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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 128 111
Rank change year-on-year +24 -17 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,602 1,155 2,463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.58% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.79% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 578 1,557
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,700 £40,500
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 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.39% +0.42% +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 68,264 41,362 89,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.48% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46,974 22,138 63,125
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 £91,991
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 18 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 18 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 +25 1,445 £69,973 +7.65% 480
UK excluding London +2 765 £63,500 +5.39% 386
London +25 676 £80,000 +6.67% 239
Work from Home +38 517 £67,500 +3.85% 254
North of England +81 289 £65,000 +13.04% 85
South East -34 174 £61,250 -5.77% 140
Midlands 0 140 £60,000 -4.00% 65
North West +55 129 £62,500 +19.05% 54
Yorkshire +41 122 £68,510 +14.18% 20
West Midlands +9 100 £60,715 +1.19% 40
East of England 0 58 £71,000 +6.77% 16
South West -93 57 £58,750 -2.08% 40
North East -18 38 £65,000 +36.84% 12
East Midlands -24 38 £55,000 -13.39% 25
Scotland -12 35 £70,000 +11.55% 15
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 13
Northern Ireland -33 3 £60,000 - 16

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
1 146 (9.11%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 75 (4.68%) Apache
4 34 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 16 (1.00%) Confluence
7 15 (0.94%) SAS
8 12 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.56%) CMS
10 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.44%) Appian
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.25%) WordPress
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.19%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) IIS
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.12%) CICS
14 2 (0.12%) Luigi
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 67 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
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 36 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.19%) SAP MDG
3 15 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.69%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.12%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 676 (42.20%) Azure
2 441 (27.53%) Power Platform
3 412 (25.72%) AWS
4 240 (14.98%) GCP
5 174 (10.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 152 (9.49%) Snowflake
7 140 (8.74%) dbt
8 132 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 107 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (5.37%) Serverless
11 78 (4.87%) Amazon S3
12 65 (4.06%) SaaS
13 60 (3.75%) Power Automate
14 50 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (3.00%) PowerApps
16 47 (2.93%) GitHub
17 34 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
18 33 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
20 30 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.75%) 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%) CTI
5 1 (0.062%) HTTP
5 1 (0.062%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.062%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.062%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (25.28%) Power BI
2 310 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
3 189 (11.80%) Data Lake
4 188 (11.74%) Metadata
5 119 (7.43%) Tableau
6 116 (7.24%) SQL Server
7 105 (6.55%) Relational Database
8 87 (5.43%) BigQuery
9 85 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 78 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
11 64 (4.00%) NoSQL
12 58 (3.62%) Semantic Layer
13 57 (3.56%) Star Schema
14 55 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 47 (2.93%) Power Query
15 47 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 46 (2.87%) Looker
17 45 (2.81%) Big Data
17 45 (2.81%) Delta Lake
18 44 (2.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 113 (7.05%) Git
2 42 (2.62%) JIRA
3 37 (2.31%) MLflow
4 30 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.94%) Claude Code
6 14 (0.87%) ERwin
6 14 (0.87%) GitLab
6 14 (0.87%) Postman
7 6 (0.37%) Toad
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 2 (0.12%) ESLint
10 2 (0.12%) Gradle
10 2 (0.12%) NUnit
10 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 539 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 491 (30.65%) Finance
3 444 (27.72%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.43%) Law
7 68 (4.24%) Marketing
8 61 (3.81%) Retail
9 45 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (2.68%) Banking
11 42 (2.62%) Financial Institution
12 41 (2.56%) Legal
13 36 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.31%) Billing
17 18 (1.12%) Local Government
18 17 (1.06%) Advertising
19 15 (0.94%) Games
20 13 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 387 (24.16%) Data Engineer
2 353 (22.03%) Architect
3 328 (20.47%) Senior
4 239 (14.92%) Data Architect
5 208 (12.98%) Analyst
6 190 (11.86%) Lead
7 187 (11.67%) Developer
8 118 (7.37%) Data Analyst
9 105 (6.55%) Senior Data Engineer
10 75 (4.68%) Consultant
11 52 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 50 (3.12%) Business Analyst
13 49 (3.06%) Senior Architect
14 47 (2.93%) Lead Data Engineer
15 44 (2.75%) Data Modeller
16 42 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
17 41 (2.56%) Senior Developer
18 39 (2.43%) Senior Data Architect
19 37 (2.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
20 36 (2.25%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (9.30%) REST
2 110 (6.87%) PySpark
3 107 (6.68%) Kafka
4 67 (4.18%) SOAP
5 63 (3.93%) .NET
6 62 (3.87%) React
7 60 (3.75%) JSON
8 57 (3.56%) Node.js
9 56 (3.50%) Middleware
10 50 (3.12%) Lightning Web Components
11 47 (2.93%) CSS
12 46 (2.87%) XML
13 43 (2.68%) LangChain
14 39 (2.43%) RESTful
15 38 (2.37%) PyTorch
15 38 (2.37%) TensorFlow
16 35 (2.18%) scikit-learn
17 33 (2.06%) HTML
18 31 (1.94%) Visualforce
19 26 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 137 (8.55%) Data Structures
3 92 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 54 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 44 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 39 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 35 (2.18%) Public Cloud
11 33 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 32 (2.00%) Low-Code
13 28 (1.75%) Reinsurance
14 27 (1.69%) Clustering
15 22 (1.37%) Social Media
16 21 (1.31%) AI Agents
17 18 (1.12%) Replication
18 15 (0.94%) Algorithms
19 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
20 13 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.87%) Linux
1 14 (0.87%) Windows
2 5 (0.31%) Unix
3 1 (0.062%) Android
3 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (45.76%) Analytics
2 547 (34.14%) Business Intelligence
3 508 (31.71%) Data Governance
4 474 (29.59%) Data Engineering
5 446 (27.84%) ETL
6 426 (26.59%) AI
7 418 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
8 394 (24.59%) Agile
8 394 (24.59%) Decision-Making
9 384 (23.97%) CI/CD
10 383 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
11 373 (23.28%) Data Architecture
12 290 (18.10%) DevOps
13 253 (15.79%) Mentoring
14 249 (15.54%) Machine Learning
15 223 (13.92%) Roadmaps
16 217 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 208 (12.98%) Data Strategy
18 171 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 170 (10.61%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 844 (52.68%) SQL
2 681 (42.51%) Python
3 112 (6.99%) Java
4 102 (6.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 84 (5.24%) JavaScript
6 71 (4.43%) TypeScript
7 63 (3.93%) C#
8 52 (3.25%) Scala
9 47 (2.93%) Apex Code
10 40 (2.50%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.75%) R
12 26 (1.62%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.25%) Bash
13 20 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.19%) SOQL
14 19 (1.19%) SOSL
15 10 (0.62%) Bicep
16 9 (0.56%) C++
17 8 (0.50%) Go
18 7 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 185 (11.55%) Degree
2 173 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 114 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (1.87%) DBS Check
8 29 (1.81%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (0.69%) ACCA
11 11 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.69%) CIMA
12 7 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.44%) SAP Certification
12 7 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.37%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.31%) CIPD
14 5 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 539 (33.65%) Data Quality
2 112 (6.99%) GDPR
3 53 (3.31%) QA
4 48 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.56%) SLA
8 7 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.37%) GRC
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 2 (0.12%) HL7
12 2 (0.12%) WCAG
13 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 85 (5.31%) Docker
2 10 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 94 (5.87%) Terraform
2 66 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.69%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.44%) Ansible
7 5 (0.31%) Packer
8 4 (0.25%) Control-M
9 3 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.062%) QRadar
10 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 336 (20.97%) Databricks
2 320 (19.98%) Microsoft
3 115 (7.18%) Salesforce
4 104 (6.49%) Oracle
5 90 (5.62%) SAP
6 50 (3.12%) Google
7 40 (2.50%) Informatica
8 30 (1.87%) Palantir
9 29 (1.81%) Foundry
10 27 (1.69%) Cloudera
11 23 (1.44%) Dell
12 21 (1.31%) OpenAI
13 19 (1.19%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.06%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.94%) Talend
16 10 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 10 (0.62%) Workday
17 9 (0.56%) UiPath
18 8 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere
18 8 (0.50%) HubSpot