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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 127 116
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,750 1,246 1,825
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.50% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.80% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,142 645 1,087
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +4.42%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,309
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.65%

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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +7 1,621 £69,973 +3.66% 1,348
UK excluding London -7 855 £62,500 - 704
London +13 747 £80,000 +3.23% 827
Work from Home +39 543 £65,000 - 594
North of England +86 337 £62,500 +4.17% 200
South East -78 190 £62,500 -3.85% 195
North West +59 148 £62,500 +7.76% 124
Midlands -3 146 £60,000 -5.51% 108
Yorkshire +21 111 £65,000 -1.89% 51
West Midlands -5 101 £60,900 +1.50% 77
South West -43 97 £65,250 -6.79% 81
North East +5 78 £55,000 +10.00% 26
East of England -13 49 £71,000 +18.33% 38
East Midlands -29 45 £59,366 -8.67% 31
Scotland -20 25 £70,000 +14.29% 43
Wales - 11 £63,500 - 17
Northern Ireland -79 2 £60,000 - 22

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
1 123 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (6.86%) Apache Spark
3 83 (4.74%) Apache
4 29 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 15 (0.86%) Confluence
7 11 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.63%) SAS
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) Luigi
10 4 (0.23%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 1 (0.057%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 74 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.17%) Blender
6 3 (0.17%) Maya
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.057%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 34 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.03%) SAP MDG
4 13 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 1 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 687 (39.26%) Azure
2 502 (28.69%) Power Platform
3 465 (26.57%) AWS
4 254 (14.51%) GCP
5 181 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 170 (9.71%) Snowflake
7 142 (8.11%) dbt
8 132 (7.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 111 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
10 96 (5.49%) Amazon S3
11 91 (5.20%) Serverless
12 67 (3.83%) SaaS
13 61 (3.49%) Power Automate
14 59 (3.37%) GitHub
15 58 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
15 58 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
16 54 (3.09%) PowerApps
17 46 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
18 39 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
19 33 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.23%) Broadband
2 8 (0.46%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
4 4 (0.23%) Internet
4 4 (0.23%) NGN
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
6 2 (0.11%) DMZ
6 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.11%) IPv4
6 2 (0.11%) Modbus
6 2 (0.11%) Network Security
6 2 (0.11%) OSPF
6 2 (0.11%) SMS
6 2 (0.11%) VLAN
7 1 (0.057%) 4G
7 1 (0.057%) 5G
7 1 (0.057%) ATM
7 1 (0.057%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (26.63%) Power BI
2 364 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
3 231 (13.20%) Data Lake
4 213 (12.17%) Metadata
5 143 (8.17%) Tableau
6 130 (7.43%) SQL Server
7 113 (6.46%) Relational Database
8 94 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (5.26%) BigQuery
10 91 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
11 81 (4.63%) Big Data
11 81 (4.63%) Star Schema
12 71 (4.06%) Semantic Layer
13 66 (3.77%) NoSQL
14 63 (3.60%) Delta Lake
15 58 (3.31%) Looker
16 57 (3.26%) Data Vault
16 57 (3.26%) Snowflake Schema
17 55 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
18 51 (2.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 130 (7.43%) Git
2 44 (2.51%) Jenkins
3 41 (2.34%) JIRA
4 33 (1.89%) Claude Code
4 33 (1.89%) MLflow
5 22 (1.26%) GitLab
6 9 (0.51%) ERwin
7 6 (0.34%) Toad
8 5 (0.29%) Ant
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 589 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 557 (31.83%) Finance
3 470 (26.86%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 84 (4.80%) Marketing
7 82 (4.69%) Retail
8 76 (4.34%) Law
9 62 (3.54%) Legal
10 61 (3.49%) Manufacturing
11 54 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (2.74%) Banking
13 27 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
14 24 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (1.31%) Billing
16 21 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.86%) Advertising
18 14 (0.80%) Front Office
18 14 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 424 (24.23%) Data Engineer
2 402 (22.97%) Architect
3 364 (20.80%) Senior
4 295 (16.86%) Data Architect
5 191 (10.91%) Analyst
6 189 (10.80%) Developer
7 178 (10.17%) Lead
8 100 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 90 (5.14%) Data Analyst
10 73 (4.17%) Consultant
11 57 (3.26%) Business Analyst
11 57 (3.26%) Data Modeller
12 53 (3.03%) Senior Architect
13 48 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 44 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (2.51%) Senior Data Architect
15 43 (2.46%) Senior Developer
16 42 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (2.17%) Software Engineer
18 37 (2.11%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (7.83%) PySpark
2 124 (7.09%) REST
3 114 (6.51%) Kafka
4 112 (6.40%) Terraform
5 69 (3.94%) React
6 67 (3.83%) Node.js
7 58 (3.31%) .NET
8 53 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
9 52 (2.97%) SOAP
10 50 (2.86%) Middleware
11 44 (2.51%) JSON
12 43 (2.46%) LangChain
13 36 (2.06%) CSS
14 33 (1.89%) XML
15 32 (1.83%) AngularJS
16 29 (1.66%) PyTorch
16 29 (1.66%) TensorFlow
17 28 (1.60%) pgvector
18 26 (1.49%) RESTful
18 26 (1.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 184 (10.51%) Cloud Native
2 120 (6.86%) Data Structures
3 92 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 65 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.71%) Clustering
11 29 (1.66%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
11 29 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (1.31%) Low-Code
14 21 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.09%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.09%) Reinsurance
15 19 (1.09%) Social Media
16 18 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.31%) Linux
2 18 (1.03%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.057%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (47.26%) Analytics
2 620 (35.43%) Business Intelligence
3 585 (33.43%) AI
4 542 (30.97%) Data Governance
5 503 (28.74%) Data Engineering
6 488 (27.89%) ETL
7 485 (27.71%) Data Pipeline
8 441 (25.20%) Data Architecture
9 439 (25.09%) Decision-Making
10 431 (24.63%) Agile
11 412 (23.54%) CI/CD
12 385 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
13 314 (17.94%) Roadmaps
14 297 (16.97%) DevOps
15 292 (16.69%) Machine Learning
16 276 (15.77%) Data Strategy
17 272 (15.54%) Mentoring
18 236 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 223 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
20 214 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 907 (51.83%) SQL
2 714 (40.80%) Python
3 108 (6.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 101 (5.77%) Java
5 82 (4.69%) TypeScript
6 80 (4.57%) C#
7 70 (4.00%) Scala
8 67 (3.83%) JavaScript
9 47 (2.69%) Apex Code
10 36 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.49%) R
12 19 (1.09%) Bicep
13 18 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 17 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.97%) SOQL
14 17 (0.97%) SOSL
15 11 (0.63%) Bash
15 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.51%) Go
17 8 (0.46%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 225 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 189 (10.80%) Degree
3 135 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 48 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.31%) DBS Check
12 16 (0.91%) SnowPro
12 16 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.51%) CIPD
15 7 (0.40%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.34%) IIBA
17 5 (0.29%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.23%) CCA
18 4 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 609 (34.80%) Data Quality
2 129 (7.37%) GDPR
3 69 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 65 (3.71%) QA
5 30 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.40%) PMO
6 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.29%) IFRS
7 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.23%) GRC
8 4 (0.23%) MiFID
8 4 (0.23%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.057%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.057%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (5.20%) Docker
2 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.057%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 57 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.03%) Ansible
3 8 (0.46%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (0.17%) Argo
5 3 (0.17%) Grafana
5 3 (0.17%) Kibana
5 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.057%) Consul
7 1 (0.057%) QRadar
7 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 382 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 358 (20.46%) Databricks
3 113 (6.46%) Oracle
4 105 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 103 (5.89%) SAP
6 60 (3.43%) Google
7 28 (1.60%) Informatica
8 26 (1.49%) Cloudera
9 23 (1.31%) Dell
10 18 (1.03%) Foundry
10 18 (1.03%) Palantir
11 17 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 17 (0.97%) Talend
12 13 (0.74%) IBM
12 13 (0.74%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 11 (0.63%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.57%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.51%) HubSpot
16 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO