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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 132 110
Rank change year-on-year +14 -22 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,835 1,172 1,684
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.56% 2.39% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.68% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,184 623 891
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,525 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,625 £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 £85,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,050 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +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 86,023 43,711 61,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 89.05% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,242 24,267 33,446
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,880 £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 £79,688 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 29 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 29 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 +15 1,689 £70,000 +2.94% 2,084
UK excluding London +4 909 £63,000 -0.79% 1,019
London +1 775 £82,500 +6.45% 1,183
Work from Home +42 579 £68,724 +1.81% 928
North of England +70 353 £65,000 - 265
South East -62 196 £62,500 -3.85% 229
Midlands +2 169 £62,500 -1.57% 167
North West +66 163 £62,500 +4.17% 156
West Midlands +5 123 £62,500 +5.04% 112
South West -22 110 £69,973 +8.74% 104
Yorkshire +13 108 £68,617 +1.65% 78
North East +1 82 £65,000 +31.98% 33
East Midlands -43 46 £59,366 -10.39% 55
East of England -31 43 £62,500 +4.17% 85
Scotland -13 22 £70,000 +14.29% 115
Wales -50 22 £63,500 - 15
Northern Ireland -84 2 £60,000 - 54

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
1 107 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 95 (5.18%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (4.69%) Apache
4 33 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 24 (1.31%) Confluence
6 19 (1.04%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.60%) SAS
8 10 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) WordPress
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
14 1 (0.054%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 88 (4.80%) 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 (0.054%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.054%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 41 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.98%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.54%) 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 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 708 (38.58%) Azure
2 530 (28.88%) Power Platform
3 439 (23.92%) AWS
4 235 (12.81%) GCP
5 201 (10.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 167 (9.10%) Snowflake
7 143 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (7.08%) dbt
9 126 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 104 (5.67%) Serverless
11 97 (5.29%) Amazon S3
12 85 (4.63%) SaaS
13 82 (4.47%) Azure Databricks
14 72 (3.92%) Power Automate
15 70 (3.81%) GitHub
16 60 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
17 58 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
18 57 (3.11%) PowerApps
19 56 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
20 41 (2.23%) 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%) HTTP
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.054%) 4G
8 1 (0.054%) 5G
8 1 (0.054%) ATM
8 1 (0.054%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 488 (26.59%) Power BI
2 370 (20.16%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (14.11%) Metadata
4 211 (11.50%) Data Lake
5 143 (7.79%) SQL Server
6 122 (6.65%) Tableau
7 112 (6.10%) Relational Database
8 96 (5.23%) Star Schema
9 89 (4.85%) Semantic Layer
10 86 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (4.47%) Big Data
11 82 (4.47%) Delta Lake
12 79 (4.31%) NoSQL
13 77 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 76 (4.14%) BigQuery
15 73 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 63 (3.43%) Power Query
17 57 (3.11%) Data Vault
18 54 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 49 (2.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 173 (9.43%) Git
2 49 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 47 (2.56%) JIRA
4 43 (2.34%) Claude Code
5 31 (1.69%) GitLab
6 10 (0.54%) 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%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.11%) Gradle
12 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
General
1 637 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 573 (31.23%) Finance
3 477 (25.99%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 153 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 96 (5.23%) Marketing
7 85 (4.63%) Retail
8 74 (4.03%) Law
8 74 (4.03%) Legal
9 71 (3.87%) Manufacturing
10 55 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.51%) Banking
12 32 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 30 (1.63%) Billing
14 27 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.82%) Local Government
18 14 (0.76%) Advertising
18 14 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 456 (24.85%) Data Engineer
2 421 (22.94%) Architect
3 402 (21.91%) Senior
4 309 (16.84%) Data Architect
5 213 (11.61%) Analyst
6 192 (10.46%) Lead
7 190 (10.35%) Developer
8 120 (6.54%) Senior Data Engineer
9 105 (5.72%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.87%) Consultant
11 69 (3.76%) Senior Architect
12 57 (3.11%) Senior Data Architect
13 51 (2.78%) Business Analyst
14 47 (2.56%) Data Modeller
14 47 (2.56%) Principal Engineer
14 47 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (2.51%) Software Engineer
16 45 (2.45%) Databricks Engineer
16 45 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
16 45 (2.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (9.05%) PySpark
2 129 (7.03%) REST
3 113 (6.16%) Terraform
4 93 (5.07%) Kafka
5 68 (3.71%) Node.js
5 68 (3.71%) React
6 59 (3.22%) .NET
7 52 (2.83%) Middleware
8 48 (2.62%) SOAP
9 47 (2.56%) JSON
10 44 (2.40%) Lightning Web Components
11 35 (1.91%) CSS
12 34 (1.85%) AngularJS
13 33 (1.80%) XML
14 26 (1.42%) RESTful
15 22 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
15 22 (1.20%) Spring
16 21 (1.14%) Pandas
16 21 (1.14%) Vue
17 20 (1.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 118 (6.43%) Data Structures
3 104 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 69 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
6 58 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.29%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
14 23 (1.25%) Taxonomies
15 21 (1.14%) Reinsurance
16 20 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
17 18 (0.98%) Reference Data
17 18 (0.98%) Replication
18 16 (0.87%) NHS
18 16 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.53%) Windows
2 25 (1.36%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.054%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (45.50%) Analytics
2 659 (35.91%) Business Intelligence
3 631 (34.39%) AI
4 526 (28.66%) Data Governance
5 508 (27.68%) Data Engineering
6 500 (27.25%) Data Pipeline
7 497 (27.08%) ETL
8 476 (25.94%) Agile
9 473 (25.78%) Data Architecture
10 469 (25.56%) CI/CD
11 460 (25.07%) Decision-Making
12 413 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
13 346 (18.86%) Roadmaps
14 339 (18.47%) DevOps
15 313 (17.06%) Mentoring
16 286 (15.59%) Data Strategy
17 282 (15.37%) Stakeholder Management
18 276 (15.04%) Technical Leadership
19 262 (14.28%) Continuous Improvement
20 248 (13.51%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 957 (52.15%) SQL
2 700 (38.15%) Python
3 124 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 101 (5.50%) C#
4 101 (5.50%) Java
5 91 (4.96%) TypeScript
6 82 (4.47%) Scala
7 75 (4.09%) JavaScript
8 42 (2.29%) Apex Code
9 35 (1.91%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.36%) PowerShell
10 25 (1.36%) R
11 23 (1.25%) Bicep
12 17 (0.93%) SOQL
13 15 (0.82%) SOSL
14 14 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.54%) Bash
17 8 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 254 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 210 (11.44%) Degree
3 167 (9.10%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 47 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 25 (1.36%) DBS Check
11 18 (0.98%) SnowPro
12 14 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.54%) CIPD
14 8 (0.44%) ACCA
15 6 (0.33%) CIMA
15 6 (0.33%) CSPO
15 6 (0.33%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 683 (37.22%) Data Quality
2 125 (6.81%) GDPR
3 91 (4.96%) Accessibility
4 64 (3.49%) 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 (0.054%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 103 (5.61%) Docker
2 16 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.11%) NFS
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (3.76%) 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%) SQL Sentry
7 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.054%) Consul
8 1 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.054%) QRadar
Vendors
1 454 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 337 (18.37%) Databricks
3 110 (5.99%) Oracle
4 107 (5.83%) Salesforce
5 105 (5.72%) SAP
6 66 (3.60%) Google
7 33 (1.80%) Informatica
8 21 (1.14%) Talend
9 20 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 17 (0.93%) Foundry
11 15 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.76%) Palantir
12 14 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 11 (0.60%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.54%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.54%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.54%) IBM
14 10 (0.54%) Okta
14 10 (0.54%) OpenText
15 9 (0.49%) Workday