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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 127 114
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,624 1,158 2,437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.56% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.78% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 578 1,546
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +27 1,474 £69,973 +3.66% 546
UK excluding London +4 773 £62,500 +4.17% 379
London +30 684 £80,000 +6.67% 301
Work from Home +37 521 £67,500 +2.66% 276
North of England +89 300 £65,000 +13.04% 81
South East -32 181 £60,000 -7.69% 144
Midlands -10 141 £60,000 -4.00% 72
North West +63 133 £62,500 +19.05% 52
Yorkshire +45 123 £68,510 +14.18% 18
West Midlands +4 101 £60,715 +2.04% 44
South West -89 57 £60,000 - 34
East of England -3 56 £71,000 +6.77% 15
North East -16 44 £65,000 +36.84% 12
East Midlands -24 38 £55,000 -13.39% 28
Scotland -21 26 £70,000 +11.55% 17
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 12
Northern Ireland -37 3 £60,000 - 9

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
1 145 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (6.59%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.86%) Apache
4 34 (2.09%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 16 (0.99%) SAS
7 15 (0.92%) Confluence
8 13 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.49%) CMS
9 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.37%) Appian
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 3 (0.18%) IIS
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) Luigi
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 68 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.062%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.17%) SAP MDG
3 15 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.49%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.43%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.18%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
12 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 676 (41.63%) Azure
2 444 (27.34%) Power Platform
3 429 (26.42%) AWS
4 247 (15.21%) GCP
5 170 (10.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 151 (9.30%) Snowflake
7 135 (8.31%) dbt
8 131 (8.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 104 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (5.48%) Serverless
11 83 (5.11%) Amazon S3
12 66 (4.06%) SaaS
13 59 (3.63%) Power Automate
14 51 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (3.02%) PowerApps
16 47 (2.89%) GitHub
17 34 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
18 33 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
19 28 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.71%) Broadband
2 4 (0.25%) NGN
3 3 (0.18%) Internet
3 3 (0.18%) LTE
3 3 (0.18%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) 4G
4 2 (0.12%) 5G
4 2 (0.12%) BGP
4 2 (0.12%) DNS
4 2 (0.12%) IPsec
4 2 (0.12%) SMS
4 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
4 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 1 (0.062%) CTI
5 1 (0.062%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (25.12%) Power BI
2 316 (19.46%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (11.95%) Data Lake
4 191 (11.76%) Metadata
5 118 (7.27%) Tableau
6 116 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 106 (6.53%) Relational Database
8 90 (5.54%) BigQuery
9 86 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (4.00%) NoSQL
12 61 (3.76%) Semantic Layer
13 59 (3.63%) Star Schema
14 53 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 53 (3.26%) Big Data
15 51 (3.14%) MySQL
16 49 (3.02%) Delta Lake
17 47 (2.89%) Power Query
17 47 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 46 (2.83%) Looker
Development Applications
1 109 (6.71%) Git
2 41 (2.52%) JIRA
3 36 (2.22%) MLflow
4 30 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.29%) Claude Code
6 15 (0.92%) GitLab
7 13 (0.80%) ERwin
7 13 (0.80%) Postman
8 6 (0.37%) Toad
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.12%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.062%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.062%) ESLint
12 1 (0.062%) TestNG
General
1 546 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 499 (30.73%) Finance
3 446 (27.46%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 132 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.31%) Law
7 69 (4.25%) Marketing
8 66 (4.06%) Retail
9 46 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (2.59%) Financial Institution
10 42 (2.59%) Legal
11 41 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.40%) Banking
13 25 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.42%) Billing
16 18 (1.11%) Local Government
17 17 (1.05%) Advertising
18 16 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.92%) Games
Job Titles
1 391 (24.08%) Data Engineer
2 362 (22.29%) Architect
3 341 (21.00%) Senior
4 248 (15.27%) Data Architect
5 208 (12.81%) Analyst
6 193 (11.88%) Developer
7 189 (11.64%) Lead
8 117 (7.20%) Data Analyst
9 109 (6.71%) Senior Data Engineer
10 75 (4.62%) Consultant
11 55 (3.39%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 51 (3.14%) Business Analyst
14 44 (2.71%) Lead Data Engineer
14 44 (2.71%) Senior Data Architect
15 43 (2.65%) Data Modeller
16 41 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.52%) Senior Developer
17 38 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 36 (2.22%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (8.81%) REST
2 114 (7.02%) PySpark
3 107 (6.59%) Kafka
4 64 (3.94%) .NET
4 64 (3.94%) SOAP
5 63 (3.88%) React
6 61 (3.76%) JSON
6 61 (3.76%) Node.js
7 59 (3.63%) Middleware
8 49 (3.02%) Lightning Web Components
9 47 (2.89%) XML
10 45 (2.77%) CSS
11 42 (2.59%) LangChain
12 39 (2.40%) RESTful
13 36 (2.22%) PyTorch
13 36 (2.22%) TensorFlow
14 33 (2.03%) scikit-learn
15 32 (1.97%) HTML
16 31 (1.91%) Visualforce
17 26 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 141 (8.68%) Data Structures
3 90 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.91%) Low-Code
12 28 (1.72%) Reinsurance
13 27 (1.66%) Clustering
14 23 (1.42%) AI Agents
15 22 (1.35%) Social Media
16 17 (1.05%) Replication
17 14 (0.86%) Algorithms
17 14 (0.86%) e-Learning
18 13 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.99%) Linux
2 13 (0.80%) Windows
3 4 (0.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.062%) Android
4 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (46.18%) Analytics
2 556 (34.24%) Business Intelligence
3 516 (31.77%) Data Governance
4 473 (29.13%) Data Engineering
5 445 (27.40%) ETL
6 439 (27.03%) AI
7 432 (26.60%) Data Pipeline
8 410 (25.25%) Decision-Making
9 399 (24.57%) Agile
10 384 (23.65%) CI/CD
10 384 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
11 376 (23.15%) Data Architecture
12 289 (17.80%) DevOps
13 257 (15.83%) Mentoring
14 255 (15.70%) Machine Learning
15 239 (14.72%) Roadmaps
16 217 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 214 (13.18%) Data Strategy
18 174 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 174 (10.71%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 854 (52.59%) SQL
2 685 (42.18%) Python
3 111 (6.83%) Java
4 106 (6.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 85 (5.23%) JavaScript
6 77 (4.74%) TypeScript
7 69 (4.25%) C#
8 56 (3.45%) Scala
9 46 (2.83%) Apex Code
10 39 (2.40%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.66%) R
12 24 (1.48%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.23%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.17%) SOQL
14 19 (1.17%) SOSL
15 18 (1.11%) Bash
16 12 (0.74%) Bicep
17 9 (0.55%) C++
18 8 (0.49%) Go
18 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 187 (11.51%) Degree
2 186 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 119 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.68%) ACCA
12 11 (0.68%) CIMA
13 9 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.55%) SnowPro
14 7 (0.43%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.37%) CIPD
15 6 (0.37%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (33.50%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.20%) GDPR
3 53 (3.26%) QA
4 50 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 28 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.49%) SLA
8 7 (0.43%) GRC
8 7 (0.43%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PERC
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.18%) WCAG
13 2 (0.12%) HL7
14 1 (0.062%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 88 (5.42%) Docker
2 10 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 99 (6.10%) Terraform
2 65 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.62%) Grafana
4 9 (0.55%) Ansible
4 9 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.31%) Packer
7 3 (0.18%) Control-M
7 3 (0.18%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.062%) QRadar
9 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 340 (20.94%) Databricks
2 324 (19.95%) Microsoft
3 115 (7.08%) Salesforce
4 109 (6.71%) Oracle
5 95 (5.85%) SAP
6 53 (3.26%) Google
7 40 (2.46%) Informatica
8 30 (1.85%) Foundry
8 30 (1.85%) Palantir
9 27 (1.66%) Cloudera
10 23 (1.42%) Dell
11 21 (1.29%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.11%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.11%) ServiceNow
13 16 (0.99%) Talend
14 10 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 10 (0.62%) Workday
15 9 (0.55%) Cisco
16 8 (0.49%) HubSpot
16 8 (0.49%) IBM