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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 125 124
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,669 1,206 2,167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.69% 2.45% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.72% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 619 1,399
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.63% +2.50% +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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +21 1,523 £69,973 +3.66% 757
UK excluding London +1 798 £62,500 +1.63% 600
London +23 705 £80,000 +6.67% 320
Work from Home +20 530 £66,000 +1.54% 545
North of England +86 294 £62,500 +4.17% 145
South East -39 188 £60,000 -7.69% 160
Midlands -2 147 £60,000 -4.00% 89
North West +51 139 £62,500 +13.64% 76
Yorkshire +27 106 £67,500 +12.50% 40
West Midlands -2 105 £62,500 +8.70% 47
South West -75 77 £60,000 -4.00% 67
East of England -12 54 £71,000 +18.33% 48
North East -18 49 £65,000 +36.84% 30
East Midlands -20 42 £55,000 -13.39% 42
Scotland -18 23 £70,000 +11.11% 57
Wales - 12 £66,793 - 23
Northern Ireland -55 3 £60,000 - 19

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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (6.83%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.73%) Apache
4 33 (1.98%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
5 18 (1.08%) SAS
6 14 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.66%) Confluence
8 8 (0.48%) CMS
8 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.18%) Appian
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 79 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.060%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.20%) SAP MDG
3 18 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.48%) SAP MDG-BP
9 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.42%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG-F
11 4 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.18%) Misys Opics
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
13 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
13 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 661 (39.60%) Azure
2 468 (28.04%) Power Platform
3 434 (26.00%) AWS
4 252 (15.10%) GCP
5 177 (10.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 163 (9.77%) Snowflake
7 140 (8.39%) dbt
8 127 (7.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 98 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (5.27%) Serverless
11 87 (5.21%) Amazon S3
12 65 (3.89%) SaaS
13 58 (3.48%) Power Automate
14 51 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (3.06%) PowerApps
15 44 (2.64%) GitHub
16 39 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
16 39 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
17 32 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
18 31 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.64%) Broadband
2 6 (0.36%) BGP
2 6 (0.36%) DNS
2 6 (0.36%) IPsec
2 6 (0.36%) VPN
3 4 (0.24%) Internet
3 4 (0.24%) NGN
4 3 (0.18%) LTE
4 3 (0.18%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) 4G
5 2 (0.12%) 5G
5 2 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.060%) CTI
6 1 (0.060%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.060%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 431 (25.82%) Power BI
2 338 (20.25%) Data Warehouse
3 210 (12.58%) Data Lake
4 197 (11.80%) Metadata
5 126 (7.55%) SQL Server
6 124 (7.43%) Tableau
7 109 (6.53%) Relational Database
8 90 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 90 (5.39%) BigQuery
9 88 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
10 70 (4.19%) Big Data
11 68 (4.07%) Star Schema
12 64 (3.83%) MySQL
13 63 (3.77%) Semantic Layer
14 61 (3.65%) NoSQL
15 51 (3.06%) Delta Lake
15 51 (3.06%) Power Query
16 49 (2.94%) Data Vault
17 48 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
18 47 (2.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 107 (6.41%) Git
2 35 (2.10%) JIRA
3 33 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.92%) MLflow
5 28 (1.68%) Claude Code
6 14 (0.84%) GitLab
7 12 (0.72%) ERwin
8 9 (0.54%) Postman
9 6 (0.36%) Toad
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.12%) NUnit
12 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
13 1 (0.060%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.060%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 562 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 510 (30.56%) Finance
3 452 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 71 (4.25%) Retail
6 69 (4.13%) Law
6 69 (4.13%) Marketing
7 54 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.70%) Legal
10 35 (2.10%) Financial Institution
11 31 (1.86%) Banking
12 23 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.26%) Billing
13 21 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.08%) Advertising
15 17 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 409 (24.51%) Data Engineer
2 374 (22.41%) Architect
3 354 (21.21%) Senior
4 262 (15.70%) Data Architect
5 200 (11.98%) Analyst
6 195 (11.68%) Developer
7 186 (11.14%) Lead
8 112 (6.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 103 (6.17%) Data Analyst
10 82 (4.91%) Consultant
11 62 (3.71%) Senior Architect
12 51 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 48 (2.88%) Business Analyst
13 48 (2.88%) Senior Data Architect
14 46 (2.76%) Data Modeller
15 44 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 44 (2.64%) Senior Developer
16 43 (2.58%) Lead Data Engineer
17 41 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
18 37 (2.22%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (7.85%) REST
2 114 (6.83%) PySpark
3 111 (6.65%) Kafka
4 70 (4.19%) Node.js
5 66 (3.95%) React
6 61 (3.65%) .NET
7 58 (3.48%) JSON
8 55 (3.30%) SOAP
9 54 (3.24%) Middleware
10 50 (3.00%) Lightning Web Components
11 44 (2.64%) XML
12 41 (2.46%) LangChain
13 40 (2.40%) CSS
14 33 (1.98%) RESTful
15 32 (1.92%) PyTorch
15 32 (1.92%) TensorFlow
16 29 (1.74%) AngularJS
16 29 (1.74%) HTML
16 29 (1.74%) scikit-learn
17 28 (1.68%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 134 (8.03%) Data Structures
3 84 (5.03%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 54 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
6 39 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 33 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.62%) Clustering
10 27 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 26 (1.56%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.44%) Reinsurance
13 22 (1.32%) Social Media
14 21 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
15 19 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 18 (1.08%) Replication
17 14 (0.84%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.26%) Linux
2 16 (0.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.060%) Android
3 1 (0.060%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.060%) Unix
3 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (47.39%) Analytics
2 576 (34.51%) Business Intelligence
3 529 (31.70%) Data Governance
4 496 (29.72%) AI
5 474 (28.40%) Data Engineering
6 460 (27.56%) ETL
7 446 (26.72%) Data Pipeline
8 431 (25.82%) Decision-Making
9 397 (23.79%) Agile
10 387 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
11 386 (23.13%) CI/CD
12 381 (22.83%) Data Architecture
13 284 (17.02%) DevOps
14 268 (16.06%) Mentoring
15 267 (16.00%) Machine Learning
15 267 (16.00%) Roadmaps
16 244 (14.62%) Data Strategy
17 232 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
18 187 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 176 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 872 (52.25%) SQL
2 697 (41.76%) Python
3 112 (6.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 103 (6.17%) Java
5 80 (4.79%) TypeScript
6 76 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 74 (4.43%) C#
8 56 (3.36%) Scala
9 46 (2.76%) Apex Code
10 42 (2.52%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.38%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.38%) R
12 20 (1.20%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.08%) SOQL
13 18 (1.08%) SOSL
14 14 (0.84%) Bash
14 14 (0.84%) Bicep
15 11 (0.66%) C++
16 10 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 199 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 189 (11.32%) Degree
3 123 (7.37%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.56%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.60%) SnowPro
15 9 (0.54%) CIPD
16 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
17 7 (0.42%) ACCA
17 7 (0.42%) CIMA
18 5 (0.30%) IIBA
19 4 (0.24%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 563 (33.73%) Data Quality
2 122 (7.31%) GDPR
3 58 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 54 (3.24%) QA
5 28 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.42%) GRC
8 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.30%) PMO
9 5 (0.30%) SLA
10 4 (0.24%) IFRS
10 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.24%) MiFID
10 4 (0.24%) PERC
11 3 (0.18%) WCAG
12 2 (0.12%) HL7
13 1 (0.060%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.060%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.060%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 88 (5.27%) Docker
2 10 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 104 (6.23%) Terraform
2 58 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.78%) Ansible
4 9 (0.54%) Grafana
5 8 (0.48%) Packer
6 6 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.18%) Kibana
8 1 (0.060%) QRadar
8 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.060%) SCCM
Vendors
1 343 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 339 (20.31%) Databricks
3 119 (7.13%) Oracle
4 107 (6.41%) Salesforce
5 101 (6.05%) SAP
6 55 (3.30%) Google
7 32 (1.92%) Informatica
8 27 (1.62%) Cloudera
8 27 (1.62%) Palantir
9 24 (1.44%) Foundry
10 23 (1.38%) Dell
11 18 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.02%) Talend
13 14 (0.84%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.72%) IBM
15 11 (0.66%) Workday
16 10 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 9 (0.54%) HubSpot
18 7 (0.42%) Ariba