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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 126 119
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,688 1,205 2,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.45% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.71% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,164 624 1,400
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £65,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -6.07% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +21 1,538 £69,973 +3.66% 755
UK excluding London +8 809 £62,500 +4.17% 478
London +27 709 £80,000 +6.67% 437
Work from Home +23 544 £65,000 - 370
North of England +86 304 £63,000 +5.00% 108
South East -36 188 £60,000 -7.69% 125
Midlands -2 148 £60,000 -4.00% 79
North West +49 143 £62,500 +13.64% 60
Yorkshire +29 112 £67,500 +12.50% 27
West Midlands -1 105 £62,500 +8.70% 42
South West -73 76 £60,000 -4.00% 114
East of England -9 54 £71,000 +18.33% 20
North East -11 49 £65,000 +36.84% 22
East Midlands -26 43 £55,000 -13.39% 37
Scotland -26 23 £70,000 +11.11% 23
Wales - 13 £67,586 - 11
Northern Ireland -56 3 £60,000 - 6

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
1 139 (8.23%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (6.87%) Apache Spark
3 82 (4.86%) Apache
4 33 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
5 18 (1.07%) SAS
6 14 (0.83%) Confluence
6 14 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.47%) CMS
7 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.24%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.18%) Appian
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
10 3 (0.18%) IIS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 79 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.059%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.18%) SAP MDG
3 19 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.59%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.47%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.41%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.18%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 674 (39.93%) Azure
2 471 (27.90%) Power Platform
3 439 (26.01%) AWS
4 256 (15.17%) GCP
5 178 (10.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 162 (9.60%) Snowflake
7 141 (8.35%) dbt
8 130 (7.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 101 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (5.39%) Serverless
11 89 (5.27%) Amazon S3
12 66 (3.91%) SaaS
13 59 (3.50%) Power Automate
14 53 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (3.08%) PowerApps
16 45 (2.67%) GitHub
17 41 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
18 39 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
19 32 (1.90%) Amazon EMR
19 32 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.61%) Broadband
2 6 (0.36%) BGP
2 6 (0.36%) DNS
2 6 (0.36%) IPsec
2 6 (0.36%) VPN
3 4 (0.24%) Internet
3 4 (0.24%) NGN
4 3 (0.18%) LTE
4 3 (0.18%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) 4G
5 2 (0.12%) 5G
5 2 (0.12%) SMS
5 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
6 1 (0.059%) CTI
6 1 (0.059%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 433 (25.65%) Power BI
2 339 (20.08%) Data Warehouse
3 210 (12.44%) Data Lake
4 202 (11.97%) Metadata
5 124 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 121 (7.17%) Tableau
7 110 (6.52%) Relational Database
8 90 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 90 (5.33%) BigQuery
9 89 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
10 69 (4.09%) Big Data
11 67 (3.97%) Star Schema
12 64 (3.79%) MySQL
13 63 (3.73%) Semantic Layer
14 62 (3.67%) NoSQL
15 52 (3.08%) Delta Lake
16 50 (2.96%) Power Query
16 50 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 49 (2.90%) Data Vault
18 48 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 109 (6.46%) Git
2 38 (2.25%) JIRA
3 32 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.90%) MLflow
4 28 (1.66%) Claude Code
5 14 (0.83%) GitLab
6 12 (0.71%) ERwin
7 10 (0.59%) Postman
8 6 (0.36%) Toad
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.12%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
12 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.059%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 563 (33.35%) Social Skills
2 514 (30.45%) Finance
3 454 (26.90%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (4.21%) Retail
7 68 (4.03%) Marketing
8 67 (3.97%) Law
9 54 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.96%) Manufacturing
11 43 (2.55%) Legal
12 36 (2.13%) Financial Institution
13 31 (1.84%) Banking
14 23 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.24%) Billing
15 21 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.13%) Local Government
17 18 (1.07%) Advertising
18 17 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 412 (24.41%) Data Engineer
2 381 (22.57%) Architect
3 361 (21.39%) Senior
4 266 (15.76%) Data Architect
5 207 (12.26%) Analyst
6 199 (11.79%) Developer
7 189 (11.20%) Lead
8 112 (6.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 107 (6.34%) Data Analyst
10 81 (4.80%) Consultant
11 66 (3.91%) Senior Architect
12 53 (3.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 52 (3.08%) Senior Data Architect
14 51 (3.02%) Business Analyst
15 46 (2.73%) Data Modeller
16 45 (2.67%) Senior Developer
17 44 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 43 (2.55%) Lead Data Engineer
19 41 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
20 37 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.88%) REST
2 119 (7.05%) PySpark
3 113 (6.69%) Kafka
4 70 (4.15%) Node.js
5 66 (3.91%) React
6 63 (3.73%) .NET
7 59 (3.50%) JSON
8 57 (3.38%) SOAP
9 56 (3.32%) Middleware
10 52 (3.08%) Lightning Web Components
11 45 (2.67%) XML
12 41 (2.43%) CSS
12 41 (2.43%) LangChain
13 34 (2.01%) RESTful
14 32 (1.90%) PyTorch
14 32 (1.90%) TensorFlow
15 30 (1.78%) HTML
15 30 (1.78%) Visualforce
16 29 (1.72%) AngularJS
16 29 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.83%) Cloud Native
2 136 (8.06%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 54 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.37%) Public Cloud
7 39 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.66%) Low-Code
12 27 (1.60%) Clustering
13 26 (1.54%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.42%) Reinsurance
15 23 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
16 22 (1.30%) Social Media
17 19 (1.13%) Mobile App
18 18 (1.07%) Replication
19 14 (0.83%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.18%) Linux
2 15 (0.89%) Windows
3 1 (0.059%) Android
3 1 (0.059%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.059%) Unix
3 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (47.16%) Analytics
2 580 (34.36%) Business Intelligence
3 535 (31.69%) Data Governance
4 491 (29.09%) AI
5 476 (28.20%) Data Engineering
6 466 (27.61%) ETL
7 448 (26.54%) Data Pipeline
8 440 (26.07%) Decision-Making
9 403 (23.87%) Agile
10 393 (23.28%) CI/CD
11 392 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
12 387 (22.93%) Data Architecture
13 295 (17.48%) DevOps
14 274 (16.23%) Mentoring
15 268 (15.88%) Roadmaps
16 267 (15.82%) Machine Learning
17 248 (14.69%) Data Strategy
18 238 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
19 188 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 176 (10.43%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 876 (51.90%) SQL
2 705 (41.77%) Python
3 111 (6.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 106 (6.28%) Java
5 81 (4.80%) TypeScript
6 79 (4.68%) JavaScript
7 75 (4.44%) C#
8 57 (3.38%) Scala
9 48 (2.84%) Apex Code
10 42 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.48%) R
12 24 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.18%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.13%) SOQL
14 19 (1.13%) SOSL
15 14 (0.83%) Bash
15 14 (0.83%) Bicep
16 11 (0.65%) C++
17 10 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 207 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 191 (11.32%) Degree
3 126 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.84%) DBS Check
9 30 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.59%) SnowPro
15 9 (0.53%) CIPD
16 8 (0.47%) ACCA
16 8 (0.47%) CIMA
16 8 (0.47%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.30%) IIBA
18 4 (0.24%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 571 (33.83%) Data Quality
2 122 (7.23%) GDPR
3 60 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 55 (3.26%) QA
5 28 (1.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.41%) GRC
8 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.30%) MiFID
9 5 (0.30%) SLA
10 4 (0.24%) IFRS
10 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.24%) PERC
10 4 (0.24%) PMO
11 3 (0.18%) WCAG
12 2 (0.12%) HL7
13 1 (0.059%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.059%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.059%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (5.21%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.059%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 105 (6.22%) Terraform
2 58 (3.44%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.71%) Ansible
4 9 (0.53%) Grafana
5 7 (0.41%) Packer
6 6 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.18%) Kibana
8 1 (0.059%) QRadar
8 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.059%) SCCM
Vendors
1 350 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 341 (20.20%) Databricks
3 119 (7.05%) Oracle
4 110 (6.52%) Salesforce
5 101 (5.98%) SAP
6 58 (3.44%) Google
7 33 (1.95%) Informatica
8 27 (1.60%) Cloudera
8 27 (1.60%) Palantir
9 25 (1.48%) Foundry
10 23 (1.36%) Dell
11 18 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.01%) Talend
13 16 (0.95%) OpenAI
14 15 (0.89%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.71%) IBM
16 11 (0.65%) Workday
17 10 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 9 (0.53%) HubSpot
19 7 (0.41%) Cisco