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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 130 111
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,832 1,187 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.56% 2.39% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.69% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,184 636 909
10th Percentile £44,825 £45,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%

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 85,859 44,048 62,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.76% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,233 24,687 33,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,090
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +13 1,687 £70,000 +2.94% 2,279
UK excluding London +2 909 £62,500 -1.57% 1,213
London +5 772 £82,500 +6.45% 1,275
Work from Home +37 577 £68,724 +1.44% 1,015
North of England +81 351 £65,000 - 297
South East -62 196 £62,500 -3.85% 326
Midlands +2 172 £60,900 -4.09% 192
North West +62 162 £62,500 +4.17% 176
West Midlands +11 124 £62,500 +4.17% 126
South West -24 111 £69,973 +8.74% 115
Yorkshire +7 107 £68,510 +1.50% 87
North East +4 82 £65,000 +31.98% 36
East Midlands -36 48 £57,000 -12.31% 66
East of England -34 41 £62,500 +4.17% 96
Scotland -9 22 £70,000 +14.29% 128
Wales -50 22 £63,500 - 20
Northern Ireland -87 2 £60,000 - 56

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
1 105 (5.73%) Apache Spark
2 93 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (4.69%) Apache
4 32 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 24 (1.31%) Confluence
6 18 (0.98%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.60%) SAS
8 9 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) CMS
10 4 (0.22%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.055%) JBoss
13 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 87 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Blender
4 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.16%) Maya
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Notion
5 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 41 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.98%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.44%) SAP MDG-BP
7 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 4 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.22%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 704 (38.43%) Azure
2 530 (28.93%) Power Platform
3 435 (23.74%) AWS
4 232 (12.66%) GCP
5 199 (10.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 165 (9.01%) Snowflake
7 144 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (7.04%) dbt
9 126 (6.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 103 (5.62%) Serverless
11 97 (5.29%) Amazon S3
12 84 (4.59%) SaaS
13 82 (4.48%) Azure Databricks
14 71 (3.88%) Power Automate
15 70 (3.82%) GitHub
16 60 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
17 58 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
18 57 (3.11%) PowerApps
19 56 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
20 41 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.58%) Broadband
2 15 (0.82%) VPN
3 9 (0.49%) DMZ
3 9 (0.49%) Ethernet
3 9 (0.49%) IPv4
3 9 (0.49%) Modbus
3 9 (0.49%) OSPF
3 9 (0.49%) VLAN
4 6 (0.33%) BGP
4 6 (0.33%) DNS
4 6 (0.33%) IPsec
4 6 (0.33%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.055%) 4G
8 1 (0.055%) 5G
8 1 (0.055%) HTTP
8 1 (0.055%) NGN
8 1 (0.055%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (26.58%) Power BI
2 362 (19.76%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (14.03%) Metadata
4 211 (11.52%) Data Lake
5 143 (7.81%) SQL Server
6 120 (6.55%) Tableau
7 112 (6.11%) Relational Database
8 96 (5.24%) Star Schema
9 89 (4.86%) Semantic Layer
10 86 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (4.48%) Big Data
11 82 (4.48%) Delta Lake
12 78 (4.26%) NoSQL
13 77 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 76 (4.15%) BigQuery
15 72 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
16 64 (3.49%) Power Query
17 57 (3.11%) Data Vault
18 53 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 49 (2.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 169 (9.22%) Git
2 49 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 47 (2.57%) JIRA
4 43 (2.35%) Claude Code
5 30 (1.64%) GitLab
6 10 (0.55%) MLflow
7 8 (0.44%) ERwin
8 6 (0.33%) Ant
9 5 (0.27%) Toad
10 4 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.16%) Flyway
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.11%) Gradle
12 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.11%) YouTrack
General
1 644 (35.15%) Social Skills
2 572 (31.22%) Finance
3 474 (25.87%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 154 (8.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 97 (5.29%) Marketing
7 86 (4.69%) Retail
8 75 (4.09%) Law
9 74 (4.04%) Legal
10 71 (3.88%) Manufacturing
11 55 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.51%) Banking
13 31 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 30 (1.64%) Billing
15 27 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.87%) Financial Institution
18 15 (0.82%) Local Government
19 14 (0.76%) Advertising
19 14 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 452 (24.67%) Data Engineer
2 424 (23.14%) Architect
3 395 (21.56%) Senior
4 313 (17.09%) Data Architect
5 209 (11.41%) Analyst
6 192 (10.48%) Developer
7 191 (10.43%) Lead
8 117 (6.39%) Senior Data Engineer
9 104 (5.68%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.88%) Consultant
11 69 (3.77%) Senior Architect
12 57 (3.11%) Senior Data Architect
13 51 (2.78%) Business Analyst
14 50 (2.73%) Data Modeller
15 47 (2.57%) Principal Engineer
16 46 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (2.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 45 (2.46%) Senior Developer
17 45 (2.46%) Software Engineer
18 44 (2.40%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (9.01%) PySpark
2 127 (6.93%) REST
3 111 (6.06%) Terraform
4 92 (5.02%) Kafka
5 68 (3.71%) Node.js
6 67 (3.66%) React
7 59 (3.22%) .NET
8 52 (2.84%) Middleware
9 48 (2.62%) SOAP
10 46 (2.51%) JSON
11 44 (2.40%) Lightning Web Components
12 36 (1.97%) CSS
13 33 (1.80%) AngularJS
13 33 (1.80%) XML
14 25 (1.36%) RESTful
15 22 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
15 22 (1.20%) Spring
16 21 (1.15%) HTML
16 21 (1.15%) Vue
17 20 (1.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 164 (8.95%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.39%) Data Structures
3 102 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 67 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 41 (2.24%) AI Agents
8 38 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
14 23 (1.26%) Taxonomies
15 21 (1.15%) Reinsurance
16 20 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
17 18 (0.98%) Reference Data
17 18 (0.98%) Replication
18 16 (0.87%) Mobile App
18 16 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.47%) Windows
2 25 (1.36%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (45.41%) Analytics
2 659 (35.97%) Business Intelligence
3 623 (34.01%) AI
4 527 (28.77%) Data Governance
5 504 (27.51%) Data Engineering
6 497 (27.13%) Data Pipeline
7 492 (26.86%) ETL
8 481 (26.26%) Data Architecture
9 474 (25.87%) Agile
10 463 (25.27%) CI/CD
11 462 (25.22%) Decision-Making
12 412 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
13 343 (18.72%) Roadmaps
14 338 (18.45%) DevOps
15 311 (16.98%) Mentoring
16 290 (15.83%) Data Strategy
17 283 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
18 274 (14.96%) Technical Leadership
19 262 (14.30%) Continuous Improvement
20 248 (13.54%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 949 (51.80%) SQL
2 694 (37.88%) Python
3 126 (6.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 100 (5.46%) Java
5 99 (5.40%) C#
6 90 (4.91%) TypeScript
7 82 (4.48%) Scala
8 76 (4.15%) JavaScript
9 42 (2.29%) Apex Code
10 34 (1.86%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.36%) R
12 24 (1.31%) PowerShell
13 23 (1.26%) Bicep
14 17 (0.93%) SOQL
15 15 (0.82%) SOSL
16 14 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.55%) Bash
19 8 (0.44%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 251 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 209 (11.41%) Degree
3 164 (8.95%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 53 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 47 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 28 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 25 (1.36%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.98%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.55%) CIPD
15 8 (0.44%) ACCA
16 6 (0.33%) CIMA
16 6 (0.33%) CSPO
16 6 (0.33%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 679 (37.06%) Data Quality
2 124 (6.77%) GDPR
3 91 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 63 (3.44%) QA
5 14 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.49%) WCAG
7 8 (0.44%) PMO
8 5 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.22%) MiFID
9 4 (0.22%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.16%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.16%) UCITS
11 2 (0.11%) COPPA
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.055%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 101 (5.51%) Docker
2 15 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.055%) NFS
4 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.055%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.04%) Ansible
3 8 (0.44%) Packer
4 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.16%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
7 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.055%) Consul
8 1 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.055%) QRadar
8 1 (0.055%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 448 (24.45%) Microsoft
2 334 (18.23%) Databricks
3 109 (5.95%) Oracle
4 107 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 106 (5.79%) SAP
6 66 (3.60%) Google
7 33 (1.80%) Informatica
8 21 (1.15%) Talend
9 20 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 16 (0.87%) Foundry
11 15 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 13 (0.71%) Palantir
14 11 (0.60%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.55%) ForgeRock
15 10 (0.55%) IBM
15 10 (0.55%) Okta
15 10 (0.55%) OpenText
16 9 (0.49%) Workday