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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 128 107
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,831 1,205 1,738
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.45% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.77% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 629 945
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +1.47% +1.49%
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 84,797 43,558 63,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.68% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,554 24,566 35,554
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,781 £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 21 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 21 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 +4 1,685 £70,000 +2.19% 2,476
UK excluding London +3 914 £62,500 -1.57% 1,192
London +3 766 £82,500 +6.45% 1,509
Work from Home +33 569 £66,500 -2.21% 1,030
North of England +64 352 £65,000 +1.96% 279
South East -74 196 £62,500 -3.85% 320
Midlands -1 169 £62,500 -1.57% 198
North West +57 159 £62,500 +4.17% 170
West Midlands 0 123 £62,500 +4.17% 134
South West -17 110 £69,973 +8.74% 127
Yorkshire +7 109 £68,005 +0.75% 80
North East +7 84 £65,000 +31.98% 30
East of England -33 46 £62,500 +4.17% 85
East Midlands -34 46 £59,366 -8.67% 64
Scotland -7 24 £70,000 +14.29% 126
Wales -50 22 £63,500 - 27
Northern Ireland -80 2 £60,000 - 42

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
1 114 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 100 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (4.59%) Apache
4 36 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.47%) Confluence
6 18 (0.98%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.66%) 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 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.055%) JBoss
14 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
Applications
1 87 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.55%) 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 (0.055%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 39 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.98%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.55%) 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 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
12 3 (0.16%) SAP BPC
13 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
14 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 720 (39.32%) Azure
2 541 (29.55%) Power Platform
3 446 (24.36%) AWS
4 242 (13.22%) GCP
5 204 (11.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 164 (8.96%) Snowflake
7 147 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
8 133 (7.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 130 (7.10%) dbt
10 102 (5.57%) Serverless
11 94 (5.13%) Amazon S3
12 81 (4.42%) Azure Databricks
12 81 (4.42%) SaaS
13 72 (3.93%) Power Automate
14 70 (3.82%) GitHub
15 64 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 57 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
16 57 (3.11%) PowerApps
17 56 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
18 43 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.64%) 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 (0.055%) 4G
8 1 (0.055%) ATM
8 1 (0.055%) HTTP
8 1 (0.055%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 497 (27.14%) Power BI
2 368 (20.10%) Data Warehouse
3 252 (13.76%) Metadata
4 220 (12.02%) Data Lake
5 142 (7.76%) SQL Server
6 135 (7.37%) Tableau
7 111 (6.06%) Relational Database
8 96 (5.24%) Star Schema
9 86 (4.70%) Semantic Layer
10 85 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
11 83 (4.53%) BigQuery
11 83 (4.53%) Delta Lake
12 82 (4.48%) Big Data
13 77 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 77 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 77 (4.21%) NoSQL
14 61 (3.33%) Power Query
15 60 (3.28%) Data Vault
16 52 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
16 52 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 165 (9.01%) Git
2 49 (2.68%) Jenkins
2 49 (2.68%) JIRA
3 44 (2.40%) Claude Code
4 27 (1.47%) GitLab
5 18 (0.98%) 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%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.11%) Mockito
10 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 639 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 561 (30.64%) Finance
3 486 (26.54%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 95 (5.19%) Marketing
7 86 (4.70%) Retail
8 73 (3.99%) Law
9 72 (3.93%) Legal
10 67 (3.66%) Manufacturing
11 54 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (2.46%) Banking
13 31 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 28 (1.53%) Billing
15 26 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.15%) 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
1 447 (24.41%) Data Engineer
2 421 (22.99%) Architect
3 396 (21.63%) Senior
4 308 (16.82%) Data Architect
5 210 (11.47%) Analyst
6 191 (10.43%) Lead
7 189 (10.32%) Developer
8 115 (6.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 104 (5.68%) Data Analyst
10 72 (3.93%) Consultant
11 65 (3.55%) Senior Architect
12 55 (3.00%) Senior Data Architect
13 52 (2.84%) Business Analyst
13 52 (2.84%) Data Modeller
14 47 (2.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 46 (2.51%) Software Engineer
16 45 (2.46%) Databricks Engineer
17 44 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
17 44 (2.40%) Senior Developer
17 44 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (9.18%) PySpark
2 123 (6.72%) REST
3 111 (6.06%) Terraform
4 100 (5.46%) Kafka
5 68 (3.71%) Node.js
6 67 (3.66%) React
7 60 (3.28%) .NET
8 48 (2.62%) Middleware
9 47 (2.57%) Lightning Web Components
9 47 (2.57%) SOAP
10 46 (2.51%) JSON
11 36 (1.97%) CSS
12 34 (1.86%) XML
13 33 (1.80%) AngularJS
14 28 (1.53%) LangChain
15 25 (1.37%) RESTful
16 22 (1.20%) Spring
17 21 (1.15%) HTML
17 21 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
17 21 (1.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 171 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.12%) Data Structures
3 103 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 69 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 52 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 38 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
14 24 (1.31%) Taxonomies
15 20 (1.09%) Reinsurance
16 19 (1.04%) Public Cloud
16 19 (1.04%) Replication
17 18 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
18 17 (0.93%) Clustering
18 17 (0.93%) Mobile App
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 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (45.71%) Analytics
2 663 (36.21%) Business Intelligence
3 640 (34.95%) AI
4 536 (29.27%) Data Governance
5 513 (28.02%) Data Engineering
6 498 (27.20%) ETL
7 494 (26.98%) Data Pipeline
8 475 (25.94%) Data Architecture
9 472 (25.78%) Agile
10 463 (25.29%) CI/CD
11 462 (25.23%) Decision-Making
12 416 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
13 342 (18.68%) DevOps
14 340 (18.57%) Roadmaps
15 305 (16.66%) Mentoring
16 290 (15.84%) Data Strategy
17 273 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
18 267 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
19 263 (14.36%) Machine Learning
20 260 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 947 (51.72%) SQL
2 705 (38.50%) Python
3 123 (6.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 100 (5.46%) C#
5 99 (5.41%) Java
6 89 (4.86%) TypeScript
7 83 (4.53%) Scala
8 76 (4.15%) JavaScript
9 43 (2.35%) Apex Code
10 36 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.47%) R
12 24 (1.31%) PowerShell
13 22 (1.20%) 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
1 244 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 203 (11.09%) Degree
3 157 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (3.71%) Azure Certification
6 53 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.42%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.98%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.55%) 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
1 672 (36.70%) Data Quality
2 133 (7.26%) GDPR
3 86 (4.70%) Accessibility
4 64 (3.50%) QA
5 22 (1.20%) 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/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%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.11%) PERC
System Software
1 98 (5.35%) Docker
2 13 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.055%) NFS
4 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.055%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (3.60%) 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%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.055%) Consul
8 1 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.055%) QRadar
8 1 (0.055%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 450 (24.58%) Microsoft
2 350 (19.12%) Databricks
3 108 (5.90%) Oracle
4 107 (5.84%) SAP
5 106 (5.79%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.55%) Google
7 36 (1.97%) Informatica
8 21 (1.15%) 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
13 11 (0.60%) Cloudera
14 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.55%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.55%) IBM
14 10 (0.55%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.55%) OpenText