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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 135 117
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,883 1,160 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.36% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.66% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 622 839
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,513 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,778 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £87,750 £85,000 £87,348
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.60% - +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 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +16 1,738 £70,782 +4.86% 2,063
UK excluding London 0 934 £63,500 +1.60% 892
London 0 800 £84,000 +1.82% 1,240
Work from Home +29 588 £69,973 +3.66% 905
North of England +76 350 £65,000 +1.96% 225
South East -48 203 £62,500 -3.85% 235
Midlands +16 193 £60,900 -4.09% 134
North West +56 162 £62,500 +4.17% 139
West Midlands +17 136 £62,500 +5.93% 86
South West -22 107 £78,750 +22.38% 80
Yorkshire +6 106 £68,617 +1.65% 60
North East -3 82 £65,000 +30.00% 27
East Midlands -20 57 £51,250 -22.64% 48
East of England -37 45 £62,500 +4.17% 84
Wales -50 24 £63,500 - 18
Scotland -18 22 £70,000 +16.67% 93
Northern Ireland -75 2 £60,000 - 31

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
1 114 (6.05%) Apache Spark
2 105 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (4.99%) Apache
4 32 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 24 (1.27%) Confluence
6 21 (1.12%) Jupyter
7 14 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.58%) SAS
9 7 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.21%) Luigi
11 4 (0.21%) WordPress
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
14 1 (0.053%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 88 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.64%) Notion
3 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) Blender
6 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.053%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.053%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 46 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.80%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.32%) SAP BPC
7 6 (0.32%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 5 (0.27%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 716 (38.02%) Azure
2 557 (29.58%) Power Platform
3 447 (23.74%) AWS
4 249 (13.22%) GCP
5 201 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 186 (9.88%) Snowflake
7 147 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
8 146 (7.75%) dbt
9 133 (7.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 109 (5.79%) Serverless
11 104 (5.52%) Amazon S3
12 95 (5.05%) SaaS
13 84 (4.46%) Azure Databricks
14 74 (3.93%) GitHub
15 70 (3.72%) Power Automate
16 62 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
16 62 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
17 59 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
18 58 (3.08%) PowerApps
19 43 (2.28%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.54%) Broadband
2 18 (0.96%) VPN
3 12 (0.64%) DMZ
3 12 (0.64%) Ethernet
3 12 (0.64%) IPv4
3 12 (0.64%) Modbus
3 12 (0.64%) OSPF
3 12 (0.64%) VLAN
4 6 (0.32%) BGP
4 6 (0.32%) DNS
4 6 (0.32%) IPsec
4 6 (0.32%) SMS
5 4 (0.21%) Internet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) HTTP
8 1 (0.053%) 4G
8 1 (0.053%) ATM
8 1 (0.053%) Network Security
8 1 (0.053%) NGN
8 1 (0.053%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (27.51%) Power BI
2 396 (21.03%) Data Warehouse
3 278 (14.76%) Metadata
4 214 (11.36%) Data Lake
5 138 (7.33%) SQL Server
6 123 (6.53%) Tableau
7 121 (6.43%) Relational Database
8 99 (5.26%) Star Schema
9 94 (4.99%) Semantic Layer
10 85 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (4.35%) Delta Lake
11 82 (4.35%) NoSQL
12 81 (4.30%) Big Data
12 81 (4.30%) BigQuery
13 77 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 76 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 71 (3.77%) Power Query
16 58 (3.08%) Data Vault
17 49 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 48 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 185 (9.82%) Git
2 49 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 46 (2.44%) JIRA
4 42 (2.23%) Claude Code
5 36 (1.91%) GitLab
6 10 (0.53%) MLflow
7 8 (0.42%) ERwin
8 6 (0.32%) Ant
9 5 (0.27%) Toad
10 4 (0.21%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.21%) Maven
10 4 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.16%) Flyway
12 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.11%) Mockito
12 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 661 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 575 (30.54%) Finance
3 494 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 159 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 98 (5.20%) Marketing
7 82 (4.35%) Legal
7 82 (4.35%) Retail
8 78 (4.14%) Law
9 70 (3.72%) Manufacturing
10 52 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (2.60%) Banking
12 36 (1.91%) Billing
12 36 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 31 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (0.80%) Local Government
16 14 (0.74%) Aerospace
16 14 (0.74%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 491 (26.08%) Data Engineer
2 427 (22.68%) Architect
3 410 (21.77%) Senior
4 320 (16.99%) Data Architect
5 210 (11.15%) Analyst
6 201 (10.67%) Lead
7 192 (10.20%) Developer
8 124 (6.59%) Senior Data Engineer
9 104 (5.52%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.77%) Consultant
11 70 (3.72%) Senior Architect
12 60 (3.19%) Senior Data Architect
13 53 (2.81%) Principal Engineer
14 50 (2.66%) Business Analyst
15 47 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 47 (2.50%) Software Engineer
16 45 (2.39%) Senior Developer
16 45 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.28%) Databricks Engineer
18 42 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (9.13%) PySpark
2 134 (7.12%) REST
3 115 (6.11%) Terraform
4 90 (4.78%) Kafka
5 67 (3.56%) Node.js
6 65 (3.45%) React
7 59 (3.13%) .NET
8 49 (2.60%) Middleware
9 46 (2.44%) SOAP
10 43 (2.28%) Lightning Web Components
11 42 (2.23%) JSON
12 34 (1.81%) AngularJS
13 32 (1.70%) CSS
14 27 (1.43%) XML
15 24 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
15 24 (1.27%) RESTful
16 21 (1.12%) Vue
17 20 (1.06%) Pandas
17 20 (1.06%) Spring
18 19 (1.01%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 122 (6.48%) Data Structures
3 104 (5.52%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 68 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
6 59 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.50%) AI Agents
8 41 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
12 28 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.33%) Taxonomies
14 22 (1.17%) Reference Data
15 18 (0.96%) Low-Code
15 18 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
16 17 (0.90%) Reinsurance
17 16 (0.85%) SCADA
17 16 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.49%) Linux
2 27 (1.43%) Windows
3 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.053%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (45.94%) Analytics
2 693 (36.80%) Business Intelligence
3 664 (35.26%) AI
4 550 (29.21%) Data Engineering
5 546 (29.00%) Data Governance
6 542 (28.78%) Data Pipeline
7 518 (27.51%) ETL
8 489 (25.97%) CI/CD
9 481 (25.54%) Agile
9 481 (25.54%) Data Architecture
10 474 (25.17%) Decision-Making
11 422 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
12 350 (18.59%) DevOps
12 350 (18.59%) Roadmaps
13 336 (17.84%) Mentoring
14 315 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 306 (16.25%) Technical Leadership
16 295 (15.67%) Data Strategy
17 265 (14.07%) Lakehouse
18 264 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (53.64%) SQL
2 732 (38.87%) Python
3 136 (7.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 104 (5.52%) C#
5 98 (5.20%) Java
6 85 (4.51%) Scala
6 85 (4.51%) TypeScript
7 76 (4.04%) JavaScript
8 41 (2.18%) Apex Code
9 36 (1.91%) T-SQL
10 29 (1.54%) R
11 26 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.22%) Bicep
13 18 (0.96%) SOQL
14 15 (0.80%) SOSL
15 14 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.48%) Bash
18 8 (0.42%) SPARQL
19 7 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 258 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 202 (10.73%) Degree
3 170 (9.03%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 55 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 32 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.38%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.96%) SnowPro
13 13 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.58%) ACCA
15 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.53%) CIPD
16 9 (0.48%) CIMA
17 8 (0.42%) CSPO
18 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 736 (39.09%) Data Quality
2 127 (6.74%) GDPR
3 98 (5.20%) Accessibility
4 64 (3.40%) QA
5 14 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.48%) WCAG
7 8 (0.42%) PMO
8 5 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.21%) COPPA
9 4 (0.21%) MiFID
9 4 (0.21%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.16%) UCITS
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
11 2 (0.11%) PERC
System Software
1 111 (5.89%) Docker
2 22 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.37%) NDS
4 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.11%) NFS
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.01%) Ansible
3 8 (0.42%) Packer
4 6 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.21%) Argo
6 3 (0.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.16%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
6 3 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.053%) Consul
8 1 (0.053%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.053%) QRadar
Vendors
1 488 (25.92%) Microsoft
2 340 (18.06%) Databricks
3 113 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 109 (5.79%) Oracle
5 108 (5.74%) SAP
6 70 (3.72%) Google
7 33 (1.75%) Informatica
8 21 (1.12%) Foundry
8 21 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 21 (1.12%) Talend
9 18 (0.96%) Palantir
10 15 (0.80%) OpenAI
11 14 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 11 (0.58%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.53%) CyberArk
13 10 (0.53%) ForgeRock
13 10 (0.53%) IBM
13 10 (0.53%) Okta
13 10 (0.53%) OpenText
13 10 (0.53%) Sage