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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 124 112
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,622 1,136 2,428
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.59% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.78% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 580 1,509
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,400
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.61% -3.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,100 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +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 68,914 40,901 84,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.19% 83.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45,055 21,599 60,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,500 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 1 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 1 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 +19 1,450 £69,000 +6.15% 954
UK excluding London +8 789 £65,000 +4.00% 566
London +31 671 £80,000 +6.67% 521
Work from Home +41 526 £67,500 +3.85% 501
North of England +76 281 £67,500 +17.39% 148
South East -31 188 £62,500 -3.85% 182
Midlands -2 145 £60,000 -4.00% 71
Yorkshire +29 128 £70,000 +16.67% 44
North West +34 120 £63,000 +20.00% 81
West Midlands +3 107 £60,358 +0.60% 51
East of England +3 61 £71,000 +1.43% 43
South West -82 57 £55,000 -8.33% 68
Scotland -14 45 £70,000 +16.67% 31
East Midlands -35 36 £55,000 -13.39% 20
North East -17 33 £60,000 +20.00% 26
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 10
Northern Ireland -38 3 £60,000 - 20

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
1 153 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (5.80%) Apache Spark
3 72 (4.44%) Apache
4 35 (2.16%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.05%) Confluence
7 15 (0.92%) SAS
8 12 (0.74%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.62%) CMS
10 9 (0.55%) Appian
11 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.31%) IIS
13 4 (0.25%) Camunda
13 4 (0.25%) WordPress
14 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.18%) Apache Superset
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.12%) CICS
15 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 69 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Windchill
6 2 (0.12%) Blender
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.062%) Sketch
7 1 (0.062%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.99%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.49%) SAP MDG-BP
7 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.43%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
9 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.18%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.18%) 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
Cloud Services
1 693 (42.73%) Azure
2 438 (27.00%) Power Platform
3 404 (24.91%) AWS
4 232 (14.30%) GCP
5 186 (11.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (9.56%) Snowflake
7 144 (8.88%) dbt
8 138 (8.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 123 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (5.36%) Serverless
11 80 (4.93%) Amazon S3
12 65 (4.01%) Power Automate
13 58 (3.58%) SaaS
14 57 (3.51%) GitHub
15 51 (3.14%) PowerApps
16 47 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (2.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 31 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
20 30 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.40%) Broadband
2 3 (0.18%) LTE
2 3 (0.18%) Network Security
2 3 (0.18%) NGN
2 3 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.18%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) 4G
3 2 (0.12%) 5G
3 2 (0.12%) Internet
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%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (24.54%) Power BI
2 314 (19.36%) Data Warehouse
3 200 (12.33%) Data Lake
4 189 (11.65%) Metadata
5 117 (7.21%) SQL Server
5 117 (7.21%) Tableau
6 103 (6.35%) Relational Database
7 91 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 89 (5.49%) BigQuery
9 73 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
10 65 (4.01%) NoSQL
11 57 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 52 (3.21%) Semantic Layer
14 51 (3.14%) Star Schema
15 49 (3.02%) Looker
16 47 (2.90%) Power Query
17 46 (2.84%) Big Data
18 45 (2.77%) Delta Lake
19 44 (2.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 116 (7.15%) Git
2 40 (2.47%) JIRA
3 38 (2.34%) MLflow
4 25 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.99%) GitLab
6 15 (0.92%) ERwin
7 14 (0.86%) Postman
8 12 (0.74%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.37%) Toad
10 4 (0.25%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.25%) JUnit
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.18%) Gradle
11 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.18%) Maven
11 3 (0.18%) NUnit
11 3 (0.18%) TestNG
11 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
General
1 542 (33.42%) Social Skills
2 505 (31.13%) Finance
3 446 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.44%) Marketing
7 71 (4.38%) Law
8 60 (3.70%) Retail
9 49 (3.02%) Banking
10 45 (2.77%) Financial Institution
11 43 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.34%) Legal
13 32 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.29%) Billing
17 19 (1.17%) Advertising
18 17 (1.05%) Local Government
19 15 (0.92%) Games
20 14 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 388 (23.92%) Data Engineer
2 338 (20.84%) Architect
3 333 (20.53%) Senior
4 219 (13.50%) Data Architect
5 202 (12.45%) Analyst
6 192 (11.84%) Lead
7 191 (11.78%) Developer
8 115 (7.09%) Data Analyst
9 107 (6.60%) Senior Data Engineer
10 78 (4.81%) Consultant
11 54 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 51 (3.14%) Business Analyst
13 50 (3.08%) Data Modeller
14 46 (2.84%) Lead Data Engineer
15 45 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
16 43 (2.65%) Senior Architect
17 40 (2.47%) Senior Developer
18 39 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
18 39 (2.40%) Data Manager
19 37 (2.28%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (9.06%) REST
2 113 (6.97%) PySpark
3 104 (6.41%) Kafka
4 70 (4.32%) .NET
5 69 (4.25%) SOAP
6 61 (3.76%) React
7 60 (3.70%) JSON
8 55 (3.39%) Middleware
9 53 (3.27%) Lightning Web Components
10 50 (3.08%) CSS
10 50 (3.08%) Node.js
11 45 (2.77%) XML
12 44 (2.71%) RESTful
13 42 (2.59%) LangChain
14 39 (2.40%) PyTorch
14 39 (2.40%) TensorFlow
15 38 (2.34%) scikit-learn
16 35 (2.16%) HTML
17 31 (1.91%) Visualforce
18 29 (1.79%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 136 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 131 (8.08%) Data Structures
3 97 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 52 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (2.28%) Low-Code
11 34 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 34 (2.10%) Public Cloud
12 31 (1.91%) Reinsurance
13 25 (1.54%) Clustering
14 21 (1.29%) Replication
14 21 (1.29%) Social Media
15 18 (1.11%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.86%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.92%) Windows
2 11 (0.68%) Linux
3 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (45.19%) Analytics
2 541 (33.35%) Business Intelligence
3 505 (31.13%) Data Governance
4 476 (29.35%) Data Engineering
5 475 (29.28%) ETL
6 428 (26.39%) Data Pipeline
7 410 (25.28%) Agile
8 400 (24.66%) AI
9 389 (23.98%) CI/CD
10 386 (23.80%) Decision-Making
11 382 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (21.95%) Data Architecture
13 316 (19.48%) DevOps
14 249 (15.35%) Mentoring
15 239 (14.73%) Machine Learning
16 210 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 198 (12.21%) Roadmaps
18 188 (11.59%) Data Strategy
19 169 (10.42%) Data Science
20 168 (10.36%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 852 (52.53%) SQL
2 704 (43.40%) Python
3 127 (7.83%) Java
4 95 (5.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 91 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 72 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 69 (4.25%) C#
8 51 (3.14%) Scala
9 50 (3.08%) Apex Code
10 41 (2.53%) T-SQL
11 31 (1.91%) R
12 30 (1.85%) PowerShell
13 19 (1.17%) Bash
14 18 (1.11%) SOQL
14 18 (1.11%) SOSL
15 16 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.62%) C++
16 10 (0.62%) VBA
17 9 (0.55%) Perl
18 8 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 194 (11.96%) Degree
2 173 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.97%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.79%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.66%) DV Cleared
11 18 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.74%) ACCA
13 12 (0.74%) CIMA
14 8 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.49%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.43%) PMP
15 7 (0.43%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.25%) CCA
16 4 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 534 (32.92%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.54%) GDPR
3 54 (3.33%) QA
4 47 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.55%) SLA
8 7 (0.43%) 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 (0.18%) 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 80 (4.93%) Docker
2 12 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 93 (5.73%) Terraform
2 64 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.74%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.43%) Control-M
7 4 (0.25%) Ansible
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Packer
9 1 (0.062%) QRadar
9 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 331 (20.41%) Databricks
2 323 (19.91%) Microsoft
3 112 (6.91%) Salesforce
4 101 (6.23%) Oracle
5 88 (5.43%) SAP
6 50 (3.08%) Google
7 43 (2.65%) Informatica
8 32 (1.97%) Palantir
9 31 (1.91%) Foundry
10 27 (1.66%) Cloudera
11 24 (1.48%) OpenAI
12 23 (1.42%) Dell
12 23 (1.42%) Talend
13 20 (1.23%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.23%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.86%) Sparx
15 11 (0.68%) IBM
16 10 (0.62%) Automation Anywhere
16 10 (0.62%) UiPath
16 10 (0.62%) Workday