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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 122 87
Rank change year-on-year +26 -35 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,348 1,280 1,777
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.24% 2.39% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.63% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 711 657 1,154
10th Percentile £45,750 £38,750 £42,075
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -

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 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

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 15 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 15 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 +26 1,188 £70,000 +7.69% 693
UK excluding London +22 700 £65,000 +8.33% 569
London +40 574 £83,672 +15.41% 256
Work from Home +33 484 £70,932 +9.13% 374
South East +24 240 £65,000 - 234
North of England -5 169 £67,500 +28.57% 110
Midlands +18 111 £60,000 - 79
Yorkshire +14 100 £70,500 +34.29% 38
Scotland +27 89 £87,500 +52.17% 26
West Midlands +12 77 £60,000 +4.35% 45
North West -27 58 £65,000 +9.51% 57
South West -20 45 £64,350 +9.59% 45
East of England +26 38 £50,000 -14.05% 67
East Midlands -6 32 £61,250 -5.59% 34
North East +8 11 £55,000 -1.08% 16
Wales +4 6 £52,543 +28.44% 20
Northern Ireland -8 6 £40,500 - 5

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 (5.12%) Apache Spark
2 62 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (3.19%) Apache
4 24 (1.78%) Confluence
5 15 (1.11%) Appian
6 14 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.67%) SAS
8 6 (0.45%) CMS
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.30%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.22%) IIS
12 2 (0.15%) Mendix
13 1 (0.074%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.074%) Camunda
13 1 (0.074%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.074%) Luigi
13 1 (0.074%) OpenStack
Applications
1 160 (11.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.45%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.22%) Sketch
6 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.15%) Windchill
8 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.074%) Notion
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.074%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 7 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.45%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) iTrent
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.074%) Endur
8 1 (0.074%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.074%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.074%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.074%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.074%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.074%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 697 (51.71%) Azure
2 419 (31.08%) Power Platform
3 277 (20.55%) AWS
4 195 (14.47%) Snowflake
5 158 (11.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 149 (11.05%) GCP
7 143 (10.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 125 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (7.57%) dbt
10 89 (6.60%) GitHub
11 79 (5.86%) Serverless
12 59 (4.38%) SaaS
13 58 (4.30%) Amazon S3
14 48 (3.56%) GitHub Copilot
15 43 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (2.89%) Power Automate
17 31 (2.30%) PowerApps
18 30 (2.23%) Collibra
19 28 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
20 24 (1.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) HTTP
2 3 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.22%) VPN
3 2 (0.15%) Broadband
4 1 (0.074%) ADSL
4 1 (0.074%) DHCP
4 1 (0.074%) DNS
4 1 (0.074%) Internet
4 1 (0.074%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.074%) Modbus
4 1 (0.074%) MQTT
4 1 (0.074%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.074%) TCAP
4 1 (0.074%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (29.53%) Data Warehouse
2 393 (29.15%) Power BI
3 244 (18.10%) Data Lake
4 171 (12.69%) Metadata
5 119 (8.83%) SQL Server
6 89 (6.60%) Tableau
7 76 (5.64%) SAP BW
8 69 (5.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 65 (4.82%) NoSQL
10 63 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 56 (4.15%) Power Query
12 52 (3.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 51 (3.78%) Relational Database
14 50 (3.71%) Big Data
14 50 (3.71%) MySQL
15 47 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
16 44 (3.26%) Snowflake Schema
17 43 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 38 (2.82%) BigQuery
19 36 (2.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 79 (5.86%) Git
2 61 (4.53%) JIRA
3 34 (2.52%) ERwin
4 21 (1.56%) ER Studio
5 15 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.04%) MLflow
7 13 (0.96%) GitLab
8 11 (0.82%) Postman
9 8 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.52%) JUnit
11 6 (0.45%) Selenium
12 5 (0.37%) git-flow
13 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.22%) Gradle
13 3 (0.22%) Maven
13 3 (0.22%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.22%) Snyk
13 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.22%) TestNG
14 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
General
1 546 (40.50%) Social Skills
2 487 (36.13%) Finance
3 351 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (7.05%) Marketing
5 92 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (5.49%) Law
6 74 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 68 (5.04%) Banking
8 61 (4.53%) Retail
9 53 (3.93%) Financial Institution
10 32 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 31 (2.30%) Retail Banking
12 26 (1.93%) Legal
13 23 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.56%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.41%) Advertising
15 19 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.96%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 317 (23.52%) Architect
2 273 (20.25%) Senior
3 258 (19.14%) Data Engineer
4 223 (16.54%) Data Architect
5 181 (13.43%) Analyst
6 178 (13.20%) Lead
7 133 (9.87%) Developer
8 103 (7.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 78 (5.79%) Data Analyst
10 50 (3.71%) Azure Engineer
11 42 (3.12%) Consultant
11 42 (3.12%) Report Analyst
12 41 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 40 (2.97%) Azure Data Engineer
14 35 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Lead
14 35 (2.60%) Lead Data Engineer
14 35 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
15 34 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (2.45%) Business Analyst
17 30 (2.23%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.68%) REST
2 68 (5.04%) Kafka
3 48 (3.56%) SOAP
4 43 (3.19%) PySpark
5 37 (2.74%) .NET
6 33 (2.45%) RESTful
7 31 (2.30%) Lightning Web Components
8 29 (2.15%) JSON
9 28 (2.08%) CSS
10 24 (1.78%) HTML
10 24 (1.78%) React
10 24 (1.78%) XML
11 22 (1.63%) OpenAPI
11 22 (1.63%) Swagger
12 20 (1.48%) Middleware
13 19 (1.41%) Web Services
14 18 (1.34%) Pandas
15 16 (1.19%) Django
15 16 (1.19%) PyTorch
15 16 (1.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.01%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 59 (4.38%) Management Information System
5 52 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 29 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.85%) Low-Code
11 22 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.34%) Reinsurance
13 16 (1.19%) e-Learning
13 16 (1.19%) FMCG
13 16 (1.19%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.89%) Fixed Income
15 11 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
17 9 (0.67%) Biopharmaceutical
17 9 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.82%) Unix
2 9 (0.67%) Linux
2 9 (0.67%) Windows
3 6 (0.45%) Android
4 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (44.36%) Analytics
2 505 (37.46%) Business Intelligence
3 437 (32.42%) ETL
4 401 (29.75%) Data Governance
5 386 (28.64%) Agile
6 356 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
7 346 (25.67%) Data Architecture
8 327 (24.26%) Data Engineering
9 313 (23.22%) Data Pipeline
10 302 (22.40%) CI/CD
11 282 (20.92%) Decision-Making
12 271 (20.10%) DevOps
13 256 (18.99%) AI
14 229 (16.99%) Data Integration
15 204 (15.13%) Mentoring
16 192 (14.24%) Data Strategy
17 185 (13.72%) Data Management
18 180 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
19 164 (12.17%) Data Science
20 158 (11.72%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 630 (46.74%) SQL
2 522 (38.72%) Python
3 99 (7.34%) Java
4 82 (6.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 78 (5.79%) C#
6 74 (5.49%) JavaScript
7 59 (4.38%) TypeScript
8 53 (3.93%) Scala
9 38 (2.82%) T-SQL
10 32 (2.37%) Apex Code
11 29 (2.15%) PowerShell
12 27 (2.00%) R
13 15 (1.11%) Bash
14 13 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.82%) ANSI SQL
15 11 (0.82%) C++
15 11 (0.82%) VBA
16 6 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 288 (21.36%) Degree
2 88 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 84 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (5.04%) Azure Certification
5 63 (4.67%) SC Cleared
6 61 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 48 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 29 (2.15%) Master's Degree
10 27 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.89%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 10 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.67%) OCP
14 9 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.67%) PMP
14 9 (0.67%) SnowPro
15 8 (0.59%) ACCA
15 8 (0.59%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 402 (29.82%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.93%) GDPR
3 73 (5.42%) Accessibility
4 37 (2.74%) QA
5 23 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.52%) COBIT
7 7 (0.52%) GRC
7 7 (0.52%) ITGC
7 7 (0.52%) NIST
8 6 (0.45%) MiFID
8 6 (0.45%) SLA
9 5 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.15%) PMO
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
11 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.074%) IFRS
12 1 (0.074%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (3.04%) Docker
2 8 (0.59%) HDFS
2 8 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.074%) iptables
5 1 (0.074%) KVM
5 1 (0.074%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 53 (3.93%) Terraform
2 36 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.59%) Data Guard
3 8 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 8 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (0.52%) Ansible
4 7 (0.52%) Control-M
5 5 (0.37%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.30%) Grafana
6 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.074%) Argo
8 1 (0.074%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.074%) Puppet
Vendors
1 310 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 207 (15.36%) Databricks
3 166 (12.31%) SAP
4 75 (5.56%) Oracle
5 74 (5.49%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.56%) Informatica
7 41 (3.04%) Google
8 31 (2.30%) Talend
9 23 (1.71%) Palantir
10 18 (1.34%) Foundry
10 18 (1.34%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 16 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 13 (0.96%) IBM
13 12 (0.89%) Sparx
13 12 (0.89%) UiPath
14 10 (0.74%) Dataiku
15 9 (0.67%) Automation Anywhere
16 8 (0.59%) Delphix
16 8 (0.59%) Siemens