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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 126 118
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,738 1,228 1,816
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.47% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.76% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,164 636 1,127
10th Percentile £43,500 £45,000 £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% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% +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 76,271 44,428 67,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.49% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 52,568 25,332 44,788
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 2 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 2 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 +10 1,599 £69,973 +3.66% 964
UK excluding London +7 838 £62,500 -0.79% 535
London +15 739 £80,000 +6.67% 550
Work from Home +25 546 £65,000 -1.14% 467
North of England +86 322 £62,500 +4.17% 140
South East -45 188 £62,500 -3.85% 152
Midlands -3 146 £60,000 -5.51% 80
North West +59 145 £62,500 +5.49% 73
Yorkshire +24 113 £65,000 +6.12% 42
West Midlands -12 101 £60,900 +5.91% 61
South West -60 91 £60,000 -14.29% 68
North East -1 64 £55,000 +12.82% 27
East of England -9 57 £71,000 +18.33% 28
East Midlands -28 45 £59,366 -8.67% 19
Scotland -26 22 £70,000 +5.66% 34
Wales - 9 £66,000 - 25
Northern Ireland - 3 £60,000 - 11

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
1 139 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 125 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 84 (4.83%) Apache
4 32 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 15 (0.86%) SAS
7 13 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.63%) Confluence
9 8 (0.46%) CMS
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.23%) WordPress
12 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 3 (0.17%) Luigi
13 2 (0.12%) Camunda
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.058%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 74 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.058%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.15%) SAP MDG
3 14 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
7 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
9 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.12%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 682 (39.24%) Azure
2 499 (28.71%) Power Platform
3 461 (26.52%) AWS
4 257 (14.79%) GCP
5 178 (10.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 175 (10.07%) Snowflake
7 151 (8.69%) dbt
8 128 (7.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 102 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (5.29%) Amazon S3
11 87 (5.01%) Serverless
12 65 (3.74%) SaaS
13 57 (3.28%) Power Automate
14 53 (3.05%) PowerApps
15 51 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (2.93%) GitHub
15 51 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
16 38 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
17 36 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.59%) Broadband
2 6 (0.35%) BGP
2 6 (0.35%) DNS
2 6 (0.35%) IPsec
2 6 (0.35%) VPN
3 4 (0.23%) Internet
3 4 (0.23%) NGN
4 3 (0.17%) LTE
4 3 (0.17%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) 4G
5 2 (0.12%) 5G
5 2 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.058%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 464 (26.70%) Power BI
2 362 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
3 225 (12.95%) Data Lake
4 214 (12.31%) Metadata
5 135 (7.77%) Tableau
6 131 (7.54%) SQL Server
7 111 (6.39%) Relational Database
8 98 (5.64%) BigQuery
9 97 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
11 79 (4.55%) Big Data
12 75 (4.32%) Star Schema
13 68 (3.91%) Semantic Layer
14 66 (3.80%) NoSQL
15 62 (3.57%) Delta Lake
16 57 (3.28%) MySQL
17 56 (3.22%) Data Vault
17 56 (3.22%) Looker
18 55 (3.16%) Power Query
19 52 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 124 (7.13%) Git
2 40 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.01%) JIRA
4 33 (1.90%) MLflow
5 29 (1.67%) Claude Code
6 21 (1.21%) GitLab
7 11 (0.63%) ERwin
8 6 (0.35%) Toad
9 5 (0.29%) Postman
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.12%) Ant
12 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 577 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 552 (31.76%) Finance
3 473 (27.22%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 79 (4.55%) Law
7 75 (4.32%) Retail
8 74 (4.26%) Marketing
9 56 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 53 (3.05%) Legal
12 40 (2.30%) Banking
13 31 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.21%) Billing
15 21 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
18 17 (0.98%) Advertising
19 16 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 433 (24.91%) Data Engineer
2 400 (23.01%) Architect
3 366 (21.06%) Senior
4 283 (16.28%) Data Architect
5 196 (11.28%) Developer
6 189 (10.87%) Analyst
7 184 (10.59%) Lead
8 113 (6.50%) Senior Data Engineer
9 91 (5.24%) Data Analyst
10 80 (4.60%) Consultant
11 59 (3.39%) Senior Architect
12 53 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 51 (2.93%) Business Analyst
13 51 (2.93%) Data Modeller
14 45 (2.59%) Senior Data Architect
14 45 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (2.47%) Senior Developer
16 38 (2.19%) Data Consultant
17 37 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (2.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (7.59%) PySpark
2 124 (7.13%) REST
3 120 (6.90%) Kafka
4 68 (3.91%) Node.js
5 65 (3.74%) React
6 59 (3.39%) .NET
7 57 (3.28%) JSON
8 53 (3.05%) Lightning Web Components
8 53 (3.05%) SOAP
9 51 (2.93%) Middleware
10 42 (2.42%) LangChain
10 42 (2.42%) XML
11 35 (2.01%) CSS
12 29 (1.67%) AngularJS
12 29 (1.67%) RESTful
13 28 (1.61%) PyTorch
13 28 (1.61%) TensorFlow
14 25 (1.44%) pgvector
14 25 (1.44%) scikit-learn
14 25 (1.44%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 173 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 133 (7.65%) Data Structures
3 86 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 79 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 41 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 29 (1.67%) Clustering
13 26 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
14 25 (1.44%) Social Media
15 24 (1.38%) Low-Code
16 21 (1.21%) Reinsurance
17 20 (1.15%) Replication
18 19 (1.09%) Mobile App
19 15 (0.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.27%) Linux
2 17 (0.98%) Windows
3 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.058%) Solaris
4 1 (0.058%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (47.58%) Analytics
2 612 (35.21%) Business Intelligence
3 555 (31.93%) AI
4 551 (31.70%) Data Governance
5 501 (28.83%) Data Engineering
6 484 (27.85%) ETL
7 470 (27.04%) Data Pipeline
8 443 (25.49%) Decision-Making
9 417 (23.99%) Agile
10 415 (23.88%) Data Architecture
11 394 (22.67%) CI/CD
12 385 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
13 298 (17.15%) Roadmaps
14 294 (16.92%) DevOps
15 283 (16.28%) Machine Learning
16 272 (15.65%) Mentoring
17 268 (15.42%) Data Strategy
18 244 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
19 206 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
20 192 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 904 (52.01%) SQL
2 725 (41.71%) Python
3 112 (6.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 110 (6.33%) Java
5 78 (4.49%) C#
5 78 (4.49%) TypeScript
6 71 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 66 (3.80%) Scala
8 47 (2.70%) Apex Code
9 42 (2.42%) T-SQL
10 28 (1.61%) R
11 21 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 19 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.98%) SOQL
13 17 (0.98%) SOSL
14 16 (0.92%) Bicep
15 12 (0.69%) C++
16 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.58%) Bash
18 8 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 218 (12.54%) Security Cleared
2 191 (10.99%) Degree
3 136 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 26 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.38%) DBS Check
11 20 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.75%) SnowPro
14 10 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.52%) CIPD
16 8 (0.46%) SAP Certification
17 6 (0.35%) IIBA
17 6 (0.35%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.23%) ACCA
18 4 (0.23%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 597 (34.35%) Data Quality
2 125 (7.19%) GDPR
3 64 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 55 (3.16%) QA
5 27 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.40%) PMO
7 6 (0.35%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.29%) GRC
8 5 (0.29%) MiFID
9 4 (0.23%) IFRS
9 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.23%) PERC
10 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.17%) SLA
10 3 (0.17%) UCITS
11 2 (0.12%) HL7
11 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.12%) WCAG
12 1 (0.058%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 90 (5.18%) Docker
2 10 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.058%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 107 (6.16%) Terraform
2 58 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.81%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Packer
5 6 (0.35%) Grafana
5 6 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
5 6 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.058%) Argo
7 1 (0.058%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.058%) Puppet
7 1 (0.058%) QRadar
7 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.058%) SCCM
Vendors
1 368 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 358 (20.60%) Databricks
3 116 (6.67%) Oracle
4 105 (6.04%) SAP
5 104 (5.98%) Salesforce
6 56 (3.22%) Google
7 26 (1.50%) Cloudera
7 26 (1.50%) Informatica
8 23 (1.32%) Dell
9 22 (1.27%) Palantir
10 18 (1.04%) Foundry
11 16 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.86%) Talend
13 13 (0.75%) IBM
13 13 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 10 (0.58%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.52%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO