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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 127 111
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,835 1,199 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.45% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.76% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,195 624 935
10th Percentile £43,954 £45,150 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 September 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 September 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 +6 1,689 £70,000 +2.94% 2,356
UK excluding London -6 914 £62,500 -1.57% 1,251
London +2 770 £82,500 +6.45% 1,325
Work from Home +30 572 £67,500 -0.74% 1,029
North of England +68 352 £65,000 +1.96% 313
South East -68 196 £62,500 -3.85% 331
Midlands +3 169 £62,500 -1.57% 210
North West +53 160 £62,500 +4.17% 187
West Midlands +1 123 £62,500 +4.17% 142
South West -20 111 £69,973 +8.74% 120
Yorkshire +1 108 £68,510 +1.50% 93
North East +4 84 £65,000 +31.98% 34
East Midlands -30 46 £59,366 -8.67% 68
East of England -25 45 £62,500 +4.17% 88
Scotland -15 24 £70,000 +14.29% 130
Wales -53 22 £63,500 - 25
Northern Ireland -80 2 £60,000 - 45

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
1 110 (5.99%) Apache Spark
2 96 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (4.58%) Apache
4 35 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.47%) Confluence
6 18 (0.98%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.65%) SAS
8 9 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) WordPress
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
14 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.054%) JBoss
14 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
Applications
1 87 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) Blender
5 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.16%) Maya
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.054%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.054%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 39 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.98%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.44%) SAP MDG-BP
9 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 4 (0.22%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG-F
12 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
13 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
14 1 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 717 (39.07%) Azure
2 538 (29.32%) Power Platform
3 444 (24.20%) AWS
4 238 (12.97%) GCP
5 204 (11.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 163 (8.88%) Snowflake
7 148 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 128 (6.98%) dbt
9 102 (5.56%) Serverless
10 95 (5.18%) Amazon S3
11 81 (4.41%) Azure Databricks
11 81 (4.41%) SaaS
12 71 (3.87%) GitHub
12 71 (3.87%) Power Automate
13 64 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
14 57 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
15 56 (3.05%) PowerApps
16 55 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
17 42 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.63%) Broadband
2 13 (0.71%) VPN
3 7 (0.38%) DMZ
3 7 (0.38%) Ethernet
3 7 (0.38%) IPv4
3 7 (0.38%) Modbus
3 7 (0.38%) OSPF
3 7 (0.38%) VLAN
4 6 (0.33%) BGP
4 6 (0.33%) DNS
4 6 (0.33%) IPsec
4 6 (0.33%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
7 2 (0.11%) NGN
8 1 (0.054%) 4G
8 1 (0.054%) 5G
8 1 (0.054%) HTTP
8 1 (0.054%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (26.92%) Power BI
2 367 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 253 (13.79%) Metadata
4 215 (11.72%) Data Lake
5 143 (7.79%) SQL Server
6 131 (7.14%) Tableau
7 115 (6.27%) Relational Database
8 96 (5.23%) Star Schema
9 86 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
9 86 (4.69%) Semantic Layer
10 84 (4.58%) Delta Lake
11 82 (4.47%) Big Data
12 79 (4.31%) BigQuery
13 78 (4.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 77 (4.20%) NoSQL
15 74 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 61 (3.32%) Data Vault
16 61 (3.32%) Power Query
17 53 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 49 (2.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 165 (8.99%) Git
2 49 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 49 (2.67%) JIRA
3 44 (2.40%) Claude Code
4 27 (1.47%) GitLab
5 14 (0.76%) MLflow
6 7 (0.38%) ERwin
7 6 (0.33%) Ant
7 6 (0.33%) Toad
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
8 4 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.16%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
10 2 (0.11%) Gradle
10 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.11%) YouTrack
General
1 641 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 565 (30.79%) Finance
3 484 (26.38%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 95 (5.18%) Marketing
7 86 (4.69%) Retail
8 73 (3.98%) Law
9 72 (3.92%) Legal
10 67 (3.65%) Manufacturing
11 54 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (2.45%) Banking
13 31 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 28 (1.53%) Billing
15 27 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (0.98%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.76%) Advertising
18 14 (0.76%) Front Office
18 14 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 450 (24.52%) Data Engineer
2 424 (23.11%) Architect
3 395 (21.53%) Senior
4 310 (16.89%) Data Architect
5 212 (11.55%) Analyst
6 191 (10.41%) Lead
7 188 (10.25%) Developer
8 115 (6.27%) Senior Data Engineer
9 105 (5.72%) Data Analyst
10 72 (3.92%) Consultant
11 67 (3.65%) Senior Architect
12 56 (3.05%) Senior Data Architect
13 53 (2.89%) Business Analyst
14 52 (2.83%) Data Modeller
15 47 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 46 (2.51%) Software Engineer
17 45 (2.45%) Databricks Engineer
17 45 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
18 44 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
18 44 (2.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (9.16%) PySpark
2 124 (6.76%) REST
3 112 (6.10%) Terraform
4 96 (5.23%) Kafka
5 68 (3.71%) Node.js
6 67 (3.65%) React
7 59 (3.22%) .NET
8 50 (2.72%) Middleware
9 47 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
9 47 (2.56%) SOAP
10 46 (2.51%) JSON
11 36 (1.96%) CSS
12 34 (1.85%) XML
13 33 (1.80%) AngularJS
14 25 (1.36%) RESTful
15 24 (1.31%) LangChain
16 22 (1.20%) Spring
17 21 (1.14%) HTML
17 21 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
17 21 (1.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.16%) Data Structures
3 104 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.36%) Onboarding
5 71 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
6 54 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 38 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 34 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
13 24 (1.31%) Taxonomies
14 20 (1.09%) Reinsurance
14 20 (1.09%) Replication
15 18 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
15 18 (0.98%) Reference Data
16 17 (0.93%) Mobile App
16 17 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.47%) Windows
2 24 (1.31%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.054%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (45.72%) Analytics
2 663 (36.13%) Business Intelligence
3 638 (34.77%) AI
4 534 (29.10%) Data Governance
5 512 (27.90%) Data Engineering
6 498 (27.14%) ETL
7 495 (26.98%) Data Pipeline
8 477 (25.99%) Data Architecture
9 474 (25.83%) Agile
10 464 (25.29%) CI/CD
11 462 (25.18%) Decision-Making
12 416 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
13 344 (18.75%) Roadmaps
14 342 (18.64%) DevOps
15 306 (16.68%) Mentoring
16 290 (15.80%) Data Strategy
17 275 (14.99%) Stakeholder Management
18 267 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
19 263 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
20 259 (14.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 948 (51.66%) SQL
2 701 (38.20%) Python
3 123 (6.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 100 (5.45%) Java
5 99 (5.40%) C#
6 90 (4.90%) TypeScript
7 83 (4.52%) Scala
8 75 (4.09%) JavaScript
9 43 (2.34%) Apex Code
10 36 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.47%) R
12 24 (1.31%) PowerShell
13 23 (1.25%) Bicep
14 17 (0.93%) SOQL
15 15 (0.82%) SOSL
16 13 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.60%) Bash
17 11 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 246 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 204 (11.12%) Degree
3 159 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 53 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.42%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.98%) SnowPro
13 15 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.54%) CIPD
15 6 (0.33%) ACCA
15 6 (0.33%) CSPO
15 6 (0.33%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.33%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 675 (36.78%) Data Quality
2 129 (7.03%) GDPR
3 87 (4.74%) Accessibility
4 65 (3.54%) QA
5 18 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.49%) WCAG
7 8 (0.44%) PMO
8 7 (0.38%) IFRS
9 6 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.22%) MiFID
12 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.16%) SLA
12 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.16%) UCITS
13 2 (0.11%) COPPA
13 2 (0.11%) GRC
13 2 (0.11%) PERC
System Software
1 99 (5.40%) Docker
2 13 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.054%) NFS
4 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.054%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.04%) Ansible
3 8 (0.44%) Packer
4 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.16%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.054%) Consul
8 1 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.054%) QRadar
8 1 (0.054%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 451 (24.58%) Microsoft
2 347 (18.91%) Databricks
3 109 (5.94%) Oracle
4 108 (5.89%) SAP
5 106 (5.78%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.54%) Google
7 36 (1.96%) Informatica
8 21 (1.14%) Talend
9 18 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 16 (0.87%) Foundry
11 15 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 15 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 13 (0.71%) Palantir
13 11 (0.60%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.54%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.54%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.54%) IBM
14 10 (0.54%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.54%) Okta
14 10 (0.54%) OpenText