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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 125 105
Rank change year-on-year +17 -20 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,430 1,055 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.49% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.66% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 856 574 1,498
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,625 £101,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,350 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.84% +2.83% -

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 59,378 39,636 75,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.65% 93.47% 86.94%
Number of salaries quoted 35,975 22,340 56,751
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,830 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 22 March 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 22 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
England +17 1,234 £70,000 +12.00% 817
UK excluding London -15 674 £64,350 +8.84% 597
London +60 625 £80,000 +10.34% 365
Work from Home +34 543 £70,000 +11.55% 383
South East -14 180 £60,000 -2.04% 222
North of England -15 173 £70,000 +33.33% 145
Midlands -16 120 £60,000 - 98
West Midlands +8 97 £60,000 +4.35% 63
Yorkshire +11 91 £71,000 +35.24% 49
Scotland +3 85 £70,000 +13.14% 26
North West -32 70 £67,500 +35.00% 77
East of England +10 54 £65,000 - 54
South West -62 47 £60,850 +10.64% 43
East Midlands -42 21 £49,500 -23.55% 35
North East -24 12 £52,500 +5.00% 22
Wales -16 9 £67,586 +80.23% 14
Northern Ireland -34 6 £40,500 - 4

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
1 126 (8.81%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (5.59%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.85%) Apache
4 24 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
6 18 (1.26%) Confluence
7 17 (1.19%) SAS
8 16 (1.12%) Appian
9 9 (0.63%) CMS
10 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.28%) Camunda
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.21%) IIS
12 3 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.14%) CICS
13 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.14%) Mendix
14 1 (0.070%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
Applications
1 78 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.070%) Notion
8 1 (0.070%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.21%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.070%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.070%) Primavera
9 1 (0.070%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.070%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.070%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 698 (48.81%) Azure
2 406 (28.39%) Power Platform
3 316 (22.10%) AWS
4 207 (14.48%) Snowflake
5 198 (13.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 195 (13.64%) GCP
7 170 (11.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (10.07%) dbt
9 137 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
10 82 (5.73%) GitHub
11 80 (5.59%) Serverless
12 65 (4.55%) Amazon S3
13 56 (3.92%) SaaS
14 54 (3.78%) Power Automate
15 41 (2.87%) PowerApps
16 40 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (2.80%) GitHub Copilot
16 40 (2.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 36 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
17 36 (2.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.05%) Broadband
2 4 (0.28%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.21%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) NGN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.070%) 4G
5 1 (0.070%) 5G
5 1 (0.070%) ADSL
5 1 (0.070%) CTI
5 1 (0.070%) DHCP
5 1 (0.070%) DNS
5 1 (0.070%) Internet
5 1 (0.070%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.070%) Modbus
5 1 (0.070%) MQTT
5 1 (0.070%) Network Security
5 1 (0.070%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.070%) SMS
5 1 (0.070%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (27.34%) Data Warehouse
2 374 (26.15%) Power BI
3 197 (13.78%) Data Lake
4 192 (13.43%) Metadata
5 123 (8.60%) SQL Server
6 105 (7.34%) Tableau
7 82 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 80 (5.59%) Relational Database
9 70 (4.90%) BigQuery
10 68 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 65 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
12 62 (4.34%) NoSQL
13 57 (3.99%) Power Query
14 52 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 50 (3.50%) MySQL
16 49 (3.43%) Snowflake Schema
17 48 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 38 (2.66%) Looker
19 34 (2.38%) Big Data
20 29 (2.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 103 (7.20%) Git
2 51 (3.57%) JIRA
3 36 (2.52%) MLflow
4 25 (1.75%) ERwin
5 20 (1.40%) Postman
6 14 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.84%) GitLab
8 11 (0.77%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.42%) JUnit
11 5 (0.35%) git-flow
11 5 (0.35%) Selenium
12 3 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.21%) Gradle
12 3 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.21%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) NUnit
12 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) TestNG
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 511 (35.73%) Social Skills
2 485 (33.92%) Finance
3 385 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 78 (5.45%) Marketing
7 72 (5.03%) Law
8 64 (4.48%) Banking
9 54 (3.78%) Financial Institution
10 37 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (2.52%) Retail
12 33 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.82%) Retail Banking
15 25 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (1.68%) Legal
17 22 (1.54%) Advertising
18 19 (1.33%) Telecoms
19 15 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 325 (22.73%) Architect
2 311 (21.75%) Data Engineer
3 293 (20.49%) Senior
4 218 (15.24%) Data Architect
5 189 (13.22%) Analyst
6 161 (11.26%) Developer
7 144 (10.07%) Lead
8 112 (7.83%) Data Analyst
9 96 (6.71%) Senior Data Engineer
10 65 (4.55%) Consultant
11 43 (3.01%) Lead Data Engineer
12 42 (2.94%) Business Analyst
12 42 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 40 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
14 39 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
15 38 (2.66%) Senior Architect
16 35 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 32 (2.24%) Data Manager
17 32 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
18 31 (2.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (9.02%) REST
2 100 (6.99%) Kafka
3 69 (4.83%) SOAP
4 62 (4.34%) PySpark
5 53 (3.71%) Lightning Web Components
6 51 (3.57%) .NET
7 50 (3.50%) RESTful
8 47 (3.29%) JSON
9 42 (2.94%) Middleware
10 39 (2.73%) PyTorch
10 39 (2.73%) TensorFlow
11 38 (2.66%) React
12 37 (2.59%) scikit-learn
13 35 (2.45%) CSS
13 35 (2.45%) XML
14 33 (2.31%) OpenAPI
14 33 (2.31%) Swagger
15 29 (2.03%) HTML
15 29 (2.03%) Visualforce
16 25 (1.75%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 107 (7.48%) Data Structures
4 62 (4.34%) Management Information System
5 48 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.94%) Low-Code
7 36 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 32 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.96%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.47%) e-Learning
13 21 (1.47%) Reinsurance
14 19 (1.33%) Clustering
15 16 (1.12%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
16 12 (0.84%) FMCG
17 11 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.91%) Linux
2 11 (0.77%) Windows
3 5 (0.35%) Unix
4 4 (0.28%) Android
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (47.20%) Analytics
2 496 (34.69%) Business Intelligence
3 483 (33.78%) ETL
4 440 (30.77%) Data Governance
5 423 (29.58%) Data Engineering
6 407 (28.46%) Agile
7 368 (25.73%) Data Pipeline
8 343 (23.99%) CI/CD
9 334 (23.36%) Data Architecture
10 333 (23.29%) Decision-Making
11 329 (23.01%) AI
12 316 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
13 290 (20.28%) DevOps
14 231 (16.15%) Mentoring
15 218 (15.24%) Data Integration
16 216 (15.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 196 (13.71%) Data Management
18 188 (13.15%) Machine Learning
19 182 (12.73%) Data Science
20 164 (11.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 736 (51.47%) SQL
2 622 (43.50%) Python
3 114 (7.97%) Java
4 91 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 90 (6.29%) JavaScript
6 77 (5.38%) C#
7 64 (4.48%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.64%) Apex Code
9 41 (2.87%) T-SQL
10 37 (2.59%) Scala
11 34 (2.38%) R
12 32 (2.24%) PowerShell
13 19 (1.33%) Bash
13 19 (1.33%) C++
14 18 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.77%) VBA
16 9 (0.63%) ANSI SQL
17 8 (0.56%) Go
17 8 (0.56%) SOQL
17 8 (0.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 205 (14.34%) Degree
2 130 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.64%) SC Cleared
4 86 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 56 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (2.52%) Master's Degree
9 30 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (1.82%) DV Cleared
11 25 (1.75%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.91%) ACCA
12 13 (0.91%) CIMA
13 12 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.70%) PMP
15 7 (0.49%) SAP Certification
15 7 (0.49%) SnowPro
16 5 (0.35%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (28.60%) Data Quality
2 83 (5.80%) GDPR
3 78 (5.45%) Accessibility
4 43 (3.01%) QA
5 26 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 23 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 14 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.70%) SLA
9 9 (0.63%) MiFID
10 5 (0.35%) GRC
11 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.14%) PERC
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
13 1 (0.070%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.070%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (4.06%) Docker
2 14 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.21%) HDFS
5 1 (0.070%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.070%) Firmware
5 1 (0.070%) iptables
5 1 (0.070%) KVM
5 1 (0.070%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 72 (5.03%) Terraform
2 51 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.91%) Grafana
4 10 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Control-M
7 5 (0.35%) Ansible
8 4 (0.28%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.070%) Argo
9 1 (0.070%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.070%) SCCM
Vendors
1 345 (24.13%) Microsoft
2 254 (17.76%) Databricks
3 96 (6.71%) Salesforce
4 80 (5.59%) Oracle
5 58 (4.06%) SAP
6 52 (3.64%) Informatica
7 45 (3.15%) Google
8 37 (2.59%) Palantir
9 33 (2.31%) Talend
10 31 (2.17%) Foundry
11 25 (1.75%) Cloudera
12 24 (1.68%) MuleSoft
13 22 (1.54%) Dell
14 21 (1.47%) OpenAI
15 17 (1.19%) IBM
15 17 (1.19%) Sparx
16 16 (1.12%) ServiceNow
17 15 (1.05%) UiPath
18 13 (0.91%) Automation Anywhere
18 13 (0.91%) Workday