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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 135 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 -22 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,834 1,181 1,654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.55% 2.37% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.66% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 628 887
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +0.74% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +1.60% +8.70%

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 86,432 44,324 60,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.10% 81.90%
Number of salaries quoted 59,358 24,582 33,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +15 1,687 £70,000 +2.94% 2,856
UK excluding London +1 905 £63,500 - 1,744
London +1 779 £82,500 +3.13% 1,598
Work from Home +30 579 £69,973 +3.66% 1,598
North of England +72 347 £65,000 - 373
South East -52 197 £62,500 -3.85% 396
Midlands +12 173 £62,500 -1.57% 233
North West +70 162 £62,500 +4.17% 213
West Midlands +12 126 £63,750 +7.14% 150
South West -19 106 £70,000 +8.78% 151
Yorkshire -3 104 £68,510 +1.50% 105
North East +6 81 £65,000 +31.98% 57
East Midlands -45 47 £51,250 -21.15% 83
East of England -34 44 £63,750 +6.25% 135
Wales -51 23 £63,500 - 108
Scotland -24 22 £70,000 +16.67% 260
Northern Ireland -79 2 £60,000 - 107

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
1 109 (5.94%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (4.85%) Apache
4 30 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.25%) Confluence
6 20 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.60%) SAS
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.27%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 90 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.33%) Notion
6 3 (0.16%) Blender
6 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 43 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.38%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.27%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG-F
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
12 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
13 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 703 (38.33%) Azure
2 538 (29.33%) Power Platform
3 435 (23.72%) AWS
4 237 (12.92%) GCP
5 195 (10.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 171 (9.32%) Snowflake
7 147 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
8 133 (7.25%) dbt
9 126 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 104 (5.67%) Serverless
11 97 (5.29%) Amazon S3
12 88 (4.80%) SaaS
13 82 (4.47%) Azure Databricks
14 71 (3.87%) GitHub
14 71 (3.87%) Power Automate
15 59 (3.22%) Microsoft Purview
16 58 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (3.16%) PowerApps
17 57 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
18 41 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.58%) Broadband
2 16 (0.87%) VPN
3 10 (0.55%) DMZ
3 10 (0.55%) Ethernet
3 10 (0.55%) IPv4
3 10 (0.55%) Modbus
3 10 (0.55%) OSPF
3 10 (0.55%) VLAN
4 6 (0.33%) BGP
4 6 (0.33%) DNS
4 6 (0.33%) IPsec
4 6 (0.33%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) HTTP
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.055%) 4G
8 1 (0.055%) ATM
8 1 (0.055%) NGN
8 1 (0.055%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 499 (27.21%) Power BI
2 375 (20.45%) Data Warehouse
3 266 (14.50%) Metadata
4 210 (11.45%) Data Lake
5 141 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 121 (6.60%) Tableau
7 112 (6.11%) Relational Database
8 95 (5.18%) Star Schema
9 93 (5.07%) Semantic Layer
10 86 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (4.47%) Big Data
12 80 (4.36%) Delta Lake
13 79 (4.31%) BigQuery
13 79 (4.31%) NoSQL
14 78 (4.25%) Azure SQL Database
15 73 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 65 (3.54%) Power Query
17 57 (3.11%) Data Vault
18 49 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 48 (2.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 177 (9.65%) Git
2 49 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.45%) JIRA
4 41 (2.24%) Claude Code
5 33 (1.80%) GitLab
6 10 (0.55%) MLflow
7 8 (0.44%) ERwin
8 6 (0.33%) Ant
9 5 (0.27%) Toad
10 4 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.16%) Flyway
12 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.11%) Mockito
12 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 636 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 566 (30.86%) Finance
3 478 (26.06%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 158 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.34%) Marketing
6 84 (4.58%) Retail
7 79 (4.31%) Legal
8 76 (4.14%) Law
9 71 (3.87%) Manufacturing
10 53 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.51%) Banking
12 34 (1.85%) Billing
12 34 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 29 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (0.87%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.87%) Local Government
16 14 (0.76%) Advertising
16 14 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 456 (24.86%) Data Engineer
2 424 (23.12%) Architect
3 405 (22.08%) Senior
4 314 (17.12%) Data Architect
5 207 (11.29%) Analyst
6 192 (10.47%) Lead
7 188 (10.25%) Developer
8 118 (6.43%) Senior Data Engineer
9 104 (5.67%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.87%) Senior Architect
11 69 (3.76%) Consultant
12 59 (3.22%) Senior Data Architect
13 49 (2.67%) Principal Engineer
14 48 (2.62%) Business Analyst
15 47 (2.56%) Data Modeller
15 47 (2.56%) Software Engineer
15 47 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
16 44 (2.40%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (8.89%) PySpark
2 129 (7.03%) REST
3 111 (6.05%) Terraform
4 92 (5.02%) Kafka
5 67 (3.65%) Node.js
6 65 (3.54%) React
7 59 (3.22%) .NET
8 50 (2.73%) Middleware
9 47 (2.56%) SOAP
10 44 (2.40%) JSON
11 42 (2.29%) Lightning Web Components
12 35 (1.91%) CSS
13 34 (1.85%) AngularJS
14 30 (1.64%) XML
15 26 (1.42%) RESTful
16 23 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
17 22 (1.20%) Spring
18 21 (1.15%) Pandas
18 21 (1.15%) Vue
19 20 (1.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 103 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.53%) Onboarding
5 70 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.29%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
13 23 (1.25%) Taxonomies
14 21 (1.15%) Reinsurance
15 20 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
15 20 (1.09%) Reference Data
16 17 (0.93%) Replication
17 16 (0.87%) Social Media
18 14 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.47%) Windows
2 26 (1.42%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (45.47%) Analytics
2 671 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
3 633 (34.51%) AI
4 531 (28.95%) Data Governance
5 510 (27.81%) Data Engineering
6 508 (27.70%) Data Pipeline
7 491 (26.77%) ETL
8 479 (26.12%) Agile
9 473 (25.79%) CI/CD
10 468 (25.52%) Data Architecture
11 455 (24.81%) Decision-Making
12 408 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
13 343 (18.70%) DevOps
13 343 (18.70%) Roadmaps
14 320 (17.45%) Mentoring
15 292 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 287 (15.65%) Technical Leadership
17 286 (15.59%) Data Strategy
18 263 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
19 249 (13.58%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 962 (52.45%) SQL
2 704 (38.39%) Python
3 127 (6.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 103 (5.62%) C#
5 101 (5.51%) Java
6 87 (4.74%) TypeScript
7 82 (4.47%) Scala
8 75 (4.09%) JavaScript
9 40 (2.18%) Apex Code
10 32 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.47%) R
12 26 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 23 (1.25%) Bicep
14 17 (0.93%) SOQL
15 15 (0.82%) SOSL
16 14 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.55%) Bash
19 8 (0.44%) SPARQL
20 7 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 253 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 204 (11.12%) Degree
3 169 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (3.71%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 48 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 28 (1.53%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.98%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.55%) CIPD
15 9 (0.49%) ACCA
16 7 (0.38%) CIMA
16 7 (0.38%) CSPO
17 5 (0.27%) PMI Certification
17 5 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 689 (37.57%) Data Quality
2 126 (6.87%) GDPR
3 94 (5.13%) Accessibility
4 63 (3.44%) QA
5 14 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.49%) WCAG
7 8 (0.44%) PMO
8 5 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.22%) MiFID
10 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.16%) COPPA
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.16%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.16%) UCITS
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.055%) NIST
System Software
1 105 (5.73%) Docker
2 18 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.11%) NFS
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.04%) Ansible
3 8 (0.44%) Packer
4 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.16%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
7 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.055%) Consul
8 1 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.055%) QRadar
Vendors
1 461 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 334 (18.21%) Databricks
3 110 (6.00%) Oracle
4 109 (5.94%) Salesforce
5 106 (5.78%) SAP
6 68 (3.71%) Google
7 33 (1.80%) Informatica
8 21 (1.15%) Talend
9 20 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 18 (0.98%) Foundry
11 15 (0.82%) Palantir
12 14 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 11 (0.60%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.55%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.55%) IBM
14 10 (0.55%) Okta
14 10 (0.55%) OpenText
15 9 (0.49%) Workday