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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 113 101
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,541 1,116 2,451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.76% 2.66% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.87% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 940 584 1,534
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,325 £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 £82,313 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,625 £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 66,065 38,941 81,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.85% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,765 22,745 59,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +8 1,344 £69,000 +6.15% 812
UK excluding London -22 756 £65,000 +8.33% 571
London +38 633 £77,500 +3.33% 363
Work from Home +19 560 £65,500 +0.77% 379
North of England +17 220 £70,932 +23.36% 150
South East -37 193 £62,500 -3.85% 175
Midlands -23 141 £60,000 -0.83% 114
Yorkshire +16 113 £75,000 +25.92% 59
West Midlands -5 107 £60,000 - 72
North West -22 88 £70,000 +33.33% 71
Scotland -6 77 £70,000 +11.11% 24
East of England +1 59 £65,000 - 45
South West -80 56 £55,000 - 53
East Midlands -44 32 £51,825 -19.96% 42
North East -30 19 £55,000 -1.08% 22
Wales -15 7 £67,586 +80.23% 10
Northern Ireland -39 3 - - 7

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
1 132 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 54 (3.50%) Apache
4 28 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.36%) Confluence
6 20 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (1.10%) SAS
8 14 (0.91%) Appian
9 9 (0.58%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
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
14 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.065%) Mendix
14 1 (0.065%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 91 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) Sketch
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) Windchill
7 1 (0.065%) Notion
7 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.65%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG-F
11 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
12 1 (0.065%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 732 (47.50%) Azure
2 446 (28.94%) Power Platform
3 341 (22.13%) AWS
4 211 (13.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 202 (13.11%) GCP
6 194 (12.59%) Snowflake
7 169 (10.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 149 (9.67%) dbt
9 137 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
10 83 (5.39%) Serverless
11 74 (4.80%) GitHub
12 59 (3.83%) Amazon S3
13 56 (3.63%) Power Automate
14 48 (3.11%) SaaS
15 42 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (2.60%) PowerApps
17 39 (2.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 35 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 33 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
20 32 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.82%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.19%) NGN
3 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
4 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.065%) 4G
5 1 (0.065%) 5G
5 1 (0.065%) ADSL
5 1 (0.065%) CTI
5 1 (0.065%) DHCP
5 1 (0.065%) DNS
5 1 (0.065%) Internet
5 1 (0.065%) Modbus
5 1 (0.065%) MQTT
5 1 (0.065%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.065%) SMS
5 1 (0.065%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 410 (26.61%) Power BI
2 364 (23.62%) Data Warehouse
3 214 (13.89%) Data Lake
4 190 (12.33%) Metadata
5 126 (8.18%) SQL Server
6 119 (7.72%) Tableau
7 98 (6.36%) Relational Database
8 87 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 72 (4.67%) BigQuery
10 69 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 64 (4.15%) NoSQL
13 57 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 54 (3.50%) Power Query
15 48 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
16 46 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 44 (2.86%) Looker
17 44 (2.86%) MySQL
18 35 (2.27%) Delta Lake
19 33 (2.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 106 (6.88%) Git
2 57 (3.70%) JIRA
3 41 (2.66%) MLflow
4 20 (1.30%) Postman
5 17 (1.10%) ERwin
6 14 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.71%) GitLab
8 8 (0.52%) 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%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) TestNG
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Checkstyle
12 2 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 528 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 523 (33.94%) Finance
3 430 (27.90%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 75 (4.87%) Marketing
7 71 (4.61%) Law
8 54 (3.50%) Banking
8 54 (3.50%) Financial Institution
9 43 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (2.73%) Retail
11 32 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.36%) Legal
14 20 (1.30%) Advertising
15 18 (1.17%) Retail Banking
16 17 (1.10%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 345 (22.39%) Data Engineer
2 339 (22.00%) Architect
3 303 (19.66%) Senior
4 225 (14.60%) Data Architect
5 208 (13.50%) Analyst
6 167 (10.84%) Developer
7 164 (10.64%) Lead
8 120 (7.79%) Data Analyst
9 92 (5.97%) Senior Data Engineer
10 72 (4.67%) Consultant
11 50 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 48 (3.11%) Lead Data Engineer
13 46 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
13 46 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 45 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
15 40 (2.60%) Data Modeller
16 37 (2.40%) Senior Architect
17 36 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 34 (2.21%) Senior Developer
19 33 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (8.57%) REST
2 102 (6.62%) Kafka
3 91 (5.91%) PySpark
4 67 (4.35%) SOAP
5 57 (3.70%) .NET
6 56 (3.63%) JSON
7 54 (3.50%) Lightning Web Components
8 52 (3.37%) RESTful
9 46 (2.99%) Middleware
10 43 (2.79%) XML
11 42 (2.73%) PyTorch
11 42 (2.73%) TensorFlow
12 41 (2.66%) React
13 40 (2.60%) scikit-learn
14 38 (2.47%) CSS
15 36 (2.34%) LangChain
16 33 (2.14%) HTML
16 33 (2.14%) OpenAPI
16 33 (2.14%) Swagger
17 30 (1.95%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.05%) Data Structures
2 123 (7.98%) Cloud Native
3 106 (6.88%) Product Ownership
4 62 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.79%) Low-Code
8 42 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 42 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 40 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.49%) Clustering
12 22 (1.43%) e-Learning
12 22 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.43%) Social Media
13 21 (1.36%) Reinsurance
14 17 (1.10%) Taxonomies
15 15 (0.97%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.84%) Windows
2 12 (0.78%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Android
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (46.66%) Analytics
2 539 (34.98%) Business Intelligence
3 501 (32.51%) ETL
4 476 (30.89%) Data Governance
5 451 (29.27%) Data Engineering
6 412 (26.74%) Agile
7 396 (25.70%) Data Pipeline
8 370 (24.01%) Decision-Making
9 363 (23.56%) AI
9 363 (23.56%) Data Architecture
10 355 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
11 348 (22.58%) CI/CD
12 303 (19.66%) DevOps
13 223 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 218 (14.15%) Mentoring
15 210 (13.63%) Data Integration
16 208 (13.50%) Machine Learning
17 188 (12.20%) Data Management
18 178 (11.55%) Data Science
19 172 (11.16%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 797 (51.72%) SQL
2 652 (42.31%) Python
3 116 (7.53%) Java
4 103 (6.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 84 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 71 (4.61%) C#
7 67 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.31%) Apex Code
9 44 (2.86%) T-SQL
10 43 (2.79%) Scala
11 33 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.88%) R
13 21 (1.36%) Bash
14 17 (1.10%) C++
15 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.65%) Perl
17 9 (0.58%) Go
17 9 (0.58%) VBA
18 8 (0.52%) SOQL
18 8 (0.52%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 193 (12.52%) Degree
2 141 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (4.09%) Azure Certification
6 47 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.14%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.62%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 22 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.36%) DV Cleared
12 15 (0.97%) ACCA
12 15 (0.97%) CIMA
13 12 (0.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.45%) PMP
15 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 463 (30.05%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.42%) GDPR
3 70 (4.54%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.18%) QA
5 27 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 23 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.71%) SLA
9 7 (0.45%) MiFID
10 6 (0.39%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.32%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.19%) PERC
14 2 (0.13%) HL7
14 2 (0.13%) WCAG
15 1 (0.065%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.065%) PMO
15 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (3.89%) Docker
2 14 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.13%) HDFS
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.065%) Firmware
4 1 (0.065%) iptables
Systems Management
1 78 (5.06%) Terraform
2 55 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.84%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Control-M
7 2 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.065%) Argo
8 1 (0.065%) Packer
8 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 350 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 302 (19.60%) Databricks
3 104 (6.75%) Salesforce
4 100 (6.49%) Oracle
5 76 (4.93%) SAP
6 49 (3.18%) Informatica
7 41 (2.66%) Google
8 34 (2.21%) Palantir
9 32 (2.08%) Talend
10 31 (2.01%) Cloudera
10 31 (2.01%) Foundry
11 23 (1.49%) Dell
11 23 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.43%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.17%) Sparx
14 16 (1.04%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.84%) UiPath
16 12 (0.78%) IBM
17 11 (0.71%) Workday