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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 116 110
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,214 1,487 1,566
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.43% 2.19% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.66% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 657 806 1,131
10th Percentile £46,050 £40,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,348 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year - +10.62% -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 43,586 55,994 49,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 82.59% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 26,170 29,448 38,129
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,063 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.53% +2.98% -

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 5 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Top 18 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 5 November 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 +6 1,117 £68,000 +0.74% 1,608
UK excluding London +13 633 £62,500 - 1,125
London +13 536 £85,000 +13.33% 932
Work from Home -7 394 £65,000 -7.14% 763
South East +23 228 £63,500 -2.31% 651
North of England -42 135 £65,000 +4.00% 154
Midlands +37 112 £63,000 +9.57% 111
West Midlands +28 68 £59,000 +7.27% 83
Yorkshire -13 68 £67,500 +28.57% 42
Scotland -5 55 £62,500 +20.19% 49
North West -37 55 £60,000 -10.45% 103
South West +24 53 £69,000 -1.43% 53
East of England +50 50 £57,500 -8.26% 68
East Midlands +35 44 £67,500 +3.85% 23
North East +6 12 £50,500 -8.18% 9
Northern Ireland +5 6 £40,500 - 6
Wales +4 4 £37,500 -13.86% 24
Isle of Man +9 1 - -

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 83 (6.84%) Apache Spark
2 39 (3.21%) Apache
2 39 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.14%) Confluence
4 15 (1.24%) SAS
4 15 (1.24%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.82%) Appian
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.16%) Luigi
8 2 (0.16%) Mendix
9 1 (0.082%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.082%) CMS
9 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.082%) OpenStack
Applications
1 152 (12.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.33%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.16%) Simulink
7 2 (0.16%) Trello
8 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.082%) Sketch
8 1 (0.082%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.66%) SAP CO
3 8 (0.66%) SAP FI
3 8 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.49%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.25%) Shopify
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.16%) Endur
8 2 (0.16%) iTrent
8 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.082%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.082%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 615 (50.66%) Azure
2 400 (32.95%) Power Platform
3 315 (25.95%) AWS
4 160 (13.18%) GCP
5 143 (11.78%) Snowflake
6 100 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 98 (8.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 76 (6.26%) dbt
9 75 (6.18%) Serverless
10 71 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
11 61 (5.02%) GitHub
12 57 (4.70%) SaaS
13 54 (4.45%) Amazon S3
14 48 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (2.88%) Power Automate
16 34 (2.80%) PowerApps
17 31 (2.55%) Collibra
17 31 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
19 25 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.33%) Broadband
2 3 (0.25%) HTTP
2 3 (0.25%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.16%) ADSL2
4 1 (0.082%) ADSL
4 1 (0.082%) Internet
4 1 (0.082%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.082%) SAN
4 1 (0.082%) SMS
4 1 (0.082%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (32.13%) Data Warehouse
2 378 (31.14%) Power BI
3 215 (17.71%) Data Lake
4 140 (11.53%) Metadata
5 119 (9.80%) SQL Server
6 81 (6.67%) Big Data
7 78 (6.43%) Tableau
8 73 (6.01%) SAP BW
9 72 (5.93%) NoSQL
10 69 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 54 (4.45%) Hadoop
11 54 (4.45%) Power Query
12 47 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
13 45 (3.71%) MySQL
14 44 (3.62%) Relational Database
15 42 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
16 41 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 39 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
18 36 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 35 (2.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 57 (4.70%) JIRA
2 51 (4.20%) Git
3 36 (2.97%) ERwin
4 27 (2.22%) ER Studio
5 16 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.66%) Selenium
7 7 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (0.49%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.49%) Snyk
8 6 (0.49%) Subversion
9 5 (0.41%) GitLab
10 4 (0.33%) git-flow
10 4 (0.33%) Maven
11 3 (0.25%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.25%) Storybook
12 2 (0.16%) JUnit
12 2 (0.16%) LSMW
12 2 (0.16%) Postman
13 1 (0.082%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.082%) MLflow
General
1 481 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 425 (35.01%) Finance
3 295 (24.30%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (10.79%) Law
5 106 (8.73%) Marketing
6 90 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 77 (6.34%) Banking
8 72 (5.93%) Retail
9 61 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 42 (3.46%) Financial Institution
11 40 (3.29%) Manufacturing
12 27 (2.22%) Legal
12 27 (2.22%) Retail Banking
13 26 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.15%) Electronics
17 11 (0.91%) Advertising
18 10 (0.82%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 266 (21.91%) Architect
2 248 (20.43%) Senior
3 231 (19.03%) Data Engineer
4 203 (16.72%) Lead
5 188 (15.49%) Data Architect
6 166 (13.67%) Analyst
7 130 (10.71%) Developer
8 105 (8.65%) Senior Data Engineer
9 52 (4.28%) Data Analyst
10 46 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 45 (3.71%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (3.62%) Azure Data Engineer
13 41 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 41 (3.38%) Report Analyst
14 40 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 40 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
15 36 (2.97%) Business Analyst
16 30 (2.47%) Consultant
16 30 (2.47%) Data Modeller
16 30 (2.47%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (7.66%) Kafka
2 56 (4.61%) REST
3 37 (3.05%) .NET
4 33 (2.72%) PySpark
5 28 (2.31%) JSON
6 27 (2.22%) CSS
6 27 (2.22%) HTML
7 21 (1.73%) React
7 21 (1.73%) RESTful
8 20 (1.65%) SOAP
9 19 (1.57%) XML
10 16 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
11 14 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
11 14 (1.15%) Spark Streaming
12 13 (1.07%) Middleware
13 11 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
14 10 (0.82%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.82%) Spring
15 9 (0.74%) GraphQL
15 9 (0.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 77 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.45%) Data Structures
4 52 (4.28%) Management Information System
5 40 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 21 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.48%) FMCG
11 15 (1.24%) Reinsurance
12 12 (0.99%) e-Learning
13 11 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.74%) Fixed Income
16 8 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.66%) IoT
17 7 (0.58%) Market Risk
17 7 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.91%) Unix
2 8 (0.66%) Linux
3 4 (0.33%) Android
4 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (44.65%) Analytics
2 471 (38.80%) Business Intelligence
3 423 (34.84%) ETL
4 347 (28.58%) Data Governance
5 333 (27.43%) Agile
6 320 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
7 310 (25.54%) Data Architecture
8 294 (24.22%) Data Engineering
9 284 (23.39%) Data Pipeline
10 271 (22.32%) Decision-Making
11 237 (19.52%) CI/CD
12 227 (18.70%) DevOps
13 225 (18.53%) AI
14 200 (16.47%) Data Strategy
15 190 (15.65%) Data Integration
16 181 (14.91%) Data Science
17 178 (14.66%) Mentoring
18 171 (14.09%) Data Management
19 168 (13.84%) Roadmaps
20 158 (13.01%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 586 (48.27%) SQL
2 438 (36.08%) Python
3 84 (6.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 83 (6.84%) Java
5 55 (4.53%) C#
5 55 (4.53%) JavaScript
6 43 (3.54%) Scala
7 38 (3.13%) T-SQL
7 38 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 37 (3.05%) R
9 17 (1.40%) Apex Code
10 15 (1.24%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.66%) Bash
13 7 (0.58%) C++
14 6 (0.49%) Go
14 6 (0.49%) PHP
15 5 (0.41%) Fortran
15 5 (0.41%) VBA
16 4 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 273 (22.49%) Degree
2 72 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (4.78%) Azure Certification
4 57 (4.70%) AWS Certification
4 57 (4.70%) Security Cleared
5 40 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (3.29%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (0.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 10 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.66%) OCP
13 8 (0.66%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.66%) PMP
13 8 (0.66%) SnowPro
14 7 (0.58%) CISSP
14 7 (0.58%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (25.37%) Data Quality
2 110 (9.06%) GDPR
3 53 (4.37%) QA
4 49 (4.04%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (0.74%) NIST
8 7 (0.58%) COBIT
8 7 (0.58%) GRC
8 7 (0.58%) ITGC
9 5 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.33%) MiFID
10 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.16%) PMO
11 2 (0.16%) PSD2
11 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.16%) SLA
11 2 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (2.14%) Docker
2 11 (0.91%) HDFS
3 8 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.49%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.25%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
7 1 (0.082%) KVM
7 1 (0.082%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 44 (3.62%) Terraform
2 27 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.82%) Ansible
4 8 (0.66%) Data Guard
4 8 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 8 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.41%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.33%) Kibana
7 3 (0.25%) logstash
7 3 (0.25%) Oozie
8 1 (0.082%) Grafana
8 1 (0.082%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.082%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.082%) Puppet
Vendors
1 252 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 190 (15.65%) Databricks
3 180 (14.83%) SAP
4 66 (5.44%) Oracle
5 60 (4.94%) Salesforce
6 51 (4.20%) Google
7 31 (2.55%) Informatica
8 18 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.32%) Talend
10 14 (1.15%) Palantir
11 12 (0.99%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.74%) Dataiku
12 9 (0.74%) IBM
13 8 (0.66%) Delphix
14 7 (0.58%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.58%) BiZZdesign
14 7 (0.58%) Blue Prism
14 7 (0.58%) Foundry
14 7 (0.58%) Progress
15 6 (0.49%) Black Duck