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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 136 116
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,853 1,163 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.36% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.65% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,183 625 859
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £55,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,348
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.60% - +8.70%

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 86,578 43,908 59,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.94% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 24,542 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,054 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +17 1,708 £70,782 +4.86% 2,297
UK excluding London +3 915 £63,500 +1.60% 1,028
London +3 789 £83,000 +0.61% 1,358
Work from Home +33 576 £69,973 +4.44% 993
North of England +63 349 £65,000 +4.00% 255
South East -62 197 £62,500 -3.85% 272
Midlands +10 181 £62,500 -1.57% 151
North West +64 163 £62,500 +4.17% 161
West Midlands +7 129 £62,500 +5.93% 96
South West -21 106 £78,750 +22.38% 81
Yorkshire -4 104 £68,510 +1.50% 65
North East -2 82 £65,000 +30.00% 30
East Midlands -23 52 £51,250 -21.15% 55
East of England -43 45 £62,500 +4.17% 100
Wales -52 24 £63,500 - 19
Scotland -13 22 £70,000 +16.67% 111
Northern Ireland -70 2 £60,000 - 47

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
1 114 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 103 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 93 (5.02%) Apache
4 32 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 24 (1.30%) Confluence
6 21 (1.13%) Jupyter
7 14 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.59%) SAS
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) WordPress
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
14 1 (0.054%) JBoss
Applications
1 87 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (0.49%) Notion
5 8 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) Blender
6 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.054%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.054%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 46 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.86%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.38%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.32%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.27%) SAP MDG-BP
11 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
12 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
13 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
14 1 (0.054%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 707 (38.15%) Azure
2 549 (29.63%) Power Platform
3 442 (23.85%) AWS
4 243 (13.11%) GCP
5 200 (10.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 182 (9.82%) Snowflake
7 147 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (7.72%) dbt
9 132 (7.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 106 (5.72%) Serverless
11 102 (5.50%) Amazon S3
12 92 (4.96%) SaaS
13 82 (4.43%) Azure Databricks
14 74 (3.99%) GitHub
15 70 (3.78%) Power Automate
16 61 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
16 61 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
17 59 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
18 58 (3.13%) PowerApps
19 43 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.57%) Broadband
2 17 (0.92%) VPN
3 11 (0.59%) DMZ
3 11 (0.59%) Ethernet
3 11 (0.59%) IPv4
3 11 (0.59%) Modbus
3 11 (0.59%) OSPF
3 11 (0.59%) VLAN
4 6 (0.32%) BGP
4 6 (0.32%) DNS
4 6 (0.32%) IPsec
4 6 (0.32%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) HTTP
8 1 (0.054%) 4G
8 1 (0.054%) ATM
8 1 (0.054%) Network Security
8 1 (0.054%) NGN
8 1 (0.054%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 510 (27.52%) Power BI
2 389 (20.99%) Data Warehouse
3 275 (14.84%) Metadata
4 212 (11.44%) Data Lake
5 137 (7.39%) SQL Server
6 119 (6.42%) Tableau
7 116 (6.26%) Relational Database
8 97 (5.23%) Star Schema
9 93 (5.02%) Semantic Layer
10 85 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
11 81 (4.37%) Big Data
11 81 (4.37%) Delta Lake
12 80 (4.32%) NoSQL
13 79 (4.26%) BigQuery
14 77 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
15 75 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 71 (3.83%) Power Query
17 58 (3.13%) Data Vault
18 48 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
18 48 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 181 (9.77%) Git
2 49 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.43%) JIRA
4 41 (2.21%) Claude Code
5 36 (1.94%) GitLab
6 10 (0.54%) MLflow
7 8 (0.43%) ERwin
8 6 (0.32%) Ant
9 5 (0.27%) Toad
10 4 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.16%) Flyway
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.11%) Gradle
12 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 653 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 567 (30.60%) Finance
3 481 (25.96%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 96 (5.18%) Marketing
7 83 (4.48%) Retail
8 81 (4.37%) Legal
9 77 (4.16%) Law
10 71 (3.83%) Manufacturing
11 52 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (2.59%) Banking
13 36 (1.94%) Billing
13 36 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 31 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.81%) Local Government
17 14 (0.76%) Advertising
17 14 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 481 (25.96%) Data Engineer
2 422 (22.77%) Architect
3 407 (21.96%) Senior
4 316 (17.05%) Data Architect
5 207 (11.17%) Analyst
6 197 (10.63%) Lead
7 189 (10.20%) Developer
8 124 (6.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 103 (5.56%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.83%) Consultant
11 69 (3.72%) Senior Architect
12 59 (3.18%) Senior Data Architect
13 52 (2.81%) Principal Engineer
14 48 (2.59%) Business Analyst
15 46 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 46 (2.48%) Software Engineer
15 46 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (2.37%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.27%) Databricks Engineer
17 42 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (9.07%) PySpark
2 132 (7.12%) REST
3 114 (6.15%) Terraform
4 90 (4.86%) Kafka
5 67 (3.62%) Node.js
6 65 (3.51%) React
7 59 (3.18%) .NET
8 48 (2.59%) Middleware
9 45 (2.43%) SOAP
10 42 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
11 40 (2.16%) JSON
12 34 (1.83%) AngularJS
13 32 (1.73%) CSS
14 27 (1.46%) XML
15 24 (1.30%) RESTful
16 23 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
17 21 (1.13%) Vue
18 20 (1.08%) Pandas
18 20 (1.08%) Spring
19 19 (1.03%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 122 (6.58%) Data Structures
3 103 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 68 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 45 (2.43%) AI Agents
8 40 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.51%) Distributed Computing
13 24 (1.30%) Taxonomies
14 21 (1.13%) Reference Data
15 18 (0.97%) Low-Code
15 18 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
16 17 (0.92%) Reinsurance
17 16 (0.86%) Replication
17 16 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.51%) Linux
2 27 (1.46%) Windows
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.054%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.054%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 846 (45.66%) Analytics
2 683 (36.86%) Business Intelligence
3 652 (35.19%) AI
4 538 (29.03%) Data Governance
5 536 (28.93%) Data Engineering
6 531 (28.66%) Data Pipeline
7 507 (27.36%) ETL
8 483 (26.07%) CI/CD
9 477 (25.74%) Agile
10 474 (25.58%) Data Architecture
11 466 (25.15%) Decision-Making
12 411 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
13 346 (18.67%) DevOps
14 344 (18.56%) Roadmaps
15 333 (17.97%) Mentoring
16 304 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 303 (16.35%) Technical Leadership
18 291 (15.70%) Data Strategy
19 261 (14.09%) Lakehouse
20 259 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 986 (53.21%) SQL
2 718 (38.75%) Python
3 134 (7.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 103 (5.56%) C#
5 97 (5.23%) Java
6 84 (4.53%) Scala
6 84 (4.53%) TypeScript
7 75 (4.05%) JavaScript
8 40 (2.16%) Apex Code
9 35 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 28 (1.51%) R
11 26 (1.40%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.24%) Bicep
13 17 (0.92%) SOQL
14 15 (0.81%) SOSL
15 13 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.54%) Bash
18 8 (0.43%) SPARQL
19 7 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 256 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 201 (10.85%) Degree
3 170 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 31 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 18 (0.97%) SnowPro
12 13 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.54%) ACCA
13 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.54%) CIPD
14 8 (0.43%) CIMA
14 8 (0.43%) CSPO
15 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.22%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 718 (38.75%) Data Quality
2 124 (6.69%) GDPR
3 95 (5.13%) Accessibility
4 62 (3.35%) QA
5 14 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.49%) WCAG
7 8 (0.43%) PMO
8 5 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.22%) COPPA
9 4 (0.22%) MiFID
9 4 (0.22%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.16%) UCITS
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
11 2 (0.11%) PERC
System Software
1 109 (5.88%) Docker
2 21 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.11%) NFS
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.03%) Ansible
3 8 (0.43%) Packer
4 6 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.16%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
6 3 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.054%) Consul
8 1 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.054%) QRadar
Vendors
1 479 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 331 (17.86%) Databricks
3 110 (5.94%) Salesforce
4 108 (5.83%) SAP
5 107 (5.77%) Oracle
6 70 (3.78%) Google
7 34 (1.83%) Informatica
8 21 (1.13%) Foundry
8 21 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 21 (1.13%) Talend
9 18 (0.97%) Palantir
10 15 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 14 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 11 (0.59%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.54%) CyberArk
13 10 (0.54%) ForgeRock
13 10 (0.54%) IBM
13 10 (0.54%) Okta
13 10 (0.54%) OpenText
14 9 (0.49%) Workday