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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 126 114
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,755 1,243 1,822
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.49% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.80% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,147 646 1,080
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -3.57% +4.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,688 £87,289
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%

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 78,861 44,450 67,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.27% 89.12% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54,468 25,168 42,663
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
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 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +8 1,626 £69,973 +3.66% 578
UK excluding London -3 862 £62,500 - 399
London +8 745 £80,000 +4.58% 297
Work from Home +27 543 £65,000 - 280
North of England +83 339 £62,500 +4.17% 99
South East -68 193 £62,500 -3.85% 156
North West +53 150 £62,500 +7.76% 53
Midlands -9 146 £60,000 -5.51% 65
Yorkshire +13 111 £65,000 -3.70% 29
West Midlands -9 101 £60,900 +2.35% 52
South West -39 98 £65,000 -7.14% 39
North East +7 78 £55,000 +10.00% 18
East of England -9 50 £71,000 +18.33% 19
East Midlands -23 45 £59,366 -8.67% 13
Scotland -5 25 £70,000 +14.29% 14
Wales - 11 £63,500 - 7
Northern Ireland -78 2 £60,000 - 2

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
1 124 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (6.84%) Apache Spark
3 84 (4.79%) Apache
4 29 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 15 (0.85%) Confluence
7 11 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.63%) SAS
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) Luigi
10 4 (0.23%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 1 (0.057%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 77 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.17%) Blender
6 3 (0.17%) Maya
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.057%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 35 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.08%) SAP MDG
4 13 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 1 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 690 (39.32%) Azure
2 506 (28.83%) Power Platform
3 465 (26.50%) AWS
4 254 (14.47%) GCP
5 183 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 171 (9.74%) Snowflake
7 142 (8.09%) dbt
8 134 (7.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 112 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
10 97 (5.53%) Amazon S3
11 92 (5.24%) Serverless
12 68 (3.87%) SaaS
13 61 (3.48%) Power Automate
14 60 (3.42%) GitHub
15 59 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
17 54 (3.08%) PowerApps
18 46 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
19 39 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
20 33 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.22%) Broadband
2 8 (0.46%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
4 4 (0.23%) Internet
4 4 (0.23%) NGN
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
6 2 (0.11%) DMZ
6 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.11%) IPv4
6 2 (0.11%) Modbus
6 2 (0.11%) Network Security
6 2 (0.11%) OSPF
6 2 (0.11%) SMS
6 2 (0.11%) VLAN
7 1 (0.057%) 4G
7 1 (0.057%) 5G
7 1 (0.057%) ATM
7 1 (0.057%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 470 (26.78%) Power BI
2 365 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
3 230 (13.11%) Data Lake
4 214 (12.19%) Metadata
5 143 (8.15%) Tableau
6 131 (7.46%) SQL Server
7 112 (6.38%) Relational Database
8 94 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.30%) BigQuery
10 92 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
11 84 (4.79%) Star Schema
12 81 (4.62%) Big Data
13 71 (4.05%) Semantic Layer
14 68 (3.87%) NoSQL
15 64 (3.65%) Delta Lake
16 58 (3.30%) Looker
16 58 (3.30%) Snowflake Schema
17 56 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
17 56 (3.19%) Data Vault
18 53 (3.02%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 132 (7.52%) Git
2 45 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 41 (2.34%) JIRA
4 33 (1.88%) Claude Code
4 33 (1.88%) MLflow
5 23 (1.31%) GitLab
6 8 (0.46%) ERwin
7 6 (0.34%) Toad
8 5 (0.28%) Ant
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) 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%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 591 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 561 (31.97%) Finance
3 474 (27.01%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 85 (4.84%) Marketing
7 83 (4.73%) Retail
8 76 (4.33%) Law
9 62 (3.53%) Legal
10 61 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 54 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (2.74%) Banking
13 25 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
14 24 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (1.31%) Billing
16 21 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.85%) Advertising
18 14 (0.80%) Front Office
18 14 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 424 (24.16%) Data Engineer
2 398 (22.68%) Architect
3 366 (20.85%) Senior
4 291 (16.58%) Data Architect
5 197 (11.23%) Analyst
6 192 (10.94%) Developer
7 179 (10.20%) Lead
8 101 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
9 93 (5.30%) Data Analyst
10 72 (4.10%) Consultant
11 57 (3.25%) Business Analyst
11 57 (3.25%) Data Modeller
12 52 (2.96%) Senior Architect
13 50 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 44 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
15 43 (2.45%) Senior Data Architect
15 43 (2.45%) Senior Developer
16 42 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (2.17%) Software Engineer
18 36 (2.05%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (7.92%) PySpark
2 125 (7.12%) REST
3 115 (6.55%) Kafka
4 112 (6.38%) Terraform
5 69 (3.93%) React
6 67 (3.82%) Node.js
7 58 (3.30%) .NET
8 53 (3.02%) Lightning Web Components
9 52 (2.96%) SOAP
10 50 (2.85%) Middleware
11 44 (2.51%) LangChain
12 43 (2.45%) JSON
13 36 (2.05%) CSS
14 32 (1.82%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.82%) XML
15 29 (1.65%) pgvector
15 29 (1.65%) PyTorch
15 29 (1.65%) TensorFlow
16 26 (1.48%) RESTful
16 26 (1.48%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 182 (10.37%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 93 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 65 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 30 (1.71%) Clustering
11 29 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
11 29 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (1.31%) Low-Code
14 22 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.08%) Reinsurance
15 19 (1.08%) Replication
15 19 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.31%) Linux
2 19 (1.08%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.057%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (47.01%) Analytics
2 625 (35.61%) Business Intelligence
3 586 (33.39%) AI
4 538 (30.66%) Data Governance
5 505 (28.77%) Data Engineering
6 491 (27.98%) ETL
7 485 (27.64%) Data Pipeline
8 442 (25.19%) Decision-Making
9 438 (24.96%) Data Architecture
10 431 (24.56%) Agile
11 414 (23.59%) CI/CD
12 389 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
13 313 (17.83%) Roadmaps
14 299 (17.04%) DevOps
15 292 (16.64%) Machine Learning
16 275 (15.67%) Data Strategy
17 273 (15.56%) Mentoring
18 239 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
19 224 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
20 214 (12.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 908 (51.74%) SQL
2 714 (40.68%) Python
3 110 (6.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (5.81%) Java
5 82 (4.67%) TypeScript
6 80 (4.56%) C#
7 71 (4.05%) Scala
8 67 (3.82%) JavaScript
9 47 (2.68%) Apex Code
10 38 (2.17%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.48%) R
12 19 (1.08%) Bicep
13 18 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 17 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.97%) SOQL
14 17 (0.97%) SOSL
15 11 (0.63%) Bash
15 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.51%) Go
17 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 226 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 191 (10.88%) Degree
3 136 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 48 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.37%) DBS Check
12 16 (0.91%) SnowPro
12 16 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.51%) CIPD
15 7 (0.40%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.34%) IIBA
17 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.23%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 615 (35.04%) Data Quality
2 130 (7.41%) GDPR
3 69 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 66 (3.76%) QA
5 31 (1.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.40%) PMO
6 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.23%) GRC
8 4 (0.23%) MiFID
8 4 (0.23%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.057%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.057%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (5.24%) Docker
2 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.057%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 59 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.03%) Ansible
3 8 (0.46%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.23%) Grafana
5 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.17%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.057%) Consul
8 1 (0.057%) QRadar
8 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 386 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 357 (20.34%) Databricks
3 114 (6.50%) Oracle
4 105 (5.98%) Salesforce
5 104 (5.93%) SAP
6 61 (3.48%) Google
7 29 (1.65%) Informatica
8 26 (1.48%) Cloudera
9 23 (1.31%) Dell
10 18 (1.03%) Foundry
10 18 (1.03%) Palantir
10 18 (1.03%) Talend
11 17 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.80%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.74%) IBM
13 13 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 11 (0.63%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.57%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.51%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO