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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 122 121
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,740 1,232 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.48% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 2.78% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 633 1,121
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +10 1,605 £69,973 +3.66% 1,047
UK excluding London +6 844 £62,500 - 535
London +15 737 £80,000 +6.67% 631
Work from Home +17 547 £65,000 -1.14% 442
North of England +81 326 £62,500 +4.17% 135
South East -57 185 £62,500 -3.85% 162
Midlands -3 149 £60,000 -5.51% 80
North West +55 147 £62,500 +6.84% 74
Yorkshire +32 111 £65,000 +1.96% 40
West Midlands -5 105 £60,900 +3.22% 54
South West -56 95 £65,000 -7.14% 62
North East +2 68 £55,000 +12.82% 22
East of England -14 55 £71,000 +18.33% 38
East Midlands -27 44 £59,000 -9.23% 26
Scotland -15 24 £70,000 +5.66% 37
Wales - 8 £64,750 - 10
Northern Ireland -72 2 £60,000 - 12

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
1 134 (7.70%) Apache Airflow
2 122 (7.01%) Apache Spark
3 82 (4.71%) Apache
4 30 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 16 (0.92%) SAS
6 12 (0.69%) Confluence
7 11 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.17%) Luigi
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.057%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 72 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.057%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 39 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.15%) SAP MDG
4 14 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 683 (39.25%) Azure
2 493 (28.33%) Power Platform
3 456 (26.21%) AWS
4 259 (14.89%) GCP
5 178 (10.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 175 (10.06%) Snowflake
7 145 (8.33%) dbt
8 131 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 104 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (5.29%) Amazon S3
11 86 (4.94%) Serverless
12 65 (3.74%) SaaS
13 56 (3.22%) Power Automate
14 54 (3.10%) GitHub
14 54 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
15 52 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
16 51 (2.93%) PowerApps
17 38 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
18 36 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
18 36 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.53%) Broadband
2 6 (0.34%) BGP
2 6 (0.34%) DNS
2 6 (0.34%) IPsec
2 6 (0.34%) VPN
3 4 (0.23%) Internet
3 4 (0.23%) NGN
4 3 (0.17%) LTE
4 3 (0.17%) Network Security
5 2 (0.11%) 4G
5 2 (0.11%) 5G
5 2 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (26.38%) Power BI
2 362 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
3 227 (13.05%) Data Lake
4 218 (12.53%) Metadata
5 136 (7.82%) Tableau
6 128 (7.36%) SQL Server
7 109 (6.26%) Relational Database
8 99 (5.69%) BigQuery
9 98 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
11 79 (4.54%) Big Data
12 77 (4.43%) Star Schema
13 69 (3.97%) Semantic Layer
14 67 (3.85%) NoSQL
15 65 (3.74%) Delta Lake
16 57 (3.28%) Data Vault
17 56 (3.22%) Looker
18 55 (3.16%) Power Query
19 54 (3.10%) MySQL
20 53 (3.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (7.18%) Git
2 41 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.01%) JIRA
4 33 (1.90%) MLflow
5 30 (1.72%) Claude Code
6 21 (1.21%) GitLab
7 10 (0.57%) ERwin
8 6 (0.34%) Toad
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.23%) Postman
10 3 (0.17%) Ant
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.11%) Maven
11 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 580 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 556 (31.95%) Finance
3 470 (27.01%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 81 (4.66%) Law
7 80 (4.60%) Marketing
8 76 (4.37%) Retail
9 57 (3.28%) Manufacturing
10 56 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (3.22%) Legal
11 42 (2.41%) Banking
12 30 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.26%) Billing
14 21 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
14 21 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
16 17 (0.98%) Front Office
17 16 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 425 (24.43%) Data Engineer
2 404 (23.22%) Architect
3 364 (20.92%) Senior
4 289 (16.61%) Data Architect
5 191 (10.98%) Developer
6 187 (10.75%) Analyst
7 178 (10.23%) Lead
8 105 (6.03%) Senior Data Engineer
9 89 (5.11%) Data Analyst
10 79 (4.54%) Consultant
11 59 (3.39%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.10%) Data Modeller
13 52 (2.99%) Business Analyst
13 52 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 45 (2.59%) Senior Data Architect
14 45 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (2.41%) Senior Developer
16 39 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
17 38 (2.18%) Data Consultant
18 35 (2.01%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (7.70%) PySpark
2 120 (6.90%) REST
3 116 (6.67%) Kafka
4 65 (3.74%) Node.js
5 64 (3.68%) React
6 58 (3.33%) .NET
7 52 (2.99%) JSON
7 52 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
7 52 (2.99%) SOAP
8 50 (2.87%) Middleware
9 42 (2.41%) LangChain
10 39 (2.24%) XML
11 34 (1.95%) CSS
12 30 (1.72%) AngularJS
13 29 (1.67%) PyTorch
13 29 (1.67%) TensorFlow
14 27 (1.55%) RESTful
15 26 (1.49%) pgvector
15 26 (1.49%) scikit-learn
16 24 (1.38%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 177 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 129 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 89 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.72%) Clustering
10 30 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.55%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
14 24 (1.38%) Social Media
15 23 (1.32%) Low-Code
16 20 (1.15%) Replication
17 19 (1.09%) Mobile App
17 19 (1.09%) Reinsurance
18 16 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.32%) Linux
2 19 (1.09%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (48.05%) Analytics
2 615 (35.34%) Business Intelligence
3 569 (32.70%) AI
4 548 (31.49%) Data Governance
5 492 (28.28%) Data Engineering
6 491 (28.22%) ETL
7 473 (27.18%) Data Pipeline
8 445 (25.57%) Decision-Making
9 423 (24.31%) Data Architecture
10 422 (24.25%) Agile
11 397 (22.82%) CI/CD
12 385 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
13 305 (17.53%) Roadmaps
14 293 (16.84%) DevOps
15 288 (16.55%) Machine Learning
16 273 (15.69%) Data Strategy
17 270 (15.52%) Mentoring
18 239 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
19 213 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
20 199 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 906 (52.07%) SQL
2 724 (41.61%) Python
3 111 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 108 (6.21%) Java
5 79 (4.54%) C#
6 78 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 71 (4.08%) Scala
8 67 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 46 (2.64%) Apex Code
10 40 (2.30%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.67%) R
12 20 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 18 (1.03%) Bicep
13 18 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.98%) SOQL
14 17 (0.98%) SOSL
15 11 (0.63%) C++
15 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.57%) Bash
17 8 (0.46%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 223 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 192 (11.03%) Degree
3 139 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 45 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 33 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 27 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.32%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.86%) SnowPro
14 9 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.52%) CIPD
15 8 (0.46%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.34%) IIBA
16 6 (0.34%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.23%) CBAP
17 4 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 593 (34.08%) Data Quality
2 126 (7.24%) GDPR
3 64 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 57 (3.28%) QA
5 28 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.40%) PMO
6 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.29%) GRC
7 5 (0.29%) IFRS
7 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
7 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.29%) MiFID
8 4 (0.23%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.11%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.057%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.057%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (5.00%) Docker
2 8 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.057%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 109 (6.26%) Terraform
2 56 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.92%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Packer
5 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.23%) Grafana
6 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.17%) Kibana
8 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.057%) Argo
9 1 (0.057%) QRadar
9 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 372 (21.38%) Microsoft
2 359 (20.63%) Databricks
3 115 (6.61%) Oracle
4 108 (6.21%) SAP
5 103 (5.92%) Salesforce
6 59 (3.39%) Google
7 26 (1.49%) Cloudera
7 26 (1.49%) Informatica
8 23 (1.32%) Dell
9 20 (1.15%) Palantir
10 17 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 16 (0.92%) Foundry
11 16 (0.92%) Talend
12 13 (0.75%) IBM
13 12 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 11 (0.63%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.57%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.52%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO