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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 126 119
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,735 1,225 1,843
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.47% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.76% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,164 633 1,150
10th Percentile £43,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.19% +1.20% +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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +18 1,597 £69,973 +3.66% 945
UK excluding London +3 836 £62,500 -1.19% 510
London +14 739 £80,000 +6.67% 543
Work from Home +20 545 £65,000 -2.26% 441
North of England +82 322 £62,750 +4.58% 132
South East -45 188 £62,500 -3.85% 146
North West +57 145 £62,500 +5.49% 67
Midlands -8 145 £60,000 -5.51% 73
Yorkshire +27 113 £65,000 +6.12% 41
West Midlands -4 101 £60,900 +5.91% 55
South West -68 90 £60,000 -14.29% 78
North East -1 64 £55,000 +12.82% 26
East of England -3 57 £71,000 +18.33% 29
East Midlands -27 44 £59,000 -9.23% 18
Scotland -21 22 £70,000 +5.66% 34
Wales - 9 £66,000 - 9
Northern Ireland - 3 £60,000 - 12

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
1 139 (8.01%) Apache Airflow
2 125 (7.20%) Apache Spark
3 84 (4.84%) Apache
4 32 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 15 (0.86%) SAS
7 13 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.63%) Confluence
9 8 (0.46%) CMS
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.23%) WordPress
12 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 3 (0.17%) Luigi
13 2 (0.12%) Camunda
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.058%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 74 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.058%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.15%) SAP MDG
3 14 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
7 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
12 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 681 (39.25%) Azure
2 501 (28.88%) Power Platform
3 461 (26.57%) AWS
4 257 (14.81%) GCP
5 178 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 175 (10.09%) Snowflake
7 151 (8.70%) dbt
8 128 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 101 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (5.30%) Amazon S3
11 87 (5.01%) Serverless
12 65 (3.75%) SaaS
13 57 (3.29%) Power Automate
14 53 (3.05%) PowerApps
15 51 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (2.94%) GitHub
15 51 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
16 38 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
17 36 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.59%) Broadband
2 6 (0.35%) BGP
2 6 (0.35%) DNS
2 6 (0.35%) IPsec
2 6 (0.35%) VPN
3 4 (0.23%) Internet
3 4 (0.23%) NGN
4 3 (0.17%) LTE
4 3 (0.17%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) 4G
5 2 (0.12%) 5G
5 2 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.058%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (26.86%) Power BI
2 362 (20.86%) Data Warehouse
3 224 (12.91%) Data Lake
4 212 (12.22%) Metadata
5 136 (7.84%) Tableau
6 131 (7.55%) SQL Server
7 111 (6.40%) Relational Database
8 98 (5.65%) BigQuery
9 97 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
11 79 (4.55%) Big Data
12 75 (4.32%) Star Schema
13 68 (3.92%) Semantic Layer
14 66 (3.80%) NoSQL
15 62 (3.57%) Delta Lake
16 57 (3.29%) MySQL
17 56 (3.23%) Data Vault
17 56 (3.23%) Looker
17 56 (3.23%) Power Query
18 51 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 122 (7.03%) Git
2 40 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.96%) JIRA
4 33 (1.90%) MLflow
5 29 (1.67%) Claude Code
6 21 (1.21%) GitLab
7 11 (0.63%) ERwin
8 6 (0.35%) Toad
9 5 (0.29%) Postman
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.12%) Ant
12 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
General
1 579 (33.37%) Social Skills
2 551 (31.76%) Finance
3 475 (27.38%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 79 (4.55%) Law
7 76 (4.38%) Retail
8 75 (4.32%) Marketing
9 56 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (3.17%) Manufacturing
11 53 (3.05%) Legal
12 40 (2.31%) Banking
13 31 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.21%) Billing
15 21 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
18 17 (0.98%) Advertising
19 16 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 431 (24.84%) Data Engineer
2 399 (23.00%) Architect
3 366 (21.10%) Senior
4 282 (16.25%) Data Architect
5 196 (11.30%) Developer
6 190 (10.95%) Analyst
7 183 (10.55%) Lead
8 113 (6.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 93 (5.36%) Data Analyst
10 80 (4.61%) Consultant
11 59 (3.40%) Senior Architect
12 53 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 51 (2.94%) Data Modeller
14 50 (2.88%) Business Analyst
15 45 (2.59%) Senior Data Architect
15 45 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (2.48%) Senior Developer
17 38 (2.19%) Data Consultant
18 37 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (2.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (7.55%) PySpark
2 124 (7.15%) REST
3 120 (6.92%) Kafka
4 68 (3.92%) Node.js
5 65 (3.75%) React
6 59 (3.40%) .NET
7 57 (3.29%) JSON
8 53 (3.05%) Lightning Web Components
8 53 (3.05%) SOAP
9 51 (2.94%) Middleware
10 42 (2.42%) LangChain
10 42 (2.42%) XML
11 35 (2.02%) CSS
12 29 (1.67%) AngularJS
12 29 (1.67%) RESTful
13 28 (1.61%) PyTorch
13 28 (1.61%) TensorFlow
14 25 (1.44%) pgvector
14 25 (1.44%) scikit-learn
14 25 (1.44%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 173 (9.97%) Cloud Native
2 134 (7.72%) Data Structures
3 84 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 79 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
6 42 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 32 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 31 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.67%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.67%) Clustering
12 26 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
13 25 (1.44%) Social Media
14 24 (1.38%) Low-Code
15 21 (1.21%) Reinsurance
16 20 (1.15%) Replication
17 19 (1.10%) Mobile App
18 15 (0.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.27%) Linux
2 17 (0.98%) Windows
3 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.058%) Solaris
4 1 (0.058%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (47.55%) Analytics
2 612 (35.27%) Business Intelligence
3 553 (31.87%) AI
4 546 (31.47%) Data Governance
5 500 (28.82%) Data Engineering
6 485 (27.95%) ETL
7 468 (26.97%) Data Pipeline
8 443 (25.53%) Decision-Making
9 414 (23.86%) Agile
10 412 (23.75%) Data Architecture
11 393 (22.65%) CI/CD
12 385 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
13 297 (17.12%) Roadmaps
14 293 (16.89%) DevOps
15 284 (16.37%) Machine Learning
16 270 (15.56%) Mentoring
17 266 (15.33%) Data Strategy
18 243 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
19 206 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
20 192 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 904 (52.10%) SQL
2 725 (41.79%) Python
3 113 (6.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 109 (6.28%) Java
5 78 (4.50%) C#
5 78 (4.50%) TypeScript
6 71 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 66 (3.80%) Scala
8 47 (2.71%) Apex Code
9 42 (2.42%) T-SQL
10 28 (1.61%) R
11 21 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 19 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.98%) SOQL
13 17 (0.98%) SOSL
14 16 (0.92%) Bicep
15 12 (0.69%) C++
16 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.58%) Bash
18 8 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 218 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 191 (11.01%) Degree
3 136 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 26 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.44%) DBS Check
11 19 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.75%) SnowPro
14 10 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.52%) CIPD
16 8 (0.46%) SAP Certification
17 6 (0.35%) IIBA
17 6 (0.35%) PMI Certification
18 5 (0.29%) ACCA
18 5 (0.29%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 596 (34.35%) Data Quality
2 125 (7.20%) GDPR
3 64 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 55 (3.17%) QA
5 27 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.40%) PMO
7 6 (0.35%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.29%) GRC
9 4 (0.23%) IFRS
9 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.23%) MiFID
9 4 (0.23%) PERC
10 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.17%) SLA
11 2 (0.12%) HL7
11 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.12%) UCITS
11 2 (0.12%) WCAG
12 1 (0.058%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 90 (5.19%) Docker
2 10 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.058%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 107 (6.17%) Terraform
2 58 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.81%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Packer
5 6 (0.35%) Grafana
5 6 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
5 6 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.058%) Argo
7 1 (0.058%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.058%) Puppet
7 1 (0.058%) QRadar
7 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.058%) SCCM
Vendors
1 367 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 357 (20.58%) Databricks
3 117 (6.74%) Oracle
4 105 (6.05%) Salesforce
4 105 (6.05%) SAP
5 56 (3.23%) Google
6 26 (1.50%) Cloudera
6 26 (1.50%) Informatica
7 23 (1.33%) Dell
8 22 (1.27%) Palantir
9 18 (1.04%) Foundry
10 16 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.86%) Talend
12 13 (0.75%) IBM
12 13 (0.75%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 9 (0.52%) Bloomberg
14 9 (0.52%) HubSpot
15 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO