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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 126 115
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,756 1,252 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.50% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.81% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 655 1,082
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,850 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +4.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%

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 79,395 44,536 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.97% 80.72%
Number of salaries quoted 54,920 25,310 42,355
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +8 1,629 £69,973 +3.66% 558
UK excluding London -7 863 £62,500 - 386
London +11 747 £80,000 +3.23% 291
Work from Home +27 539 £65,000 -1.14% 277
North of England +82 341 £62,500 +4.17% 94
South East -74 191 £62,500 -3.85% 150
North West +60 150 £62,500 +7.76% 48
Midlands -4 146 £60,000 -5.51% 65
Yorkshire +22 111 £65,000 -1.89% 29
West Midlands +6 101 £60,900 +2.35% 53
South West -40 99 £65,250 -1.51% 38
North East +8 80 £55,000 +10.00% 18
East of England -20 50 £71,000 +18.33% 16
East Midlands -24 45 £59,366 -8.67% 12
Scotland -9 25 £70,000 +14.29% 15
Wales - 11 £63,500 - 8
Northern Ireland -79 2 £60,000 - 2

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
1 123 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
2 121 (6.89%) Apache Spark
3 85 (4.84%) Apache
4 29 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.03%) Confluence
5 18 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.63%) SAS
7 7 (0.40%) CMS
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Luigi
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.11%) Tornado
12 1 (0.057%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 77 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.17%) Blender
6 3 (0.17%) Maya
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.057%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 34 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.08%) SAP MDG
4 13 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 1 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 686 (39.07%) Azure
2 504 (28.70%) Power Platform
3 464 (26.42%) AWS
4 254 (14.46%) GCP
5 184 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 169 (9.62%) Snowflake
7 142 (8.09%) dbt
8 135 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 114 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
10 96 (5.47%) Amazon S3
11 91 (5.18%) Serverless
12 69 (3.93%) SaaS
13 60 (3.42%) GitHub
14 59 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
14 59 (3.36%) Power Automate
15 58 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (2.96%) PowerApps
17 46 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
18 39 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
19 33 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.22%) Broadband
2 9 (0.51%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
4 4 (0.23%) Internet
4 4 (0.23%) NGN
5 3 (0.17%) DMZ
5 3 (0.17%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.17%) IPv4
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
5 3 (0.17%) Modbus
5 3 (0.17%) OSPF
5 3 (0.17%) VLAN
6 2 (0.11%) Network Security
6 2 (0.11%) SMS
7 1 (0.057%) 4G
7 1 (0.057%) 5G
7 1 (0.057%) ATM
7 1 (0.057%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (26.65%) Power BI
2 361 (20.56%) Data Warehouse
3 231 (13.15%) Data Lake
4 215 (12.24%) Metadata
5 144 (8.20%) Tableau
6 129 (7.35%) SQL Server
7 110 (6.26%) Relational Database
8 94 (5.35%) BigQuery
9 93 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 92 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
11 84 (4.78%) Star Schema
12 82 (4.67%) Big Data
13 71 (4.04%) Semantic Layer
14 65 (3.70%) Delta Lake
14 65 (3.70%) NoSQL
15 59 (3.36%) Looker
16 58 (3.30%) Snowflake Schema
17 57 (3.25%) Data Vault
18 55 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
19 52 (2.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 131 (7.46%) Git
2 45 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 44 (2.51%) JIRA
4 35 (1.99%) Claude Code
5 33 (1.88%) MLflow
6 23 (1.31%) GitLab
7 8 (0.46%) ERwin
8 6 (0.34%) Toad
9 5 (0.28%) Ant
10 4 (0.23%) Maven
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.11%) Gradle
12 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
General
1 596 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 560 (31.89%) Finance
3 475 (27.05%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (7.12%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.90%) Marketing
7 83 (4.73%) Retail
8 76 (4.33%) Law
9 62 (3.53%) Legal
9 62 (3.53%) Manufacturing
10 55 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (2.73%) Banking
12 25 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 24 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.31%) Billing
15 21 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.85%) Advertising
17 14 (0.80%) Front Office
17 14 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 423 (24.09%) Data Engineer
2 397 (22.61%) Architect
3 368 (20.96%) Senior
4 291 (16.57%) Data Architect
5 199 (11.33%) Analyst
6 192 (10.93%) Developer
7 180 (10.25%) Lead
8 102 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
9 93 (5.30%) Data Analyst
10 72 (4.10%) Consultant
11 58 (3.30%) Business Analyst
12 57 (3.25%) Data Modeller
13 52 (2.96%) Senior Architect
14 51 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 45 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
16 43 (2.45%) Senior Data Architect
16 43 (2.45%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (2.16%) Software Engineer
19 36 (2.05%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (7.92%) PySpark
2 125 (7.12%) REST
3 116 (6.61%) Kafka
4 113 (6.44%) Terraform
5 69 (3.93%) React
6 67 (3.82%) Node.js
7 58 (3.30%) .NET
8 53 (3.02%) Lightning Web Components
9 51 (2.90%) SOAP
10 50 (2.85%) Middleware
11 44 (2.51%) LangChain
12 43 (2.45%) JSON
13 37 (2.11%) CSS
14 32 (1.82%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.82%) XML
15 29 (1.65%) pgvector
15 29 (1.65%) PyTorch
15 29 (1.65%) TensorFlow
16 26 (1.48%) RESTful
16 26 (1.48%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 182 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 116 (6.61%) Data Structures
3 94 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 65 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 30 (1.71%) Clustering
11 29 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
11 29 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (1.20%) Low-Code
15 19 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.08%) Reinsurance
15 19 (1.08%) Replication
15 19 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.31%) Linux
2 19 (1.08%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.057%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (46.92%) Analytics
2 622 (35.42%) Business Intelligence
3 589 (33.54%) AI
4 535 (30.47%) Data Governance
5 504 (28.70%) Data Engineering
6 490 (27.90%) ETL
7 485 (27.62%) Data Pipeline
8 437 (24.89%) Decision-Making
9 435 (24.77%) Data Architecture
10 432 (24.60%) Agile
11 415 (23.63%) CI/CD
12 389 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
13 311 (17.71%) Roadmaps
14 302 (17.20%) DevOps
15 291 (16.57%) Machine Learning
16 274 (15.60%) Data Strategy
16 274 (15.60%) Mentoring
17 238 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 226 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
19 217 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 908 (51.71%) SQL
2 714 (40.66%) Python
3 110 (6.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (5.81%) Java
5 82 (4.67%) TypeScript
6 80 (4.56%) C#
7 74 (4.21%) Scala
8 67 (3.82%) JavaScript
9 47 (2.68%) Apex Code
10 38 (2.16%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.48%) R
12 20 (1.14%) Bicep
13 18 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 17 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.97%) SOQL
14 17 (0.97%) SOSL
15 11 (0.63%) Bash
15 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.51%) Go
17 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 227 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 191 (10.88%) Degree
3 137 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 27 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.37%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.97%) SnowPro
13 15 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.51%) CIPD
16 6 (0.34%) IIBA
16 6 (0.34%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.23%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 614 (34.97%) Data Quality
2 129 (7.35%) GDPR
3 68 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 68 (3.87%) QA
4 31 (1.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (0.40%) PMO
5 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
6 6 (0.34%) IFRS
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.23%) MiFID
8 4 (0.23%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) GRC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.057%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.057%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (5.24%) Docker
2 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.057%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 59 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.03%) Ansible
3 8 (0.46%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.23%) Grafana
5 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.17%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.057%) Consul
8 1 (0.057%) QRadar
8 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 384 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 356 (20.27%) Databricks
3 111 (6.32%) Oracle
4 104 (5.92%) Salesforce
5 102 (5.81%) SAP
6 61 (3.47%) Google
7 28 (1.59%) Informatica
8 26 (1.48%) Cloudera
9 23 (1.31%) Dell
10 18 (1.03%) Foundry
10 18 (1.03%) Palantir
10 18 (1.03%) Talend
11 17 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.80%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.74%) IBM
13 13 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 11 (0.63%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.57%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.51%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO