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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 124 123
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,665 1,216 2,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.47% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.75% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 619 1,280
10th Percentile £43,498 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
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 22 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 22 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 +17 1,527 £70,000 +3.70% 770
UK excluding London -3 796 £62,500 - 403
London +18 708 £80,000 +6.67% 453
Work from Home +22 529 £67,000 +3.08% 367
North of England +80 296 £64,000 +6.67% 104
South East -47 187 £62,500 -3.85% 126
Midlands -2 145 £60,000 -5.51% 62
North West +52 140 £62,500 +8.70% 56
Yorkshire +17 105 £67,500 +8.00% 24
West Midlands +10 102 £62,500 +7.30% 41
South West -76 80 £60,000 -14.29% 59
East of England +3 55 £71,000 +18.33% 18
North East -10 51 £55,000 +15.79% 25
East Midlands -24 43 £57,000 -11.11% 21
Scotland -20 19 £70,000 +5.66% 26
Wales - 11 £66,000 - 7
Northern Ireland -63 3 £60,000 - 4

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 (8.17%) Apache Airflow
2 118 (7.09%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.74%) Apache
4 32 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.08%) SAS
6 14 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 14 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.66%) Confluence
8 8 (0.48%) CMS
8 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.12%) Appian
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 72 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.060%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.20%) SAP MDG
3 18 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.48%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
12 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 660 (39.64%) Azure
2 479 (28.77%) Power Platform
3 434 (26.07%) AWS
4 246 (14.77%) GCP
5 178 (10.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 164 (9.85%) Snowflake
7 139 (8.35%) dbt
8 126 (7.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 98 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (5.41%) Amazon S3
11 87 (5.23%) Serverless
12 66 (3.96%) SaaS
13 57 (3.42%) Power Automate
14 51 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (3.06%) PowerApps
15 47 (2.82%) GitHub
16 43 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
17 37 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
19 33 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.64%) 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
6 1 (0.060%) CTI
6 1 (0.060%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 444 (26.67%) Power BI
2 347 (20.84%) Data Warehouse
3 214 (12.85%) Data Lake
4 197 (11.83%) Metadata
5 128 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 126 (7.57%) Tableau
7 108 (6.49%) Relational Database
8 92 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 92 (5.53%) BigQuery
9 88 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
10 72 (4.32%) Big Data
11 69 (4.14%) Star Schema
12 64 (3.84%) Semantic Layer
13 62 (3.72%) MySQL
14 61 (3.66%) NoSQL
15 56 (3.36%) Delta Lake
16 52 (3.12%) Data Vault
17 51 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
17 51 (3.06%) Power Query
18 49 (2.94%) Looker
Development Applications
1 110 (6.61%) Git
2 36 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.04%) JIRA
4 33 (1.98%) MLflow
5 28 (1.68%) Claude Code
6 17 (1.02%) GitLab
7 11 (0.66%) ERwin
8 6 (0.36%) 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%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
12 1 (0.060%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.060%) PowerDesigner
12 1 (0.060%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 549 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 517 (31.05%) Finance
3 448 (26.91%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (7.57%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.32%) Law
7 71 (4.26%) Retail
8 68 (4.08%) Marketing
9 55 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (3.12%) Manufacturing
11 49 (2.94%) Legal
12 34 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 33 (1.98%) Banking
14 22 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.26%) Billing
15 21 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.02%) Advertising
18 15 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 413 (24.80%) Data Engineer
2 380 (22.82%) Architect
3 354 (21.26%) Senior
4 267 (16.04%) Data Architect
5 192 (11.53%) Developer
6 188 (11.29%) Lead
7 186 (11.17%) Analyst
8 114 (6.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 91 (5.47%) Data Analyst
10 79 (4.74%) Consultant
11 58 (3.48%) Senior Architect
12 49 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 47 (2.82%) Business Analyst
14 46 (2.76%) Data Modeller
15 44 (2.64%) Senior Data Architect
15 44 (2.64%) Senior Developer
16 43 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 41 (2.46%) Lead Data Engineer
18 40 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
19 37 (2.22%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (7.57%) REST
2 120 (7.21%) PySpark
3 114 (6.85%) Kafka
4 70 (4.20%) Node.js
5 66 (3.96%) React
6 59 (3.54%) JSON
7 58 (3.48%) .NET
8 52 (3.12%) SOAP
9 51 (3.06%) Middleware
10 49 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
11 45 (2.70%) XML
12 41 (2.46%) LangChain
13 37 (2.22%) CSS
14 31 (1.86%) PyTorch
14 31 (1.86%) RESTful
14 31 (1.86%) TensorFlow
15 28 (1.68%) AngularJS
15 28 (1.68%) scikit-learn
16 26 (1.56%) HTML
17 25 (1.50%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.97%) Cloud Native
2 131 (7.87%) Data Structures
3 82 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 81 (4.86%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
7 40 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 33 (1.98%) Public Cloud
9 32 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.62%) Clustering
12 26 (1.56%) Low-Code
13 25 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.44%) Reinsurance
15 22 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
15 22 (1.32%) Social Media
16 19 (1.14%) Mobile App
17 18 (1.08%) Replication
18 15 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.26%) Linux
2 16 (0.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.060%) Unix
3 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (47.63%) Analytics
2 587 (35.26%) Business Intelligence
3 527 (31.65%) Data Governance
4 507 (30.45%) AI
5 480 (28.83%) Data Engineering
6 464 (27.87%) ETL
7 451 (27.09%) Data Pipeline
8 426 (25.59%) Decision-Making
9 394 (23.66%) Agile
10 381 (22.88%) Data Architecture
11 379 (22.76%) CI/CD
12 374 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
13 281 (16.88%) DevOps
14 273 (16.40%) Roadmaps
15 268 (16.10%) Machine Learning
16 265 (15.92%) Mentoring
17 249 (14.95%) Data Strategy
18 230 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
19 184 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
20 183 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 869 (52.19%) SQL
2 698 (41.92%) Python
3 111 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (6.13%) Java
5 80 (4.80%) TypeScript
6 73 (4.38%) C#
6 73 (4.38%) JavaScript
7 61 (3.66%) Scala
8 45 (2.70%) Apex Code
9 41 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.44%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.38%) R
12 20 (1.20%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.02%) SOQL
13 17 (1.02%) SOSL
14 15 (0.90%) Bicep
15 13 (0.78%) Bash
16 11 (0.66%) C++
16 11 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 200 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 186 (11.17%) Degree
3 126 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.42%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 32 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 25 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 9 (0.54%) CIPD
13 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.36%) ACCA
14 6 (0.36%) CIMA
14 6 (0.36%) IIBA
15 5 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 572 (34.35%) Data Quality
2 123 (7.39%) GDPR
3 57 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 53 (3.18%) QA
5 28 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.42%) PMO
8 6 (0.36%) GRC
8 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.24%) IFRS
9 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.24%) MiFID
9 4 (0.24%) PERC
9 4 (0.24%) SLA
10 2 (0.12%) HL7
10 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.12%) WCAG
11 1 (0.060%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.060%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 88 (5.29%) Docker
2 13 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) NDS
4 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 103 (6.19%) Terraform
2 59 (3.54%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.78%) Ansible
4 8 (0.48%) Grafana
4 8 (0.48%) Packer
5 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) QRadar
9 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.060%) SCCM
Vendors
1 350 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 344 (20.66%) Databricks
3 117 (7.03%) Oracle
4 103 (6.19%) Salesforce
5 101 (6.07%) SAP
6 52 (3.12%) Google
7 29 (1.74%) Informatica
8 27 (1.62%) Cloudera
9 23 (1.38%) Dell
9 23 (1.38%) Palantir
10 19 (1.14%) Foundry
11 17 (1.02%) Talend
12 16 (0.96%) ServiceNow
13 13 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.78%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.72%) IBM
15 10 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 9 (0.54%) HubSpot
17 7 (0.42%) Ariba
17 7 (0.42%) SYSPRO