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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 122 112
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,782 1,250 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.51% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.83% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 651 1,050
10th Percentile £44,550 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,096 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,495
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.45% +1.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,938
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.88%

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 80,408 44,155 65,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.60% 80.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55,868 25,145 40,215
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.58%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +3 1,644 £70,000 +3.70% 1,964
UK excluding London +8 880 £62,500 - 955
London +11 748 £82,500 +6.45% 1,276
Work from Home +37 541 £65,000 -3.70% 911
North of England +82 348 £64,250 +7.08% 241
South East -80 192 £62,500 -3.85% 245
North West +63 154 £62,500 +7.76% 158
Midlands -7 150 £60,808 -4.24% 133
Yorkshire +5 112 £67,500 - 58
West Midlands +3 107 £62,500 +3.31% 98
South West -28 99 £69,973 +11.96% 128
North East +7 82 £60,000 +20.00% 26
East of England -11 51 £65,000 +8.33% 66
East Midlands -33 43 £59,366 -10.39% 35
Scotland -11 25 £70,000 +14.29% 82
Wales - 16 £63,500 - 20
Northern Ireland -83 2 £60,000 - 49

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
1 118 (6.62%) Apache Spark
2 116 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (4.77%) Apache
4 31 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 24 (1.35%) Confluence
6 18 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.67%) SAS
8 7 (0.39%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 78 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.056%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 31 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.07%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 694 (38.95%) Azure
2 513 (28.79%) Power Platform
3 462 (25.93%) AWS
4 256 (14.37%) GCP
5 187 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 162 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 138 (7.74%) dbt
8 136 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 122 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (5.27%) Amazon S3
11 91 (5.11%) Serverless
12 73 (4.10%) SaaS
13 68 (3.82%) Azure Databricks
14 62 (3.48%) GitHub
14 62 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
14 62 (3.48%) Power Automate
15 57 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
16 53 (2.97%) PowerApps
17 49 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
18 39 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.19%) Broadband
2 10 (0.56%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
4 5 (0.28%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) DMZ
5 4 (0.22%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.22%) IPv4
5 4 (0.22%) Modbus
5 4 (0.22%) NGN
5 4 (0.22%) OSPF
5 4 (0.22%) VLAN
6 3 (0.17%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.056%) 4G
8 1 (0.056%) 5G
8 1 (0.056%) ATM
8 1 (0.056%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (26.60%) Power BI
2 364 (20.43%) Data Warehouse
3 231 (12.96%) Metadata
4 229 (12.85%) Data Lake
5 140 (7.86%) Tableau
6 128 (7.18%) SQL Server
7 108 (6.06%) Relational Database
8 92 (5.16%) BigQuery
8 92 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
9 87 (4.88%) Star Schema
10 85 (4.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 82 (4.60%) Big Data
12 78 (4.38%) Semantic Layer
13 69 (3.87%) Delta Lake
13 69 (3.87%) NoSQL
14 59 (3.31%) Data Vault
15 56 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
15 56 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
16 55 (3.09%) Looker
17 53 (2.97%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 136 (7.63%) Git
2 48 (2.69%) JIRA
3 47 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 38 (2.13%) Claude Code
5 29 (1.63%) MLflow
6 24 (1.35%) GitLab
7 9 (0.51%) ERwin
8 6 (0.34%) Ant
8 6 (0.34%) Toad
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 613 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 562 (31.54%) Finance
3 477 (26.77%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 91 (5.11%) Marketing
7 84 (4.71%) Retail
8 76 (4.26%) Law
9 66 (3.70%) Legal
10 62 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 56 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (2.64%) Banking
13 28 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 26 (1.46%) Billing
15 24 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.79%) Advertising
18 14 (0.79%) Front Office
18 14 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 424 (23.79%) Data Engineer
2 412 (23.12%) Architect
3 390 (21.89%) Senior
4 305 (17.12%) Data Architect
5 201 (11.28%) Analyst
6 189 (10.61%) Developer
7 179 (10.04%) Lead
8 105 (5.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 96 (5.39%) Data Analyst
10 75 (4.21%) Consultant
11 63 (3.54%) Senior Architect
12 59 (3.31%) Business Analyst
13 55 (3.09%) Data Modeller
14 53 (2.97%) Senior Data Architect
15 50 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 47 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
17 46 (2.58%) Databricks Engineer
18 45 (2.53%) Senior Developer
19 42 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
20 39 (2.19%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (8.31%) PySpark
2 126 (7.07%) REST
3 111 (6.23%) Kafka
4 110 (6.17%) Terraform
5 67 (3.76%) React
6 66 (3.70%) Node.js
7 56 (3.14%) .NET
8 51 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
8 51 (2.86%) SOAP
9 48 (2.69%) Middleware
10 44 (2.47%) JSON
11 40 (2.24%) LangChain
12 38 (2.13%) CSS
13 33 (1.85%) AngularJS
13 33 (1.85%) XML
14 27 (1.52%) RESTful
15 25 (1.40%) pgvector
15 25 (1.40%) PyTorch
15 25 (1.40%) TensorFlow
16 24 (1.35%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 183 (10.27%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.57%) Data Structures
3 102 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 67 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 36 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 35 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 32 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
12 29 (1.63%) Public Cloud
13 26 (1.46%) Clustering
14 19 (1.07%) Low-Code
14 19 (1.07%) Reinsurance
14 19 (1.07%) Replication
14 19 (1.07%) Social Media
15 17 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.29%) Linux
2 21 (1.18%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (46.58%) Analytics
2 634 (35.58%) Business Intelligence
3 611 (34.29%) AI
4 542 (30.42%) Data Governance
5 507 (28.45%) Data Engineering
6 494 (27.72%) ETL
7 479 (26.88%) Data Pipeline
8 453 (25.42%) Decision-Making
9 451 (25.31%) Data Architecture
10 449 (25.20%) Agile
11 429 (24.07%) CI/CD
12 393 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
13 324 (18.18%) Roadmaps
14 315 (17.68%) DevOps
15 288 (16.16%) Mentoring
16 285 (15.99%) Machine Learning
17 283 (15.88%) Data Strategy
18 255 (14.31%) Lakehouse
19 244 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
20 243 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 918 (51.52%) SQL
2 710 (39.84%) Python
3 116 (6.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (5.72%) Java
5 84 (4.71%) C#
5 84 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 74 (4.15%) Scala
7 68 (3.82%) JavaScript
8 45 (2.53%) Apex Code
9 35 (1.96%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.46%) R
11 20 (1.12%) Bicep
12 18 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 18 (1.01%) SOQL
13 17 (0.95%) SOSL
14 16 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.62%) Bash
15 11 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.51%) Go
17 8 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 226 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 191 (10.72%) Degree
3 133 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.42%) Azure Certification
6 50 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.63%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.01%) SnowPro
12 15 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.51%) CIPD
15 6 (0.34%) IIBA
15 6 (0.34%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.28%) ACCA
16 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 633 (35.52%) Data Quality
2 128 (7.18%) GDPR
3 78 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 71 (3.98%) QA
5 29 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.39%) IFRS
6 7 (0.39%) PMO
6 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.22%) MiFID
8 4 (0.22%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.17%) GRC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
9 3 (0.17%) WCAG
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.056%) NIST
System Software
1 90 (5.05%) Docker
2 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 58 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.01%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Grafana
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.056%) Consul
8 1 (0.056%) QRadar
8 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 401 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 352 (19.75%) Databricks
3 109 (6.12%) Oracle
4 106 (5.95%) Salesforce
5 103 (5.78%) SAP
6 65 (3.65%) Google
7 31 (1.74%) Informatica
8 22 (1.23%) Cloudera
9 20 (1.12%) Dell
9 20 (1.12%) Foundry
10 19 (1.07%) Palantir
10 19 (1.07%) Talend
11 17 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 16 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 14 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.73%) IBM
15 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.51%) HubSpot
16 9 (0.51%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.45%) SYSPRO