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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 114 112
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,268 1,488 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.34% 2.25% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.63% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 672 820 1,115
10th Percentile £45,513 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,938 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -1.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,270 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,625 £100,000 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.19% -1.74%

All Process and 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 45,730 56,495 47,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.51% 85.27% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,916 29,477 36,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -0.94%

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 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Top 18 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 29 November 2025. 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 +9 1,148 £70,000 +3.70% 520
UK excluding London +16 675 £62,500 +4.17% 444
London +21 543 £83,086 +10.78% 281
Work from Home +22 436 £68,000 -2.86% 269
South East +19 238 £62,500 -3.85% 233
North of England -14 142 £67,500 +11.38% 53
Midlands +68 125 £60,000 +5.26% 62
West Midlands +57 84 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Scotland +9 74 £81,292 +41.38% 24
Yorkshire -4 74 £68,000 +23.64% 11
North West -12 56 £62,500 - 34
East of England +51 49 £57,500 +15.00% 35
South West -7 44 £66,675 -4.75% 31
East Midlands +43 41 £66,250 +1.92% 14
North East +11 12 £51,250 -6.82% 10
Northern Ireland - 6 £40,500 - 1
Wales +6 5 £37,500 -12.28% 12
Isle of Man +13 1 - -

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 79 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.92%) Apache
4 23 (1.81%) Confluence
5 16 (1.26%) SAS
6 15 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.95%) Appian
8 5 (0.39%) Apache Synapse
9 3 (0.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.16%) Mendix
11 1 (0.079%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
Applications
1 160 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.079%) Notion
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.079%) Simulink
8 1 (0.079%) Sketch
8 1 (0.079%) Trello
8 1 (0.079%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 8 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 8 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.47%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.24%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.16%) iTrent
7 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG-S
7 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.079%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.079%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.079%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.079%) Shopify
8 1 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 671 (52.92%) Azure
2 420 (33.12%) Power Platform
3 293 (23.11%) AWS
4 180 (14.20%) Snowflake
5 163 (12.85%) GCP
6 116 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 114 (8.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 99 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (7.26%) dbt
10 78 (6.15%) GitHub
11 71 (5.60%) Serverless
12 54 (4.26%) SaaS
13 46 (3.63%) Amazon S3
14 41 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
16 34 (2.68%) Power Automate
17 32 (2.52%) PowerApps
18 31 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
19 28 (2.21%) Collibra
20 22 (1.74%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.32%) HTTP
2 2 (0.16%) Broadband
2 2 (0.16%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.079%) ADSL
3 1 (0.079%) DHCP
3 1 (0.079%) DNS
3 1 (0.079%) Internet
3 1 (0.079%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.079%) Modbus
3 1 (0.079%) MQTT
3 1 (0.079%) SAN
3 1 (0.079%) SMS
3 1 (0.079%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (32.26%) Data Warehouse
2 402 (31.70%) Power BI
3 219 (17.27%) Data Lake
4 149 (11.75%) Metadata
5 116 (9.15%) SQL Server
6 87 (6.86%) Tableau
7 76 (5.99%) SAP BW
8 69 (5.44%) Big Data
9 67 (5.28%) NoSQL
10 64 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 58 (4.57%) Power Query
12 49 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 49 (3.86%) MySQL
13 46 (3.63%) Hadoop
14 45 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
14 45 (3.55%) Snowflake Schema
15 44 (3.47%) Relational Database
16 41 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 38 (3.00%) Data Vault
17 38 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (4.65%) Git
2 58 (4.57%) JIRA
3 31 (2.44%) ERwin
4 22 (1.74%) ER Studio
5 17 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.55%) GitLab
6 7 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (0.55%) Selenium
7 5 (0.39%) git-flow
7 5 (0.39%) Postman
7 5 (0.39%) Robot Framework
7 5 (0.39%) Snyk
8 4 (0.32%) MLflow
9 3 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.24%) Maven
9 3 (0.24%) Storybook
9 3 (0.24%) Subversion
10 2 (0.16%) JUnit
11 1 (0.079%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio
General
1 511 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 451 (35.57%) Finance
3 331 (26.10%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (9.31%) Law
5 108 (8.52%) Marketing
6 90 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (5.60%) Retail
8 69 (5.44%) Banking
9 61 (4.81%) Public Sector
10 50 (3.94%) Financial Institution
11 39 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 31 (2.44%) Retail Banking
13 30 (2.37%) Legal
14 23 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.42%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.18%) Advertising
17 13 (1.03%) Electronics
18 11 (0.87%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 296 (23.34%) Architect
2 253 (19.95%) Senior
3 238 (18.77%) Data Engineer
4 219 (17.27%) Data Architect
5 187 (14.75%) Lead
6 179 (14.12%) Analyst
7 140 (11.04%) Developer
8 102 (8.04%) Senior Data Engineer
9 65 (5.13%) Data Analyst
10 52 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
11 46 (3.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 45 (3.55%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (3.31%) Report Analyst
14 41 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 40 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 35 (2.76%) Business Analyst
18 33 (2.60%) Consultant
18 33 (2.60%) Senior Architect
19 28 (2.21%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (6.55%) Kafka
2 66 (5.21%) REST
3 34 (2.68%) .NET
4 33 (2.60%) PySpark
5 31 (2.44%) SOAP
6 30 (2.37%) JSON
7 26 (2.05%) HTML
7 26 (2.05%) Lightning Web Components
7 26 (2.05%) RESTful
8 25 (1.97%) CSS
9 24 (1.89%) React
10 20 (1.58%) XML
11 15 (1.18%) Django
11 15 (1.18%) Middleware
12 13 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (1.03%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (0.79%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.79%) Web Services
14 9 (0.71%) Visualforce
14 9 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 74 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 57 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 44 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 26 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.58%) FMCG
9 16 (1.26%) e-Learning
10 15 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.10%) Reinsurance
12 11 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (0.87%) Fixed Income
12 11 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.71%) IoT
13 9 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.55%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.71%) Unix
2 8 (0.63%) Linux
3 4 (0.32%) Android
3 4 (0.32%) Windows
4 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (45.58%) Analytics
2 499 (39.35%) Business Intelligence
3 434 (34.23%) ETL
4 361 (28.47%) Data Governance
5 358 (28.23%) Agile
6 339 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
7 325 (25.63%) Data Architecture
8 305 (24.05%) Data Engineering
9 301 (23.74%) Data Pipeline
10 268 (21.14%) Decision-Making
11 262 (20.66%) CI/CD
12 245 (19.32%) DevOps
13 244 (19.24%) AI
14 221 (17.43%) Data Integration
15 199 (15.69%) Data Strategy
16 194 (15.30%) Mentoring
17 180 (14.20%) Data Management
18 177 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
19 169 (13.33%) Data Science
20 161 (12.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 594 (46.85%) SQL
2 461 (36.36%) Python
3 91 (7.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 76 (5.99%) Java
5 67 (5.28%) C#
6 64 (5.05%) JavaScript
7 47 (3.71%) TypeScript
8 42 (3.31%) Scala
9 36 (2.84%) T-SQL
10 30 (2.37%) R
11 26 (2.05%) Apex Code
12 20 (1.58%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.10%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.03%) Bash
15 10 (0.79%) C++
16 7 (0.55%) ANSI SQL
17 6 (0.47%) Go
17 6 (0.47%) PHP
18 5 (0.39%) Fortran
19 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 265 (20.90%) Degree
2 69 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (4.81%) Azure Certification
3 61 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 56 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 46 (3.63%) SC Cleared
6 42 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
8 21 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.95%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 10 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (0.79%) SnowPro
12 9 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.63%) OCP
14 7 (0.55%) CISSP
14 7 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.55%) PMP
14 7 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (26.66%) Data Quality
2 93 (7.33%) GDPR
3 68 (5.36%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.86%) QA
5 27 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.63%) NIST
8 7 (0.55%) COBIT
8 7 (0.55%) GRC
8 7 (0.55%) ITGC
9 5 (0.39%) MiFID
10 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) PMO
11 2 (0.16%) PSD2
11 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.16%) SLA
11 2 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.079%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (2.13%) Docker
2 10 (0.79%) HDFS
3 8 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.39%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.079%) iptables
7 1 (0.079%) KVM
7 1 (0.079%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 46 (3.63%) Terraform
2 28 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.71%) Ansible
4 8 (0.63%) Data Guard
4 8 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 8 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.39%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.24%) Kibana
7 2 (0.16%) logstash
7 2 (0.16%) Oozie
8 1 (0.079%) Argo
8 1 (0.079%) Grafana
8 1 (0.079%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.079%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.079%) Puppet
Vendors
1 291 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 202 (15.93%) Databricks
3 180 (14.20%) SAP
4 71 (5.60%) Oracle
5 64 (5.05%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.31%) Google
7 35 (2.76%) Informatica
8 23 (1.81%) Talend
9 15 (1.18%) Palantir
10 13 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.79%) Dataiku
13 9 (0.71%) IBM
14 8 (0.63%) Delphix
14 8 (0.63%) Foundry
14 8 (0.63%) UiPath
15 7 (0.55%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.55%) Progress
15 7 (0.55%) Siemens
16 6 (0.47%) Cloudera