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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 128 112
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,612 1,157 2,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.58% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.79% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 577 1,555
10th Percentile £42,799 £43,400 £40,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - +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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +23 1,460 £69,973 +6.42% 544
UK excluding London +11 764 £63,500 +5.83% 408
London +27 682 £80,000 +6.67% 277
Work from Home +31 513 £67,500 +3.85% 283
North of England +92 296 £65,000 +13.04% 98
South East -25 178 £62,500 -3.85% 146
Midlands -1 139 £60,000 -4.00% 73
North West +54 132 £62,500 +19.05% 64
Yorkshire +38 123 £68,510 +14.18% 24
West Midlands +6 99 £60,715 +2.04% 48
East of England +3 56 £71,000 +6.77% 15
South West -94 56 £60,000 - 43
North East -17 41 £65,000 +36.84% 11
East Midlands -32 38 £55,000 -13.39% 25
Scotland -22 27 £70,000 +11.55% 14
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 15
Northern Ireland -32 3 £60,000 - 9

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
1 144 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (6.58%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.90%) Apache
4 34 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 16 (0.99%) Confluence
6 16 (0.99%) SAS
7 12 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.56%) CMS
9 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.37%) Appian
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 69 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.062%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.18%) SAP MDG
3 15 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.68%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
9 7 (0.43%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
11 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
13 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 672 (41.69%) Azure
2 440 (27.30%) Power Platform
3 421 (26.12%) AWS
4 245 (15.20%) GCP
5 170 (10.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 149 (9.24%) Snowflake
7 137 (8.50%) dbt
8 130 (8.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 103 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (5.46%) Serverless
11 80 (4.96%) Amazon S3
12 66 (4.09%) SaaS
13 60 (3.72%) Power Automate
14 52 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (3.04%) PowerApps
16 46 (2.85%) GitHub
17 34 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
18 33 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
20 29 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.73%) Broadband
2 4 (0.25%) NGN
3 3 (0.19%) Internet
3 3 (0.19%) LTE
3 3 (0.19%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) 4G
4 2 (0.12%) 5G
4 2 (0.12%) SMS
4 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.062%) BGP
5 1 (0.062%) CTI
5 1 (0.062%) DNS
5 1 (0.062%) HTTP
5 1 (0.062%) IPsec
5 1 (0.062%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.062%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (25.06%) Power BI
2 313 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
3 191 (11.85%) Data Lake
4 189 (11.72%) Metadata
5 118 (7.32%) Tableau
6 115 (7.13%) SQL Server
7 107 (6.64%) Relational Database
8 89 (5.52%) BigQuery
9 84 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 81 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
11 66 (4.09%) NoSQL
12 60 (3.72%) Semantic Layer
13 58 (3.60%) Star Schema
14 53 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 51 (3.16%) Big Data
16 47 (2.92%) MySQL
16 47 (2.92%) Power Query
17 46 (2.85%) Delta Lake
17 46 (2.85%) Looker
17 46 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 109 (6.76%) Git
2 43 (2.67%) JIRA
3 36 (2.23%) MLflow
4 31 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.12%) Claude Code
6 15 (0.93%) GitLab
7 13 (0.81%) ERwin
7 13 (0.81%) Postman
8 6 (0.37%) Toad
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
11 2 (0.12%) Maven
11 2 (0.12%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) TestNG
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 544 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 497 (30.83%) Finance
3 444 (27.54%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 132 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.34%) Law
7 68 (4.22%) Marketing
8 63 (3.91%) Retail
9 46 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 42 (2.61%) Legal
11 41 (2.54%) Banking
12 40 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.43%) Billing
16 18 (1.12%) Local Government
17 17 (1.05%) Advertising
18 15 (0.93%) Games
19 14 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 389 (24.13%) Data Engineer
2 360 (22.33%) Architect
3 335 (20.78%) Senior
4 245 (15.20%) Data Architect
5 207 (12.84%) Analyst
6 191 (11.85%) Lead
7 190 (11.79%) Developer
8 116 (7.20%) Data Analyst
9 106 (6.58%) Senior Data Engineer
10 74 (4.59%) Consultant
11 54 (3.35%) Senior Architect
12 52 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 51 (3.16%) Business Analyst
14 45 (2.79%) Lead Data Engineer
15 43 (2.67%) Data Modeller
15 43 (2.67%) Senior Data Architect
16 41 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.54%) Senior Developer
17 38 (2.36%) Data Manager
18 37 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (8.87%) REST
2 110 (6.82%) PySpark
3 109 (6.76%) Kafka
4 64 (3.97%) .NET
4 64 (3.97%) SOAP
5 61 (3.78%) React
6 60 (3.72%) JSON
6 60 (3.72%) Node.js
7 58 (3.60%) Middleware
8 48 (2.98%) Lightning Web Components
9 47 (2.92%) XML
10 46 (2.85%) CSS
11 43 (2.67%) LangChain
12 39 (2.42%) RESTful
13 36 (2.23%) PyTorch
13 36 (2.23%) TensorFlow
14 33 (2.05%) HTML
14 33 (2.05%) scikit-learn
15 31 (1.92%) Visualforce
16 26 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 139 (8.62%) Data Structures
3 91 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 38 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (2.23%) Public Cloud
9 32 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.99%) Low-Code
10 28 (1.74%) Reinsurance
11 27 (1.67%) Clustering
12 23 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.36%) Social Media
14 17 (1.05%) Replication
15 15 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
17 13 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.93%) Linux
2 13 (0.81%) Windows
3 4 (0.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.062%) Android
4 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (46.40%) Analytics
2 548 (34.00%) Business Intelligence
3 515 (31.95%) Data Governance
4 472 (29.28%) Data Engineering
5 445 (27.61%) ETL
6 434 (26.92%) AI
7 429 (26.61%) Data Pipeline
8 404 (25.06%) Decision-Making
9 396 (24.57%) Agile
10 382 (23.70%) CI/CD
10 382 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
11 374 (23.20%) Data Architecture
12 287 (17.80%) DevOps
13 257 (15.94%) Mentoring
14 254 (15.76%) Machine Learning
15 235 (14.58%) Roadmaps
16 218 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 213 (13.21%) Data Strategy
18 171 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 171 (10.61%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 845 (52.42%) SQL
2 681 (42.25%) Python
3 113 (7.01%) Java
4 103 (6.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 85 (5.27%) JavaScript
6 75 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 66 (4.09%) C#
8 55 (3.41%) Scala
9 45 (2.79%) Apex Code
10 40 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.67%) R
12 24 (1.49%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.18%) Bash
14 19 (1.18%) SOQL
14 19 (1.18%) SOSL
15 10 (0.62%) Bicep
16 9 (0.56%) C++
17 8 (0.50%) Go
18 7 (0.43%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 185 (11.48%) Degree
2 182 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 116 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 32 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.86%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.68%) ACCA
12 11 (0.68%) CIMA
13 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.43%) SAP Certification
14 7 (0.43%) SnowPro
15 6 (0.37%) CIPD
15 6 (0.37%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (33.68%) Data Quality
2 116 (7.20%) GDPR
3 53 (3.29%) QA
4 49 (3.04%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.50%) SLA
8 7 (0.43%) GRC
8 7 (0.43%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PERC
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) WCAG
13 2 (0.12%) HL7
14 1 (0.062%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (5.33%) Docker
2 10 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 96 (5.96%) Terraform
2 67 (4.16%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.68%) Grafana
4 9 (0.56%) Ansible
4 9 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.31%) Packer
7 3 (0.19%) Control-M
7 3 (0.19%) Kibana
8 1 (0.062%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.062%) QRadar
8 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 339 (21.03%) Databricks
2 320 (19.85%) Microsoft
3 114 (7.07%) Salesforce
4 107 (6.64%) Oracle
5 93 (5.77%) SAP
6 52 (3.23%) Google
7 40 (2.48%) Informatica
8 30 (1.86%) Palantir
9 29 (1.80%) Foundry
10 27 (1.67%) Cloudera
11 23 (1.43%) Dell
12 20 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.12%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.12%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.99%) Talend
15 10 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 10 (0.62%) Workday
16 9 (0.56%) Cisco
17 8 (0.50%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.50%) UiPath