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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 123 112
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,590 1,157 2,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 2.62% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.82% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 582 1,544
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £65,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -2.59% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,900 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% +4.17% +4.35%

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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +23 1,426 £69,000 +2.22% 554
UK excluding London +11 769 £63,750 +2.00% 377
London +27 661 £80,000 +6.67% 267
Work from Home +39 515 £67,500 +3.85% 332
North of England +88 283 £67,500 +17.39% 109
South East -33 177 £61,250 -5.77% 129
Midlands +5 141 £60,000 -4.00% 59
North West +50 124 £62,500 +19.05% 69
Yorkshire +32 124 £69,255 +15.43% 26
West Midlands +7 101 £62,500 +4.17% 43
East of England +5 59 £71,000 +1.43% 19
South West -86 57 £55,200 -8.00% 35
Scotland -4 40 £70,000 +11.55% 14
East Midlands -21 38 £55,000 -13.39% 16
North East -13 35 £65,000 +33.33% 15
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 8
Northern Ireland -33 3 £60,000 - 9

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
1 148 (9.31%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (5.85%) Apache Spark
3 72 (4.53%) Apache
4 35 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.07%) Confluence
7 15 (0.94%) SAS
8 11 (0.69%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.63%) CMS
10 8 (0.50%) Appian
10 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 69 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
5 3 (0.19%) Windchill
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.13%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.13%) SAP MDG
3 15 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.57%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
7 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
9 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.13%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.063%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 678 (42.64%) Azure
2 433 (27.23%) Power Platform
3 405 (25.47%) AWS
4 234 (14.72%) GCP
5 173 (10.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (9.75%) Snowflake
7 139 (8.74%) dbt
8 129 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 114 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (5.35%) Serverless
11 80 (5.03%) Amazon S3
12 61 (3.84%) Power Automate
13 60 (3.77%) SaaS
14 52 (3.27%) GitHub
15 48 (3.02%) PowerApps
16 47 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (2.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 30 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
19 30 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.52%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) LTE
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
2 3 (0.19%) NGN
3 2 (0.13%) 4G
3 2 (0.13%) 5G
3 2 (0.13%) Internet
3 2 (0.13%) SMS
3 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.063%) CTI
4 1 (0.063%) HTTP
4 1 (0.063%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.063%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.063%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (24.84%) Power BI
2 302 (18.99%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (12.20%) Metadata
4 190 (11.95%) Data Lake
5 117 (7.36%) Tableau
6 114 (7.17%) SQL Server
7 104 (6.54%) Relational Database
8 86 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 86 (5.41%) BigQuery
9 76 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
10 62 (3.90%) NoSQL
11 55 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 54 (3.40%) Semantic Layer
13 52 (3.27%) Star Schema
14 48 (3.02%) Power Query
15 47 (2.96%) Looker
15 47 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 45 (2.83%) Delta Lake
17 43 (2.70%) MySQL
18 42 (2.64%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 112 (7.04%) Git
2 41 (2.58%) JIRA
3 38 (2.39%) MLflow
4 26 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.94%) ERwin
6 14 (0.88%) GitLab
6 14 (0.88%) Postman
7 12 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.38%) Toad
9 4 (0.25%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) NUnit
11 2 (0.13%) Maven
11 2 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.13%) Selenium
11 2 (0.13%) TestNG
11 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 530 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 492 (30.94%) Finance
3 442 (27.80%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 68 (4.28%) Law
7 67 (4.21%) Marketing
8 59 (3.71%) Retail
9 47 (2.96%) Banking
10 43 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 43 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (2.39%) Legal
12 35 (2.20%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.32%) Billing
16 18 (1.13%) Advertising
16 18 (1.13%) Local Government
17 15 (0.94%) Games
18 14 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 383 (24.09%) Data Engineer
2 336 (21.13%) Architect
3 334 (21.01%) Senior
4 221 (13.90%) Data Architect
5 208 (13.08%) Analyst
6 188 (11.82%) Lead
7 183 (11.51%) Developer
8 118 (7.42%) Data Analyst
9 107 (6.73%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (4.78%) Consultant
11 53 (3.33%) Business Analyst
12 52 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 49 (3.08%) Data Modeller
14 46 (2.89%) Lead Data Engineer
15 45 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
15 45 (2.83%) Senior Architect
16 41 (2.58%) Senior Developer
17 39 (2.45%) Data Manager
18 37 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
18 37 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (9.31%) REST
2 112 (7.04%) PySpark
3 107 (6.73%) Kafka
4 69 (4.34%) .NET
5 67 (4.21%) SOAP
6 62 (3.90%) React
7 61 (3.84%) JSON
8 54 (3.40%) Middleware
9 53 (3.33%) Node.js
10 50 (3.14%) CSS
10 50 (3.14%) Lightning Web Components
11 46 (2.89%) XML
12 43 (2.70%) LangChain
13 42 (2.64%) RESTful
14 39 (2.45%) PyTorch
14 39 (2.45%) TensorFlow
15 37 (2.33%) scikit-learn
16 35 (2.20%) HTML
17 30 (1.89%) Visualforce
18 27 (1.70%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 139 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 131 (8.24%) Data Structures
3 91 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 46 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
10 35 (2.20%) Low-Code
10 35 (2.20%) Public Cloud
11 34 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.82%) Reinsurance
13 25 (1.57%) Clustering
14 21 (1.32%) Social Media
15 20 (1.26%) AI Agents
16 19 (1.19%) Replication
17 14 (0.88%) Algorithms
17 14 (0.88%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.82%) Windows
2 11 (0.69%) Linux
3 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 2 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.063%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (45.85%) Analytics
2 534 (33.58%) Business Intelligence
3 501 (31.51%) Data Governance
4 465 (29.25%) Data Engineering
5 448 (28.18%) ETL
6 413 (25.97%) Data Pipeline
7 403 (25.35%) AI
8 401 (25.22%) Agile
9 394 (24.78%) Decision-Making
10 379 (23.84%) CI/CD
11 376 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (22.39%) Data Architecture
13 299 (18.81%) DevOps
14 252 (15.85%) Mentoring
15 241 (15.16%) Machine Learning
16 210 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 204 (12.83%) Roadmaps
18 194 (12.20%) Data Strategy
19 166 (10.44%) Translating Business Requirements
20 164 (10.31%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 832 (52.33%) SQL
2 681 (42.83%) Python
3 116 (7.30%) Java
4 100 (6.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 88 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 71 (4.47%) TypeScript
7 66 (4.15%) C#
8 51 (3.21%) Scala
9 48 (3.02%) Apex Code
10 40 (2.52%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.76%) R
12 27 (1.70%) PowerShell
13 19 (1.19%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.13%) Bash
14 18 (1.13%) SOQL
14 18 (1.13%) SOSL
15 9 (0.57%) C++
15 9 (0.57%) Perl
16 8 (0.50%) Go
16 8 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (11.76%) Degree
2 170 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 112 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (1.82%) DBS Check
7 29 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.69%) ACCA
11 11 (0.69%) CIMA
12 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.44%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.38%) PMP
15 4 (0.25%) CBAP
15 4 (0.25%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 536 (33.71%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.60%) GDPR
3 54 (3.40%) QA
4 46 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.57%) SLA
8 7 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.38%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) PERC
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) WCAG
14 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.063%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 82 (5.16%) Docker
2 11 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.063%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 93 (5.85%) Terraform
2 65 (4.09%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.75%) Grafana
4 10 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.44%) Control-M
7 4 (0.25%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Kibana
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.063%) QRadar
9 1 (0.063%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.063%) SCCM
Vendors
1 327 (20.57%) Databricks
2 314 (19.75%) Microsoft
3 109 (6.86%) Salesforce
4 102 (6.42%) Oracle
5 87 (5.47%) SAP
6 51 (3.21%) Google
7 38 (2.39%) Informatica
8 30 (1.89%) Foundry
8 30 (1.89%) Palantir
9 27 (1.70%) Cloudera
10 23 (1.45%) Dell
10 23 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.07%) Talend
13 10 (0.63%) IBM
13 10 (0.63%) Sparx
14 9 (0.57%) Automation Anywhere
14 9 (0.57%) UiPath
14 9 (0.57%) Workday