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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 123 106
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,628 1,128 2,434
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.75% 2.60% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.79% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 575 1,509
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,400
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.61% -3.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,900 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +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 68,833 40,438 84,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.25% 83.74%
Number of salaries quoted 44,981 21,310 60,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,200
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,871 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +18 1,456 £70,000 +7.69% 635
UK excluding London +1 791 £65,000 +4.00% 417
London +29 675 £80,000 +6.67% 334
Work from Home +37 528 £67,500 +3.85% 312
North of England +64 283 £67,500 +17.39% 109
South East -21 188 £62,500 -3.85% 149
Midlands -4 145 £60,000 -4.00% 55
Yorkshire +37 129 £70,000 +16.67% 32
North West +40 121 £63,000 +20.00% 58
West Midlands -4 107 £60,358 +0.60% 41
East of England +7 61 £71,000 +1.43% 21
South West -80 57 £55,000 -8.33% 51
Scotland -7 45 £70,000 +16.67% 20
East Midlands -19 36 £55,000 -13.39% 14
North East -17 33 £60,000 +20.00% 22
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 10
Northern Ireland -40 3 £60,000 - 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
1 154 (9.46%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (5.90%) Apache Spark
3 72 (4.42%) Apache
4 35 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.04%) Confluence
7 15 (0.92%) SAS
8 12 (0.74%) Jupyter
9 11 (0.68%) CMS
10 9 (0.55%) Appian
11 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.31%) IIS
13 4 (0.25%) Camunda
13 4 (0.25%) WordPress
14 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.18%) Apache Superset
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.12%) CICS
15 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 69 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Windchill
6 2 (0.12%) Blender
6 2 (0.12%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Sketch
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.061%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.98%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.49%) SAP MDG-BP
7 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.43%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
9 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.18%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.18%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.12%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.061%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 696 (42.75%) Azure
2 439 (26.97%) Power Platform
3 406 (24.94%) AWS
4 234 (14.37%) GCP
5 187 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 157 (9.64%) Snowflake
7 144 (8.85%) dbt
8 139 (8.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 123 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (5.41%) Serverless
11 81 (4.98%) Amazon S3
12 65 (3.99%) Power Automate
13 57 (3.50%) GitHub
13 57 (3.50%) SaaS
14 51 (3.13%) PowerApps
15 47 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
17 34 (2.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 31 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
19 30 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.40%) Broadband
2 3 (0.18%) LTE
2 3 (0.18%) Network Security
2 3 (0.18%) NGN
2 3 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.18%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) 4G
3 2 (0.12%) 5G
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
3 2 (0.12%) Internet
3 2 (0.12%) SMS
3 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.061%) CTI
4 1 (0.061%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.061%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (24.51%) Power BI
2 315 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
3 201 (12.35%) Data Lake
4 190 (11.67%) Metadata
5 118 (7.25%) SQL Server
6 117 (7.19%) Tableau
7 104 (6.39%) Relational Database
8 91 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 90 (5.53%) BigQuery
10 74 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (4.12%) NoSQL
12 58 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 55 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 52 (3.19%) Semantic Layer
15 51 (3.13%) Star Schema
16 49 (3.01%) Looker
17 47 (2.89%) Big Data
17 47 (2.89%) Power Query
18 45 (2.76%) Delta Lake
18 45 (2.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 117 (7.19%) Git
2 41 (2.52%) JIRA
3 38 (2.33%) MLflow
4 25 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.98%) GitLab
6 15 (0.92%) ERwin
7 14 (0.86%) Postman
8 12 (0.74%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.37%) Toad
10 5 (0.31%) JUnit
11 4 (0.25%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.18%) Gradle
12 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.18%) Maven
12 3 (0.18%) NUnit
12 3 (0.18%) TestNG
12 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
General
1 545 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 508 (31.20%) Finance
3 449 (27.58%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.42%) Law
7 71 (4.36%) Marketing
8 60 (3.69%) Retail
9 49 (3.01%) Banking
10 45 (2.76%) Financial Institution
11 43 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.33%) Legal
13 32 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.29%) Billing
17 20 (1.23%) Advertising
18 17 (1.04%) Local Government
19 15 (0.92%) Games
19 15 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 389 (23.89%) Data Engineer
2 341 (20.95%) Architect
3 334 (20.52%) Senior
4 221 (13.57%) Data Architect
5 202 (12.41%) Analyst
6 193 (11.86%) Lead
7 191 (11.73%) Developer
8 115 (7.06%) Data Analyst
9 107 (6.57%) Senior Data Engineer
10 78 (4.79%) Consultant
11 54 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 51 (3.13%) Business Analyst
12 51 (3.13%) Data Modeller
13 46 (2.83%) Lead Data Engineer
14 45 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
15 43 (2.64%) Senior Architect
16 40 (2.46%) Senior Developer
17 39 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
17 39 (2.40%) Data Manager
18 37 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (9.09%) REST
2 113 (6.94%) PySpark
3 105 (6.45%) Kafka
4 70 (4.30%) .NET
5 69 (4.24%) SOAP
6 61 (3.75%) React
7 60 (3.69%) JSON
8 55 (3.38%) Middleware
9 53 (3.26%) Lightning Web Components
10 51 (3.13%) CSS
11 50 (3.07%) Node.js
12 45 (2.76%) RESTful
12 45 (2.76%) XML
13 41 (2.52%) LangChain
14 38 (2.33%) PyTorch
14 38 (2.33%) scikit-learn
14 38 (2.33%) TensorFlow
15 36 (2.21%) HTML
16 31 (1.90%) Visualforce
17 29 (1.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 136 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 132 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 99 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 56 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 52 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (2.27%) Low-Code
11 34 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 34 (2.09%) Public Cloud
12 31 (1.90%) Reinsurance
13 25 (1.54%) Clustering
14 21 (1.29%) Replication
14 21 (1.29%) Social Media
15 18 (1.11%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.86%) FMCG
17 14 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.92%) Windows
2 11 (0.68%) Linux
3 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 3 (0.18%) Android
4 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.061%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (45.33%) Analytics
2 543 (33.35%) Business Intelligence
3 508 (31.20%) Data Governance
4 478 (29.36%) ETL
5 477 (29.30%) Data Engineering
6 430 (26.41%) Data Pipeline
7 414 (25.43%) Agile
8 402 (24.69%) AI
9 392 (24.08%) CI/CD
10 385 (23.65%) Decision-Making
11 382 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (21.87%) Data Architecture
13 317 (19.47%) DevOps
14 249 (15.29%) Mentoring
15 240 (14.74%) Machine Learning
16 211 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 199 (12.22%) Roadmaps
18 188 (11.55%) Data Strategy
19 172 (10.57%) Data Integration
20 170 (10.44%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 855 (52.52%) SQL
2 706 (43.37%) Python
3 130 (7.99%) Java
4 95 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 92 (5.65%) JavaScript
6 73 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 69 (4.24%) C#
8 52 (3.19%) Scala
9 50 (3.07%) Apex Code
10 41 (2.52%) T-SQL
11 31 (1.90%) R
12 30 (1.84%) PowerShell
13 19 (1.17%) Bash
14 18 (1.11%) SOQL
14 18 (1.11%) SOSL
15 16 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.61%) C++
16 10 (0.61%) VBA
17 9 (0.55%) Perl
18 8 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 195 (11.98%) Degree
2 174 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 116 (7.13%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.97%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.78%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.66%) DV Cleared
11 18 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.74%) ACCA
13 12 (0.74%) CIMA
14 8 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.49%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.43%) PMP
15 7 (0.43%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.25%) IIBA
16 4 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (32.99%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.51%) GDPR
3 54 (3.32%) QA
4 47 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.55%) SLA
8 7 (0.43%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.37%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.18%) PERC
13 2 (0.12%) HL7
13 2 (0.12%) WCAG
14 1 (0.061%) NIST
14 1 (0.061%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.061%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 80 (4.91%) Docker
2 12 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.061%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 93 (5.71%) Terraform
2 64 (3.93%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.74%) Grafana
4 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.43%) Control-M
7 4 (0.25%) Ansible
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Packer
9 1 (0.061%) QRadar
9 1 (0.061%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.061%) SCCM
Vendors
1 332 (20.39%) Databricks
2 323 (19.84%) Microsoft
3 111 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 102 (6.27%) Oracle
5 88 (5.41%) SAP
6 50 (3.07%) Google
7 45 (2.76%) Informatica
8 32 (1.97%) Palantir
9 31 (1.90%) Foundry
10 27 (1.66%) Cloudera
11 24 (1.47%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.47%) Talend
12 23 (1.41%) Dell
13 20 (1.23%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.23%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.86%) Sparx
15 11 (0.68%) IBM
16 10 (0.61%) Automation Anywhere
16 10 (0.61%) UiPath
16 10 (0.61%) Workday