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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 125 105
Rank change year-on-year +17 -20 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,425 1,054 2,324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 2.48% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.65% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 849 573 1,509
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,350 £59,125 £57,650
% change year-on-year +8.84% +2.56% +2.49%

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 59,502 39,701 75,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.59% 93.45% 86.91%
Number of salaries quoted 36,057 22,405 57,038
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,452 £29,031
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +16 1,229 £70,000 +12.00% 807
UK excluding London -22 674 £64,350 +8.84% 587
London +60 620 £80,000 +10.34% 363
Work from Home +28 539 £70,000 +11.11% 380
South East -15 179 £60,000 -2.04% 215
North of England -12 174 £70,000 +33.33% 144
Midlands -26 120 £60,000 - 98
West Midlands +12 97 £60,000 +4.35% 63
Yorkshire +7 91 £71,000 +29.09% 50
Scotland +9 85 £70,000 +13.14% 25
North West -28 70 £67,500 +35.00% 77
East of England +18 55 £65,000 - 53
South West -60 46 £60,425 +9.86% 43
East Midlands -43 21 £49,500 -23.55% 35
North East -19 13 £51,250 +2.50% 20
Wales -13 9 £67,586 +80.23% 14
Northern Ireland -33 6 £40,500 - 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
1 130 (9.12%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (5.89%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.86%) Apache
4 24 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.26%) Confluence
5 18 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.19%) SAS
7 16 (1.12%) Appian
8 9 (0.63%) CMS
9 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.28%) Camunda
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.21%) IIS
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) CICS
12 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
13 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.070%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 78 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.070%) Notion
8 1 (0.070%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.21%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.070%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.070%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.070%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.070%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.070%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 699 (49.05%) Azure
2 410 (28.77%) Power Platform
3 320 (22.46%) AWS
4 210 (14.74%) Snowflake
5 199 (13.96%) GCP
6 198 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 173 (12.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 147 (10.32%) dbt
9 136 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (5.68%) GitHub
11 80 (5.61%) Serverless
12 65 (4.56%) Amazon S3
13 54 (3.79%) Power Automate
13 54 (3.79%) SaaS
14 41 (2.88%) PowerApps
15 40 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
15 40 (2.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 36 (2.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 35 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.05%) Broadband
2 4 (0.28%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.21%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) NGN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.070%) 4G
5 1 (0.070%) 5G
5 1 (0.070%) ADSL
5 1 (0.070%) CTI
5 1 (0.070%) DHCP
5 1 (0.070%) DNS
5 1 (0.070%) Internet
5 1 (0.070%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.070%) Modbus
5 1 (0.070%) MQTT
5 1 (0.070%) Network Security
5 1 (0.070%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.070%) SMS
5 1 (0.070%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (27.58%) Data Warehouse
2 378 (26.53%) Power BI
3 200 (14.04%) Data Lake
4 191 (13.40%) Metadata
5 122 (8.56%) SQL Server
6 110 (7.72%) Tableau
7 86 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 80 (5.61%) Relational Database
9 74 (5.19%) BigQuery
10 67 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 65 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
12 62 (4.35%) NoSQL
13 57 (4.00%) Power Query
14 53 (3.72%) Snowflake Schema
15 51 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 50 (3.51%) MySQL
17 47 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 42 (2.95%) Looker
19 34 (2.39%) Big Data
20 29 (2.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 103 (7.23%) Git
2 51 (3.58%) JIRA
3 40 (2.81%) MLflow
4 25 (1.75%) ERwin
5 20 (1.40%) Postman
6 14 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.84%) GitLab
8 11 (0.77%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.42%) JUnit
11 5 (0.35%) git-flow
11 5 (0.35%) Selenium
12 3 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.21%) Gradle
12 3 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.21%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) NUnit
12 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) TestNG
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 508 (35.65%) Social Skills
2 483 (33.89%) Finance
3 386 (27.09%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 78 (5.47%) Marketing
7 72 (5.05%) Law
8 64 (4.49%) Banking
9 54 (3.79%) Financial Institution
10 37 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (2.39%) Retail
12 31 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 31 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (1.82%) Retail Banking
14 24 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (1.68%) Legal
15 22 (1.54%) Advertising
16 19 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 15 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 323 (22.67%) Architect
2 310 (21.75%) Data Engineer
3 293 (20.56%) Senior
4 217 (15.23%) Data Architect
5 188 (13.19%) Analyst
6 161 (11.30%) Developer
7 143 (10.04%) Lead
8 112 (7.86%) Data Analyst
9 95 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 63 (4.42%) Consultant
11 43 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 43 (3.02%) Lead Data Engineer
12 41 (2.88%) Business Analyst
13 40 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
14 39 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
15 36 (2.53%) Senior Architect
16 35 (2.46%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 32 (2.25%) Data Manager
17 32 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
18 30 (2.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.98%) REST
2 104 (7.30%) Kafka
3 69 (4.84%) SOAP
4 62 (4.35%) PySpark
5 53 (3.72%) Lightning Web Components
6 50 (3.51%) .NET
6 50 (3.51%) RESTful
7 47 (3.30%) JSON
8 43 (3.02%) PyTorch
8 43 (3.02%) TensorFlow
9 42 (2.95%) Middleware
10 41 (2.88%) scikit-learn
11 37 (2.60%) React
12 35 (2.46%) CSS
12 35 (2.46%) XML
13 33 (2.32%) OpenAPI
13 33 (2.32%) Swagger
14 29 (2.04%) HTML
14 29 (2.04%) LangChain
14 29 (2.04%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 111 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 105 (7.37%) Data Structures
4 62 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 48 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.95%) Low-Code
7 36 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 32 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.61%) Clustering
12 21 (1.47%) e-Learning
12 21 (1.47%) Reinsurance
13 15 (1.05%) Fixed Income
14 12 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (0.84%) FMCG
15 11 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.91%) Linux
2 11 (0.77%) Windows
3 5 (0.35%) Unix
4 4 (0.28%) Android
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (47.58%) Analytics
2 501 (35.16%) Business Intelligence
3 485 (34.04%) ETL
4 440 (30.88%) Data Governance
5 423 (29.68%) Data Engineering
6 405 (28.42%) Agile
7 368 (25.82%) Data Pipeline
8 341 (23.93%) CI/CD
9 332 (23.30%) AI
9 332 (23.30%) Data Architecture
9 332 (23.30%) Decision-Making
10 314 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
11 288 (20.21%) DevOps
12 227 (15.93%) Mentoring
13 216 (15.16%) Data Integration
14 213 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 200 (14.04%) Data Management
16 193 (13.54%) Machine Learning
17 185 (12.98%) Data Science
18 164 (11.51%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 736 (51.65%) SQL
2 623 (43.72%) Python
3 114 (8.00%) Java
4 91 (6.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 90 (6.32%) JavaScript
6 76 (5.33%) C#
7 63 (4.42%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.65%) Apex Code
9 40 (2.81%) T-SQL
10 37 (2.60%) Scala
11 34 (2.39%) R
12 32 (2.25%) PowerShell
13 19 (1.33%) Bash
13 19 (1.33%) C++
14 18 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.77%) VBA
16 9 (0.63%) ANSI SQL
17 8 (0.56%) Go
17 8 (0.56%) SOQL
17 8 (0.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 200 (14.04%) Degree
2 128 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (4.70%) Azure Certification
6 56 (3.93%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 30 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.75%) DBS Check
11 25 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 13 (0.91%) ACCA
12 13 (0.91%) CIMA
13 12 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.70%) PMP
15 7 (0.49%) SAP Certification
15 7 (0.49%) SnowPro
16 4 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (28.63%) Data Quality
2 86 (6.04%) GDPR
3 76 (5.33%) Accessibility
4 43 (3.02%) QA
5 27 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 25 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 14 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.70%) SLA
9 8 (0.56%) MiFID
10 5 (0.35%) GRC
11 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.14%) PERC
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
13 1 (0.070%) IFRS
13 1 (0.070%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (4.07%) Docker
2 14 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.21%) HDFS
3 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.070%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.070%) Firmware
4 1 (0.070%) iptables
4 1 (0.070%) KVM
4 1 (0.070%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 72 (5.05%) Terraform
2 51 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.91%) Grafana
4 10 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Control-M
7 5 (0.35%) Ansible
8 3 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.070%) Argo
9 1 (0.070%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.070%) SCCM
Vendors
1 345 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 257 (18.04%) Databricks
3 96 (6.74%) Salesforce
4 79 (5.54%) Oracle
5 58 (4.07%) SAP
6 52 (3.65%) Informatica
7 45 (3.16%) Google
8 35 (2.46%) Palantir
9 33 (2.32%) Talend
10 29 (2.04%) Cloudera
10 29 (2.04%) Foundry
11 26 (1.82%) Dell
12 24 (1.68%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.47%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.19%) IBM
14 17 (1.19%) Sparx
15 16 (1.12%) ServiceNow
16 15 (1.05%) UiPath
17 13 (0.91%) Automation Anywhere
17 13 (0.91%) Workday