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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 122 96
Rank change year-on-year +29 -26 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,388 1,234 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.35% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.57% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 735 629 1,369
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £51,250 £51,143
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £64,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £58,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.27% +6.63% -

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 50,653 47,952 60,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.28% 91.49% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 29,910 23,033 46,850
10th Percentile £28,738 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +24 1,211 £70,000 +7.69% 824
UK excluding London +21 713 £63,500 +8.27% 705
London +44 587 £80,000 +10.34% 280
Work from Home +36 513 £70,932 +9.13% 463
South East +22 247 £63,500 +1.60% 268
North of England -5 166 £68,000 +29.52% 129
Midlands -2 109 £60,000 - 97
Scotland +29 95 £87,500 +48.00% 36
Yorkshire +7 94 £71,000 +35.24% 39
West Midlands +19 81 £60,000 +4.35% 57
North West -28 62 £64,000 +21.90% 69
South West -5 47 £64,350 +17.00% 66
East of England +21 38 £50,000 -17.93% 85
East Midlands -11 26 £57,500 -11.20% 38
North East -8 10 £53,750 -12.18% 22
Wales +5 8 £67,586 +65.22% 29
Northern Ireland -10 6 £40,500 - 10

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 70 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (4.83%) Apache Spark
3 45 (3.24%) Apache
4 24 (1.73%) Confluence
5 17 (1.22%) Appian
5 17 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.72%) SAS
7 6 (0.43%) CMS
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.29%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.072%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.072%) Camunda
12 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.072%) Luigi
12 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
Applications
1 170 (12.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.22%) Sketch
6 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.072%) Notion
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 31 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.94%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.50%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.50%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
6 6 (0.43%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) iTrent
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.072%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.072%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.072%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.072%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.072%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.072%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 696 (50.14%) Azure
2 431 (31.05%) Power Platform
3 287 (20.68%) AWS
4 199 (14.34%) Snowflake
5 168 (12.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (11.02%) GCP
7 145 (10.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (7.56%) dbt
10 91 (6.56%) GitHub
11 80 (5.76%) Serverless
12 63 (4.54%) SaaS
13 60 (4.32%) Amazon S3
14 48 (3.46%) GitHub Copilot
15 43 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (3.03%) Power Automate
17 32 (2.31%) PowerApps
18 31 (2.23%) Collibra
18 31 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
19 29 (2.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) HTTP
2 3 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.22%) VPN
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.072%) ADSL
4 1 (0.072%) DHCP
4 1 (0.072%) DNS
4 1 (0.072%) Internet
4 1 (0.072%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.072%) Modbus
4 1 (0.072%) MQTT
4 1 (0.072%) TCAP
4 1 (0.072%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (29.11%) Power BI
2 377 (27.16%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (17.44%) Data Lake
4 183 (13.18%) Metadata
5 123 (8.86%) SQL Server
6 92 (6.63%) Tableau
7 76 (5.48%) SAP BW
8 68 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 65 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (4.68%) NoSQL
10 58 (4.18%) Power Query
10 58 (4.18%) Relational Database
11 56 (4.03%) MySQL
12 53 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 50 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
14 48 (3.46%) Big Data
15 46 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 43 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (2.81%) BigQuery
18 35 (2.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 88 (6.34%) Git
2 60 (4.32%) JIRA
3 35 (2.52%) ERwin
4 20 (1.44%) ER Studio
5 16 (1.15%) MLflow
6 15 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.08%) Postman
7 13 (0.94%) GitLab
8 8 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.50%) JUnit
10 6 (0.43%) Selenium
11 5 (0.36%) git-flow
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) Gradle
12 3 (0.22%) Maven
12 3 (0.22%) NUnit
12 3 (0.22%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.22%) Snyk
12 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.22%) TestNG
General
1 574 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 497 (35.81%) Finance
3 369 (26.59%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (6.63%) Marketing
6 88 (6.34%) Public Sector
7 69 (4.97%) Banking
7 69 (4.97%) Law
8 53 (3.82%) Financial Institution
9 42 (3.03%) Retail
10 31 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 31 (2.23%) Retail Banking
11 28 (2.02%) Legal
12 24 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.37%) Advertising
14 19 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 324 (23.34%) Architect
2 263 (18.95%) Senior
3 249 (17.94%) Data Engineer
4 224 (16.14%) Data Architect
5 206 (14.84%) Analyst
6 186 (13.40%) Lead
7 137 (9.87%) Developer
8 96 (6.92%) Data Analyst
9 87 (6.27%) Senior Data Engineer
10 47 (3.39%) Consultant
11 41 (2.95%) Lead Data Engineer
12 40 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 39 (2.81%) Report Analyst
13 39 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 35 (2.52%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 32 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
18 31 (2.23%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (7.42%) REST
2 70 (5.04%) Kafka
3 53 (3.82%) SOAP
4 45 (3.24%) PySpark
5 42 (3.03%) .NET
6 39 (2.81%) RESTful
7 36 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
8 33 (2.38%) JSON
9 31 (2.23%) CSS
10 28 (2.02%) OpenAPI
10 28 (2.02%) Swagger
11 27 (1.95%) HTML
11 27 (1.95%) React
12 26 (1.87%) XML
13 25 (1.80%) Middleware
14 21 (1.51%) Web Services
15 19 (1.37%) Django
15 19 (1.37%) Pandas
16 18 (1.30%) PyTorch
16 18 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.93%) Product Ownership
2 85 (6.12%) Data Structures
3 82 (5.91%) Cloud Native
4 63 (4.54%) Management Information System
5 55 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 30 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.95%) Low-Code
10 22 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.22%) FMCG
11 17 (1.22%) Reinsurance
12 16 (1.15%) e-Learning
13 13 (0.94%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.72%) Life Science
15 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.79%) Unix
2 10 (0.72%) Linux
3 9 (0.65%) Windows
4 7 (0.50%) Android
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (44.45%) Analytics
2 519 (37.39%) Business Intelligence
3 442 (31.84%) ETL
4 412 (29.68%) Data Governance
5 396 (28.53%) Agile
6 382 (27.52%) Problem-Solving
7 349 (25.14%) Data Architecture
8 338 (24.35%) Data Engineering
9 316 (22.77%) Data Pipeline
10 308 (22.19%) CI/CD
11 294 (21.18%) Decision-Making
12 280 (20.17%) DevOps
13 263 (18.95%) AI
14 229 (16.50%) Data Integration
15 216 (15.56%) Mentoring
16 192 (13.83%) Data Strategy
17 187 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 185 (13.33%) Data Management
19 163 (11.74%) Actionable Insight
20 162 (11.67%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 643 (46.33%) SQL
2 526 (37.90%) Python
3 104 (7.49%) Java
4 85 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 83 (5.98%) C#
6 81 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 61 (4.39%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.67%) Scala
9 41 (2.95%) T-SQL
10 37 (2.67%) Apex Code
11 31 (2.23%) PowerShell
12 25 (1.80%) R
13 18 (1.30%) Bash
14 12 (0.86%) C++
15 11 (0.79%) ANSI SQL
15 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.79%) VBA
16 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 299 (21.54%) Degree
2 98 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 88 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 68 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 48 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 32 (2.31%) Master's Degree
10 28 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.44%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.72%) ACCA
14 10 (0.72%) CIMA
15 9 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
15 9 (0.65%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.65%) PMP
15 9 (0.65%) SnowPro
16 8 (0.58%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 414 (29.83%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.84%) GDPR
3 78 (5.62%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.88%) QA
5 24 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.58%) SLA
8 7 (0.50%) MiFID
9 5 (0.36%) GRC
9 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.29%) COBIT
10 4 (0.29%) ITGC
10 4 (0.29%) NIST
11 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.072%) IFRS
13 1 (0.072%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.072%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (3.39%) Docker
2 9 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.58%) HDFS
4 7 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.072%) iptables
6 1 (0.072%) KVM
6 1 (0.072%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 57 (4.11%) Terraform
2 39 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.50%) Ansible
3 7 (0.50%) Control-M
3 7 (0.50%) Data Guard
3 7 (0.50%) Grafana
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.29%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.072%) Argo
6 1 (0.072%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.072%) Puppet
Vendors
1 325 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 210 (15.13%) Databricks
3 166 (11.96%) SAP
4 84 (6.05%) Salesforce
5 75 (5.40%) Oracle
6 54 (3.89%) Informatica
7 46 (3.31%) Google
8 32 (2.31%) Talend
9 28 (2.02%) Palantir
10 24 (1.73%) Foundry
11 19 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.30%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.22%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.01%) IBM
14 14 (1.01%) UiPath
15 13 (0.94%) Workday
16 12 (0.86%) Sparx
17 11 (0.79%) Automation Anywhere
18 10 (0.72%) Dataiku
19 9 (0.65%) Siemens