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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 125 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 -12 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,602 1,156 2,453
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 2.60% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.81% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 581 1,546
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,714
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.42% - +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 67,701 41,203 88,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.64% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 46,469 21,965 62,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,613
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 14 June 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 14 June 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 1,444 £69,486 +6.90% 563
UK excluding London +8 770 £63,250 +5.42% 383
London +31 670 £80,000 +6.67% 285
Work from Home +38 513 £67,500 +3.85% 275
North of England +75 285 £65,000 +13.04% 93
South East -28 182 £60,000 -7.69% 129
Midlands +6 142 £60,000 -4.00% 68
North West +33 125 £62,500 +19.05% 61
Yorkshire +31 124 £68,510 +14.18% 20
West Midlands +6 102 £60,358 +1.44% 47
East of England -4 58 £71,000 +6.77% 20
South West -83 56 £56,350 -6.08% 51
East Midlands -23 38 £55,000 -13.39% 21
North East -16 36 £60,000 +26.32% 12
Scotland -5 35 £70,000 +11.55% 11
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 7
Northern Ireland -31 3 £60,000 - 9

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
1 149 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 76 (4.74%) Apache
4 35 (2.18%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 16 (1.00%) Confluence
7 15 (0.94%) SAS
8 12 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.62%) CMS
10 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.44%) Appian
12 4 (0.25%) WordPress
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.19%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) IIS
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.12%) Luigi
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 68 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 36 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.12%) SAP MDG
3 14 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.69%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
7 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
9 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.12%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.062%) FIS Private Capital Suite
12 1 (0.062%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 679 (42.38%) Azure
2 440 (27.47%) Power Platform
3 409 (25.53%) AWS
4 239 (14.92%) GCP
5 174 (10.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 151 (9.43%) Snowflake
7 139 (8.68%) dbt
8 132 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 110 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (5.49%) Serverless
11 81 (5.06%) Amazon S3
12 63 (3.93%) SaaS
13 60 (3.75%) Power Automate
14 50 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (3.12%) GitHub
15 48 (3.00%) PowerApps
16 34 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
17 32 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
18 31 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 30 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.56%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) Internet
2 3 (0.19%) LTE
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
2 3 (0.19%) NGN
3 2 (0.12%) 4G
3 2 (0.12%) 5G
3 2 (0.12%) SMS
3 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.062%) CTI
4 1 (0.062%) HTTP
4 1 (0.062%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.062%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.062%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (25.22%) Power BI
2 305 (19.04%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (12.11%) Metadata
4 190 (11.86%) Data Lake
5 118 (7.37%) Tableau
6 116 (7.24%) SQL Server
7 103 (6.43%) Relational Database
8 87 (5.43%) BigQuery
9 85 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 77 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (4.06%) NoSQL
12 56 (3.50%) Semantic Layer
13 54 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
13 54 (3.37%) Star Schema
14 48 (3.00%) Power Query
14 48 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 47 (2.93%) Delta Lake
16 46 (2.87%) Looker
17 44 (2.75%) Big Data
18 42 (2.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 113 (7.05%) Git
2 41 (2.56%) JIRA
3 36 (2.25%) MLflow
4 29 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.94%) GitLab
6 14 (0.87%) ERwin
6 14 (0.87%) Postman
7 13 (0.81%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.37%) Toad
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.12%) ESLint
11 2 (0.12%) Maven
11 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 530 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 489 (30.52%) Finance
3 445 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.43%) Law
7 67 (4.18%) Marketing
8 59 (3.68%) Retail
9 46 (2.87%) Banking
10 43 (2.68%) Financial Institution
11 42 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (2.50%) Legal
13 35 (2.18%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.31%) Billing
17 18 (1.12%) Advertising
17 18 (1.12%) Local Government
18 15 (0.94%) Games
19 13 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 388 (24.22%) Data Engineer
2 346 (21.60%) Architect
3 329 (20.54%) Senior
4 233 (14.54%) Data Architect
5 208 (12.98%) Analyst
6 193 (12.05%) Lead
7 188 (11.74%) Developer
8 117 (7.30%) Data Analyst
9 107 (6.68%) Senior Data Engineer
10 75 (4.68%) Consultant
11 54 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 53 (3.31%) Business Analyst
13 47 (2.93%) Senior Architect
14 46 (2.87%) Lead Data Engineer
15 45 (2.81%) Data Modeller
16 44 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
17 42 (2.62%) Senior Developer
18 40 (2.50%) Data Manager
19 37 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
19 37 (2.31%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (9.18%) REST
2 112 (6.99%) PySpark
3 108 (6.74%) Kafka
4 65 (4.06%) .NET
4 65 (4.06%) SOAP
5 61 (3.81%) React
6 60 (3.75%) JSON
7 55 (3.43%) Middleware
8 54 (3.37%) Node.js
9 49 (3.06%) Lightning Web Components
10 47 (2.93%) CSS
11 45 (2.81%) XML
12 42 (2.62%) LangChain
13 40 (2.50%) RESTful
14 37 (2.31%) PyTorch
14 37 (2.31%) TensorFlow
15 35 (2.18%) scikit-learn
16 33 (2.06%) HTML
17 31 (1.94%) Visualforce
18 25 (1.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.05%) Cloud Native
2 134 (8.36%) Data Structures
3 90 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 49 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 44 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 35 (2.18%) Public Cloud
11 34 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 34 (2.12%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.81%) Reinsurance
13 26 (1.62%) Clustering
14 21 (1.31%) Social Media
15 20 (1.25%) AI Agents
16 19 (1.19%) Replication
17 14 (0.87%) Algorithms
17 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.87%) Linux
1 14 (0.87%) Windows
2 5 (0.31%) Unix
3 1 (0.062%) Android
3 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (46.07%) Analytics
2 543 (33.90%) Business Intelligence
3 508 (31.71%) Data Governance
4 472 (29.46%) Data Engineering
5 449 (28.03%) ETL
6 421 (26.28%) Data Pipeline
7 410 (25.59%) AI
8 397 (24.78%) Agile
9 395 (24.66%) Decision-Making
10 385 (24.03%) CI/CD
11 380 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
12 363 (22.66%) Data Architecture
13 297 (18.54%) DevOps
14 252 (15.73%) Mentoring
15 245 (15.29%) Machine Learning
16 212 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 208 (12.98%) Roadmaps
18 200 (12.48%) Data Strategy
19 168 (10.49%) Data Integration
20 167 (10.42%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 837 (52.25%) SQL
2 681 (42.51%) Python
3 116 (7.24%) Java
4 102 (6.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 86 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 72 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 64 (4.00%) C#
8 53 (3.31%) Scala
9 47 (2.93%) Apex Code
10 40 (2.50%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.75%) R
12 25 (1.56%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.25%) Bash
14 19 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 18 (1.12%) SOQL
15 18 (1.12%) SOSL
16 9 (0.56%) Bicep
16 9 (0.56%) C++
17 8 (0.50%) Go
18 7 (0.44%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 192 (11.99%) Degree
2 174 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 116 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.94%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.69%) ACCA
12 11 (0.69%) CIMA
13 7 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.44%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.37%) PMP
14 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.25%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (33.90%) Data Quality
2 108 (6.74%) GDPR
3 54 (3.37%) QA
4 47 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.56%) SLA
8 7 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.37%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) PERC
13 2 (0.12%) HL7
13 2 (0.12%) WCAG
14 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 83 (5.18%) Docker
2 10 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 96 (5.99%) Terraform
2 66 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.75%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.44%) Ansible
7 6 (0.37%) Control-M
8 5 (0.31%) Packer
9 3 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.062%) QRadar
10 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 333 (20.79%) Databricks
2 318 (19.85%) Microsoft
3 112 (6.99%) Salesforce
4 101 (6.30%) Oracle
5 86 (5.37%) SAP
6 51 (3.18%) Google
7 38 (2.37%) Informatica
8 30 (1.87%) Palantir
9 29 (1.81%) Foundry
10 27 (1.69%) Cloudera
11 23 (1.44%) Dell
12 21 (1.31%) OpenAI
13 20 (1.25%) ServiceNow
14 19 (1.19%) MuleSoft
15 16 (1.00%) Talend
16 11 (0.69%) Workday
17 9 (0.56%) Sparx
17 9 (0.56%) UiPath
18 8 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere
18 8 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud