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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 113 102
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,521 1,076 2,406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 2.63% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.83% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 934 572 1,547
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £59,300
% change year-on-year +5.83% +1.18% +3.13%

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 63,076 38,012 79,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.99% 86.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38,955 22,518 58,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +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 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 9 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 9 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 +12 1,319 £70,000 +7.69% 796
UK excluding London -27 741 £63,500 +5.83% 585
London +55 637 £77,500 +3.33% 335
Work from Home +30 566 £65,500 +1.16% 367
North of England -8 202 £70,932 +35.11% 151
South East -30 187 £60,000 -7.69% 200
Midlands -14 140 £60,000 - 102
West Midlands +2 108 £60,000 +4.35% 58
Yorkshire +7 102 £73,000 +26.96% 55
Scotland +8 82 £78,750 +25.00% 24
North West -28 82 £70,000 +33.33% 76
East of England +3 60 £65,000 - 55
South West -61 56 £55,100 +0.18% 47
East Midlands -50 30 £51,825 -19.96% 44
North East -22 18 £55,000 -1.08% 24
Wales -22 8 £67,586 +80.23% 13
Northern Ireland -36 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 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (5.52%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.62%) Apache
4 27 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.38%) Confluence
5 21 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.12%) SAS
7 15 (0.99%) Appian
8 10 (0.66%) CMS
9 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) 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 (0.066%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.066%) OpenStack
Applications
1 81 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.20%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) Windchill
8 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.066%) Notion
8 1 (0.066%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.066%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.20%) Misys Opics
8 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG-BP
8 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.066%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.066%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.066%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 729 (47.93%) Azure
2 436 (28.67%) Power Platform
3 338 (22.22%) AWS
4 209 (13.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 204 (13.41%) Snowflake
6 201 (13.21%) GCP
7 171 (11.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 150 (9.86%) dbt
9 134 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (5.72%) Serverless
11 76 (5.00%) GitHub
12 66 (4.34%) Amazon S3
13 58 (3.81%) Power Automate
14 51 (3.35%) SaaS
15 45 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (2.76%) PowerApps
17 41 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 37 (2.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 36 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
20 34 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.05%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) 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 (0.066%) 4G
5 1 (0.066%) 5G
5 1 (0.066%) ADSL
5 1 (0.066%) CTI
5 1 (0.066%) DHCP
5 1 (0.066%) DNS
5 1 (0.066%) Internet
5 1 (0.066%) Modbus
5 1 (0.066%) MQTT
5 1 (0.066%) Network Security
5 1 (0.066%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.066%) SMS
5 1 (0.066%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (26.23%) Power BI
2 381 (25.05%) Data Warehouse
3 197 (12.95%) Data Lake
4 190 (12.49%) Metadata
5 128 (8.42%) SQL Server
6 116 (7.63%) Tableau
7 95 (6.25%) Relational Database
8 91 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 71 (4.67%) BigQuery
10 68 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 68 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
11 58 (3.81%) NoSQL
11 58 (3.81%) Power Query
11 58 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 51 (3.35%) Snowflake Schema
13 46 (3.02%) MySQL
14 45 (2.96%) Looker
14 45 (2.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 33 (2.17%) Big Data
16 31 (2.04%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 105 (6.90%) Git
2 56 (3.68%) JIRA
3 40 (2.63%) MLflow
4 20 (1.31%) Postman
5 18 (1.18%) ERwin
6 15 (0.99%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.72%) GitLab
8 6 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.39%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.39%) JUnit
9 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.20%) Gradle
9 3 (0.20%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.20%) Maven
9 3 (0.20%) NUnit
9 3 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.20%) TestNG
9 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 528 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 507 (33.33%) Finance
3 427 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 110 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 79 (5.19%) Marketing
7 72 (4.73%) Law
8 59 (3.88%) Banking
9 56 (3.68%) Financial Institution
10 42 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (2.37%) Retail
12 32 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (1.58%) Legal
16 21 (1.38%) Advertising
16 21 (1.38%) Retail Banking
17 19 (1.25%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
19 12 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 341 (22.42%) Architect
2 335 (22.02%) Data Engineer
3 303 (19.92%) Senior
4 227 (14.92%) Data Architect
5 209 (13.74%) Analyst
6 170 (11.18%) Developer
7 150 (9.86%) Lead
8 120 (7.89%) Data Analyst
9 95 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 68 (4.47%) Consultant
11 51 (3.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 49 (3.22%) Lead Data Engineer
13 48 (3.16%) Business Analyst
14 45 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
15 42 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
15 42 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 37 (2.43%) Senior Architect
17 36 (2.37%) Data Modeller
18 33 (2.17%) Data Manager
18 33 (2.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (8.55%) REST
2 103 (6.77%) Kafka
3 83 (5.46%) PySpark
4 68 (4.47%) SOAP
5 55 (3.62%) .NET
5 55 (3.62%) Lightning Web Components
6 53 (3.48%) JSON
7 52 (3.42%) RESTful
8 44 (2.89%) Middleware
9 43 (2.83%) PyTorch
9 43 (2.83%) TensorFlow
10 41 (2.70%) scikit-learn
10 41 (2.70%) XML
11 40 (2.63%) React
12 37 (2.43%) CSS
13 34 (2.24%) LangChain
14 33 (2.17%) OpenAPI
14 33 (2.17%) Swagger
15 32 (2.10%) HTML
16 30 (1.97%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.10%) Data Structures
3 104 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 50 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (2.89%) Low-Code
7 38 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 38 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 36 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (2.17%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (1.51%) Clustering
12 23 (1.51%) e-Learning
13 21 (1.38%) Reinsurance
14 16 (1.05%) Taxonomies
15 15 (0.99%) Fixed Income
16 14 (0.92%) FMCG
17 13 (0.85%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.85%) Windows
2 12 (0.79%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Android
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (47.60%) Analytics
2 524 (34.45%) Business Intelligence
3 501 (32.94%) ETL
4 456 (29.98%) Data Governance
5 453 (29.78%) Data Engineering
6 417 (27.42%) Agile
7 385 (25.31%) Data Pipeline
8 366 (24.06%) Decision-Making
9 360 (23.67%) AI
9 360 (23.67%) Data Architecture
10 350 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
11 344 (22.62%) CI/CD
12 298 (19.59%) DevOps
13 224 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 220 (14.46%) Data Integration
15 219 (14.40%) Mentoring
16 210 (13.81%) Machine Learning
17 195 (12.82%) Data Management
18 176 (11.57%) Data Science
19 171 (11.24%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 783 (51.48%) SQL
2 656 (43.13%) Python
3 114 (7.50%) Java
4 103 (6.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 87 (5.72%) JavaScript
6 74 (4.87%) C#
7 67 (4.40%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.42%) Apex Code
9 47 (3.09%) T-SQL
10 41 (2.70%) Scala
11 34 (2.24%) R
12 31 (2.04%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.31%) Bash
14 19 (1.25%) C++
15 18 (1.18%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.66%) VBA
17 9 (0.59%) Perl
18 8 (0.53%) Go
18 8 (0.53%) SOQL
18 8 (0.53%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 200 (13.15%) Degree
2 138 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 79 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (4.14%) Azure Certification
6 54 (3.55%) AWS Certification
7 38 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (1.64%) DBS Check
11 24 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (1.51%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.92%) ACCA
13 14 (0.92%) CIMA
14 12 (0.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 9 (0.59%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.53%) PMP
17 5 (0.33%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.33%) SnowPro
18 4 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 449 (29.52%) Data Quality
2 96 (6.31%) GDPR
3 75 (4.93%) Accessibility
4 44 (2.89%) QA
5 27 (1.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 24 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.66%) 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%) PERC
12 2 (0.13%) HL7
12 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.13%) PMO
12 2 (0.13%) WCAG
13 1 (0.066%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.066%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (3.94%) Docker
2 13 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) HDFS
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.066%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.066%) Firmware
5 1 (0.066%) iptables
5 1 (0.066%) KVM
5 1 (0.066%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 74 (4.87%) Terraform
2 53 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.85%) Grafana
4 10 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.46%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Ansible
8 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.066%) Argo
9 1 (0.066%) Packer
9 1 (0.066%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.066%) SCCM
Vendors
1 359 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 289 (19.00%) Databricks
3 102 (6.71%) Salesforce
4 84 (5.52%) Oracle
5 59 (3.88%) SAP
6 51 (3.35%) Informatica
7 43 (2.83%) Google
8 37 (2.43%) Palantir
9 32 (2.10%) Foundry
10 31 (2.04%) Talend
11 30 (1.97%) Cloudera
12 25 (1.64%) MuleSoft
13 23 (1.51%) Dell
14 22 (1.45%) OpenAI
15 18 (1.18%) Sparx
16 16 (1.05%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.92%) IBM
17 14 (0.92%) UiPath
18 13 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
19 12 (0.79%) Workday