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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 130 105
Rank change year-on-year +17 -25 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,581 1,096 2,434
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.55% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.74% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 562 1,504
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,625 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £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 68,138 40,050 82,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.73% 93.30% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 44,115 21,094 59,611
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,795 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 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 22 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 +18 1,401 £70,000 +3.70% 661
UK excluding London +4 755 £65,000 +4.00% 486
London +37 664 £80,000 +6.67% 315
Work from Home +41 516 £70,000 +7.69% 357
North of England +63 252 £70,000 +21.74% 127
South East -39 185 £60,000 -7.69% 164
Midlands -6 141 £59,366 -5.01% 59
Yorkshire +38 125 £70,932 +18.22% 41
North West +25 106 £67,500 +28.57% 64
West Midlands +1 100 £60,000 - 45
East of England +11 58 £71,000 +1.43% 40
South West -86 56 £54,575 -15.07% 44
Scotland -8 53 £70,000 +21.74% 24
East Midlands -30 39 £45,000 -30.50% 14
North East -19 21 £65,000 +30.00% 27
Wales - 8 £67,586 - 18
Northern Ireland -38 2 - - 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
1 141 (8.92%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (5.76%) Apache Spark
3 61 (3.86%) Apache
4 36 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.08%) Confluence
7 16 (1.01%) SAS
8 10 (0.63%) Appian
8 10 (0.63%) CMS
9 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.32%) IIS
12 4 (0.25%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.19%) WordPress
14 2 (0.13%) CICS
14 2 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 66 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Windchill
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.063%) Blender
7 1 (0.063%) Maya
7 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.063%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.01%) SAP MDG
3 12 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.70%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.51%) SAP MDG-BP
7 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-F
9 4 (0.25%) Markit EDM
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.063%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 697 (44.09%) Azure
2 439 (27.77%) Power Platform
3 377 (23.85%) AWS
4 224 (14.17%) GCP
5 192 (12.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 157 (9.93%) Snowflake
7 141 (8.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 139 (8.79%) dbt
9 133 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (5.44%) Serverless
11 69 (4.36%) Amazon S3
12 66 (4.17%) Power Automate
13 61 (3.86%) GitHub
14 55 (3.48%) SaaS
15 51 (3.23%) PowerApps
16 44 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
17 38 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (2.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 32 (2.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 31 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.28%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) HTTP
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 (0.13%) 4G
3 2 (0.13%) 5G
3 2 (0.13%) Internet
3 2 (0.13%) SMS
3 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.063%) CTI
4 1 (0.063%) DHCP
4 1 (0.063%) DNS
4 1 (0.063%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.063%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (25.30%) Power BI
2 310 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
3 196 (12.40%) Data Lake
4 190 (12.02%) Metadata
5 121 (7.65%) Tableau
6 117 (7.40%) SQL Server
7 103 (6.51%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 85 (5.38%) BigQuery
10 72 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
11 69 (4.36%) NoSQL
12 58 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 57 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 49 (3.10%) Power Query
15 47 (2.97%) Looker
15 47 (2.97%) Semantic Layer
16 46 (2.91%) Star Schema
17 44 (2.78%) MySQL
18 42 (2.66%) Delta Lake
19 38 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 117 (7.40%) Git
2 44 (2.78%) JIRA
3 39 (2.47%) MLflow
4 24 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.01%) ERwin
6 15 (0.95%) Postman
7 11 (0.70%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.70%) GitLab
8 6 (0.38%) JUnit
9 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.32%) Toad
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.25%) Visual 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%) TestNG
12 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
General
1 529 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 511 (32.32%) Finance
3 434 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 120 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.49%) Law
6 71 (4.49%) Marketing
7 55 (3.48%) Retail
8 49 (3.10%) Banking
9 45 (2.85%) Financial Institution
10 44 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.96%) Legal
13 29 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.20%) Advertising
15 18 (1.14%) Billing
16 16 (1.01%) Local Government
17 15 (0.95%) Telecoms
18 13 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 360 (22.77%) Data Engineer
2 329 (20.81%) Architect
3 319 (20.18%) Senior
4 207 (13.09%) Data Architect
5 203 (12.84%) Analyst
6 188 (11.89%) Developer
7 185 (11.70%) Lead
8 116 (7.34%) Data Analyst
9 94 (5.95%) Senior Data Engineer
10 79 (5.00%) Consultant
11 57 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 52 (3.29%) Business Analyst
12 52 (3.29%) Data Modeller
13 46 (2.91%) Lead Data Engineer
14 44 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
15 43 (2.72%) Senior Architect
16 42 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
17 37 (2.34%) Senior Developer
17 37 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (2.28%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (9.30%) REST
2 107 (6.77%) Kafka
3 106 (6.70%) PySpark
4 72 (4.55%) SOAP
5 68 (4.30%) .NET
6 59 (3.73%) JSON
7 57 (3.61%) React
8 54 (3.42%) Lightning Web Components
8 54 (3.42%) Middleware
9 49 (3.10%) CSS
10 45 (2.85%) RESTful
11 44 (2.78%) XML
12 42 (2.66%) Node.js
13 39 (2.47%) LangChain
14 38 (2.40%) PyTorch
14 38 (2.40%) scikit-learn
14 38 (2.40%) TensorFlow
15 35 (2.21%) HTML
16 31 (1.96%) Visualforce
17 29 (1.83%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 130 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 128 (8.10%) Data Structures
3 106 (6.70%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 50 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (2.47%) Low-Code
9 38 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 32 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (1.90%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.45%) Clustering
14 21 (1.33%) Social Media
15 20 (1.27%) Replication
16 18 (1.14%) AI Agents
17 17 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
18 14 (0.89%) e-Learning
18 14 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.95%) Windows
2 11 (0.70%) Linux
3 4 (0.25%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Android
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (44.97%) Analytics
2 537 (33.97%) Business Intelligence
3 496 (31.37%) Data Governance
4 473 (29.92%) ETL
5 444 (28.08%) Data Engineering
6 408 (25.81%) Agile
7 407 (25.74%) Data Pipeline
8 385 (24.35%) CI/CD
9 382 (24.16%) AI
10 371 (23.47%) Decision-Making
11 368 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
12 343 (21.70%) Data Architecture
13 318 (20.11%) DevOps
14 231 (14.61%) Mentoring
15 220 (13.92%) Machine Learning
16 210 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 185 (11.70%) Roadmaps
18 177 (11.20%) Data Strategy
19 175 (11.07%) Data Integration
20 168 (10.63%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 819 (51.80%) SQL
2 678 (42.88%) Python
3 128 (8.10%) Java
4 95 (6.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 88 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 69 (4.36%) C#
6 69 (4.36%) TypeScript
7 51 (3.23%) Apex Code
8 50 (3.16%) Scala
9 43 (2.72%) T-SQL
10 33 (2.09%) PowerShell
11 31 (1.96%) R
12 21 (1.33%) Bash
13 18 (1.14%) SOQL
13 18 (1.14%) SOSL
14 15 (0.95%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.63%) C++
15 10 (0.63%) VBA
16 9 (0.57%) Perl
17 8 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 193 (12.21%) Degree
2 160 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 103 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.34%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.77%) DBS Check
10 25 (1.58%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.82%) ACCA
13 13 (0.82%) CIMA
14 8 (0.51%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.44%) PMP
15 7 (0.44%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.25%) CBAP
17 4 (0.25%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 503 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 103 (6.51%) GDPR
3 52 (3.29%) QA
4 46 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.57%) SLA
8 7 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.38%) GRC
9 6 (0.38%) MiFID
10 5 (0.32%) IFRS
10 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) PERC
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) WCAG
14 1 (0.063%) NIST
14 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.063%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 73 (4.62%) Docker
2 13 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.063%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.063%) iptables
Systems Management
1 88 (5.57%) Terraform
2 65 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.82%) Grafana
4 10 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.44%) Control-M
7 4 (0.25%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 2 (0.13%) Kibana
10 1 (0.063%) QRadar
10 1 (0.063%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.063%) SCCM
Vendors
1 330 (20.87%) Databricks
2 316 (19.99%) Microsoft
3 113 (7.15%) Salesforce
4 103 (6.51%) Oracle
5 89 (5.63%) SAP
6 47 (2.97%) Google
7 46 (2.91%) Informatica
8 33 (2.09%) Palantir
9 32 (2.02%) Foundry
10 29 (1.83%) Cloudera
11 27 (1.71%) Talend
12 23 (1.45%) Dell
12 23 (1.45%) OpenAI
13 21 (1.33%) ServiceNow
14 20 (1.27%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.89%) Sparx
16 12 (0.76%) IBM
17 11 (0.70%) Automation Anywhere
17 11 (0.70%) UiPath
18 10 (0.63%) Workday