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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 121 113
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,780 1,255 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.51% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.83% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,154 653 1,050
10th Percentile £44,050 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,441 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,495
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.45% +1.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,938
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

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 1 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 1 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 0 1,647 £70,000 +3.70% 1,813
UK excluding London -1 879 £62,500 - 880
London +12 749 £82,500 +6.45% 1,181
Work from Home +41 539 £65,000 -4.06% 840
North of England +79 347 £64,000 +6.67% 232
South East -81 193 £62,500 -3.85% 230
North West +61 152 £62,500 +6.84% 150
Midlands -11 150 £60,715 -4.39% 115
Yorkshire +7 112 £67,500 - 58
West Midlands +6 106 £62,500 +3.31% 85
South West -30 100 £69,973 +11.96% 117
North East +7 83 £55,000 +10.00% 24
East of England -10 52 £65,000 +8.33% 64
East Midlands -25 44 £59,000 -10.94% 30
Scotland -15 25 £70,000 +14.29% 73
Wales - 13 £63,500 - 20
Northern Ireland -78 2 £60,000 - 38

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
1 122 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
1 122 (6.85%) Apache Spark
2 86 (4.83%) Apache
3 30 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.29%) Confluence
5 18 (1.01%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.62%) SAS
8 7 (0.39%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.056%) Umbraco
Applications
1 77 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.056%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 31 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.07%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 694 (38.99%) Azure
2 512 (28.76%) Power Platform
3 468 (26.29%) AWS
4 259 (14.55%) GCP
5 185 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 167 (9.38%) Snowflake
7 143 (8.03%) dbt
8 138 (7.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 120 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
10 96 (5.39%) Amazon S3
11 92 (5.17%) Serverless
12 72 (4.04%) SaaS
13 68 (3.82%) Azure Databricks
14 62 (3.48%) GitHub
14 62 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
15 60 (3.37%) Power Automate
16 58 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
17 51 (2.87%) PowerApps
18 49 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
19 39 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.19%) Broadband
2 10 (0.56%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
4 5 (0.28%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) DMZ
5 4 (0.22%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.22%) IPv4
5 4 (0.22%) Modbus
5 4 (0.22%) NGN
5 4 (0.22%) OSPF
5 4 (0.22%) VLAN
6 3 (0.17%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.056%) 4G
8 1 (0.056%) 5G
8 1 (0.056%) ATM
8 1 (0.056%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (26.57%) Power BI
2 368 (20.67%) Data Warehouse
3 231 (12.98%) Data Lake
3 231 (12.98%) Metadata
4 144 (8.09%) Tableau
5 128 (7.19%) SQL Server
6 108 (6.07%) Relational Database
7 96 (5.39%) BigQuery
8 94 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
9 91 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 86 (4.83%) Star Schema
11 82 (4.61%) Big Data
12 77 (4.33%) Semantic Layer
13 69 (3.88%) Delta Lake
13 69 (3.88%) NoSQL
14 60 (3.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 59 (3.31%) Data Vault
15 59 (3.31%) Looker
16 56 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
17 52 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 135 (7.58%) Git
2 47 (2.64%) Jenkins
2 47 (2.64%) JIRA
3 37 (2.08%) Claude Code
4 33 (1.85%) MLflow
5 24 (1.35%) GitLab
6 9 (0.51%) ERwin
7 6 (0.34%) Toad
8 5 (0.28%) Ant
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) 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%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.11%) Mockito
General
1 612 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 561 (31.52%) Finance
3 476 (26.74%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 91 (5.11%) Marketing
7 83 (4.66%) Retail
8 76 (4.27%) Law
9 64 (3.60%) Legal
10 62 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 56 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (2.64%) Banking
13 28 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 26 (1.46%) Billing
15 24 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.79%) Advertising
18 14 (0.79%) Front Office
18 14 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 425 (23.88%) Data Engineer
2 411 (23.09%) Architect
3 389 (21.85%) Senior
4 304 (17.08%) Data Architect
5 198 (11.12%) Analyst
6 190 (10.67%) Developer
7 179 (10.06%) Lead
8 105 (5.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 94 (5.28%) Data Analyst
10 74 (4.16%) Consultant
11 62 (3.48%) Senior Architect
12 58 (3.26%) Business Analyst
13 55 (3.09%) Data Modeller
14 52 (2.92%) Senior Data Architect
15 50 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 46 (2.58%) Databricks Engineer
17 45 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
18 44 (2.47%) Senior Developer
19 42 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
20 39 (2.19%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (8.20%) PySpark
2 128 (7.19%) REST
3 115 (6.46%) Kafka
4 111 (6.24%) Terraform
5 68 (3.82%) React
6 67 (3.76%) Node.js
7 57 (3.20%) .NET
8 51 (2.87%) SOAP
9 50 (2.81%) Lightning Web Components
10 48 (2.70%) Middleware
11 45 (2.53%) JSON
12 44 (2.47%) LangChain
13 37 (2.08%) CSS
14 33 (1.85%) AngularJS
14 33 (1.85%) XML
15 29 (1.63%) pgvector
15 29 (1.63%) PyTorch
15 29 (1.63%) TensorFlow
16 26 (1.46%) RESTful
16 26 (1.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 187 (10.51%) Cloud Native
2 118 (6.63%) Data Structures
3 102 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 67 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 36 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.97%) AI Agents
9 33 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.69%) Clustering
11 30 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
13 19 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.07%) Reinsurance
13 19 (1.07%) Replication
13 19 (1.07%) Social Media
14 18 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.29%) Linux
2 21 (1.18%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (46.63%) Analytics
2 632 (35.51%) Business Intelligence
3 610 (34.27%) AI
4 543 (30.51%) Data Governance
5 511 (28.71%) Data Engineering
6 496 (27.87%) ETL
7 483 (27.13%) Data Pipeline
8 449 (25.22%) Data Architecture
9 447 (25.11%) Decision-Making
10 443 (24.89%) Agile
11 428 (24.04%) CI/CD
12 390 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
13 324 (18.20%) Roadmaps
14 314 (17.64%) DevOps
15 289 (16.24%) Machine Learning
16 285 (16.01%) Mentoring
17 281 (15.79%) Data Strategy
18 258 (14.49%) Lakehouse
19 239 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
19 239 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 920 (51.69%) SQL
2 713 (40.06%) Python
3 113 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (5.73%) Java
5 84 (4.72%) TypeScript
6 83 (4.66%) C#
7 74 (4.16%) Scala
8 67 (3.76%) JavaScript
9 44 (2.47%) Apex Code
10 35 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.46%) R
12 20 (1.12%) Bicep
13 18 (1.01%) PowerShell
14 17 (0.96%) SOQL
14 17 (0.96%) SOSL
15 16 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.62%) Bash
16 11 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.51%) Go
18 8 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 227 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 191 (10.73%) Degree
3 134 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 50 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.63%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.01%) SnowPro
12 15 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.51%) CIPD
15 6 (0.34%) IIBA
15 6 (0.34%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.28%) ACCA
16 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 630 (35.39%) Data Quality
2 132 (7.42%) GDPR
3 77 (4.33%) Accessibility
4 69 (3.88%) QA
5 33 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.39%) IFRS
6 7 (0.39%) PMO
6 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.22%) MiFID
8 4 (0.22%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.17%) GRC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
9 3 (0.17%) WCAG
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.056%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 90 (5.06%) Docker
2 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 58 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.01%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Grafana
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.056%) Consul
8 1 (0.056%) QRadar
8 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 398 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 356 (20.00%) Databricks
3 109 (6.12%) Oracle
4 105 (5.90%) Salesforce
5 103 (5.79%) SAP
6 65 (3.65%) Google
7 31 (1.74%) Informatica
8 26 (1.46%) Cloudera
9 24 (1.35%) Dell
10 20 (1.12%) Foundry
11 19 (1.07%) Palantir
11 19 (1.07%) Talend
12 17 (0.96%) ServiceNow
13 16 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 14 (0.79%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.73%) IBM
16 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
17 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
18 9 (0.51%) HubSpot
19 8 (0.45%) SYSPRO