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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 128 110
Rank change year-on-year +25 -18 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,610 1,154 2,466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.57% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.78% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 576 1,560
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,500 £40,450
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - +4.35%

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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 June 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 19 June 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 1,454 £69,973 +7.65% 550
UK excluding London +5 764 £63,500 +5.83% 410
London +29 686 £80,000 +6.67% 281
Work from Home +36 517 £67,500 +3.85% 282
North of England +91 292 £65,000 +13.04% 96
South East -31 174 £60,000 -7.69% 146
Midlands +4 138 £60,000 -4.00% 74
North West +54 130 £62,500 +19.05% 62
Yorkshire +35 123 £68,510 +14.18% 24
West Midlands +9 98 £60,358 +1.44% 49
South West -86 57 £60,000 - 44
East of England -3 56 £71,000 +6.77% 15
North East -12 39 £65,000 +36.84% 11
East Midlands -25 38 £55,000 -13.39% 25
Scotland -13 35 £70,000 +11.55% 14
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 15
Northern Ireland -31 3 £60,000 - 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
1 145 (9.01%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (6.34%) Apache Spark
3 77 (4.78%) Apache
4 34 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.24%) Palantir Foundry
6 16 (0.99%) SAS
7 15 (0.93%) Confluence
8 12 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.56%) CMS
10 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.43%) Appian
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.25%) WordPress
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.19%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.12%) CICS
14 2 (0.12%) IIS
14 2 (0.12%) Luigi
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 69 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.062%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.18%) SAP MDG
3 15 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.68%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.43%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.12%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 676 (41.99%) Azure
2 441 (27.39%) Power Platform
3 416 (25.84%) AWS
4 241 (14.97%) GCP
5 175 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 151 (9.38%) Snowflake
7 138 (8.57%) dbt
8 131 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 105 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (5.47%) Serverless
11 79 (4.91%) Amazon S3
12 65 (4.04%) SaaS
13 61 (3.79%) Power Automate
14 51 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (3.04%) PowerApps
16 47 (2.92%) GitHub
17 34 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
18 32 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
20 30 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.73%) Broadband
2 4 (0.25%) NGN
3 3 (0.19%) Internet
3 3 (0.19%) LTE
3 3 (0.19%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) 4G
4 2 (0.12%) 5G
4 2 (0.12%) SMS
4 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.062%) BGP
5 1 (0.062%) CTI
5 1 (0.062%) DNS
5 1 (0.062%) HTTP
5 1 (0.062%) IPsec
5 1 (0.062%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.062%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (25.16%) Power BI
2 313 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
3 191 (11.86%) Data Lake
4 189 (11.74%) Metadata
5 118 (7.33%) Tableau
6 116 (7.20%) SQL Server
7 107 (6.65%) Relational Database
8 87 (5.40%) BigQuery
9 84 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 79 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (4.04%) NoSQL
12 59 (3.66%) Semantic Layer
13 58 (3.60%) Star Schema
14 53 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 49 (3.04%) Big Data
16 47 (2.92%) Power Query
16 47 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 46 (2.86%) MySQL
18 45 (2.80%) Delta Lake
18 45 (2.80%) Looker
Development Applications
1 110 (6.83%) Git
2 41 (2.55%) JIRA
3 37 (2.30%) MLflow
4 30 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.06%) Claude Code
6 14 (0.87%) ERwin
6 14 (0.87%) GitLab
7 13 (0.81%) Postman
8 6 (0.37%) Toad
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
11 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.12%) ESLint
11 2 (0.12%) Gradle
11 2 (0.12%) Mockito
11 2 (0.12%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 544 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 495 (30.75%) Finance
3 444 (27.58%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.47%) Law
7 70 (4.35%) Marketing
8 63 (3.91%) Retail
9 46 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (2.61%) Banking
10 42 (2.61%) Legal
11 41 (2.55%) Financial Institution
12 39 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.37%) Billing
16 18 (1.12%) Local Government
17 17 (1.06%) Advertising
18 15 (0.93%) Games
19 14 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 387 (24.04%) Data Engineer
2 356 (22.11%) Architect
3 335 (20.81%) Senior
4 241 (14.97%) Data Architect
5 207 (12.86%) Analyst
6 191 (11.86%) Lead
7 190 (11.80%) Developer
8 117 (7.27%) Data Analyst
9 106 (6.58%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (4.72%) Consultant
11 52 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 52 (3.23%) Senior Architect
12 50 (3.11%) Business Analyst
13 47 (2.92%) Lead Data Engineer
14 44 (2.73%) Data Modeller
15 42 (2.61%) Senior Developer
16 41 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.55%) Senior Data Architect
17 38 (2.36%) Data Manager
17 38 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (9.19%) REST
2 109 (6.77%) PySpark
3 107 (6.65%) Kafka
4 67 (4.16%) SOAP
5 63 (3.91%) React
6 62 (3.85%) .NET
7 60 (3.73%) JSON
8 59 (3.66%) Node.js
9 57 (3.54%) Middleware
10 50 (3.11%) Lightning Web Components
11 47 (2.92%) CSS
12 46 (2.86%) XML
13 43 (2.67%) LangChain
14 38 (2.36%) PyTorch
14 38 (2.36%) RESTful
14 38 (2.36%) TensorFlow
15 35 (2.17%) scikit-learn
16 33 (2.05%) HTML
17 31 (1.93%) Visualforce
18 26 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 138 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 93 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 56 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 38 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 33 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 33 (2.05%) Low-Code
11 28 (1.74%) Reinsurance
12 27 (1.68%) Clustering
13 22 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.37%) Social Media
14 17 (1.06%) Replication
15 15 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
17 13 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.93%) Linux
2 13 (0.81%) Windows
3 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.062%) Android
4 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (46.15%) Analytics
2 547 (33.98%) Business Intelligence
3 510 (31.68%) Data Governance
4 473 (29.38%) Data Engineering
5 445 (27.64%) ETL
6 435 (27.02%) AI
7 424 (26.34%) Data Pipeline
8 398 (24.72%) Decision-Making
9 397 (24.66%) Agile
10 382 (23.73%) CI/CD
11 381 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
12 373 (23.17%) Data Architecture
13 288 (17.89%) DevOps
14 255 (15.84%) Mentoring
15 251 (15.59%) Machine Learning
16 228 (14.16%) Roadmaps
17 217 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 211 (13.11%) Data Strategy
19 171 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 170 (10.56%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 844 (52.42%) SQL
2 681 (42.30%) Python
3 112 (6.96%) Java
4 102 (6.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 84 (5.22%) JavaScript
6 72 (4.47%) TypeScript
7 64 (3.98%) C#
8 54 (3.35%) Scala
9 47 (2.92%) Apex Code
10 41 (2.55%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.74%) R
12 25 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.18%) Bash
14 19 (1.18%) SOQL
14 19 (1.18%) SOSL
15 10 (0.62%) Bicep
16 9 (0.56%) C++
17 8 (0.50%) Go
18 7 (0.43%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 188 (11.68%) Degree
2 176 (10.93%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.42%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 29 (1.80%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.68%) ACCA
13 11 (0.68%) CIMA
14 7 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.43%) SAP Certification
14 7 (0.43%) SnowPro
15 6 (0.37%) CIPD
15 6 (0.37%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 542 (33.66%) Data Quality
2 113 (7.02%) GDPR
3 54 (3.35%) QA
4 48 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.50%) SLA
8 7 (0.43%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.37%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PERC
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 2 (0.12%) HL7
12 2 (0.12%) WCAG
13 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 87 (5.40%) Docker
2 10 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 95 (5.90%) Terraform
2 66 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.68%) Grafana
4 9 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.43%) Ansible
7 5 (0.31%) Packer
8 4 (0.25%) Control-M
9 3 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.062%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.062%) QRadar
10 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 337 (20.93%) Databricks
2 323 (20.06%) Microsoft
3 116 (7.20%) Salesforce
4 107 (6.65%) Oracle
5 92 (5.71%) SAP
6 50 (3.11%) Google
7 40 (2.48%) Informatica
8 29 (1.80%) Foundry
8 29 (1.80%) Palantir
9 27 (1.68%) Cloudera
10 23 (1.43%) Dell
11 21 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.18%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.93%) Talend
15 10 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 10 (0.62%) Workday
16 9 (0.56%) Cisco
16 9 (0.56%) UiPath
17 8 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere