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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 133 99
Rank change year-on-year +32 -34 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,399 1,108 2,116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.33% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 2.50% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 806 591 1,405
10th Percentile £43,500 £38,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £57,125 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £62,500 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.49% -5.30% +1.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,350 £58,850 £57,046
% change year-on-year +9.35% +3.16% -0.79%

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 55,019 44,239 66,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.97% 92.93% 88.38%
Number of salaries quoted 33,006 22,069 51,040
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.07%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +32 1,202 £70,000 +8.53% 640
UK excluding London +3 666 £64,350 +9.35% 482
London +58 619 £80,000 +10.34% 293
Work from Home +41 547 £70,000 +11.11% 331
South East +35 192 £63,000 +0.80% 188
North of England -16 165 £70,000 +33.33% 120
Midlands +3 111 £60,000 - 99
Scotland +2 92 £87,500 +41.42% 22
Yorkshire -12 90 £75,000 +42.86% 32
West Midlands +18 87 £60,000 +4.35% 76
North West -37 65 £67,500 +41.17% 69
South West -41 47 £64,350 +17.00% 30
East of England +13 44 £56,250 -10.71% 21
East Midlands -23 22 £52,250 -19.31% 23
Wales 0 10 £67,586 +80.23% 3
North East -4 10 £52,500 -14.22% 22
Northern Ireland -23 6 £40,500 -

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 92 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 52 (3.72%) Apache
4 19 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.29%) Confluence
5 18 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.22%) Appian
6 17 (1.22%) SAS
7 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.50%) CMS
9 4 (0.29%) Camunda
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 96 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
6 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.071%) Notion
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.43%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.071%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.071%) Primavera
8 1 (0.071%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.071%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.071%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.071%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 677 (48.39%) Azure
2 404 (28.88%) Power Platform
3 288 (20.59%) AWS
4 199 (14.22%) Snowflake
5 185 (13.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 165 (11.79%) GCP
7 150 (10.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 136 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (8.93%) dbt
10 87 (6.22%) GitHub
11 86 (6.15%) Serverless
12 67 (4.79%) SaaS
13 66 (4.72%) Amazon S3
14 57 (4.07%) Power Automate
15 46 (3.29%) GitHub Copilot
16 45 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
17 44 (3.15%) PowerApps
18 38 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
19 33 (2.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 33 (2.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.50%) Broadband
2 5 (0.36%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.21%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) ADSL
5 1 (0.071%) CTI
5 1 (0.071%) DHCP
5 1 (0.071%) DNS
5 1 (0.071%) Internet
5 1 (0.071%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.071%) Modbus
5 1 (0.071%) MQTT
5 1 (0.071%) Network Security
5 1 (0.071%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.071%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (27.31%) Data Warehouse
2 370 (26.45%) Power BI
3 196 (14.01%) Data Lake
4 194 (13.87%) Metadata
5 128 (9.15%) SQL Server
6 91 (6.50%) Tableau
7 70 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 69 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 65 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 64 (4.57%) NoSQL
10 64 (4.57%) Power Query
11 56 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (3.93%) MySQL
13 52 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 50 (3.57%) BigQuery
15 48 (3.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 38 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
17 35 (2.50%) Data Vault
18 34 (2.43%) Big Data
19 28 (2.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 98 (7.01%) Git
2 53 (3.79%) JIRA
3 35 (2.50%) ERwin
4 19 (1.36%) Postman
5 17 (1.22%) ER Studio
5 17 (1.22%) MLflow
6 12 (0.86%) GitLab
7 10 (0.71%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.50%) JUnit
10 6 (0.43%) Selenium
11 5 (0.36%) git-flow
12 3 (0.21%) Gradle
12 3 (0.21%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) NUnit
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Snyk
12 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) TestNG
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 538 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 501 (35.81%) Finance
3 369 (26.38%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (5.86%) Marketing
7 71 (5.08%) Law
8 64 (4.57%) Banking
9 54 (3.86%) Financial Institution
10 37 (2.64%) Retail
11 31 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (2.00%) Retail Banking
14 24 (1.72%) Legal
15 23 (1.64%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.36%) Advertising
18 14 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 349 (24.95%) Architect
2 286 (20.44%) Senior
3 285 (20.37%) Data Engineer
4 235 (16.80%) Data Architect
5 184 (13.15%) Analyst
6 146 (10.44%) Developer
7 145 (10.36%) Lead
8 108 (7.72%) Data Analyst
9 102 (7.29%) Senior Data Engineer
10 58 (4.15%) Consultant
11 43 (3.07%) Lead Data Engineer
12 37 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 37 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 35 (2.50%) Lead Architect
13 35 (2.50%) Senior Architect
14 34 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 34 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (2.36%) Azure Architect
15 33 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
16 30 (2.14%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (8.22%) REST
2 78 (5.58%) Kafka
3 61 (4.36%) SOAP
4 53 (3.79%) PySpark
5 48 (3.43%) .NET
6 45 (3.22%) RESTful
7 44 (3.15%) JSON
8 43 (3.07%) Lightning Web Components
9 34 (2.43%) Middleware
10 33 (2.36%) CSS
10 33 (2.36%) OpenAPI
10 33 (2.36%) Swagger
10 33 (2.36%) XML
11 32 (2.29%) React
12 27 (1.93%) HTML
13 24 (1.72%) Pandas
14 21 (1.50%) Visualforce
14 21 (1.50%) Web Services
15 20 (1.43%) Django
15 20 (1.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 107 (7.65%) Data Structures
3 90 (6.43%) Cloud Native
4 62 (4.43%) Management Information System
5 61 (4.36%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (2.43%) Low-Code
7 34 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 33 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.43%) Reinsurance
12 18 (1.29%) e-Learning
12 18 (1.29%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.93%) FMCG
14 10 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.71%) Life Science
14 10 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.93%) Linux
2 11 (0.79%) Windows
3 9 (0.64%) Unix
4 7 (0.50%) Android
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (45.10%) Analytics
2 486 (34.74%) Business Intelligence
3 457 (32.67%) ETL
4 418 (29.88%) Data Governance
5 408 (29.16%) Agile
6 379 (27.09%) Data Engineering
7 365 (26.09%) Data Architecture
8 335 (23.95%) Data Pipeline
9 331 (23.66%) CI/CD
10 330 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
11 327 (23.37%) Decision-Making
12 290 (20.73%) AI
13 289 (20.66%) DevOps
14 236 (16.87%) Mentoring
15 231 (16.51%) Data Integration
16 208 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 188 (13.44%) Data Strategy
18 182 (13.01%) Data Management
19 166 (11.87%) Data Science
20 162 (11.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 693 (49.54%) SQL
2 575 (41.10%) Python
3 121 (8.65%) Java
4 91 (6.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 91 (6.50%) JavaScript
5 86 (6.15%) C#
6 66 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 45 (3.22%) Apex Code
8 44 (3.15%) Scala
8 44 (3.15%) T-SQL
9 34 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 30 (2.14%) R
11 19 (1.36%) Bash
11 19 (1.36%) C++
12 13 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.79%) VBA
14 9 (0.64%) ANSI SQL
15 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.43%) Perl
15 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (17.01%) Degree
2 121 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 93 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 91 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 73 (5.22%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (2.57%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (2.36%) Master's Degree
10 30 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.57%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.36%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.86%) ACCA
13 12 (0.86%) CIMA
13 12 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.79%) PMP
15 9 (0.64%) SAP Certification
16 7 (0.50%) OCP
16 7 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (27.38%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 77 (5.50%) GDPR
4 35 (2.50%) QA
5 26 (1.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 17 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.71%) SLA
8 9 (0.64%) MiFID
9 7 (0.50%) GRC
10 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.21%) COBIT
12 3 (0.21%) ITGC
12 3 (0.21%) NIST
13 2 (0.14%) PMO
13 2 (0.14%) PSD2
13 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.14%) WCAG
14 1 (0.071%) IFRS
14 1 (0.071%) P3O
System Software
1 57 (4.07%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.43%) HDFS
3 6 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.071%) iptables
5 1 (0.071%) KVM
5 1 (0.071%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 64 (4.57%) Terraform
2 48 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.79%) Grafana
4 10 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.50%) Control-M
7 6 (0.43%) Ansible
7 6 (0.43%) Data Guard
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.071%) Argo
Vendors
1 345 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 222 (15.87%) Databricks
3 88 (6.29%) SAP
4 85 (6.08%) Salesforce
5 77 (5.50%) Oracle
6 53 (3.79%) Informatica
7 45 (3.22%) Google
8 32 (2.29%) Palantir
9 30 (2.14%) Talend
10 28 (2.00%) Foundry
11 22 (1.57%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.50%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.22%) ServiceNow
14 16 (1.14%) UiPath
15 15 (1.07%) Sparx
16 13 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
16 13 (0.93%) IBM
16 13 (0.93%) Workday
17 10 (0.71%) Cisco
18 9 (0.64%) Siemens