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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 113 108
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,263 1,466 1,529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.26% 2.33% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 2.69% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 663 800 1,100
10th Percentile £45,125 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,750 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £100,000
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 46,878 54,401 47,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.98% 86.62% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,142 28,251 36,353
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £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 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.70%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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 1,142 £70,000 +7.69% 642
UK excluding London +10 668 £62,500 +4.17% 540
London +19 545 £83,672 +11.56% 248
Work from Home +25 446 £70,000 +3.70% 564
South East +20 238 £60,250 -3.60% 214
North of England -18 146 £67,500 +15.09% 105
Midlands +47 121 £60,000 +4.80% 85
West Midlands +35 83 £60,000 +9.09% 53
Yorkshire +2 79 £68,000 +29.52% 42
Scotland +14 76 £81,292 +41.38% 19
North West -21 55 £62,500 +2.11% 53
East of England +37 43 £57,500 +6.98% 57
South West -8 42 £64,350 -8.07% 47
East Midlands +31 38 £67,500 +3.85% 30
North East +7 12 £51,250 +2.50% 11
Northern Ireland - 6 £40,500 - 5
Wales +3 5 £37,500 -12.28% 15

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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 43 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.93%) Apache
4 22 (1.74%) Confluence
5 15 (1.19%) SAS
5 15 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.95%) Appian
7 5 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
8 4 (0.32%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) Luigi
9 2 (0.16%) Mendix
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.079%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.079%) Camunda
10 1 (0.079%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
Applications
1 158 (12.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.16%) Sketch
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%) Trello
8 1 (0.079%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 8 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 8 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.40%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.32%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.16%) iTrent
8 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.079%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.079%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.079%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.079%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.079%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 673 (53.29%) Azure
2 416 (32.94%) Power Platform
3 282 (22.33%) AWS
4 185 (14.65%) Snowflake
5 162 (12.83%) GCP
6 124 (9.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 120 (9.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 104 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (7.36%) dbt
10 82 (6.49%) GitHub
11 71 (5.62%) Serverless
12 52 (4.12%) SaaS
13 48 (3.80%) Amazon S3
14 42 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
15 41 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
16 35 (2.77%) Power Automate
17 33 (2.61%) PowerApps
18 30 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
19 29 (2.30%) Collibra
20 22 (1.74%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) 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%) TCAP
3 1 (0.079%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (32.38%) Data Warehouse
2 397 (31.43%) Power BI
3 225 (17.81%) Data Lake
4 152 (12.03%) Metadata
5 112 (8.87%) SQL Server
6 90 (7.13%) Tableau
7 76 (6.02%) SAP BW
8 69 (5.46%) Big Data
9 68 (5.38%) NoSQL
10 65 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 54 (4.28%) Power Query
12 52 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 51 (4.04%) MySQL
14 48 (3.80%) Relational Database
15 47 (3.72%) Hadoop
16 45 (3.56%) Snowflake Schema
17 44 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
18 42 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 41 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 39 (3.09%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 62 (4.91%) Git
2 57 (4.51%) JIRA
3 32 (2.53%) ERwin
4 22 (1.74%) ER Studio
5 15 (1.19%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.55%) GitLab
6 7 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.48%) Postman
7 6 (0.48%) Selenium
8 5 (0.40%) git-flow
8 5 (0.40%) MLflow
8 5 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.40%) Snyk
9 3 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.24%) JUnit
9 3 (0.24%) Storybook
10 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.079%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.079%) LSMW
11 1 (0.079%) Maven
General
1 517 (40.93%) Social Skills
2 447 (35.39%) Finance
3 336 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.79%) Law
5 103 (8.16%) Marketing
6 81 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (5.46%) Retail
8 65 (5.15%) Public Sector
9 61 (4.83%) Banking
10 50 (3.96%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.93%) Manufacturing
12 31 (2.45%) Retail Banking
13 30 (2.38%) Legal
14 23 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.27%) Advertising
18 13 (1.03%) Electronics
19 12 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
20 11 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 304 (24.07%) Architect
2 250 (19.79%) Senior
3 238 (18.84%) Data Engineer
4 224 (17.74%) Data Architect
5 179 (14.17%) Analyst
6 177 (14.01%) Lead
7 135 (10.69%) Developer
8 99 (7.84%) Senior Data Engineer
9 66 (5.23%) Data Analyst
10 52 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (3.48%) Azure Data Engineer
12 42 (3.33%) Report Analyst
13 41 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 39 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
14 39 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
15 38 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 34 (2.69%) Business Analyst
17 33 (2.61%) Senior Architect
18 31 (2.45%) Consultant
19 28 (2.22%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (6.33%) Kafka
2 67 (5.30%) REST
3 33 (2.61%) SOAP
4 32 (2.53%) PySpark
5 31 (2.45%) .NET
6 30 (2.38%) JSON
7 28 (2.22%) RESTful
8 27 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
9 26 (2.06%) HTML
10 25 (1.98%) CSS
11 21 (1.66%) React
12 20 (1.58%) XML
13 15 (1.19%) Middleware
14 14 (1.11%) Django
15 13 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
16 11 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
16 11 (0.87%) Web Services
17 10 (0.79%) AngularJS
17 10 (0.79%) Pandas
17 10 (0.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 104 (8.23%) Product Ownership
2 73 (5.78%) Cloud Native
3 60 (4.75%) Data Structures
4 44 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 40 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 27 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.66%) FMCG
10 20 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.35%) Low-Code
12 16 (1.27%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.03%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (0.87%) Fixed Income
16 9 (0.71%) IoT
16 9 (0.71%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.63%) Taxonomies
18 7 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.71%) Unix
2 6 (0.48%) Linux
3 5 (0.40%) Android
3 5 (0.40%) Windows
4 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (46.00%) Analytics
2 497 (39.35%) Business Intelligence
3 434 (34.36%) ETL
4 371 (29.37%) Data Governance
5 359 (28.42%) Agile
6 339 (26.84%) Problem-Solving
7 325 (25.73%) Data Architecture
8 305 (24.15%) Data Pipeline
9 302 (23.91%) Data Engineering
10 267 (21.14%) CI/CD
11 262 (20.74%) Decision-Making
12 252 (19.95%) DevOps
13 246 (19.48%) AI
14 228 (18.05%) Data Integration
15 195 (15.44%) Mentoring
16 193 (15.28%) Data Strategy
17 179 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 177 (14.01%) Data Management
19 169 (13.38%) Data Science
20 161 (12.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 596 (47.19%) SQL
2 466 (36.90%) Python
3 84 (6.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 80 (6.33%) Java
5 68 (5.38%) C#
6 64 (5.07%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.96%) TypeScript
8 44 (3.48%) Scala
9 34 (2.69%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.45%) R
11 27 (2.14%) Apex Code
12 21 (1.66%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.11%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.95%) Bash
15 10 (0.79%) C++
16 8 (0.63%) ANSI SQL
17 6 (0.48%) Go
17 6 (0.48%) VBA
18 5 (0.40%) Fortran
18 5 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 265 (20.98%) Degree
2 71 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (5.23%) Security Cleared
4 62 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 58 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 51 (4.04%) SC Cleared
7 42 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.95%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 10 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (0.79%) SnowPro
14 8 (0.63%) OCP
15 7 (0.55%) CISA
15 7 (0.55%) CISM
15 7 (0.55%) CISSP
15 7 (0.55%) CRISC
15 7 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (27.40%) Data Quality
2 89 (7.05%) GDPR
3 70 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.64%) QA
5 26 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.55%) COBIT
7 7 (0.55%) GRC
7 7 (0.55%) ITGC
7 7 (0.55%) NIST
8 5 (0.40%) MiFID
9 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.16%) PMO
10 2 (0.16%) PSD2
10 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.16%) SLA
10 2 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.079%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (2.06%) Docker
2 10 (0.79%) HDFS
3 8 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.40%) 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 47 (3.72%) Terraform
2 23 (1.82%) 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 (0.40%) 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
1 288 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 199 (15.76%) Databricks
3 175 (13.86%) SAP
4 69 (5.46%) Oracle
5 62 (4.91%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.33%) Informatica
7 39 (3.09%) Google
8 29 (2.30%) Talend
9 15 (1.19%) Palantir
10 13 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.79%) Dataiku
12 10 (0.79%) IBM
13 9 (0.71%) UiPath
14 8 (0.63%) Delphix
14 8 (0.63%) Foundry
14 8 (0.63%) Sparx
15 7 (0.55%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.55%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.55%) Siemens