Data Modelling Jobs

Data Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 106 111
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,161 2,483 3,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.22% 2.54% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.94% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 613 1,536 1,850
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £65,000 £67,003
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -2.99% +3.08%
75th Percentile £82,250 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and 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 48,773 84,346 100,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.27% 86.12% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 26,647 59,769 59,098
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,900
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -11.15% +3.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling.

Salary trend for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Top 18 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 25 April 2025. 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 -30 1,017 £65,000 -3.70% 1,706
UK excluding London -22 655 £60,000 - 754
Work from Home +14 424 £65,000 +4.00% 860
London -38 419 £75,000 - 1,068
South East +55 219 £65,000 -0.76% 223
North of England -103 113 £56,250 -8.10% 176
Midlands -30 107 £60,853 +11.35% 131
Scotland +17 90 £52,000 -20.00% 61
South West +60 87 £56,221 +2.22% 85
North West -85 82 £52,500 -22.22% 97
West Midlands -32 78 £60,000 +9.09% 88
East of England +12 31 £64,000 +35.76% 69
East Midlands +18 29 £64,750 +32.82% 38
Yorkshire +1 29 £60,000 +20.00% 64
North East -5 6 £55,603 -12.78% 15
Northern Ireland +39 4 - - 16
Wales +3 2 £37,500 -31.82% 16
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 78 (6.72%) Apache Spark
2 76 (6.55%) Oracle Application Server
3 45 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (3.27%) Apache
5 18 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.29%) Confluence
7 12 (1.03%) SAS
8 10 (0.86%) Luigi
9 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.17%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.086%) Appian
11 1 (0.086%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.086%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 96 (8.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.086%) Sketch
7 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (3.19%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.52%) Infor M3
5 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.26%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) Endur
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.086%) SAP CAR
9 1 (0.086%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.086%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.086%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 453 (39.02%) Azure
2 330 (28.42%) Power Platform
3 243 (20.93%) AWS
4 143 (12.32%) GCP
5 111 (9.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 99 (8.53%) Snowflake
7 63 (5.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 52 (4.48%) SaaS
9 47 (4.05%) Serverless
10 45 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
11 44 (3.79%) dbt
12 42 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 41 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
14 40 (3.45%) Power Automate
15 39 (3.36%) PowerApps
16 27 (2.33%) Amazon S3
17 24 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
18 22 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 18 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.43%) HTTP
2 3 (0.26%) 5G
2 3 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.086%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (31.52%) Data Warehouse
2 308 (26.53%) Power BI
3 144 (12.40%) Data Lake
4 129 (11.11%) Tableau
5 114 (9.82%) Metadata
6 104 (8.96%) SQL Server
7 102 (8.79%) NoSQL
8 84 (7.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 80 (6.89%) Oracle Reports
10 77 (6.63%) Big Data
11 67 (5.77%) Relational Database
12 54 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 47 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 45 (3.88%) Power Query
15 44 (3.79%) BigQuery
16 36 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
16 36 (3.10%) Hadoop
17 32 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 29 (2.50%) Data Mining
19 26 (2.24%) Looker
Development Applications
1 78 (6.72%) JIRA
2 42 (3.62%) Git
3 16 (1.38%) MagicDraw
4 14 (1.21%) Bitbucket
4 14 (1.21%) ERwin
5 9 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.34%) LSMW
8 3 (0.26%) JUnit
8 3 (0.26%) MLflow
8 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.17%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.17%) GitLab
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.17%) Subversion
9 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.086%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.086%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 489 (42.12%) Social Skills
2 363 (31.27%) Analytical Skills
3 348 (29.97%) Finance
4 145 (12.49%) Law
5 88 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
6 77 (6.63%) Marketing
7 75 (6.46%) Military
8 73 (6.29%) Banking
9 56 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (4.05%) Public Sector
11 37 (3.19%) Legal
12 32 (2.76%) Retail
13 25 (2.15%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.98%) Retail Banking
15 21 (1.81%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.64%) Advertising
17 17 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (1.38%) Telecoms
19 12 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 225 (19.38%) Senior
2 209 (18.00%) Data Engineer
3 196 (16.88%) Architect
4 190 (16.37%) Lead
5 152 (13.09%) Analyst
5 152 (13.09%) Developer
6 115 (9.91%) Data Architect
7 76 (6.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 51 (4.39%) Enterprise Architect
9 50 (4.31%) Consultant
10 49 (4.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 45 (3.88%) Business Analyst
12 42 (3.62%) Senior Developer
13 39 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 38 (3.27%) Data Analyst
15 37 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
16 36 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
17 35 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
18 32 (2.76%) Lead Data Engineer
19 27 (2.33%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.55%) REST
1 76 (6.55%) XML
2 67 (5.77%) SOAP
3 61 (5.25%) Kafka
4 50 (4.31%) PySpark
5 49 (4.22%) HTML
6 43 (3.70%) Middleware
7 37 (3.19%) Lightning Web Components
8 34 (2.93%) RESTful
9 33 (2.84%) Web Services
10 30 (2.58%) Restlet
11 29 (2.50%) .NET
12 28 (2.41%) CSS
13 27 (2.33%) JSON
14 18 (1.55%) ASP.NET
15 16 (1.38%) Pandas
16 15 (1.29%) .NET Core
16 15 (1.29%) AngularJS
16 15 (1.29%) OAuth
16 15 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 54 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 53 (4.57%) Management Information System
4 52 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (4.31%) Data Structures
6 39 (3.36%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.93%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.55%) Life Science
8 18 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.21%) NHS
12 12 (1.03%) Taxonomies
13 11 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.78%) CMDB
14 9 (0.78%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (0.69%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.69%) Reinsurance
16 7 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.12%) Unix
2 11 (0.95%) Linux
3 6 (0.52%) Android
3 6 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.43%) Windows
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (40.48%) Analytics
2 418 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
3 363 (31.27%) Data Management
4 338 (29.11%) Agile
5 315 (27.13%) ETL
6 286 (24.63%) Data Architecture
7 285 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
8 252 (21.71%) Data Governance
9 236 (20.33%) Visualisation
10 233 (20.07%) DevOps
11 221 (19.04%) Data Engineering
12 190 (16.37%) Data Pipeline
13 185 (15.93%) Data Integration
14 179 (15.42%) Decision-Making
15 171 (14.73%) Data Visualisation
16 157 (13.52%) Migration
17 149 (12.83%) Data Strategy
18 147 (12.66%) Computer Science
19 138 (11.89%) CI/CD
20 132 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 544 (46.86%) SQL
2 304 (26.18%) Python
3 94 (8.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 61 (5.25%) C#
6 57 (4.91%) Java
7 51 (4.39%) T-SQL
8 41 (3.53%) R
9 35 (3.01%) Apex Code
10 33 (2.84%) Scala
11 24 (2.07%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.98%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.55%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.12%) SPARQL
15 11 (0.95%) C++
16 10 (0.86%) Bash
17 9 (0.78%) Go
18 7 (0.60%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 225 (19.38%) Degree
2 104 (8.96%) DBS Check
3 77 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (5.25%) Master's Degree
5 57 (4.91%) Azure Certification
6 48 (4.13%) Security Cleared
7 34 (2.93%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.93%) SC Cleared
8 18 (1.55%) PhD
9 15 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.26%) IIBA
15 3 (0.26%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (22.83%) Data Quality
2 66 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 52 (4.48%) QA
4 43 (3.70%) GDPR
5 11 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.52%) GxP
7 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.34%) NIST
8 4 (0.34%) PMO
9 2 (0.17%) Dublin Core
9 2 (0.17%) EMIR
9 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.17%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.17%) MiFID
9 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (3.19%) Docker
2 17 (1.46%) HDFS
3 7 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.41%) Terraform
3 11 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.17%) Grafana
5 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.086%) Argo
6 1 (0.086%) Kiali
Vendors
1 297 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 139 (11.97%) Oracle
3 121 (10.42%) Databricks
4 81 (6.98%) Salesforce
5 74 (6.37%) Google
6 72 (6.20%) SAP
7 42 (3.62%) Informatica
8 21 (1.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 14 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.12%) IBM
11 12 (1.03%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.95%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.86%) Talend
14 6 (0.52%) Infor
14 6 (0.52%) StreamSets
14 6 (0.52%) Teradata
15 5 (0.43%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.43%) Intel
15 5 (0.43%) OpenAI
16 4 (0.34%) TikTok