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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 115 104
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,543 1,117 2,451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 2.66% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.86% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 950 586 1,530
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +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 66,694 39,010 81,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.98% 92.82% 85.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41,292 22,669 59,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 26 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 26 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 +7 1,345 £68,510 +5.40% 623
UK excluding London -21 760 £65,000 +8.33% 484
London +39 630 £77,500 +3.33% 274
Work from Home +22 555 £67,500 +3.85% 383
North of England +19 220 £70,466 +25.27% 115
South East -39 194 £62,500 -3.85% 174
Midlands -12 147 £60,000 -1.40% 89
Yorkshire +15 113 £74,250 +23.75% 41
West Midlands -1 112 £61,250 +2.08% 60
North West -18 88 £67,500 +28.57% 53
Scotland -6 77 £70,000 +11.11% 11
East of England -7 57 £65,000 +1.56% 35
South West -75 55 £55,000 -2.17% 49
East Midlands -53 33 £49,500 -23.55% 29
North East -31 19 £55,000 -1.08% 23
Wales -23 7 £67,586 +80.23% 11
Northern Ireland -39 3 - - 7

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
1 135 (8.75%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (5.57%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.56%) Apache
4 28 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.36%) Confluence
6 20 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (1.10%) SAS
8 13 (0.84%) Appian
9 9 (0.58%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 91 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) Sketch
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.065%) Notion
7 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.065%) SPSS
7 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.65%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG-F
11 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle SCM
12 1 (0.065%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 728 (47.18%) Azure
2 441 (28.58%) Power Platform
3 346 (22.42%) AWS
4 206 (13.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 204 (13.22%) GCP
6 189 (12.25%) Snowflake
7 164 (10.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 149 (9.66%) dbt
9 139 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
10 83 (5.38%) Serverless
11 74 (4.80%) GitHub
12 61 (3.95%) Amazon S3
13 56 (3.63%) Power Automate
14 48 (3.11%) SaaS
15 43 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (2.53%) PowerApps
16 39 (2.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 35 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 33 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
19 32 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.81%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.19%) NGN
3 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
4 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.065%) ADSL
5 1 (0.065%) CTI
5 1 (0.065%) DHCP
5 1 (0.065%) DNS
5 1 (0.065%) Internet
5 1 (0.065%) Modbus
5 1 (0.065%) MQTT
5 1 (0.065%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.065%) SMS
5 1 (0.065%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 406 (26.31%) Power BI
2 354 (22.94%) Data Warehouse
3 211 (13.67%) Data Lake
4 192 (12.44%) Metadata
5 125 (8.10%) SQL Server
6 118 (7.65%) Tableau
7 97 (6.29%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 73 (4.73%) BigQuery
10 69 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
11 63 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 63 (4.08%) NoSQL
12 54 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 51 (3.31%) Power Query
14 46 (2.98%) Snowflake Schema
15 44 (2.85%) Looker
16 43 (2.79%) MySQL
17 42 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 36 (2.33%) Delta Lake
19 35 (2.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 106 (6.87%) Git
2 58 (3.76%) JIRA
3 41 (2.66%) MLflow
4 20 (1.30%) Postman
5 16 (1.04%) ERwin
6 15 (0.97%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.71%) GitLab
8 8 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.19%) Gradle
11 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.19%) NUnit
11 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) TestNG
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.13%) Mockito
General
1 528 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 522 (33.83%) Finance
3 437 (28.32%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 110 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.73%) Marketing
7 71 (4.60%) Law
8 53 (3.43%) Banking
9 52 (3.37%) Financial Institution
10 42 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (2.72%) Retail
11 32 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.30%) Advertising
14 20 (1.30%) Legal
15 19 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.10%) Retail Banking
17 13 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 347 (22.49%) Data Engineer
2 338 (21.91%) Architect
3 303 (19.64%) Senior
4 223 (14.45%) Data Architect
5 205 (13.29%) Analyst
6 169 (10.95%) Developer
7 165 (10.69%) Lead
8 119 (7.71%) Data Analyst
9 92 (5.96%) Senior Data Engineer
10 73 (4.73%) Consultant
11 53 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.05%) Lead Data Engineer
13 45 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (2.85%) Business Analyst
15 41 (2.66%) Data Modeller
16 38 (2.46%) Senior Architect
17 36 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 33 (2.14%) Data Manager
18 33 (2.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (8.55%) REST
2 105 (6.80%) Kafka
3 93 (6.03%) PySpark
4 68 (4.41%) SOAP
5 57 (3.69%) .NET
5 57 (3.69%) JSON
6 54 (3.50%) Lightning Web Components
7 53 (3.43%) RESTful
8 48 (3.11%) Middleware
9 44 (2.85%) XML
10 42 (2.72%) PyTorch
10 42 (2.72%) TensorFlow
11 41 (2.66%) React
12 40 (2.59%) scikit-learn
13 36 (2.33%) CSS
13 36 (2.33%) LangChain
14 33 (2.14%) OpenAPI
14 33 (2.14%) Swagger
15 32 (2.07%) Pandas
16 31 (2.01%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 122 (7.91%) Data Structures
3 105 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 62 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 51 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 42 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 41 (2.66%) Low-Code
9 39 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.49%) Clustering
11 23 (1.49%) Reinsurance
12 22 (1.43%) Social Media
13 21 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.30%) e-Learning
15 17 (1.10%) Taxonomies
16 15 (0.97%) AI Agents
17 14 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.84%) Windows
2 12 (0.78%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Android
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (46.60%) Analytics
2 539 (34.93%) Business Intelligence
3 502 (32.53%) ETL
4 478 (30.98%) Data Governance
5 449 (29.10%) Data Engineering
6 411 (26.64%) Agile
7 402 (26.05%) Data Pipeline
8 368 (23.85%) Decision-Making
9 363 (23.53%) AI
10 360 (23.33%) Data Architecture
11 358 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
12 349 (22.62%) CI/CD
13 308 (19.96%) DevOps
14 222 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 215 (13.93%) Mentoring
16 210 (13.61%) Machine Learning
17 205 (13.29%) Data Integration
18 187 (12.12%) Data Management
19 178 (11.54%) Data Science
20 172 (11.15%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 799 (51.78%) SQL
2 652 (42.26%) Python
3 116 (7.52%) Java
4 102 (6.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 82 (5.31%) JavaScript
6 68 (4.41%) C#
7 66 (4.28%) TypeScript
8 53 (3.43%) Apex Code
9 43 (2.79%) T-SQL
10 41 (2.66%) Scala
11 33 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 30 (1.94%) R
13 21 (1.36%) Bash
14 17 (1.10%) C++
15 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.65%) Perl
17 9 (0.58%) VBA
18 8 (0.52%) Go
18 8 (0.52%) SOQL
18 8 (0.52%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 196 (12.70%) Degree
2 144 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 96 (6.22%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 45 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.62%) DBS Check
10 23 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
11 22 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 21 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.97%) ACCA
13 15 (0.97%) CIMA
14 12 (0.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.52%) SAP Certification
16 7 (0.45%) PMP
17 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
18 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (30.14%) Data Quality
2 96 (6.22%) GDPR
3 66 (4.28%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.18%) QA
5 26 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 23 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.65%) SLA
9 7 (0.45%) MiFID
10 6 (0.39%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.32%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.19%) PERC
14 2 (0.13%) HL7
14 2 (0.13%) WCAG
15 1 (0.065%) NIST
15 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.065%) PMO
15 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 62 (4.02%) Docker
2 13 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.065%) Firmware
4 1 (0.065%) HDFS
4 1 (0.065%) iptables
Systems Management
1 81 (5.25%) Terraform
2 57 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.84%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Control-M
7 3 (0.19%) Ansible
8 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.13%) Packer
9 1 (0.065%) Argo
9 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 343 (22.23%) Microsoft
2 303 (19.64%) Databricks
3 105 (6.80%) Salesforce
4 102 (6.61%) Oracle
5 80 (5.18%) SAP
6 49 (3.18%) Informatica
7 42 (2.72%) Google
8 35 (2.27%) Palantir
9 32 (2.07%) Talend
10 31 (2.01%) Cloudera
10 31 (2.01%) Foundry
11 23 (1.49%) Dell
11 23 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.43%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.17%) Sparx
14 16 (1.04%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.84%) UiPath
16 12 (0.78%) IBM
17 11 (0.71%) Workday