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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 123 94
Rank change year-on-year +26 -29 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,380 1,245 1,996
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.34% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.57% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 730 637 1,322
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,275
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £59,123 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.40% +7.50% -

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 50,274 48,415 58,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.40% 91.16% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,681 23,366 44,999
10th Percentile £28,571 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £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 £75,246 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 24 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 24 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 +29 1,205 £70,000 +7.69% 1,085
UK excluding London +18 710 £63,500 +7.40% 996
London +43 585 £81,250 +12.07% 278
Work from Home +37 507 £70,932 +9.13% 472
South East +32 244 £63,500 -2.31% 333
North of England -8 171 £67,500 +28.57% 191
Midlands 0 107 £60,000 - 142
Yorkshire +9 98 £70,932 +35.11% 69
Scotland +25 94 £87,500 +48.00% 55
West Midlands +29 79 £60,000 +4.35% 68
North West -25 62 £64,000 +16.36% 94
South West -6 46 £64,350 +17.00% 111
East of England +22 38 £50,000 -17.93% 130
East Midlands -4 26 £57,500 -11.20% 72
North East -3 11 £55,000 -10.14% 29
Wales +6 7 £67,586 +65.22% 44
Northern Ireland -11 6 £40,500 - 16

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 69 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (4.86%) Apache Spark
3 44 (3.19%) Apache
4 24 (1.74%) Confluence
5 17 (1.23%) Appian
6 16 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.65%) SAS
8 6 (0.43%) CMS
9 5 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.29%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.22%) IIS
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.072%) Camunda
13 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.072%) Luigi
13 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
Applications
1 168 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) 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 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.87%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.51%) SAP CO
4 7 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.51%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.43%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) iTrent
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.072%) Endur
8 1 (0.072%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.072%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.072%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.072%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.072%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 700 (50.72%) Azure
2 429 (31.09%) Power Platform
3 287 (20.80%) AWS
4 198 (14.35%) Snowflake
5 167 (12.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (11.09%) GCP
7 146 (10.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (7.75%) dbt
10 91 (6.59%) GitHub
11 81 (5.87%) Serverless
12 61 (4.42%) Amazon S3
12 61 (4.42%) SaaS
13 48 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
14 44 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
15 43 (3.12%) Power Automate
16 33 (2.39%) PowerApps
17 31 (2.25%) Collibra
17 31 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (2.03%) 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
1 401 (29.06%) Power BI
2 380 (27.54%) Data Warehouse
3 243 (17.61%) Data Lake
4 183 (13.26%) Metadata
5 122 (8.84%) SQL Server
6 91 (6.59%) Tableau
7 76 (5.51%) SAP BW
8 69 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 65 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (4.71%) NoSQL
10 58 (4.20%) Power Query
11 56 (4.06%) Relational Database
12 54 (3.91%) MySQL
13 53 (3.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 48 (3.48%) Big Data
14 48 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
15 44 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 42 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (2.83%) BigQuery
18 35 (2.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 86 (6.23%) Git
2 60 (4.35%) JIRA
3 35 (2.54%) ERwin
4 21 (1.52%) ER Studio
5 16 (1.16%) MLflow
6 15 (1.09%) Jenkins
7 14 (1.01%) Postman
8 13 (0.94%) GitLab
9 8 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.51%) JUnit
11 6 (0.43%) Selenium
12 5 (0.36%) git-flow
13 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.22%) Gradle
13 3 (0.22%) Maven
13 3 (0.22%) NUnit
13 3 (0.22%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.22%) Snyk
13 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.22%) TestNG
General
1 571 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 495 (35.87%) Finance
3 362 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (6.52%) Marketing
6 88 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 70 (5.07%) Banking
7 70 (5.07%) Law
8 54 (3.91%) Financial Institution
9 46 (3.33%) Retail
10 32 (2.32%) Manufacturing
11 31 (2.25%) Retail Banking
12 27 (1.96%) Legal
13 24 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.52%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.38%) Advertising
15 19 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.94%) Electronics
16 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 323 (23.41%) Architect
2 266 (19.28%) Senior
3 254 (18.41%) Data Engineer
4 224 (16.23%) Data Architect
5 197 (14.28%) Analyst
6 185 (13.41%) Lead
7 137 (9.93%) Developer
8 93 (6.74%) Senior Data Engineer
9 91 (6.59%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.41%) Consultant
11 40 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 40 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
11 40 (2.90%) Report Analyst
12 39 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
13 37 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
14 36 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 35 (2.54%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.25%) Azure Architect
17 30 (2.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (7.32%) REST
2 69 (5.00%) Kafka
3 52 (3.77%) SOAP
4 44 (3.19%) PySpark
5 43 (3.12%) .NET
6 38 (2.75%) RESTful
7 35 (2.54%) Lightning Web Components
8 30 (2.17%) CSS
8 30 (2.17%) JSON
9 27 (1.96%) OpenAPI
9 27 (1.96%) Swagger
10 26 (1.88%) HTML
10 26 (1.88%) React
11 24 (1.74%) Middleware
11 24 (1.74%) XML
12 21 (1.52%) Web Services
13 20 (1.45%) Pandas
14 19 (1.38%) Django
15 18 (1.30%) OAuth
15 18 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.90%) Product Ownership
2 83 (6.01%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.87%) Data Structures
4 62 (4.49%) Management Information System
5 54 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 30 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.96%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.30%) Reinsurance
12 16 (1.16%) e-Learning
12 16 (1.16%) FMCG
13 13 (0.94%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.65%) Life Science
14 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.80%) Unix
2 10 (0.72%) Linux
3 9 (0.65%) Windows
4 7 (0.51%) Android
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (44.64%) Analytics
2 515 (37.32%) Business Intelligence
3 437 (31.67%) ETL
4 414 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 398 (28.84%) Agile
6 378 (27.39%) Problem-Solving
7 351 (25.43%) Data Architecture
8 339 (24.57%) Data Engineering
9 317 (22.97%) Data Pipeline
10 311 (22.54%) CI/CD
11 295 (21.38%) Decision-Making
12 284 (20.58%) DevOps
13 264 (19.13%) AI
14 227 (16.45%) Data Integration
15 212 (15.36%) Mentoring
16 192 (13.91%) Data Strategy
17 187 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 186 (13.48%) Data Management
19 163 (11.81%) Data Science
20 160 (11.59%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 639 (46.30%) SQL
2 529 (38.33%) Python
3 104 (7.54%) Java
4 83 (6.01%) C#
4 83 (6.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 80 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 60 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 52 (3.77%) Scala
8 39 (2.83%) T-SQL
9 36 (2.61%) Apex Code
10 30 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.88%) R
12 17 (1.23%) Bash
13 12 (0.87%) C++
14 11 (0.80%) ANSI SQL
14 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.80%) VBA
15 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 298 (21.59%) Degree
2 98 (7.10%) Security Cleared
3 87 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 71 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 68 (4.93%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 49 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 32 (2.32%) Master's Degree
10 27 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.45%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.16%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.87%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 9 (0.65%) ACCA
14 9 (0.65%) CIMA
14 9 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (0.65%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.65%) PMP
14 9 (0.65%) SnowPro
15 8 (0.58%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (29.64%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.80%) GDPR
3 78 (5.65%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.90%) QA
5 24 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.58%) SLA
8 7 (0.51%) MiFID
9 6 (0.43%) GRC
10 5 (0.36%) COBIT
10 5 (0.36%) ITGC
10 5 (0.36%) NIST
10 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
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%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.072%) P3O
13 1 (0.072%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (3.41%) Docker
2 8 (0.58%) HDFS
3 7 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.072%) iptables
5 1 (0.072%) KVM
5 1 (0.072%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 58 (4.20%) Terraform
2 39 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.51%) Ansible
3 7 (0.51%) Control-M
3 7 (0.51%) Data Guard
3 7 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (0.43%) Grafana
4 6 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.36%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.072%) Argo
7 1 (0.072%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.072%) Puppet
Vendors
1 323 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 211 (15.29%) Databricks
3 166 (12.03%) SAP
4 81 (5.87%) Salesforce
5 73 (5.29%) Oracle
6 52 (3.77%) Informatica
7 46 (3.33%) Google
8 31 (2.25%) Talend
9 28 (2.03%) Palantir
10 24 (1.74%) Foundry
11 20 (1.45%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.30%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 14 (1.01%) IBM
13 14 (1.01%) UiPath
14 12 (0.87%) Sparx
14 12 (0.87%) Workday
15 11 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
16 10 (0.72%) Dataiku
17 9 (0.65%) Siemens