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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 127 98
Rank change year-on-year +23 -29 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,412 1,151 2,130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.05% 2.37% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.56% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 800 602 1,433
10th Percentile £43,725 £38,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,711 £51,143
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £63,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -4.55% +1.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £59,125 £57,046
% change year-on-year +7.40% +3.64% -0.79%

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 54,494 44,927 66,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.19% 92.59% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,685 22,191 51,489
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,448
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 February 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 February 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 1,217 £70,000 +8.11% 643
UK excluding London +1 681 £63,500 +7.40% 494
London +60 618 £80,000 +10.34% 292
Work from Home +39 551 £70,932 +9.55% 318
South East +12 203 £61,500 -1.60% 198
North of England -24 168 £70,000 +33.33% 110
Midlands +2 110 £60,000 - 94
Scotland +16 92 £87,500 +41.42% 32
Yorkshire +1 92 £75,000 +42.86% 26
West Midlands +2 86 £60,000 +4.35% 68
North West -35 66 £66,250 +32.50% 69
South West -32 48 £64,350 +17.00% 36
East of England +21 45 £55,000 -12.70% 26
East Midlands -27 22 £52,250 -19.31% 26
Wales +1 10 £67,586 +80.23% 7
North East -15 10 £52,500 -14.22% 17
Northern Ireland -25 6 £40,500 -

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 90 (6.37%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 51 (3.61%) Apache
4 20 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.27%) Confluence
5 18 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.20%) Appian
6 17 (1.20%) SAS
7 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.50%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Camunda
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 106 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
6 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.071%) Notion
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 31 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.99%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.071%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.071%) Misys Opics
8 1 (0.071%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.071%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.071%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.071%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.071%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 685 (48.51%) Azure
2 410 (29.04%) Power Platform
3 290 (20.54%) AWS
4 196 (13.88%) Snowflake
5 189 (13.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 168 (11.90%) GCP
7 152 (10.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 136 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
9 128 (9.07%) dbt
10 88 (6.23%) GitHub
11 85 (6.02%) Serverless
12 68 (4.82%) SaaS
13 63 (4.46%) Amazon S3
14 54 (3.82%) Power Automate
15 46 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
16 43 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (2.90%) PowerApps
18 38 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
19 32 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 32 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.50%) Broadband
2 5 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.21%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) ADSL
5 1 (0.071%) CTI
5 1 (0.071%) DHCP
5 1 (0.071%) DNS
5 1 (0.071%) Internet
5 1 (0.071%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.071%) Modbus
5 1 (0.071%) MQTT
5 1 (0.071%) Network Security
5 1 (0.071%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.071%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (27.62%) Data Warehouse
2 375 (26.56%) Power BI
3 207 (14.66%) Data Lake
4 198 (14.02%) Metadata
5 127 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 91 (6.44%) Tableau
7 68 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 68 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 65 (4.60%) Relational Database
9 64 (4.53%) NoSQL
10 63 (4.46%) Power Query
11 58 (4.11%) MySQL
12 57 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
13 53 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 50 (3.54%) BigQuery
15 48 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (2.62%) Big Data
16 37 (2.62%) Data Vault
16 37 (2.62%) Snowflake Schema
17 34 (2.41%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 95 (6.73%) Git
2 52 (3.68%) JIRA
3 35 (2.48%) ERwin
4 19 (1.35%) Postman
5 17 (1.20%) ER Studio
5 17 (1.20%) MLflow
6 13 (0.92%) GitLab
7 11 (0.78%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.50%) JUnit
10 6 (0.42%) Selenium
11 5 (0.35%) git-flow
12 3 (0.21%) Gradle
12 3 (0.21%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) NUnit
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Snyk
12 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) TestNG
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 552 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 505 (35.76%) Finance
3 370 (26.20%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 84 (5.95%) Marketing
7 76 (5.38%) Law
8 63 (4.46%) Banking
9 55 (3.90%) Financial Institution
10 37 (2.62%) Retail
11 31 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (2.05%) Retail Banking
14 25 (1.77%) Legal
15 23 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.35%) Advertising
18 14 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 349 (24.72%) Architect
2 288 (20.40%) Senior
3 286 (20.25%) Data Engineer
4 238 (16.86%) Data Architect
5 186 (13.17%) Analyst
6 157 (11.12%) Lead
7 146 (10.34%) Developer
8 108 (7.65%) Data Analyst
9 101 (7.15%) Senior Data Engineer
10 58 (4.11%) Consultant
11 44 (3.12%) Lead Data Engineer
12 37 (2.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 37 (2.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 35 (2.48%) Azure Architect
13 35 (2.48%) Azure Engineer
13 35 (2.48%) Lead Architect
13 35 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.48%) Senior Architect
14 34 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (2.20%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (8.14%) REST
2 80 (5.67%) Kafka
3 60 (4.25%) SOAP
4 51 (3.61%) PySpark
5 49 (3.47%) .NET
6 46 (3.26%) JSON
6 46 (3.26%) RESTful
7 42 (2.97%) Lightning Web Components
8 35 (2.48%) CSS
9 34 (2.41%) Middleware
9 34 (2.41%) XML
10 33 (2.34%) OpenAPI
10 33 (2.34%) Swagger
11 32 (2.27%) React
12 29 (2.05%) HTML
13 23 (1.63%) Pandas
14 21 (1.49%) Web Services
15 20 (1.42%) Django
15 20 (1.42%) TensorFlow
15 20 (1.42%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 108 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 106 (7.51%) Data Structures
3 90 (6.37%) Cloud Native
4 64 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 62 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 31 (2.20%) Low-Code
11 30 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.42%) Reinsurance
13 19 (1.35%) e-Learning
14 18 (1.27%) Fixed Income
15 14 (0.99%) FMCG
16 11 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
17 10 (0.71%) Life Science
17 10 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.92%) Linux
2 11 (0.78%) Windows
3 9 (0.64%) Unix
4 7 (0.50%) Android
5 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (45.33%) Analytics
2 492 (34.84%) Business Intelligence
3 463 (32.79%) ETL
4 422 (29.89%) Data Governance
5 404 (28.61%) Agile
6 383 (27.12%) Data Engineering
7 363 (25.71%) Data Architecture
8 339 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
9 336 (23.80%) Data Pipeline
10 331 (23.44%) CI/CD
11 322 (22.80%) Decision-Making
12 292 (20.68%) AI
12 292 (20.68%) DevOps
13 240 (17.00%) Mentoring
14 235 (16.64%) Data Integration
15 205 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 192 (13.60%) Data Strategy
17 184 (13.03%) Data Management
18 171 (12.11%) Data Science
19 163 (11.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 689 (48.80%) SQL
2 575 (40.72%) Python
3 122 (8.64%) Java
4 92 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 90 (6.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (6.16%) C#
7 68 (4.82%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.47%) Scala
9 44 (3.12%) T-SQL
10 43 (3.05%) Apex Code
11 36 (2.55%) PowerShell
12 31 (2.20%) R
13 19 (1.35%) Bash
13 19 (1.35%) C++
14 13 (0.92%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.78%) VBA
16 9 (0.64%) ANSI SQL
17 7 (0.50%) PHP
18 6 (0.42%) Perl
18 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 252 (17.85%) Degree
2 118 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 88 (6.23%) SC Cleared
5 71 (5.03%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.32%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (2.48%) Master's Degree
10 30 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.56%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.35%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.85%) ACCA
13 12 (0.85%) CIMA
13 12 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.78%) PMP
15 8 (0.57%) SAP Certification
16 7 (0.50%) OCP
16 7 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (27.83%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.67%) GDPR
3 78 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 34 (2.41%) QA
5 26 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 19 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.71%) SLA
8 9 (0.64%) MiFID
9 6 (0.42%) GRC
10 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.21%) COBIT
12 3 (0.21%) ITGC
12 3 (0.21%) NIST
13 2 (0.14%) PMO
13 2 (0.14%) PSD2
13 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.14%) WCAG
14 1 (0.071%) IFRS
14 1 (0.071%) Solvency II
System Software
1 56 (3.97%) Docker
2 14 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.50%) HDFS
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.071%) iptables
6 1 (0.071%) KVM
6 1 (0.071%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 63 (4.46%) Terraform
2 48 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.78%) Grafana
4 10 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.50%) Control-M
7 6 (0.42%) Ansible
7 6 (0.42%) Data Guard
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.071%) Argo
Vendors
1 344 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 226 (16.01%) Databricks
3 100 (7.08%) SAP
4 83 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 75 (5.31%) Oracle
6 54 (3.82%) Informatica
7 44 (3.12%) Google
8 32 (2.27%) Palantir
9 31 (2.20%) Talend
10 28 (1.98%) Foundry
11 21 (1.49%) MuleSoft
11 21 (1.49%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.13%) UiPath
14 15 (1.06%) Sparx
15 13 (0.92%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.92%) IBM
15 13 (0.92%) Workday
16 10 (0.71%) Cisco
17 9 (0.64%) Siemens