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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 135 112
Rank change year-on-year +14 -23 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,827 1,179 1,657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.55% 2.37% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.67% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,164 626 884
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +0.74% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +1.60% +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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +19 1,679 £70,000 +2.94% 3,033
UK excluding London 0 899 £63,500 - 2,029
London +2 777 £82,500 +3.13% 1,510
Work from Home +29 574 £69,973 +3.66% 1,916
North of England +79 344 £65,000 - 429
South East -61 195 £62,500 -3.85% 465
Midlands +5 172 £62,500 -1.57% 286
North West +58 161 £62,500 +4.17% 240
West Midlands +14 125 £65,000 +9.24% 174
South West -19 106 £70,000 +8.78% 191
Yorkshire -4 102 £68,510 +1.50% 127
North East +4 81 £65,000 +31.98% 64
East Midlands -39 47 £51,250 -21.15% 112
East of England -34 44 £63,750 +6.25% 198
Wales -44 23 £63,500 - 132
Scotland -23 22 £70,000 +16.67% 293
Northern Ireland -80 2 £60,000 - 60

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
1 108 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (4.82%) Apache
4 30 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.26%) Confluence
6 20 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.60%) SAS
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.27%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.055%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 90 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.33%) Notion
6 3 (0.16%) Blender
6 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 43 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.38%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.27%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG-F
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
12 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
13 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 701 (38.37%) Azure
2 534 (29.23%) Power Platform
3 435 (23.81%) AWS
4 237 (12.97%) GCP
5 195 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 171 (9.36%) Snowflake
7 146 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
8 132 (7.22%) dbt
9 127 (6.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 104 (5.69%) Serverless
11 97 (5.31%) Amazon S3
12 88 (4.82%) SaaS
13 82 (4.49%) Azure Databricks
14 71 (3.89%) GitHub
14 71 (3.89%) Power Automate
15 59 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
16 58 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (3.17%) PowerApps
17 57 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
18 41 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.59%) Broadband
2 16 (0.88%) VPN
3 10 (0.55%) DMZ
3 10 (0.55%) Ethernet
3 10 (0.55%) IPv4
3 10 (0.55%) Modbus
3 10 (0.55%) OSPF
3 10 (0.55%) VLAN
4 6 (0.33%) BGP
4 6 (0.33%) DNS
4 6 (0.33%) IPsec
4 6 (0.33%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) HTTP
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.055%) 4G
8 1 (0.055%) ATM
8 1 (0.055%) NGN
8 1 (0.055%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 496 (27.15%) Power BI
2 370 (20.25%) Data Warehouse
3 265 (14.50%) Metadata
4 212 (11.60%) Data Lake
5 139 (7.61%) SQL Server
6 122 (6.68%) Tableau
7 110 (6.02%) Relational Database
8 94 (5.15%) Star Schema
9 91 (4.98%) Semantic Layer
10 85 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
11 81 (4.43%) Big Data
12 80 (4.38%) Delta Lake
13 79 (4.32%) BigQuery
13 79 (4.32%) NoSQL
14 77 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
15 73 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
16 65 (3.56%) Power Query
17 57 (3.12%) Data Vault
18 48 (2.63%) MySQL
18 48 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 176 (9.63%) Git
2 49 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.46%) JIRA
4 40 (2.19%) Claude Code
5 33 (1.81%) GitLab
6 10 (0.55%) MLflow
7 8 (0.44%) ERwin
8 6 (0.33%) Ant
9 5 (0.27%) Toad
10 4 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.16%) Flyway
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.11%) Gradle
12 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 634 (34.70%) Social Skills
2 566 (30.98%) Finance
3 473 (25.89%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 159 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.36%) Marketing
6 84 (4.60%) Retail
7 79 (4.32%) Legal
8 76 (4.16%) Law
9 71 (3.89%) Manufacturing
10 53 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.52%) Banking
12 34 (1.86%) Billing
12 34 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 29 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.82%) Local Government
17 14 (0.77%) Advertising
17 14 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 456 (24.96%) Data Engineer
2 424 (23.21%) Architect
3 406 (22.22%) Senior
4 314 (17.19%) Data Architect
5 207 (11.33%) Analyst
6 192 (10.51%) Lead
7 185 (10.13%) Developer
8 118 (6.46%) Senior Data Engineer
9 104 (5.69%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.89%) Senior Architect
11 70 (3.83%) Consultant
12 59 (3.23%) Senior Data Architect
13 49 (2.68%) Principal Engineer
14 48 (2.63%) Business Analyst
15 47 (2.57%) Data Modeller
15 47 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
16 46 (2.52%) Software Engineer
17 44 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
17 44 (2.41%) Senior Developer
18 40 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (8.76%) PySpark
2 129 (7.06%) REST
3 111 (6.08%) Terraform
4 91 (4.98%) Kafka
5 67 (3.67%) Node.js
6 64 (3.50%) React
7 57 (3.12%) .NET
8 50 (2.74%) Middleware
9 47 (2.57%) SOAP
10 44 (2.41%) JSON
11 42 (2.30%) Lightning Web Components
12 34 (1.86%) AngularJS
12 34 (1.86%) CSS
13 30 (1.64%) XML
14 26 (1.42%) RESTful
15 23 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
16 22 (1.20%) Spring
17 21 (1.15%) Vue
18 20 (1.09%) Pandas
19 19 (1.04%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.03%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.51%) Data Structures
3 103 (5.64%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.54%) Onboarding
5 70 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (3.12%) Management Information System
7 41 (2.24%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
14 23 (1.26%) Taxonomies
15 20 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
15 20 (1.09%) Reference Data
16 19 (1.04%) Reinsurance
17 17 (0.93%) Replication
18 16 (0.88%) Social Media
19 15 (0.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.42%) Linux
1 26 (1.42%) Windows
2 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.16%) Unix
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (45.48%) Analytics
2 665 (36.40%) Business Intelligence
3 632 (34.59%) AI
4 530 (29.01%) Data Governance
5 509 (27.86%) Data Engineering
6 508 (27.81%) Data Pipeline
7 489 (26.77%) ETL
8 480 (26.27%) Agile
9 472 (25.83%) CI/CD
10 466 (25.51%) Data Architecture
11 450 (24.63%) Decision-Making
12 406 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
13 343 (18.77%) Roadmaps
14 342 (18.72%) DevOps
15 321 (17.57%) Mentoring
16 292 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
17 287 (15.71%) Technical Leadership
18 286 (15.65%) Data Strategy
19 263 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
20 249 (13.63%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 956 (52.33%) SQL
2 700 (38.31%) Python
3 125 (6.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (5.58%) C#
5 101 (5.53%) Java
6 86 (4.71%) TypeScript
7 83 (4.54%) Scala
8 75 (4.11%) JavaScript
9 40 (2.19%) Apex Code
10 32 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.48%) R
12 26 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 23 (1.26%) Bicep
14 17 (0.93%) SOQL
15 15 (0.82%) SOSL
16 14 (0.77%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.55%) Bash
19 8 (0.44%) SPARQL
20 7 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 254 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 201 (11.00%) Degree
3 170 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 48 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 28 (1.53%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.99%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.55%) CIPD
15 9 (0.49%) ACCA
16 7 (0.38%) CIMA
16 7 (0.38%) CSPO
17 5 (0.27%) PMI Certification
17 5 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 687 (37.60%) Data Quality
2 125 (6.84%) GDPR
3 94 (5.15%) Accessibility
4 63 (3.45%) QA
5 14 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.49%) WCAG
7 8 (0.44%) PMO
8 5 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.22%) MiFID
10 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.16%) COPPA
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.16%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.16%) UCITS
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.055%) NIST
System Software
1 105 (5.75%) Docker
2 18 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.11%) NFS
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.04%) Ansible
3 8 (0.44%) Packer
4 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.16%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
7 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.055%) Consul
8 1 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.055%) QRadar
Vendors
1 460 (25.18%) Microsoft
2 332 (18.17%) Databricks
3 109 (5.97%) Oracle
3 109 (5.97%) Salesforce
4 106 (5.80%) SAP
5 67 (3.67%) Google
6 33 (1.81%) Informatica
7 21 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 21 (1.15%) Talend
8 18 (0.99%) Foundry
9 15 (0.82%) Palantir
10 14 (0.77%) OpenAI
10 14 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 11 (0.60%) Bloomberg
12 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
12 10 (0.55%) ForgeRock
12 10 (0.55%) IBM
12 10 (0.55%) Okta
12 10 (0.55%) OpenText
13 9 (0.49%) Workday