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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 115 105
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,534 1,126 2,462
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.66% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.86% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 953 586 1,541
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +8 1,343 £68,755 +5.78% 612
UK excluding London -15 750 £65,000 +8.33% 462
London +36 630 £80,000 +6.67% 269
Work from Home +13 543 £70,000 +7.69% 286
North of England +14 217 £70,932 +26.10% 109
South East -35 194 £60,000 -7.69% 167
Midlands -11 146 £60,000 -4.00% 98
Yorkshire +18 115 £75,000 +25.00% 37
West Midlands 0 112 £60,715 +1.19% 70
North West -21 85 £70,000 +33.33% 53
Scotland -12 72 £70,000 +13.14% 14
East of England +4 58 £65,000 -3.70% 28
South West -80 55 £55,000 -2.17% 35
East Midlands -42 32 £51,825 -19.96% 28
North East -25 17 £55,000 -1.08% 20
Wales -22 7 £67,586 +80.23% 14
Northern Ireland -41 1 - - 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
1 136 (8.87%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (5.67%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.59%) Apache
4 30 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.30%) Confluence
5 20 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 18 (1.17%) SAS
7 12 (0.78%) Appian
8 9 (0.59%) CMS
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.20%) IIS
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) CICS
12 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 76 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) Sketch
6 1 (0.065%) Notion
6 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.065%) SPSS
6 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.85%) SAP MDG
3 12 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
8 3 (0.20%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.065%) FIS Private Capital Suite
10 1 (0.065%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.065%) SAP MDG-M
Cloud Services
1 717 (46.74%) Azure
2 423 (27.57%) Power Platform
3 349 (22.75%) AWS
4 210 (13.69%) GCP
5 195 (12.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 188 (12.26%) Snowflake
7 151 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 146 (9.52%) dbt
9 143 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (5.54%) Serverless
11 74 (4.82%) GitHub
12 63 (4.11%) Amazon S3
13 56 (3.65%) Power Automate
14 47 (3.06%) SaaS
15 44 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (2.67%) PowerApps
17 38 (2.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 34 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 32 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
20 30 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.09%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.20%) NGN
3 3 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.20%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
4 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
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
1 389 (25.36%) Power BI
2 353 (23.01%) Data Warehouse
3 211 (13.75%) Data Lake
4 193 (12.58%) Metadata
5 116 (7.56%) Tableau
6 112 (7.30%) SQL Server
7 99 (6.45%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 78 (5.08%) BigQuery
10 70 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (4.24%) NoSQL
12 55 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 53 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 52 (3.39%) Power Query
15 45 (2.93%) Looker
16 44 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
17 42 (2.74%) MySQL
18 38 (2.48%) Delta Lake
19 37 (2.41%) Star Schema
20 33 (2.15%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 108 (7.04%) Git
2 55 (3.59%) JIRA
3 42 (2.74%) MLflow
4 20 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 19 (1.24%) Postman
6 16 (1.04%) ERwin
7 11 (0.72%) GitLab
8 9 (0.59%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.20%) Gradle
11 3 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.20%) Maven
11 3 (0.20%) NUnit
11 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.20%) TestNG
11 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 521 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 497 (32.40%) Finance
3 427 (27.84%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.69%) Marketing
7 71 (4.63%) Law
8 53 (3.46%) Banking
9 49 (3.19%) Financial Institution
10 43 (2.80%) Retail
11 40 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (1.83%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.30%) Advertising
15 20 (1.30%) Legal
16 18 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.04%) Retail Banking
18 13 (0.85%) Local Government
19 12 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 350 (22.82%) Data Engineer
2 339 (22.10%) Architect
3 303 (19.75%) Senior
4 227 (14.80%) Data Architect
5 205 (13.36%) Analyst
6 169 (11.02%) Developer
7 166 (10.82%) Lead
8 118 (7.69%) Data Analyst
9 90 (5.87%) Senior Data Engineer
10 74 (4.82%) Consultant
11 53 (3.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
13 45 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
13 45 (2.93%) Business Analyst
13 45 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
14 43 (2.80%) Data Modeller
15 37 (2.41%) Senior Architect
16 36 (2.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 34 (2.22%) Senior Developer
18 32 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (8.67%) REST
2 107 (6.98%) Kafka
3 94 (6.13%) PySpark
4 67 (4.37%) SOAP
5 57 (3.72%) JSON
6 56 (3.65%) .NET
7 53 (3.46%) Lightning Web Components
8 51 (3.32%) RESTful
9 48 (3.13%) Middleware
10 44 (2.87%) XML
11 42 (2.74%) PyTorch
11 42 (2.74%) TensorFlow
12 41 (2.67%) React
13 40 (2.61%) scikit-learn
14 37 (2.41%) CSS
14 37 (2.41%) LangChain
15 32 (2.09%) HTML
15 32 (2.09%) OpenAPI
15 32 (2.09%) Pandas
15 32 (2.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 123 (8.02%) Data Structures
3 105 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 53 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 43 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (2.61%) Low-Code
10 33 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 31 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.56%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.50%) Clustering
14 22 (1.43%) Social Media
15 21 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.17%) e-Learning
17 16 (1.04%) Replication
17 16 (1.04%) Taxonomies
18 15 (0.98%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.91%) Windows
2 12 (0.78%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.20%) Android
4 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (46.15%) Analytics
2 521 (33.96%) Business Intelligence
3 497 (32.40%) ETL
4 477 (31.10%) Data Governance
5 455 (29.66%) Data Engineering
6 411 (26.79%) Agile
7 404 (26.34%) Data Pipeline
8 369 (24.05%) Data Architecture
9 356 (23.21%) CI/CD
10 355 (23.14%) Decision-Making
11 354 (23.08%) AI
12 352 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
13 311 (20.27%) DevOps
14 220 (14.34%) Mentoring
15 213 (13.89%) Machine Learning
16 209 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 204 (13.30%) Data Integration
18 185 (12.06%) Data Management
19 179 (11.67%) Data Strategy
20 177 (11.54%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 792 (51.63%) SQL
2 657 (42.83%) Python
3 119 (7.76%) Java
4 91 (5.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 81 (5.28%) JavaScript
6 67 (4.37%) C#
7 65 (4.24%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.39%) Apex Code
9 43 (2.80%) T-SQL
10 42 (2.74%) Scala
11 34 (2.22%) PowerShell
12 30 (1.96%) R
13 23 (1.50%) Bash
14 16 (1.04%) C++
15 12 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.65%) Perl
17 9 (0.59%) SOQL
17 9 (0.59%) SOSL
17 9 (0.59%) VBA
18 8 (0.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 193 (12.58%) Degree
2 146 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 96 (6.26%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (4.04%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.69%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 21 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.98%) ACCA
11 15 (0.98%) CIMA
12 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.46%) PMP
13 7 (0.46%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.26%) CBAP
15 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 96 (6.26%) GDPR
3 66 (4.30%) Accessibility
4 50 (3.26%) QA
5 26 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 15 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.59%) SLA
9 7 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.39%) MiFID
11 5 (0.33%) GRC
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.20%) PERC
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) WCAG
14 1 (0.065%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.065%) NIST
14 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 62 (4.04%) Docker
2 13 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.065%) Firmware
3 1 (0.065%) iptables
3 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 86 (5.61%) Terraform
2 59 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.85%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.46%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Ansible
8 3 (0.20%) Packer
9 1 (0.065%) Argo
9 1 (0.065%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 342 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 306 (19.95%) Databricks
3 104 (6.78%) Salesforce
4 102 (6.65%) Oracle
5 82 (5.35%) SAP
6 49 (3.19%) Informatica
7 43 (2.80%) Google
8 34 (2.22%) Palantir
9 32 (2.09%) Cloudera
9 32 (2.09%) Talend
10 30 (1.96%) Foundry
11 23 (1.50%) Dell
12 22 (1.43%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.43%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.17%) Sparx
14 16 (1.04%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.85%) UiPath
16 12 (0.78%) IBM
17 11 (0.72%) Workday