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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 132 114
Rank change year-on-year +13 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,823 1,175 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.55% 2.36% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 2.65% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,166 627 866
10th Percentile £44,875 £45,300 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,063 £56,055 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +0.74% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,348
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - +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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +16 1,676 £70,782 +4.09% 2,601
UK excluding London -1 896 £63,750 +2.00% 1,100
London +2 776 £82,500 - 1,616
Work from Home +32 564 £69,973 +3.66% 1,079
North of England +68 342 £65,000 - 277
South East -60 196 £62,500 -3.85% 283
Midlands +14 174 £62,500 -1.57% 165
North West +66 158 £62,500 +4.17% 166
West Midlands +12 124 £65,000 +10.17% 110
South West -22 105 £78,750 +22.38% 89
Yorkshire +3 102 £68,510 +1.50% 75
North East +5 82 £65,000 +31.98% 37
East Midlands -30 50 £47,500 -26.92% 55
East of England -42 43 £63,750 +6.25% 95
Wales -54 23 £63,500 - 25
Scotland -14 22 £70,000 +16.67% 122
Northern Ireland -78 2 £60,000 - 52

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
1 111 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 102 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (4.99%) Apache
4 32 (1.76%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.26%) Confluence
6 21 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.60%) SAS
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) WordPress
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
14 1 (0.055%) JBoss
Applications
1 89 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.44%) Notion
4 3 (0.16%) Blender
4 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.16%) Maya
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 45 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.38%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.33%) SAP BPC
9 6 (0.33%) SAP MDG-BP
10 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
11 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG-F
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
13 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
14 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 700 (38.40%) Azure
2 535 (29.35%) Power Platform
3 437 (23.97%) AWS
4 241 (13.22%) GCP
5 198 (10.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 175 (9.60%) Snowflake
7 145 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (7.52%) dbt
9 131 (7.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 102 (5.60%) Serverless
11 98 (5.38%) Amazon S3
12 90 (4.94%) SaaS
13 81 (4.44%) Azure Databricks
14 70 (3.84%) GitHub
15 69 (3.78%) Power Automate
16 59 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
16 59 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
17 57 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
17 57 (3.13%) PowerApps
18 42 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.59%) Broadband
2 17 (0.93%) VPN
3 11 (0.60%) DMZ
3 11 (0.60%) Ethernet
3 11 (0.60%) IPv4
3 11 (0.60%) Modbus
3 11 (0.60%) OSPF
3 11 (0.60%) 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%) HTTP
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.055%) 4G
8 1 (0.055%) 5G
8 1 (0.055%) ATM
8 1 (0.055%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 496 (27.21%) Power BI
2 378 (20.74%) Data Warehouse
3 272 (14.92%) Metadata
4 212 (11.63%) Data Lake
5 134 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 118 (6.47%) Tableau
7 107 (5.87%) Relational Database
8 95 (5.21%) Star Schema
9 92 (5.05%) Semantic Layer
10 83 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
11 81 (4.44%) Big Data
11 81 (4.44%) Delta Lake
11 81 (4.44%) NoSQL
12 78 (4.28%) BigQuery
13 76 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 73 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 67 (3.68%) Power Query
16 58 (3.18%) Data Vault
17 48 (2.63%) MySQL
18 47 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 173 (9.49%) Git
2 49 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 44 (2.41%) JIRA
4 40 (2.19%) Claude Code
5 33 (1.81%) GitLab
6 10 (0.55%) MLflow
7 8 (0.44%) ERwin
8 6 (0.33%) Ant
9 5 (0.27%) Toad
10 4 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.16%) Flyway
12 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.11%) Gradle
12 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 639 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 562 (30.83%) Finance
3 471 (25.84%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 95 (5.21%) Marketing
7 86 (4.72%) Retail
8 78 (4.28%) Legal
9 74 (4.06%) Law
10 72 (3.95%) Manufacturing
11 52 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.52%) Banking
13 35 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
14 34 (1.87%) Billing
15 31 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.82%) Local Government
18 14 (0.77%) Advertising
18 14 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 465 (25.51%) Data Engineer
2 422 (23.15%) Architect
3 403 (22.11%) Senior
4 315 (17.28%) Data Architect
5 205 (11.25%) Analyst
6 195 (10.70%) Lead
7 181 (9.93%) Developer
8 122 (6.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 105 (5.76%) Data Analyst
10 69 (3.78%) Consultant
10 69 (3.78%) Senior Architect
11 59 (3.24%) Senior Data Architect
12 50 (2.74%) Principal Engineer
13 47 (2.58%) Business Analyst
14 46 (2.52%) Software Engineer
15 45 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
16 43 (2.36%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.30%) Data Modeller
18 41 (2.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (8.89%) PySpark
2 128 (7.02%) REST
3 110 (6.03%) Terraform
4 88 (4.83%) Kafka
5 66 (3.62%) Node.js
6 64 (3.51%) React
7 57 (3.13%) .NET
8 49 (2.69%) Middleware
9 46 (2.52%) SOAP
10 42 (2.30%) Lightning Web Components
11 41 (2.25%) JSON
12 34 (1.87%) AngularJS
13 32 (1.76%) CSS
14 28 (1.54%) XML
15 24 (1.32%) RESTful
16 23 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
17 21 (1.15%) Spring
17 21 (1.15%) Vue
18 20 (1.10%) Pandas
19 18 (0.99%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.05%) Cloud Native
2 120 (6.58%) Data Structures
3 102 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 81 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 69 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 44 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 40 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 31 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
13 23 (1.26%) Taxonomies
14 20 (1.10%) Reference Data
15 18 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
16 17 (0.93%) Low-Code
16 17 (0.93%) Reinsurance
17 16 (0.88%) Replication
17 16 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.48%) Linux
1 27 (1.48%) Windows
2 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.16%) Unix
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (45.64%) Analytics
2 667 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
3 638 (35.00%) AI
4 532 (29.18%) Data Governance
5 518 (28.41%) Data Engineering
6 515 (28.25%) Data Pipeline
7 495 (27.15%) ETL
8 474 (26.00%) CI/CD
9 473 (25.95%) Agile
10 466 (25.56%) Data Architecture
11 451 (24.74%) Decision-Making
12 403 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
13 341 (18.71%) DevOps
14 340 (18.65%) Roadmaps
15 326 (17.88%) Mentoring
16 297 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
17 296 (16.24%) Technical Leadership
18 290 (15.91%) Data Strategy
19 257 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
20 251 (13.77%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 960 (52.66%) SQL
2 702 (38.51%) Python
3 128 (7.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 101 (5.54%) C#
5 99 (5.43%) Java
6 85 (4.66%) Scala
7 84 (4.61%) TypeScript
8 74 (4.06%) JavaScript
9 40 (2.19%) Apex Code
10 33 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.48%) R
12 26 (1.43%) PowerShell
13 23 (1.26%) Bicep
14 17 (0.93%) SOQL
15 15 (0.82%) SOSL
16 13 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.55%) Bash
19 8 (0.44%) SPARQL
20 7 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 255 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 198 (10.86%) Degree
3 170 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (3.68%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 48 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 27 (1.48%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.99%) SnowPro
13 13 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.55%) CIPD
15 9 (0.49%) ACCA
16 7 (0.38%) CIMA
16 7 (0.38%) CSPO
17 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 692 (37.96%) Data Quality
2 123 (6.75%) GDPR
3 93 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 62 (3.40%) QA
5 14 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.49%) WCAG
7 8 (0.44%) PMO
8 5 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.22%) COPPA
9 4 (0.22%) MiFID
9 4 (0.22%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.16%) UCITS
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.055%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 105 (5.76%) Docker
2 19 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.11%) NFS
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (3.84%) 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
6 3 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
7 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.055%) Consul
8 1 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.055%) QRadar
Vendors
1 464 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 326 (17.88%) Databricks
3 109 (5.98%) Salesforce
3 109 (5.98%) SAP
4 107 (5.87%) Oracle
5 69 (3.78%) Google
6 33 (1.81%) Informatica
7 21 (1.15%) Talend
8 20 (1.10%) Foundry
8 20 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 17 (0.93%) Palantir
10 15 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 14 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 11 (0.60%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
13 10 (0.55%) ForgeRock
13 10 (0.55%) IBM
13 10 (0.55%) Okta
13 10 (0.55%) OpenText
14 9 (0.49%) Workday