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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 125 112
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,604 1,147 2,444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.61% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.81% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 580 1,527
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,775 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 67,549 40,838 86,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 92.97% 82.99%
Number of salaries quoted 45,324 21,582 61,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +20 1,438 £70,000 +4.48% 818
UK excluding London +10 779 £65,000 +4.00% 517
London +32 663 £80,000 +6.67% 414
Work from Home +38 515 £67,500 +3.85% 389
North of England +72 281 £67,500 +17.39% 154
South East -31 186 £62,500 -3.85% 147
Midlands +3 142 £60,000 -4.00% 78
Yorkshire +37 125 £70,000 +16.67% 45
North West +41 122 £63,000 +20.00% 90
West Midlands -1 104 £61,608 +2.68% 56
East of England +4 61 £71,000 +1.43% 26
South West -82 58 £55,100 -8.17% 55
Scotland -14 39 £70,000 +16.67% 30
East Midlands -28 36 £55,000 -13.39% 22
North East -14 34 £60,000 +20.00% 22
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 11
Northern Ireland -38 3 £60,000 - 20

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
1 154 (9.60%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (5.86%) Apache Spark
3 73 (4.55%) Apache
4 35 (2.18%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.06%) Confluence
7 15 (0.94%) SAS
8 11 (0.69%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.62%) CMS
10 8 (0.50%) Appian
10 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.31%) IIS
12 4 (0.25%) WordPress
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.19%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.12%) CICS
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 68 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
5 3 (0.19%) Windchill
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.062%) Sketch
7 1 (0.062%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 35 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.06%) SAP MDG
3 15 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
11 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.12%) Aladdin
13 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.12%) Markit EDM
13 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
14 1 (0.062%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 685 (42.71%) Azure
2 439 (27.37%) Power Platform
3 403 (25.12%) AWS
4 233 (14.53%) GCP
5 179 (11.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (9.54%) Snowflake
7 142 (8.85%) dbt
8 134 (8.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 118 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
10 84 (5.24%) Serverless
11 78 (4.86%) Amazon S3
12 61 (3.80%) Power Automate
13 59 (3.68%) SaaS
14 53 (3.30%) GitHub
15 48 (2.99%) PowerApps
16 46 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
18 33 (2.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 30 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
19 30 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.43%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) LTE
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
2 3 (0.19%) NGN
2 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) 4G
3 2 (0.12%) 5G
3 2 (0.12%) Internet
3 2 (0.12%) SMS
3 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.062%) CTI
4 1 (0.062%) HTTP
4 1 (0.062%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (24.94%) Power BI
2 305 (19.01%) Data Warehouse
3 193 (12.03%) Data Lake
4 192 (11.97%) Metadata
5 120 (7.48%) Tableau
6 114 (7.11%) SQL Server
7 102 (6.36%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 88 (5.49%) BigQuery
9 74 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
10 63 (3.93%) NoSQL
11 57 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 52 (3.24%) Semantic Layer
13 51 (3.18%) Star Schema
14 50 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 47 (2.93%) Looker
16 46 (2.87%) Power Query
17 45 (2.81%) Delta Lake
18 44 (2.74%) MySQL
19 41 (2.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 114 (7.11%) Git
2 41 (2.56%) JIRA
3 38 (2.37%) MLflow
4 27 (1.68%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.00%) GitLab
6 14 (0.87%) ERwin
6 14 (0.87%) Postman
7 12 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.37%) Toad
9 4 (0.25%) JUnit
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.19%) Gradle
10 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.19%) Maven
10 3 (0.19%) NUnit
10 3 (0.19%) TestNG
11 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.12%) Mockito
General
1 532 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 494 (30.80%) Finance
3 441 (27.49%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 129 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.43%) Law
7 69 (4.30%) Marketing
8 59 (3.68%) Retail
9 47 (2.93%) Banking
10 44 (2.74%) Financial Institution
11 42 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.37%) Legal
13 33 (2.06%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.31%) Billing
17 19 (1.18%) Advertising
18 17 (1.06%) Local Government
19 15 (0.94%) Games
20 14 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 389 (24.25%) Data Engineer
2 335 (20.89%) Senior
3 334 (20.82%) Architect
4 218 (13.59%) Data Architect
5 203 (12.66%) Analyst
6 190 (11.85%) Lead
7 183 (11.41%) Developer
8 115 (7.17%) Data Analyst
9 109 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
10 79 (4.93%) Consultant
11 52 (3.24%) Business Analyst
11 52 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 49 (3.05%) Data Modeller
13 46 (2.87%) Lead Data Engineer
14 45 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
15 44 (2.74%) Senior Architect
16 40 (2.49%) Data Manager
17 39 (2.43%) Senior Developer
18 38 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
19 37 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (9.10%) REST
2 114 (7.11%) PySpark
3 108 (6.73%) Kafka
4 69 (4.30%) .NET
5 67 (4.18%) SOAP
6 61 (3.80%) React
7 59 (3.68%) JSON
8 55 (3.43%) Middleware
9 51 (3.18%) Lightning Web Components
9 51 (3.18%) Node.js
10 50 (3.12%) CSS
11 45 (2.81%) XML
12 42 (2.62%) LangChain
12 42 (2.62%) RESTful
13 38 (2.37%) PyTorch
13 38 (2.37%) TensorFlow
14 37 (2.31%) scikit-learn
15 35 (2.18%) HTML
16 31 (1.93%) Visualforce
17 27 (1.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 136 (8.48%) Cloud Native
2 130 (8.10%) Data Structures
3 92 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 50 (3.12%) Management Information System
7 46 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
8 38 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
9 35 (2.18%) Low-Code
9 35 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 34 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.87%) Reinsurance
12 25 (1.56%) Clustering
13 21 (1.31%) Replication
13 21 (1.31%) Social Media
14 18 (1.12%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
16 13 (0.81%) FMCG
16 13 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.94%) Windows
2 11 (0.69%) Linux
3 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (45.45%) Analytics
2 542 (33.79%) Business Intelligence
3 504 (31.42%) Data Governance
4 474 (29.55%) Data Engineering
5 461 (28.74%) ETL
6 422 (26.31%) Data Pipeline
7 405 (25.25%) Agile
8 397 (24.75%) AI
9 391 (24.38%) Decision-Making
10 383 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
11 381 (23.75%) CI/CD
12 357 (22.26%) Data Architecture
13 306 (19.08%) DevOps
14 247 (15.40%) Mentoring
15 239 (14.90%) Machine Learning
16 209 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 198 (12.34%) Roadmaps
18 189 (11.78%) Data Strategy
19 166 (10.35%) Translating Business Requirements
20 165 (10.29%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 838 (52.24%) SQL
2 692 (43.14%) Python
3 119 (7.42%) Java
4 96 (5.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 89 (5.55%) JavaScript
6 71 (4.43%) TypeScript
7 65 (4.05%) C#
8 53 (3.30%) Scala
9 48 (2.99%) Apex Code
10 41 (2.56%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.81%) R
12 28 (1.75%) PowerShell
13 18 (1.12%) Bash
13 18 (1.12%) SOQL
13 18 (1.12%) SOSL
14 17 (1.06%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.62%) C++
16 9 (0.56%) Perl
17 8 (0.50%) Go
17 8 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 189 (11.78%) Degree
2 172 (10.72%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.69%) ACCA
13 11 (0.69%) CIMA
14 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.44%) PMP
15 7 (0.44%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.25%) CBAP
16 4 (0.25%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (33.54%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.61%) GDPR
3 54 (3.37%) QA
4 46 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.56%) SLA
8 7 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.37%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) PERC
13 2 (0.12%) HL7
13 2 (0.12%) WCAG
14 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 82 (5.11%) Docker
2 11 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 93 (5.80%) Terraform
2 66 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.75%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.44%) Control-M
7 4 (0.25%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Kibana
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.062%) QRadar
9 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 333 (20.76%) Databricks
2 315 (19.64%) Microsoft
3 109 (6.80%) Salesforce
4 102 (6.36%) Oracle
5 89 (5.55%) SAP
6 52 (3.24%) Google
7 39 (2.43%) Informatica
8 32 (2.00%) Palantir
9 31 (1.93%) Foundry
10 27 (1.68%) Cloudera
11 23 (1.43%) Dell
11 23 (1.43%) OpenAI
12 20 (1.25%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.18%) ServiceNow
14 18 (1.12%) Talend
15 12 (0.75%) Sparx
16 10 (0.62%) IBM
16 10 (0.62%) Workday
17 9 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
17 9 (0.56%) UiPath