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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 125 110
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,778 1,228 1,743
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.48% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.80% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,157 624 971
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -0.71% +4.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,348
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +10.37%

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 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +2 1,637 £70,000 +1.45% 2,491
UK excluding London -7 879 £62,500 -1.57% 1,167
London +6 748 £82,500 +6.45% 1,579
Work from Home +37 545 £65,000 -3.70% 1,793
North of England +76 347 £65,000 +1.96% 262
South East -92 190 £62,500 -3.85% 315
North West +70 155 £62,500 +5.49% 165
Midlands -10 153 £62,500 -1.57% 174
West Midlands +3 110 £62,500 +3.31% 130
Yorkshire +17 109 £68,005 +0.75% 74
South West -24 104 £69,973 +11.96% 141
North East +6 83 £65,000 +31.98% 24
East of England -23 46 £65,000 +8.33% 106
East Midlands -35 43 £59,732 -8.10% 44
Scotland -11 24 £70,000 +14.29% 110
Wales -54 19 £63,500 - 21
Northern Ireland -80 2 £60,000 - 49

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
1 116 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 105 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (4.56%) Apache
4 34 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 28 (1.57%) Confluence
6 18 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.73%) SAS
8 9 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.28%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.056%) JBoss
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 79 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.056%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 37 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.07%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
7 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
9 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 699 (39.31%) Azure
2 525 (29.53%) Power Platform
3 454 (25.53%) AWS
4 243 (13.67%) GCP
5 192 (10.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 157 (8.83%) Snowflake
7 134 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (7.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 134 (7.54%) dbt
8 96 (5.40%) Serverless
9 93 (5.23%) Amazon S3
10 77 (4.33%) SaaS
11 74 (4.16%) Azure Databricks
12 68 (3.82%) Power Automate
13 65 (3.66%) GitHub
14 64 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
15 56 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
16 55 (3.09%) PowerApps
17 54 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
18 39 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.97%) Broadband
2 12 (0.67%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DMZ
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
3 6 (0.34%) IPv4
3 6 (0.34%) Modbus
3 6 (0.34%) OSPF
3 6 (0.34%) SMS
3 6 (0.34%) VLAN
4 4 (0.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
5 3 (0.17%) NGN
6 2 (0.11%) Network Security
7 1 (0.056%) 4G
7 1 (0.056%) 5G
7 1 (0.056%) ATM
7 1 (0.056%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 484 (27.22%) Power BI
2 359 (20.19%) Data Warehouse
3 239 (13.44%) Metadata
4 224 (12.60%) Data Lake
5 138 (7.76%) Tableau
6 132 (7.42%) SQL Server
7 106 (5.96%) Relational Database
8 90 (5.06%) Star Schema
9 88 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
10 85 (4.78%) BigQuery
11 82 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 81 (4.56%) Big Data
13 80 (4.50%) Semantic Layer
14 77 (4.33%) Delta Lake
15 73 (4.11%) NoSQL
16 65 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (3.37%) Data Vault
18 56 (3.15%) Power Query
19 53 (2.98%) Snowflake Schema
20 49 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 150 (8.44%) Git
2 51 (2.87%) JIRA
3 47 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.36%) Claude Code
5 24 (1.35%) GitLab
5 24 (1.35%) MLflow
6 9 (0.51%) ERwin
7 6 (0.34%) Ant
7 6 (0.34%) Toad
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
10 2 (0.11%) Gradle
10 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 622 (34.98%) Social Skills
2 550 (30.93%) Finance
3 482 (27.11%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 140 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 91 (5.12%) Marketing
7 84 (4.72%) Retail
8 76 (4.27%) Law
9 67 (3.77%) Legal
10 64 (3.60%) Manufacturing
11 53 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.42%) Banking
13 30 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 27 (1.52%) Billing
15 25 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.73%) Front Office
18 13 (0.73%) Local Government
18 13 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 427 (24.02%) Data Engineer
2 412 (23.17%) Architect
3 389 (21.88%) Senior
4 302 (16.99%) Data Architect
5 199 (11.19%) Analyst
6 185 (10.40%) Lead
7 182 (10.24%) Developer
8 112 (6.30%) Senior Data Engineer
9 98 (5.51%) Data Analyst
10 69 (3.88%) Consultant
11 64 (3.60%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.04%) Data Modeller
12 54 (3.04%) Senior Data Architect
13 52 (2.92%) Business Analyst
14 47 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 46 (2.59%) Databricks Engineer
16 44 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
17 43 (2.42%) Senior Developer
18 42 (2.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (8.72%) PySpark
2 123 (6.92%) REST
3 111 (6.24%) Terraform
4 106 (5.96%) Kafka
5 65 (3.66%) Node.js
6 64 (3.60%) React
7 55 (3.09%) .NET
8 47 (2.64%) Lightning Web Components
9 46 (2.59%) SOAP
10 45 (2.53%) JSON
11 44 (2.47%) Middleware
12 35 (1.97%) LangChain
12 35 (1.97%) XML
13 34 (1.91%) CSS
14 31 (1.74%) AngularJS
15 24 (1.35%) RESTful
16 21 (1.18%) Next.js
16 21 (1.18%) Spring
17 20 (1.12%) HTML
17 20 (1.12%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 175 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.19%) Data Structures
3 103 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 66 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 36 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 34 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
13 25 (1.41%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.18%) Clustering
14 21 (1.18%) Taxonomies
15 19 (1.07%) Reinsurance
15 19 (1.07%) Replication
16 18 (1.01%) Social Media
17 17 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.29%) Linux
1 23 (1.29%) Windows
2 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (46.06%) Analytics
2 647 (36.39%) Business Intelligence
3 624 (35.10%) AI
4 533 (29.98%) Data Governance
5 500 (28.12%) Data Engineering
6 488 (27.45%) ETL
7 477 (26.83%) Data Pipeline
8 456 (25.65%) Data Architecture
9 452 (25.42%) Decision-Making
10 450 (25.31%) Agile
11 438 (24.63%) CI/CD
12 399 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
13 332 (18.67%) Roadmaps
14 325 (18.28%) DevOps
15 291 (16.37%) Mentoring
16 284 (15.97%) Data Strategy
17 272 (15.30%) Machine Learning
18 258 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
19 257 (14.45%) Lakehouse
20 255 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 917 (51.57%) SQL
2 697 (39.20%) Python
3 119 (6.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 98 (5.51%) Java
5 91 (5.12%) C#
6 83 (4.67%) TypeScript
7 79 (4.44%) Scala
8 71 (3.99%) JavaScript
9 42 (2.36%) Apex Code
10 35 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.52%) R
12 22 (1.24%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.12%) Bicep
14 17 (0.96%) SOQL
15 15 (0.84%) SOSL
16 12 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.62%) Bash
17 11 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.45%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 234 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 196 (11.02%) Degree
3 144 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 28 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.52%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.01%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.51%) CIPD
16 6 (0.34%) CSPO
16 6 (0.34%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.34%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.28%) ACCA
17 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 644 (36.22%) Data Quality
2 129 (7.26%) GDPR
3 83 (4.67%) Accessibility
4 69 (3.88%) QA
5 26 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.45%) PMO
7 7 (0.39%) IFRS
7 7 (0.39%) WCAG
8 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.22%) MiFID
11 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.17%) GRC
11 3 (0.17%) PERC
11 3 (0.17%) SLA
11 3 (0.17%) UCITS
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.056%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 93 (5.23%) Docker
2 9 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.34%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 61 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.07%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.056%) Consul
8 1 (0.056%) QRadar
8 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 419 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 350 (19.69%) Databricks
3 105 (5.91%) Oracle
4 104 (5.85%) Salesforce
5 103 (5.79%) SAP
6 62 (3.49%) Google
7 33 (1.86%) Informatica
8 20 (1.12%) Talend
9 19 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 17 (0.96%) Cloudera
11 16 (0.90%) Foundry
11 16 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 15 (0.84%) Dell
12 15 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.73%) Palantir
14 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.51%) CyberArk
16 9 (0.51%) ForgeRock
16 9 (0.51%) HubSpot