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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 124 110
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,782 1,235 1,758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.49% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.81% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 629 982
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% +4.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,348
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +9.88%

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 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £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% -3.23%

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 13 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 13 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 1,641 £70,000 +2.19% 1,705
UK excluding London +1 882 £62,500 -1.57% 834
London +5 747 £82,500 +6.45% 1,080
Work from Home +36 548 £65,000 -3.70% 1,558
North of England +76 346 £65,000 +1.96% 162
South East -87 191 £62,500 -3.85% 252
Midlands -19 154 £62,500 -1.57% 135
North West +68 153 £62,500 +5.49% 97
West Midlands -3 111 £62,500 +3.31% 102
Yorkshire +8 110 £68,005 +0.75% 52
South West -12 106 £69,973 +11.96% 98
North East +7 83 £65,000 +31.98% 15
East of England -27 46 £65,000 +8.33% 83
East Midlands -37 43 £59,732 -8.10% 33
Scotland -10 24 £70,000 +14.29% 72
Wales -56 19 £63,500 - 18
Northern Ireland -77 2 £60,000 - 26

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
1 117 (6.57%) Apache Spark
2 107 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (4.60%) Apache
4 34 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.52%) 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
Applications
1 78 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.39%) 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
Business Applications
1 37 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.68%) 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
1 701 (39.34%) Azure
2 526 (29.52%) Power Platform
3 458 (25.70%) AWS
4 243 (13.64%) GCP
5 194 (10.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 158 (8.87%) Snowflake
7 135 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 135 (7.58%) dbt
8 133 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (5.33%) Serverless
10 93 (5.22%) Amazon S3
11 76 (4.26%) SaaS
12 74 (4.15%) Azure Databricks
13 67 (3.76%) Power Automate
14 65 (3.65%) GitHub
15 64 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
16 56 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
17 55 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
17 55 (3.09%) PowerApps
18 37 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.13%) 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
4 4 (0.22%) NGN
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
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
1 485 (27.22%) Power BI
2 361 (20.26%) Data Warehouse
3 239 (13.41%) Metadata
4 225 (12.63%) Data Lake
5 140 (7.86%) Tableau
6 133 (7.46%) SQL Server
7 107 (6.00%) Relational Database
8 90 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
9 89 (4.99%) Star Schema
10 86 (4.83%) BigQuery
11 83 (4.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 83 (4.66%) Big Data
12 80 (4.49%) Semantic Layer
13 78 (4.38%) Delta Lake
14 72 (4.04%) NoSQL
15 65 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (3.37%) Data Vault
17 55 (3.09%) Power Query
18 54 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
19 51 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 151 (8.47%) Git
2 50 (2.81%) JIRA
3 47 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.30%) Claude Code
5 25 (1.40%) MLflow
6 24 (1.35%) GitLab
7 9 (0.51%) ERwin
8 6 (0.34%) Ant
8 6 (0.34%) Toad
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.11%) YouTrack
General
1 621 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 550 (30.86%) Finance
3 480 (26.94%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 92 (5.16%) Marketing
7 84 (4.71%) Retail
8 76 (4.26%) Law
9 67 (3.76%) Legal
10 64 (3.59%) Manufacturing
11 53 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.41%) Banking
13 29 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 27 (1.52%) Billing
15 25 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.73%) Advertising
18 13 (0.73%) Front Office
18 13 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 427 (23.96%) Data Engineer
2 412 (23.12%) Architect
3 389 (21.83%) Senior
4 301 (16.89%) Data Architect
5 199 (11.17%) Analyst
6 186 (10.44%) Lead
7 183 (10.27%) Developer
8 111 (6.23%) Senior Data Engineer
9 98 (5.50%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.98%) Consultant
11 64 (3.59%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.03%) Data Modeller
12 54 (3.03%) Senior Data Architect
13 52 (2.92%) Business Analyst
14 47 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 46 (2.58%) Databricks Engineer
16 43 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
16 43 (2.41%) Senior Developer
16 43 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (2.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (8.70%) PySpark
2 123 (6.90%) REST
3 110 (6.17%) Terraform
4 107 (6.00%) Kafka
5 65 (3.65%) Node.js
6 63 (3.54%) React
7 54 (3.03%) .NET
8 49 (2.75%) Lightning Web Components
9 46 (2.58%) SOAP
10 45 (2.53%) JSON
11 44 (2.47%) Middleware
12 36 (2.02%) LangChain
13 35 (1.96%) XML
14 34 (1.91%) CSS
15 30 (1.68%) AngularJS
16 23 (1.29%) RESTful
17 21 (1.18%) Next.js
17 21 (1.18%) PyTorch
17 21 (1.18%) Spring
17 21 (1.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 176 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 109 (6.12%) Data Structures
3 102 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 75 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 65 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.13%) 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 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
13 26 (1.46%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.23%) Clustering
14 22 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 19 (1.07%) Reinsurance
15 19 (1.07%) Replication
15 19 (1.07%) Social Media
16 18 (1.01%) Low-Code
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
1 820 (46.02%) Analytics
2 648 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
3 625 (35.07%) AI
4 533 (29.91%) Data Governance
5 504 (28.28%) Data Engineering
6 489 (27.44%) ETL
7 478 (26.82%) Data Pipeline
8 454 (25.48%) Data Architecture
9 453 (25.42%) Decision-Making
10 447 (25.08%) Agile
11 438 (24.58%) CI/CD
12 398 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
13 332 (18.63%) Roadmaps
14 322 (18.07%) DevOps
15 291 (16.33%) Mentoring
16 284 (15.94%) Data Strategy
17 277 (15.54%) Machine Learning
18 258 (14.48%) Lakehouse
18 258 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
19 255 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 918 (51.52%) SQL
2 702 (39.39%) Python
3 118 (6.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 98 (5.50%) Java
5 90 (5.05%) C#
6 82 (4.60%) TypeScript
7 79 (4.43%) Scala
8 70 (3.93%) JavaScript
9 43 (2.41%) Apex Code
10 35 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.52%) R
12 21 (1.18%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.12%) Bicep
14 17 (0.95%) 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%) Go
18 8 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 237 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 194 (10.89%) Degree
3 145 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.68%) 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%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.28%) ACCA
17 5 (0.28%) CSPO
17 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 645 (36.20%) Data Quality
2 131 (7.35%) GDPR
3 82 (4.60%) Accessibility
4 72 (4.04%) QA
5 27 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.39%) IFRS
6 7 (0.39%) PMO
6 7 (0.39%) WCAG
7 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.22%) MiFID
9 4 (0.22%) PERC
10 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.17%) GRC
10 3 (0.17%) SLA
10 3 (0.17%) UCITS
11 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.056%) COPPA
System Software
1 92 (5.16%) Docker
2 9 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.34%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 60 (3.37%) 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 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 354 (19.87%) Databricks
3 107 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 104 (5.84%) Oracle
5 103 (5.78%) SAP
6 62 (3.48%) Google
7 34 (1.91%) Informatica
8 20 (1.12%) Talend
9 19 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.01%) Cloudera
11 17 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 16 (0.90%) Dell
12 16 (0.90%) Foundry
13 15 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.79%) Palantir
15 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 9 (0.51%) CyberArk
17 9 (0.51%) ForgeRock
17 9 (0.51%) HubSpot