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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 124 103
Rank change year-on-year +15 -21 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,543 1,110 2,456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 2.56% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.74% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 992 583 1,518
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,313
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,853 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.81% +1.42% +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 66,447 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 42,708 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +16 1,359 £68,510 +1.50% 688
UK excluding London -1 751 £65,000 +6.81% 458
London +38 634 £80,000 +6.67% 345
Work from Home +40 519 £70,000 +7.69% 343
North of England +59 230 £70,466 +22.55% 123
South East -33 187 £60,000 -7.69% 172
Midlands -1 147 £60,000 -4.00% 78
Yorkshire +18 117 £73,500 +22.50% 44
West Midlands +6 108 £60,358 +0.60% 49
North West +21 95 £65,000 +23.81% 60
Scotland +9 64 £70,000 +16.18% 19
East of England +11 58 £70,000 - 24
South West -75 56 £54,150 -9.75% 27
East Midlands -16 37 £51,825 -19.96% 29
North East -25 18 £65,000 +6.20% 21
Wales -25 8 £67,586 +80.23% 15
Northern Ireland -40 1 - - 6

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
1 140 (9.07%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (5.57%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.76%) Apache
4 34 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.10%) Confluence
7 16 (1.04%) SAS
8 11 (0.71%) Appian
8 11 (0.71%) CMS
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) IIS
10 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) CICS
12 2 (0.13%) Luigi
12 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 70 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.13%) Sketch
4 2 (0.13%) Windchill
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.065%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.04%) SAP MDG
3 13 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.52%) SAP MDG-BP
5 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-F
8 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
10 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.065%) FIS Private Capital Suite
11 1 (0.065%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 704 (45.63%) Azure
2 431 (27.93%) Power Platform
3 359 (23.27%) AWS
4 217 (14.06%) GCP
5 192 (12.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 167 (10.82%) Snowflake
7 144 (9.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 143 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (9.20%) dbt
10 85 (5.51%) Serverless
11 67 (4.34%) GitHub
12 65 (4.21%) Amazon S3
13 63 (4.08%) Power Automate
14 51 (3.31%) SaaS
15 48 (3.11%) PowerApps
16 43 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
17 38 (2.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 36 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (2.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 28 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.07%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) HTTP
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
2 3 (0.19%) NGN
2 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) 4G
3 2 (0.13%) 5G
3 2 (0.13%) LTE
3 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.065%) CTI
4 1 (0.065%) DHCP
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) Internet
4 1 (0.065%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.065%) SMS
4 1 (0.065%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (25.47%) Power BI
2 321 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
3 202 (13.09%) Data Lake
4 190 (12.31%) Metadata
5 118 (7.65%) SQL Server
6 114 (7.39%) Tableau
7 99 (6.42%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 81 (5.25%) BigQuery
10 68 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (4.21%) NoSQL
12 57 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 55 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
14 51 (3.31%) Power Query
15 46 (2.98%) Looker
16 42 (2.72%) Semantic Layer
16 42 (2.72%) Star Schema
17 41 (2.66%) MySQL
18 40 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
19 38 (2.46%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 119 (7.71%) Git
2 50 (3.24%) JIRA
3 40 (2.59%) MLflow
4 19 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.10%) Postman
6 16 (1.04%) ERwin
7 10 (0.65%) Claude Code
7 10 (0.65%) GitLab
8 6 (0.39%) JUnit
9 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.26%) Toad
10 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.19%) Gradle
11 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.19%) NUnit
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.19%) TestNG
12 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
General
1 521 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 505 (32.73%) Finance
3 431 (27.93%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 75 (4.86%) Marketing
7 70 (4.54%) Law
8 52 (3.37%) Retail
9 49 (3.18%) Banking
10 45 (2.92%) Financial Institution
11 44 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (1.81%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.69%) Legal
16 19 (1.23%) Advertising
17 17 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.97%) Billing
19 14 (0.91%) Local Government
19 14 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 355 (23.01%) Data Engineer
2 327 (21.19%) Architect
3 313 (20.29%) Senior
4 209 (13.55%) Data Architect
5 200 (12.96%) Analyst
6 182 (11.80%) Developer
7 175 (11.34%) Lead
8 118 (7.65%) Data Analyst
9 93 (6.03%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (4.93%) Consultant
11 57 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.05%) Data Modeller
13 46 (2.98%) Business Analyst
13 46 (2.98%) Lead Data Engineer
14 42 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
14 42 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
15 41 (2.66%) Senior Architect
16 36 (2.33%) Senior Developer
16 36 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
17 35 (2.27%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (9.53%) REST
2 104 (6.74%) Kafka
3 100 (6.48%) PySpark
4 75 (4.86%) SOAP
5 64 (4.15%) .NET
6 58 (3.76%) Lightning Web Components
7 57 (3.69%) JSON
8 55 (3.56%) Middleware
9 50 (3.24%) React
9 50 (3.24%) RESTful
10 45 (2.92%) CSS
11 44 (2.85%) XML
12 39 (2.53%) PyTorch
12 39 (2.53%) scikit-learn
12 39 (2.53%) TensorFlow
13 38 (2.46%) LangChain
14 35 (2.27%) HTML
15 34 (2.20%) Node.js
16 31 (2.01%) Visualforce
17 30 (1.94%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 123 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 104 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 50 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (2.59%) Low-Code
8 39 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.62%) Reinsurance
11 23 (1.49%) Clustering
12 21 (1.36%) Social Media
13 19 (1.23%) Replication
14 18 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (1.10%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.97%) e-Learning
16 15 (0.97%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.97%) Windows
2 10 (0.65%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Android
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (45.76%) Analytics
2 524 (33.96%) Business Intelligence
3 481 (31.17%) Data Governance
4 475 (30.78%) ETL
5 437 (28.32%) Data Engineering
6 405 (26.25%) Agile
6 405 (26.25%) Data Pipeline
7 380 (24.63%) CI/CD
8 368 (23.85%) AI
9 360 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
10 356 (23.07%) Decision-Making
11 341 (22.10%) Data Architecture
12 320 (20.74%) DevOps
13 228 (14.78%) Mentoring
14 218 (14.13%) Machine Learning
15 213 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 180 (11.67%) Data Integration
17 173 (11.21%) Data Strategy
18 171 (11.08%) Roadmaps
19 165 (10.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 797 (51.65%) SQL
2 666 (43.16%) Python
3 125 (8.10%) Java
4 96 (6.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 84 (5.44%) JavaScript
6 67 (4.34%) C#
7 64 (4.15%) TypeScript
8 54 (3.50%) Apex Code
9 47 (3.05%) Scala
10 43 (2.79%) T-SQL
11 35 (2.27%) PowerShell
12 31 (2.01%) R
13 21 (1.36%) Bash
14 17 (1.10%) SOQL
14 17 (1.10%) SOSL
15 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.71%) C++
17 10 (0.65%) VBA
18 9 (0.58%) Perl
19 8 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 190 (12.31%) Degree
2 151 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.07%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 24 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 21 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 18 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.91%) ACCA
13 14 (0.91%) CIMA
14 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.45%) PMP
15 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.26%) CBAP
17 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (31.76%) Data Quality
2 101 (6.55%) GDPR
3 52 (3.37%) QA
4 48 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.58%) SLA
8 7 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.45%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.32%) GRC
9 5 (0.32%) IFRS
9 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 5 (0.32%) MiFID
10 3 (0.19%) PERC
11 2 (0.13%) HL7
11 2 (0.13%) PMO
11 2 (0.13%) WCAG
12 1 (0.065%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 67 (4.34%) Docker
2 13 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.065%) iptables
Systems Management
1 89 (5.77%) Terraform
2 62 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.84%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.065%) Argo
9 1 (0.065%) Kibana
9 1 (0.065%) QRadar
9 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 326 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 322 (20.87%) Databricks
3 113 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 98 (6.35%) Oracle
5 86 (5.57%) SAP
6 46 (2.98%) Google
6 46 (2.98%) Informatica
7 33 (2.14%) Palantir
8 31 (2.01%) Foundry
9 29 (1.88%) Cloudera
10 28 (1.81%) Talend
11 23 (1.49%) Dell
11 23 (1.49%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.36%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.30%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.10%) Sparx
15 12 (0.78%) Automation Anywhere
15 12 (0.78%) IBM
15 12 (0.78%) UiPath
16 11 (0.71%) Workday