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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 126 103
Rank change year-on-year +22 -23 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,418 1,045 2,303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.90% 2.44% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 2.61% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 852 570 1,495
10th Percentile £43,497 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -6.02% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £58,749 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.64% +2.17% +2.68%

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 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £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 £102,410 £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 18 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 18 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 +20 1,224 £70,000 +12.00% 715
UK excluding London -17 671 £65,000 +10.64% 506
London +59 617 £78,750 +8.62% 347
Work from Home +36 543 £70,000 +12.00% 365
South East -3 179 £60,500 +0.83% 204
North of England -11 175 £70,000 +33.33% 128
Midlands -11 119 £60,000 - 83
West Midlands +6 94 £60,000 +4.35% 62
Yorkshire +3 93 £73,000 +39.05% 49
Scotland +3 84 £78,750 +29.64% 27
North West -27 70 £67,500 +35.00% 62
East of England +4 50 £61,250 -5.77% 31
South West -57 49 £60,850 +8.23% 30
East Midlands -35 23 £49,500 -23.55% 21
North East -16 12 £52,500 +5.00% 20
Wales -12 9 £67,586 +80.23% 8
Northern Ireland -29 6 £40,500 - 2

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
1 113 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (4.94%) Apache Spark
3 54 (3.81%) Apache
4 24 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 16 (1.13%) Appian
6 16 (1.13%) Confluence
6 16 (1.13%) SAS
7 9 (0.63%) CMS
8 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.28%) Camunda
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.14%) CICS
11 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
Applications
1 80 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.71%) 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 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.071%) Notion
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.92%) 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
8 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.071%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.071%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.071%) Primavera
9 1 (0.071%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 682 (48.10%) Azure
2 402 (28.35%) Power Platform
3 304 (21.44%) AWS
4 201 (14.17%) Snowflake
5 195 (13.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 179 (12.62%) GCP
7 158 (11.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 136 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
9 129 (9.10%) dbt
10 83 (5.85%) Serverless
11 82 (5.78%) GitHub
12 67 (4.72%) Amazon S3
13 58 (4.09%) SaaS
14 55 (3.88%) Power Automate
15 42 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (2.96%) PowerApps
16 40 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
16 40 (2.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 36 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
17 36 (2.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.99%) 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 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) ADSL
5 1 (0.071%) CTI
5 1 (0.071%) DHCP
5 1 (0.071%) DNS
5 1 (0.071%) Internet
5 1 (0.071%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.071%) Modbus
5 1 (0.071%) MQTT
5 1 (0.071%) Network Security
5 1 (0.071%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.071%) SMS
5 1 (0.071%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (27.01%) Data Warehouse
2 369 (26.02%) Power BI
3 197 (13.89%) Metadata
4 187 (13.19%) Data Lake
5 124 (8.74%) SQL Server
6 98 (6.91%) Tableau
7 79 (5.57%) Relational Database
8 73 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 69 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 65 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
11 61 (4.30%) NoSQL
12 60 (4.23%) Power Query
13 58 (4.09%) BigQuery
14 53 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 51 (3.60%) MySQL
16 49 (3.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 41 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (2.26%) Big Data
19 29 (2.05%) MongoDB
20 28 (1.97%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 103 (7.26%) Git
2 49 (3.46%) JIRA
3 26 (1.83%) MLflow
4 24 (1.69%) ERwin
5 19 (1.34%) Postman
6 14 (0.99%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.85%) GitLab
8 11 (0.78%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.56%) 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
1 512 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 483 (34.06%) Finance
3 373 (26.30%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 110 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.57%) Marketing
6 70 (4.94%) Law
7 64 (4.51%) Banking
8 55 (3.88%) Financial Institution
9 35 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (2.40%) Retail
11 33 (2.33%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (1.90%) Retail Banking
14 24 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.62%) Legal
16 22 (1.55%) Advertising
17 19 (1.34%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 332 (23.41%) Architect
2 304 (21.44%) Data Engineer
3 281 (19.82%) Senior
4 224 (15.80%) Data Architect
5 187 (13.19%) Analyst
6 163 (11.50%) Developer
7 144 (10.16%) Lead
8 112 (7.90%) Data Analyst
9 94 (6.63%) Senior Data Engineer
10 66 (4.65%) Consultant
11 44 (3.10%) Lead Data Engineer
12 42 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 41 (2.89%) Business Analyst
14 39 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
15 38 (2.68%) Senior Architect
16 37 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (2.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 32 (2.26%) Azure Architect
18 32 (2.26%) Data Manager
19 31 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (9.24%) REST
2 87 (6.14%) Kafka
3 68 (4.80%) SOAP
4 62 (4.37%) PySpark
5 53 (3.74%) Lightning Web Components
6 51 (3.60%) .NET
7 49 (3.46%) RESTful
8 47 (3.31%) JSON
9 42 (2.96%) Middleware
10 37 (2.61%) React
11 35 (2.47%) CSS
11 35 (2.47%) XML
12 33 (2.33%) OpenAPI
12 33 (2.33%) Swagger
13 29 (2.05%) HTML
13 29 (2.05%) PyTorch
13 29 (2.05%) TensorFlow
13 29 (2.05%) Visualforce
14 27 (1.90%) scikit-learn
15 25 (1.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 107 (7.55%) Data Structures
3 105 (7.40%) Cloud Native
4 62 (4.37%) Management Information System
5 49 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (2.82%) Low-Code
7 36 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 33 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.48%) e-Learning
11 21 (1.48%) Reinsurance
12 18 (1.27%) Fixed Income
12 18 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (0.85%) FMCG
14 11 (0.78%) SCADA
14 11 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.92%) Linux
2 11 (0.78%) Windows
3 5 (0.35%) Unix
4 4 (0.28%) Android
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (46.69%) Analytics
2 491 (34.63%) Business Intelligence
3 472 (33.29%) ETL
4 429 (30.25%) Data Governance
5 410 (28.91%) Data Engineering
6 405 (28.56%) Agile
7 355 (25.04%) Data Pipeline
8 340 (23.98%) CI/CD
8 340 (23.98%) Data Architecture
9 330 (23.27%) Decision-Making
10 314 (22.14%) AI
10 314 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
11 287 (20.24%) DevOps
12 233 (16.43%) Mentoring
13 219 (15.44%) Data Integration
14 214 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 187 (13.19%) Data Management
16 176 (12.41%) Machine Learning
17 172 (12.13%) Data Science
18 165 (11.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 724 (51.06%) SQL
2 610 (43.02%) Python
3 116 (8.18%) Java
4 93 (6.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 91 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 79 (5.57%) C#
7 65 (4.58%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.67%) Apex Code
9 41 (2.89%) T-SQL
10 37 (2.61%) Scala
11 32 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 32 (2.26%) R
12 19 (1.34%) Bash
12 19 (1.34%) C++
12 19 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.78%) VBA
14 9 (0.63%) ANSI SQL
15 8 (0.56%) SOQL
15 8 (0.56%) SOSL
16 7 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 205 (14.46%) Degree
2 129 (9.10%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (5.01%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.16%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.47%) Master's Degree
9 32 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
10 28 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 24 (1.69%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.92%) ACCA
13 13 (0.92%) CIMA
14 12 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.71%) PMP
16 7 (0.49%) SAP Certification
16 7 (0.49%) SnowPro
17 5 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 404 (28.49%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 73 (5.15%) GDPR
4 41 (2.89%) QA
5 25 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (0.71%) SLA
9 9 (0.63%) 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 (0.071%) IFRS
13 1 (0.071%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (4.16%) Docker
2 14 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.21%) HDFS
5 1 (0.071%) Firmware
5 1 (0.071%) iptables
5 1 (0.071%) KVM
5 1 (0.071%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 72 (5.08%) Terraform
2 51 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.92%) Grafana
4 10 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Control-M
7 5 (0.35%) Ansible
8 4 (0.28%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.071%) Argo
9 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 347 (24.47%) Microsoft
2 243 (17.14%) Databricks
3 96 (6.77%) Salesforce
4 82 (5.78%) Oracle
5 57 (4.02%) SAP
6 52 (3.67%) Informatica
7 42 (2.96%) Google
8 37 (2.61%) Palantir
9 31 (2.19%) Foundry
9 31 (2.19%) Talend
10 24 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 21 (1.48%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.20%) IBM
12 17 (1.20%) Sparx
13 15 (1.06%) Cloudera
13 15 (1.06%) ServiceNow
13 15 (1.06%) UiPath
14 13 (0.92%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (0.92%) Workday
15 12 (0.85%) Dell