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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 122 103
Rank change year-on-year +13 -19 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,552 1,123 2,461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.58% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.77% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 986 587 1,527
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 67,307 40,602 82,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.25% 93.30% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,652 22,587 59,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,446 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 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 9 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 +19 1,367 £68,510 +3.41% 718
UK excluding London -4 755 £65,000 +8.33% 471
London +36 638 £80,000 +6.67% 354
Work from Home +29 529 £70,000 +7.69% 361
North of England +25 228 £70,932 +23.36% 128
South East -29 192 £60,000 -7.69% 169
Midlands -7 147 £60,000 -4.00% 80
Yorkshire +18 114 £75,000 +25.00% 41
West Midlands -3 108 £60,358 +0.60% 56
North West -1 96 £68,750 +30.95% 66
Scotland -4 64 £70,000 +15.24% 20
South West -75 58 £54,575 -9.04% 33
East of England +18 57 £65,000 -3.70% 23
East Midlands -17 37 £51,825 -19.96% 24
North East -32 18 £60,000 -1.97% 22
Wales -23 8 £67,586 +80.23% 17
Northern Ireland -36 1 - - 5

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
1 145 (9.34%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (5.73%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.74%) Apache
4 32 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
6 19 (1.22%) Confluence
7 18 (1.16%) SAS
8 12 (0.77%) Appian
9 11 (0.71%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
13 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 74 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.064%) Notion
7 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.064%) SPSS
7 1 (0.064%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.03%) SAP MDG
3 12 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.52%) SAP MDG-BP
5 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-F
8 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
10 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.064%) FIS Private Capital Suite
11 1 (0.064%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 1 (0.064%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 715 (46.07%) Azure
2 430 (27.71%) Power Platform
3 366 (23.58%) AWS
4 223 (14.37%) GCP
5 197 (12.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 173 (11.15%) Snowflake
7 147 (9.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (9.28%) dbt
9 87 (5.61%) Serverless
10 69 (4.45%) GitHub
11 66 (4.25%) Amazon S3
12 61 (3.93%) Power Automate
13 51 (3.29%) SaaS
14 45 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (2.90%) PowerApps
15 38 (2.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 34 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
16 34 (2.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 26 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.06%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.19%) Network Security
3 3 (0.19%) NGN
3 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) LTE
4 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.064%) CTI
5 1 (0.064%) DHCP
5 1 (0.064%) DNS
5 1 (0.064%) Modbus
5 1 (0.064%) MQTT
5 1 (0.064%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.064%) SMS
5 1 (0.064%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (25.39%) Power BI
2 329 (21.20%) Data Warehouse
3 207 (13.34%) Data Lake
4 193 (12.44%) Metadata
5 119 (7.67%) SQL Server
6 118 (7.60%) Tableau
7 101 (6.51%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 85 (5.48%) BigQuery
10 71 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (4.32%) NoSQL
12 55 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 54 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 51 (3.29%) Power Query
15 46 (2.96%) Looker
16 44 (2.84%) MySQL
17 42 (2.71%) Snowflake Schema
18 40 (2.58%) Delta Lake
19 39 (2.51%) Star Schema
20 38 (2.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 119 (7.67%) Git
2 50 (3.22%) JIRA
3 42 (2.71%) MLflow
4 20 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.10%) Postman
6 16 (1.03%) ERwin
7 11 (0.71%) GitLab
8 9 (0.58%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.32%) ER 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
11 3 (0.19%) Toad
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Checkstyle
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 526 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 503 (32.41%) Finance
3 430 (27.71%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.90%) Marketing
7 69 (4.45%) Law
8 52 (3.35%) Banking
9 48 (3.09%) Retail
10 47 (3.03%) Financial Institution
11 42 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.74%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.48%) Legal
16 21 (1.35%) Advertising
17 18 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.97%) Retail Banking
19 14 (0.90%) Billing
19 14 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 360 (23.20%) Data Engineer
2 327 (21.07%) Architect
3 314 (20.23%) Senior
4 210 (13.53%) Data Architect
5 206 (13.27%) Analyst
6 183 (11.79%) Developer
7 169 (10.89%) Lead
8 121 (7.80%) Data Analyst
9 91 (5.86%) Senior Data Engineer
10 78 (5.03%) Consultant
11 55 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 46 (2.96%) Business Analyst
13 45 (2.90%) Data Modeller
13 45 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
13 45 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
15 42 (2.71%) Senior Architect
16 36 (2.32%) Senior Developer
17 35 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 34 (2.19%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (9.41%) REST
2 109 (7.02%) Kafka
3 102 (6.57%) PySpark
4 74 (4.77%) SOAP
5 62 (3.99%) .NET
6 59 (3.80%) JSON
7 58 (3.74%) Lightning Web Components
8 55 (3.54%) Middleware
9 51 (3.29%) RESTful
10 48 (3.09%) React
11 46 (2.96%) XML
12 45 (2.90%) CSS
13 42 (2.71%) PyTorch
13 42 (2.71%) TensorFlow
14 40 (2.58%) scikit-learn
15 37 (2.38%) LangChain
16 36 (2.32%) HTML
17 34 (2.19%) Node.js
18 31 (2.00%) Pandas
18 31 (2.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 123 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 108 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 52 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 46 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (2.64%) Low-Code
9 40 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 32 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.68%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.48%) Clustering
14 21 (1.35%) Social Media
15 19 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.16%) Replication
17 16 (1.03%) AI Agents
18 15 (0.97%) e-Learning
19 14 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.03%) Windows
2 13 (0.84%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Android
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (45.68%) Analytics
2 527 (33.96%) Business Intelligence
3 490 (31.57%) ETL
4 484 (31.19%) Data Governance
5 444 (28.61%) Data Engineering
6 418 (26.93%) Data Pipeline
7 413 (26.61%) Agile
8 380 (24.48%) CI/CD
9 369 (23.78%) AI
10 360 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
11 355 (22.87%) Decision-Making
12 347 (22.36%) Data Architecture
13 322 (20.75%) DevOps
14 227 (14.63%) Mentoring
15 225 (14.50%) Machine Learning
16 212 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 187 (12.05%) Data Integration
18 176 (11.34%) Data Science
18 176 (11.34%) Data Strategy
19 171 (11.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 809 (52.13%) SQL
2 677 (43.62%) Python
3 125 (8.05%) Java
4 94 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 85 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 69 (4.45%) C#
7 65 (4.19%) TypeScript
8 53 (3.41%) Apex Code
9 46 (2.96%) Scala
10 43 (2.77%) T-SQL
11 35 (2.26%) PowerShell
12 31 (2.00%) R
13 24 (1.55%) Bash
14 16 (1.03%) SOQL
14 16 (1.03%) SOSL
15 14 (0.90%) C++
16 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.71%) VBA
18 10 (0.64%) Perl
19 8 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 195 (12.56%) Degree
2 150 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.97%) ACCA
12 15 (0.97%) CIMA
13 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.45%) PMP
14 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.26%) CBAP
16 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (31.70%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.38%) GDPR
3 51 (3.29%) QA
4 50 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.58%) SLA
8 8 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.45%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.39%) MiFID
11 5 (0.32%) GRC
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.19%) PERC
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) WCAG
14 1 (0.064%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.064%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.064%) PMO
14 1 (0.064%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 68 (4.38%) Docker
2 13 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.064%) Firmware
3 1 (0.064%) iptables
Systems Management
1 89 (5.73%) Terraform
2 65 (4.19%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.84%) Grafana
4 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.064%) Argo
9 1 (0.064%) QRadar
9 1 (0.064%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.064%) SCCM
Vendors
1 327 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 323 (20.81%) Databricks
3 111 (7.15%) Salesforce
4 105 (6.77%) Oracle
5 85 (5.48%) SAP
6 50 (3.22%) Informatica
7 47 (3.03%) Google
8 33 (2.13%) Palantir
9 32 (2.06%) Cloudera
10 31 (2.00%) Foundry
10 31 (2.00%) Talend
11 25 (1.61%) OpenAI
12 23 (1.48%) Dell
13 22 (1.42%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.16%) ServiceNow
15 17 (1.10%) Sparx
16 13 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
16 13 (0.84%) UiPath
17 12 (0.77%) IBM
18 11 (0.71%) Workday