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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 125 102
Rank change year-on-year +19 -23 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,425 1,057 2,295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.92% 2.41% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.58% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 857 579 1,491
10th Percentile £43,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -5.30% +1.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,750 £100,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,350 £58,074 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.81% +1.00% -

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 57,986 41,016 73,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.95% 93.54% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35,213 22,402 55,977
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,967 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,997 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +18 1,227 £70,000 +12.00% 709
UK excluding London -8 672 £64,350 +10.81% 544
London +61 624 £80,000 +10.34% 310
Work from Home +37 552 £70,000 +12.00% 322
South East +13 178 £60,250 +0.42% 206
North of England -18 173 £70,000 +33.33% 124
Midlands -11 118 £60,000 - 95
West Midlands +10 93 £60,000 +4.35% 66
Yorkshire +1 92 £71,000 +35.24% 50
Scotland +7 87 £78,750 +27.28% 26
North West -20 69 £67,500 +35.00% 62
South West -52 51 £64,350 +17.00% 47
East of England +19 50 £57,500 -10.16% 36
East Midlands -39 23 £49,500 -23.55% 29
North East -9 12 £52,500 +5.00% 15
Wales -5 9 £67,586 +80.23% 12
Northern Ireland -28 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
1 112 (7.86%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (4.98%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.86%) Apache
4 23 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.47%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.19%) Confluence
7 16 (1.12%) Appian
7 16 (1.12%) SAS
8 9 (0.63%) CMS
9 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.28%) Camunda
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.21%) IIS
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) CICS
12 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
13 1 (0.070%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
Applications
1 80 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.070%) Notion
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.070%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.21%) Misys Opics
8 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.070%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.070%) Primavera
9 1 (0.070%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 684 (48.00%) Azure
2 406 (28.49%) Power Platform
3 304 (21.33%) AWS
4 206 (14.46%) Snowflake
5 194 (13.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 178 (12.49%) GCP
7 158 (11.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 138 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
9 133 (9.33%) dbt
10 84 (5.89%) GitHub
10 84 (5.89%) Serverless
11 68 (4.77%) Amazon S3
12 62 (4.35%) SaaS
13 57 (4.00%) Power Automate
14 44 (3.09%) PowerApps
15 43 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
17 40 (2.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 37 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
19 35 (2.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.91%) Broadband
2 4 (0.28%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.21%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.070%) 4G
5 1 (0.070%) 5G
5 1 (0.070%) ADSL
5 1 (0.070%) CTI
5 1 (0.070%) DHCP
5 1 (0.070%) DNS
5 1 (0.070%) Internet
5 1 (0.070%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.070%) Modbus
5 1 (0.070%) MQTT
5 1 (0.070%) Network Security
5 1 (0.070%) NGN
5 1 (0.070%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.070%) SMS
5 1 (0.070%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (27.23%) Data Warehouse
2 372 (26.11%) Power BI
3 199 (13.96%) Metadata
4 189 (13.26%) Data Lake
5 129 (9.05%) SQL Server
6 100 (7.02%) Tableau
7 76 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 76 (5.33%) Relational Database
8 70 (4.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
10 62 (4.35%) NoSQL
11 60 (4.21%) Power Query
12 59 (4.14%) BigQuery
13 55 (3.86%) MySQL
13 55 (3.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 49 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 43 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
16 32 (2.25%) Big Data
16 32 (2.25%) MongoDB
17 30 (2.11%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 106 (7.44%) Git
2 51 (3.58%) JIRA
3 26 (1.82%) MLflow
4 25 (1.75%) ERwin
5 19 (1.33%) Postman
6 14 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.91%) ER Studio
8 12 (0.84%) GitLab
9 8 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.42%) JUnit
11 5 (0.35%) git-flow
11 5 (0.35%) Selenium
12 3 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.21%) Gradle
12 3 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.21%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) NUnit
12 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) TestNG
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 519 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 487 (34.18%) Finance
3 376 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 110 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (5.82%) Marketing
7 68 (4.77%) Law
8 64 (4.49%) Banking
9 53 (3.72%) Financial Institution
10 36 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (2.46%) Retail
12 32 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 30 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (1.89%) Retail Banking
15 23 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.61%) Legal
16 22 (1.54%) Advertising
17 19 (1.33%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 334 (23.44%) Architect
2 301 (21.12%) Data Engineer
3 285 (20.00%) Senior
4 225 (15.79%) Data Architect
5 188 (13.19%) Analyst
6 164 (11.51%) Developer
7 142 (9.96%) Lead
8 113 (7.93%) Data Analyst
9 95 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 65 (4.56%) Consultant
11 43 (3.02%) Lead Data Engineer
12 41 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 40 (2.81%) Business Analyst
13 40 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 37 (2.60%) Senior Architect
15 36 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (2.25%) Azure Architect
16 32 (2.25%) Data Manager
16 32 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (9.19%) REST
2 87 (6.11%) Kafka
3 69 (4.84%) SOAP
4 60 (4.21%) PySpark
5 54 (3.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 53 (3.72%) .NET
7 49 (3.44%) RESTful
8 46 (3.23%) JSON
9 42 (2.95%) Middleware
10 38 (2.67%) React
11 36 (2.53%) CSS
12 33 (2.32%) OpenAPI
12 33 (2.32%) Swagger
12 33 (2.32%) XML
13 30 (2.11%) HTML
14 29 (2.04%) PyTorch
14 29 (2.04%) TensorFlow
14 29 (2.04%) Visualforce
15 27 (1.89%) scikit-learn
16 25 (1.75%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 105 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 105 (7.37%) Data Structures
3 63 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 50 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (2.81%) Low-Code
6 36 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 36 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.47%) Reinsurance
11 19 (1.33%) e-Learning
12 18 (1.26%) Fixed Income
12 18 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (0.84%) FMCG
14 11 (0.77%) SCADA
14 11 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.91%) Linux
2 11 (0.77%) Windows
3 7 (0.49%) Android
4 5 (0.35%) Unix
5 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (46.04%) Analytics
2 494 (34.67%) Business Intelligence
3 473 (33.19%) ETL
4 428 (30.04%) Data Governance
5 414 (29.05%) Agile
6 410 (28.77%) Data Engineering
7 356 (24.98%) Data Pipeline
8 348 (24.42%) Data Architecture
9 344 (24.14%) CI/CD
10 333 (23.37%) Decision-Making
11 318 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
12 314 (22.04%) AI
13 293 (20.56%) DevOps
14 239 (16.77%) Mentoring
15 221 (15.51%) Data Integration
16 216 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 191 (13.40%) Data Management
18 173 (12.14%) Machine Learning
19 172 (12.07%) Data Science
20 164 (11.51%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 727 (51.02%) SQL
2 604 (42.39%) Python
3 117 (8.21%) Java
4 92 (6.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 92 (6.46%) JavaScript
5 82 (5.75%) C#
6 66 (4.63%) TypeScript
7 53 (3.72%) Apex Code
8 42 (2.95%) T-SQL
9 37 (2.60%) Scala
10 32 (2.25%) PowerShell
11 31 (2.18%) R
12 19 (1.33%) Bash
12 19 (1.33%) C++
12 19 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.77%) VBA
14 9 (0.63%) ANSI SQL
15 8 (0.56%) SOQL
15 8 (0.56%) SOSL
16 7 (0.49%) Go
Qualifications
1 211 (14.81%) Degree
2 128 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 96 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (4.91%) Azure Certification
6 58 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 32 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
10 28 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.82%) DV Cleared
12 23 (1.61%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.91%) ACCA
13 13 (0.91%) CIMA
14 12 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.70%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.70%) PMP
16 8 (0.56%) SAP Certification
17 7 (0.49%) SnowPro
18 5 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 404 (28.35%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 73 (5.12%) GDPR
4 42 (2.95%) QA
5 26 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (0.70%) SLA
9 9 (0.63%) MiFID
10 5 (0.35%) GRC
11 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
13 1 (0.070%) ITGC
13 1 (0.070%) NIST
13 1 (0.070%) PERC
13 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (4.21%) Docker
2 14 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.21%) HDFS
5 1 (0.070%) Firmware
5 1 (0.070%) iptables
5 1 (0.070%) KVM
5 1 (0.070%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 69 (4.84%) Terraform
2 51 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.91%) Grafana
4 10 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Control-M
7 5 (0.35%) Ansible
8 4 (0.28%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.070%) Argo
9 1 (0.070%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 347 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 237 (16.63%) Databricks
3 97 (6.81%) Salesforce
4 82 (5.75%) Oracle
5 59 (4.14%) SAP
6 53 (3.72%) Informatica
7 45 (3.16%) Google
8 38 (2.67%) Palantir
9 32 (2.25%) Foundry
10 31 (2.18%) Talend
11 24 (1.68%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.47%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.19%) IBM
13 17 (1.19%) Sparx
14 15 (1.05%) Cloudera
14 15 (1.05%) ServiceNow
14 15 (1.05%) UiPath
15 13 (0.91%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.91%) Workday
16 12 (0.84%) Dell