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.20%) IFRS
11 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.20%) PERC
12 2 (0.13%) HL7
12 2 (0.13%) PMO
12 2 (0.13%) PSD2
12 2 (0.13%) WCAG
13 1 (0.067%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (3.94%) Docker
2 13 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) HDFS
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.067%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.067%) Firmware
4 1 (0.067%) iptables
4 1 (0.067%) KVM
4 1 (0.067%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 73 (4.87%) Terraform
2 52 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.87%) Grafana
4 10 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.47%) Control-M
7 3 (0.20%) Ansible
7 3 (0.20%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.067%) Argo
8 1 (0.067%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.067%) SCCM
Vendors
1 354 (23.63%) Microsoft
2 288 (19.23%) Databricks
3 100 (6.68%) Salesforce
4 82 (5.47%) Oracle
5 57 (3.81%) SAP
6 53 (3.54%) Informatica
7 45 (3.00%) Google
8 37 (2.47%) Palantir
9 32 (2.14%) Foundry
10 31 (2.07%) Talend
11 30 (2.00%) Cloudera
12 25 (1.67%) MuleSoft
13 23 (1.54%) Dell
14 22 (1.47%) OpenAI
15 18 (1.20%) Sparx
16 16 (1.07%) IBM
17 15 (1.00%) ServiceNow
18 14 (0.93%) UiPath
19 13 (0.87%) Automation Anywhere
20 12 (0.80%) Workday