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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 113 105
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,468 1,061 2,363
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 2.59% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.78% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 892 566 1,524
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +2.76%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £59,563 £59,300
% change year-on-year +6.61% +0.44% +3.13%

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 60,590 38,104 77,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.71% 93.07% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 37,239 22,363 57,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.83%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +7 1,266 £70,000 +12.00% 796
UK excluding London -24 703 £63,500 +6.61% 585
London +54 627 £80,000 +10.34% 335
Work from Home +31 552 £70,000 +10.24% 367
South East -31 185 £61,500 -1.60% 200
North of England -2 184 £70,000 +33.33% 151
Midlands -9 129 £60,000 - 102
West Midlands +5 102 £60,000 +4.35% 58
Yorkshire +15 94 £70,966 +29.03% 55
Scotland 0 85 £78,750 +27.28% 24
North West -25 74 £70,000 +40.00% 76
East of England +1 59 £65,000 - 55
South West -73 46 £56,350 +2.45% 47
East Midlands -46 25 £49,500 -23.55% 44
North East -9 16 £52,500 -5.58% 24
Wales -17 9 £67,586 +80.23% 13
Northern Ireland -33 6 £40,500 - 3

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
1 131 (8.92%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (5.79%) Apache Spark
3 54 (3.68%) Apache
4 25 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.36%) Confluence
6 19 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (1.16%) SAS
8 15 (1.02%) Appian
9 10 (0.68%) CMS
10 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.27%) Camunda
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.20%) IIS
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.14%) CICS
13 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.14%) Mendix
14 1 (0.068%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
Applications
1 80 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.20%) Sketch
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.068%) Notion
8 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.34%) Markit EDM
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.20%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.068%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.068%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.068%) Primavera
9 1 (0.068%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.068%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.068%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 717 (48.84%) Azure
2 421 (28.68%) Power Platform
3 328 (22.34%) AWS
4 211 (14.37%) Snowflake
5 204 (13.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 203 (13.83%) GCP
7 171 (11.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 150 (10.22%) dbt
9 137 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (5.52%) Serverless
11 80 (5.45%) GitHub
12 64 (4.36%) Amazon S3
13 54 (3.68%) Power Automate
13 54 (3.68%) SaaS
14 41 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (2.79%) PowerApps
14 41 (2.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 38 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
16 36 (2.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 34 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.09%) Broadband
2 4 (0.27%) HTTP
3 3 (0.20%) NGN
3 3 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.20%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.068%) 4G
5 1 (0.068%) 5G
5 1 (0.068%) ADSL
5 1 (0.068%) CTI
5 1 (0.068%) DHCP
5 1 (0.068%) DNS
5 1 (0.068%) Internet
5 1 (0.068%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.068%) Modbus
5 1 (0.068%) MQTT
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
5 1 (0.068%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.068%) SMS
5 1 (0.068%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (26.98%) Data Warehouse
2 388 (26.43%) Power BI
3 201 (13.69%) Data Lake
4 195 (13.28%) Metadata
5 121 (8.24%) SQL Server
6 117 (7.97%) Tableau
7 87 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 87 (5.93%) Relational Database
8 73 (4.97%) BigQuery
9 68 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 65 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (4.02%) NoSQL
12 58 (3.95%) Power Query
13 52 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
13 52 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 48 (3.27%) MySQL
15 46 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 44 (3.00%) Looker
17 33 (2.25%) Big Data
18 30 (2.04%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 102 (6.95%) Git
2 53 (3.61%) JIRA
3 40 (2.72%) MLflow
4 25 (1.70%) ERwin
5 20 (1.36%) Postman
6 14 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.68%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.68%) GitLab
8 9 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.41%) JUnit
10 4 (0.27%) git-flow
10 4 (0.27%) Selenium
11 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.20%) Gradle
11 3 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.20%) Maven
11 3 (0.20%) NUnit
11 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.20%) TestNG
11 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 521 (35.49%) Social Skills
2 488 (33.24%) Finance
3 401 (27.32%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (7.08%) Public Sector
6 79 (5.38%) Marketing
7 69 (4.70%) Law
8 62 (4.22%) Banking
9 56 (3.81%) Financial Institution
10 38 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (2.38%) Retail
12 31 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (1.84%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (1.70%) Legal
15 25 (1.70%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.43%) Advertising
17 19 (1.29%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 337 (22.96%) Architect
2 323 (22.00%) Data Engineer
3 295 (20.10%) Senior
4 228 (15.53%) Data Architect
5 197 (13.42%) Analyst
6 163 (11.10%) Developer
7 146 (9.95%) Lead
8 117 (7.97%) Data Analyst
9 95 (6.47%) Senior Data Engineer
10 64 (4.36%) Consultant
11 48 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 45 (3.07%) Lead Data Engineer
13 44 (3.00%) Business Analyst
14 42 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
15 40 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
16 38 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 36 (2.45%) Senior Architect
18 35 (2.38%) Data Manager
19 33 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
20 32 (2.18%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (8.65%) REST
2 102 (6.95%) Kafka
3 72 (4.90%) PySpark
4 67 (4.56%) SOAP
5 54 (3.68%) Lightning Web Components
6 51 (3.47%) .NET
7 50 (3.41%) RESTful
8 48 (3.27%) JSON
9 43 (2.93%) PyTorch
9 43 (2.93%) TensorFlow
10 41 (2.79%) Middleware
10 41 (2.79%) scikit-learn
11 38 (2.59%) XML
12 36 (2.45%) React
13 35 (2.38%) CSS
14 33 (2.25%) OpenAPI
14 33 (2.25%) Swagger
15 30 (2.04%) HTML
15 30 (2.04%) LangChain
16 29 (1.98%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 109 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 106 (7.22%) Data Structures
4 63 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 48 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.86%) Low-Code
7 39 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 34 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 34 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (2.18%) Public Cloud
12 24 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.57%) Clustering
13 23 (1.57%) e-Learning
14 21 (1.43%) Reinsurance
15 15 (1.02%) Fixed Income
15 15 (1.02%) Taxonomies
16 14 (0.95%) FMCG
17 12 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.89%) Linux
2 11 (0.75%) Windows
3 5 (0.34%) Unix
4 4 (0.27%) Android
5 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (48.09%) Analytics
2 516 (35.15%) Business Intelligence
3 493 (33.58%) ETL
4 453 (30.86%) Data Governance
5 436 (29.70%) Data Engineering
6 408 (27.79%) Agile
7 376 (25.61%) Data Pipeline
8 351 (23.91%) AI
9 350 (23.84%) Data Architecture
10 346 (23.57%) CI/CD
11 345 (23.50%) Decision-Making
12 333 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
13 294 (20.03%) DevOps
14 223 (15.19%) Data Integration
15 221 (15.05%) Mentoring
16 213 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 206 (14.03%) Machine Learning
18 201 (13.69%) Data Management
19 176 (11.99%) Data Science
20 164 (11.17%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 759 (51.70%) SQL
2 637 (43.39%) Python
3 110 (7.49%) Java
4 99 (6.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 86 (5.86%) JavaScript
6 71 (4.84%) C#
7 60 (4.09%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.47%) Apex Code
9 42 (2.86%) T-SQL
10 40 (2.72%) Scala
11 35 (2.38%) R
12 31 (2.11%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.36%) Bash
14 18 (1.23%) C++
14 18 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.75%) VBA
16 8 (0.54%) Go
16 8 (0.54%) SOQL
16 8 (0.54%) SOSL
17 7 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 194 (13.22%) Degree
2 129 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 54 (3.68%) AWS Certification
7 39 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (2.45%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (1.84%) DBS Check
11 24 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.89%) ACCA
13 13 (0.89%) CIMA
14 12 (0.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.68%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.68%) PMP
16 7 (0.48%) SAP Certification
16 7 (0.48%) SnowPro
17 4 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 429 (29.22%) Data Quality
2 92 (6.27%) GDPR
3 76 (5.18%) Accessibility
4 42 (2.86%) QA
5 27 (1.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 25 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 14 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.68%) SLA
9 8 (0.54%) MiFID
10 5 (0.34%) GRC
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.20%) PERC
13 2 (0.14%) PMO
13 2 (0.14%) PSD2
13 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.14%) WCAG
14 1 (0.068%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (4.02%) Docker
2 14 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) HDFS
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.068%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.068%) Firmware
4 1 (0.068%) iptables
4 1 (0.068%) KVM
4 1 (0.068%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 74 (5.04%) Terraform
2 52 (3.54%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.89%) Grafana
4 10 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.48%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Ansible
8 3 (0.20%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.068%) SCCM
Vendors
1 355 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 279 (19.01%) Databricks
3 100 (6.81%) Salesforce
4 80 (5.45%) Oracle
5 63 (4.29%) SAP
6 54 (3.68%) Informatica
7 46 (3.13%) Google
8 35 (2.38%) Palantir
9 33 (2.25%) Talend
10 30 (2.04%) Cloudera
10 30 (2.04%) Foundry
11 25 (1.70%) Dell
12 24 (1.63%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.43%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.23%) Sparx
15 17 (1.16%) IBM
16 16 (1.09%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.95%) UiPath
18 13 (0.89%) Automation Anywhere
18 13 (0.89%) Workday