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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 117 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,543 1,114 2,458
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 2.67% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.87% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 945 585 1,538
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +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 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +7 1,342 £69,000 +6.15% 763
UK excluding London -17 760 £65,000 +8.33% 552
London +49 632 £77,500 +3.33% 320
Work from Home +18 561 £67,500 +3.85% 351
North of England +12 216 £70,932 +23.36% 142
South East -35 195 £61,250 -5.77% 170
Midlands -14 142 £60,000 - 120
Yorkshire +17 110 £75,000 +25.92% 55
West Midlands -2 108 £60,000 +4.35% 70
North West -19 88 £70,000 +33.33% 69
Scotland -8 81 £70,000 +11.11% 24
East of England -5 59 £65,000 - 45
South West -80 56 £55,000 - 48
East Midlands -51 32 £51,825 -19.96% 50
North East -21 18 £55,000 -1.08% 22
Wales -21 7 £67,586 +80.23% 9
Northern Ireland -38 4 - - 3

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
1 134 (8.68%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (5.57%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.56%) Apache
4 28 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.36%) Confluence
6 20 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 18 (1.17%) SAS
8 14 (0.91%) Appian
9 9 (0.58%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.065%) Mendix
14 1 (0.065%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 86 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) Sketch
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) Windchill
7 1 (0.065%) Notion
7 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.58%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG-F
11 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
12 1 (0.065%) Primavera
12 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 731 (47.38%) Azure
2 440 (28.52%) Power Platform
3 344 (22.29%) AWS
4 207 (13.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 201 (13.03%) GCP
6 199 (12.90%) Snowflake
7 171 (11.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 153 (9.92%) dbt
9 135 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (5.57%) Serverless
11 77 (4.99%) GitHub
12 61 (3.95%) Amazon S3
13 56 (3.63%) Power Automate
14 48 (3.11%) SaaS
15 44 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (2.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 40 (2.59%) PowerApps
18 37 (2.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 36 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
20 32 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.43%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.19%) NGN
3 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
4 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.065%) 4G
5 1 (0.065%) 5G
5 1 (0.065%) ADSL
5 1 (0.065%) CTI
5 1 (0.065%) DHCP
5 1 (0.065%) DNS
5 1 (0.065%) Internet
5 1 (0.065%) Modbus
5 1 (0.065%) MQTT
5 1 (0.065%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.065%) SMS
5 1 (0.065%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (26.18%) Power BI
2 367 (23.78%) Data Warehouse
3 208 (13.48%) Data Lake
4 194 (12.57%) Metadata
5 127 (8.23%) SQL Server
6 115 (7.45%) Tableau
7 97 (6.29%) Relational Database
8 89 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 71 (4.60%) BigQuery
10 68 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 64 (4.15%) NoSQL
13 57 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 56 (3.63%) Power Query
15 50 (3.24%) Snowflake Schema
16 46 (2.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 44 (2.85%) MySQL
18 43 (2.79%) Looker
19 35 (2.27%) Delta Lake
20 33 (2.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 106 (6.87%) Git
2 57 (3.69%) JIRA
3 41 (2.66%) MLflow
4 20 (1.30%) Postman
5 18 (1.17%) ERwin
6 15 (0.97%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.71%) GitLab
8 8 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.19%) Gradle
11 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.19%) NUnit
11 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) TestNG
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Checkstyle
12 2 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 530 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 519 (33.64%) Finance
3 433 (28.06%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (7.00%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.93%) Marketing
7 71 (4.60%) Law
8 55 (3.56%) Banking
9 54 (3.50%) Financial Institution
10 43 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (2.72%) Retail
12 32 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.88%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.36%) Legal
16 19 (1.23%) Advertising
17 18 (1.17%) Retail Banking
18 17 (1.10%) Telecoms
19 16 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
20 13 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 341 (22.10%) Architect
2 340 (22.03%) Data Engineer
3 301 (19.51%) Senior
4 226 (14.65%) Data Architect
5 210 (13.61%) Analyst
6 170 (11.02%) Developer
7 162 (10.50%) Lead
8 121 (7.84%) Data Analyst
9 91 (5.90%) Senior Data Engineer
10 71 (4.60%) Consultant
11 51 (3.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.05%) Business Analyst
12 47 (3.05%) Lead Data Engineer
13 46 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
15 41 (2.66%) Data Modeller
16 38 (2.46%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 37 (2.40%) Senior Architect
18 33 (2.14%) Senior Developer
18 33 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (8.62%) REST
2 103 (6.68%) Kafka
3 89 (5.77%) PySpark
4 69 (4.47%) SOAP
5 58 (3.76%) .NET
6 55 (3.56%) JSON
6 55 (3.56%) Lightning Web Components
7 52 (3.37%) RESTful
8 48 (3.11%) Middleware
9 42 (2.72%) PyTorch
9 42 (2.72%) TensorFlow
9 42 (2.72%) XML
10 41 (2.66%) React
11 40 (2.59%) scikit-learn
12 38 (2.46%) CSS
13 36 (2.33%) LangChain
14 33 (2.14%) HTML
14 33 (2.14%) OpenAPI
14 33 (2.14%) Swagger
15 30 (1.94%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 116 (7.52%) Data Structures
3 108 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 62 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 49 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.79%) Low-Code
8 42 (2.72%) Onboarding
9 41 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (2.14%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.49%) Clustering
13 23 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.43%) e-Learning
15 21 (1.36%) Reinsurance
16 17 (1.10%) Taxonomies
17 16 (1.04%) Social Media
18 15 (0.97%) AI Agents
18 15 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.84%) Windows
2 12 (0.78%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Android
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (46.92%) Analytics
2 535 (34.67%) Business Intelligence
3 504 (32.66%) ETL
4 472 (30.59%) Data Governance
5 451 (29.23%) Data Engineering
6 421 (27.28%) Agile
7 393 (25.47%) Data Pipeline
8 371 (24.04%) Decision-Making
9 366 (23.72%) AI
10 361 (23.40%) Data Architecture
11 359 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
12 348 (22.55%) CI/CD
13 304 (19.70%) DevOps
14 227 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 219 (14.19%) Mentoring
16 214 (13.87%) Data Integration
17 210 (13.61%) Machine Learning
18 187 (12.12%) Data Management
19 178 (11.54%) Data Science
20 172 (11.15%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 796 (51.59%) SQL
2 653 (42.32%) Python
3 118 (7.65%) Java
4 103 (6.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 86 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 73 (4.73%) C#
7 68 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.37%) Apex Code
9 44 (2.85%) T-SQL
10 43 (2.79%) Scala
11 32 (2.07%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.88%) R
13 21 (1.36%) Bash
14 17 (1.10%) C++
15 15 (0.97%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.58%) Go
16 9 (0.58%) Perl
16 9 (0.58%) VBA
17 8 (0.52%) SOQL
17 8 (0.52%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 199 (12.90%) Degree
2 140 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 79 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 50 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.20%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (1.56%) DBS Check
11 23 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (1.36%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.97%) ACCA
13 15 (0.97%) CIMA
14 12 (0.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.45%) PMP
16 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
17 5 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (30.14%) Data Quality
2 98 (6.35%) GDPR
3 70 (4.54%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.18%) QA
5 27 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 24 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.71%) SLA
9 8 (0.52%) MiFID
10 6 (0.39%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.32%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.19%) PERC
14 2 (0.13%) HL7
14 2 (0.13%) WCAG
15 1 (0.065%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.065%) PMO
15 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 61 (3.95%) Docker
2 14 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.13%) HDFS
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.065%) Firmware
4 1 (0.065%) iptables
Systems Management
1 79 (5.12%) Terraform
2 56 (3.63%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.84%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Control-M
7 2 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.065%) Argo
8 1 (0.065%) Packer
8 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 348 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 302 (19.57%) Databricks
3 104 (6.74%) Salesforce
4 94 (6.09%) Oracle
5 69 (4.47%) SAP
6 50 (3.24%) Informatica
7 40 (2.59%) Google
8 34 (2.20%) Palantir
9 32 (2.07%) Talend
10 31 (2.01%) Cloudera
10 31 (2.01%) Foundry
11 25 (1.62%) MuleSoft
12 23 (1.49%) Dell
13 22 (1.43%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.17%) Sparx
15 16 (1.04%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
16 13 (0.84%) IBM
16 13 (0.84%) UiPath
17 11 (0.71%) Workday