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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 121 102
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,543 1,111 2,459
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.70% 2.55% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.74% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 990 583 1,519
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,875 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,375 £61,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.18% +2.01% +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 67,106 40,605 82,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43,167 22,159 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 15 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 15 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 +17 1,364 £68,510 +5.40% 746
UK excluding London +3 746 £64,375 +5.18% 479
London +33 639 £80,000 +6.67% 370
Work from Home +42 513 £68,750 +5.77% 378
North of England +55 231 £70,000 +21.74% 143
South East -31 188 £60,000 -7.69% 156
Midlands -1 145 £60,000 -4.00% 79
Yorkshire +26 118 £71,750 +19.58% 46
West Midlands +2 105 £60,000 - 54
North West +18 95 £65,000 +23.81% 74
Scotland 0 59 £70,000 +16.18% 27
East of England +13 58 £70,000 - 31
South West -76 56 £54,150 -9.75% 33
East Midlands -14 38 £49,500 -23.55% 25
North East -23 18 £65,000 +6.20% 27
Wales -23 8 £67,586 +80.23% 15
Northern Ireland -37 1 - - 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
1 140 (9.07%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (5.57%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.76%) Apache
4 34 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.10%) Confluence
7 16 (1.04%) SAS
8 11 (0.71%) Appian
9 10 (0.65%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
11 4 (0.26%) IIS
11 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
13 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 70 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.13%) Sketch
4 2 (0.13%) Windchill
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.065%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.04%) SAP MDG
3 14 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.52%) SAP MDG-BP
5 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
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%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.065%) FIS Private Capital Suite
11 1 (0.065%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 698 (45.24%) Azure
2 435 (28.19%) Power Platform
3 359 (23.27%) AWS
4 216 (14.00%) GCP
5 191 (12.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 165 (10.69%) Snowflake
7 144 (9.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 141 (9.14%) dbt
9 137 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
10 84 (5.44%) Serverless
11 66 (4.28%) Amazon S3
12 63 (4.08%) GitHub
12 63 (4.08%) Power Automate
13 50 (3.24%) SaaS
14 48 (3.11%) PowerApps
15 43 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (2.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 36 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
18 33 (2.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 28 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.07%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) HTTP
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
2 3 (0.19%) NGN
2 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) 4G
3 2 (0.13%) 5G
3 2 (0.13%) LTE
3 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.065%) CTI
4 1 (0.065%) DHCP
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) Internet
4 1 (0.065%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.065%) SMS
4 1 (0.065%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (25.73%) Power BI
2 317 (20.54%) Data Warehouse
3 200 (12.96%) Data Lake
4 189 (12.25%) Metadata
5 117 (7.58%) SQL Server
6 116 (7.52%) Tableau
7 98 (6.35%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 81 (5.25%) BigQuery
10 68 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (4.21%) NoSQL
12 57 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 56 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 51 (3.31%) Power Query
15 47 (3.05%) Looker
16 43 (2.79%) Star Schema
17 41 (2.66%) MySQL
17 41 (2.66%) Semantic Layer
18 40 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
19 39 (2.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 119 (7.71%) Git
2 48 (3.11%) JIRA
3 40 (2.59%) MLflow
4 19 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.04%) ERwin
5 16 (1.04%) Postman
6 10 (0.65%) Claude Code
6 10 (0.65%) GitLab
7 6 (0.39%) JUnit
8 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.26%) Toad
9 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.19%) Gradle
10 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.19%) Maven
10 3 (0.19%) NUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) TestNG
11 2 (0.13%) ESLint
General
1 518 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 506 (32.79%) Finance
3 432 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (7.52%) Public Sector
6 75 (4.86%) Marketing
7 70 (4.54%) Law
8 53 (3.43%) Retail
9 50 (3.24%) Banking
10 46 (2.98%) Financial Institution
11 44 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (1.81%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.69%) Legal
16 19 (1.23%) Advertising
17 17 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.97%) Billing
18 15 (0.97%) Local Government
19 14 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 354 (22.94%) Data Engineer
2 326 (21.13%) Architect
3 311 (20.16%) Senior
4 210 (13.61%) Data Architect
5 199 (12.90%) Analyst
6 184 (11.92%) Developer
7 177 (11.47%) Lead
8 117 (7.58%) Data Analyst
9 92 (5.96%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (4.93%) Consultant
11 58 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 48 (3.11%) Data Modeller
13 46 (2.98%) Business Analyst
14 45 (2.92%) Lead Data Engineer
15 42 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
16 41 (2.66%) Senior Architect
17 37 (2.40%) Senior Developer
18 35 (2.27%) Data Manager
18 35 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (9.40%) REST
2 104 (6.74%) Kafka
3 100 (6.48%) PySpark
4 73 (4.73%) SOAP
5 63 (4.08%) .NET
6 58 (3.76%) JSON
7 56 (3.63%) Lightning Web Components
8 55 (3.56%) Middleware
9 50 (3.24%) React
10 49 (3.18%) RESTful
11 45 (2.92%) CSS
12 44 (2.85%) XML
13 39 (2.53%) PyTorch
13 39 (2.53%) scikit-learn
13 39 (2.53%) TensorFlow
14 38 (2.46%) LangChain
15 35 (2.27%) HTML
16 34 (2.20%) Node.js
17 31 (2.01%) Visualforce
18 30 (1.94%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 123 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 103 (6.68%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 50 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (2.59%) Low-Code
8 39 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.69%) Reinsurance
11 23 (1.49%) Clustering
12 21 (1.36%) Social Media
13 20 (1.30%) Replication
14 17 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.97%) FMCG
16 14 (0.91%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.97%) Windows
2 10 (0.65%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Android
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (45.88%) Analytics
2 531 (34.41%) Business Intelligence
3 482 (31.24%) Data Governance
4 475 (30.78%) ETL
5 436 (28.26%) Data Engineering
6 406 (26.31%) Data Pipeline
7 399 (25.86%) Agile
8 375 (24.30%) CI/CD
9 368 (23.85%) AI
10 361 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
11 358 (23.20%) Decision-Making
12 342 (22.16%) Data Architecture
13 315 (20.41%) DevOps
14 224 (14.52%) Mentoring
15 219 (14.19%) Machine Learning
16 209 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 179 (11.60%) Data Integration
18 174 (11.28%) Roadmaps
19 172 (11.15%) Data Strategy
20 163 (10.56%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 803 (52.04%) SQL
2 666 (43.16%) Python
3 125 (8.10%) Java
4 97 (6.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 83 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 65 (4.21%) C#
7 63 (4.08%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.37%) Apex Code
9 46 (2.98%) Scala
10 42 (2.72%) T-SQL
11 34 (2.20%) PowerShell
12 31 (2.01%) R
13 21 (1.36%) Bash
14 17 (1.10%) SOQL
14 17 (1.10%) SOSL
15 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.71%) C++
17 10 (0.65%) VBA
18 9 (0.58%) Perl
19 8 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 190 (12.31%) Degree
2 151 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.07%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 24 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.91%) ACCA
13 14 (0.91%) CIMA
14 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.45%) PMP
15 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.26%) CBAP
17 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 491 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 100 (6.48%) GDPR
3 52 (3.37%) QA
4 48 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.58%) SLA
8 7 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.45%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.32%) GRC
9 5 (0.32%) IFRS
9 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 5 (0.32%) MiFID
10 3 (0.19%) PERC
10 3 (0.19%) PMO
11 2 (0.13%) HL7
11 2 (0.13%) WCAG
12 1 (0.065%) NIST
12 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 67 (4.34%) Docker
2 13 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.065%) iptables
Systems Management
1 88 (5.70%) Terraform
2 62 (4.02%) 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 4 (0.26%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.065%) Argo
9 1 (0.065%) Kibana
9 1 (0.065%) QRadar
9 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 325 (21.06%) Microsoft
2 322 (20.87%) Databricks
3 112 (7.26%) Salesforce
4 99 (6.42%) Oracle
5 87 (5.64%) SAP
6 47 (3.05%) Informatica
7 46 (2.98%) Google
8 33 (2.14%) Palantir
9 31 (2.01%) Foundry
10 29 (1.88%) Cloudera
11 28 (1.81%) Talend
12 23 (1.49%) Dell
12 23 (1.49%) OpenAI
13 21 (1.36%) MuleSoft
14 20 (1.30%) ServiceNow
15 17 (1.10%) Sparx
16 12 (0.78%) Automation Anywhere
16 12 (0.78%) IBM
16 12 (0.78%) UiPath
17 11 (0.71%) Workday