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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 126 97
Rank change year-on-year +28 -29 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,442 1,173 2,107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.19% 2.35% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.55% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 784 597 1,430
10th Percentile £44,125 £38,750 £42,225
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,036
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £64,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £87,898 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £59,123 £56,500
% change year-on-year +7.40% +4.64% +2.73%

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 52,411 45,996 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 91.99% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,090 22,202 50,938
10th Percentile £28,809 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 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 10 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 +39 1,252 £70,932 +9.34% 601
UK excluding London +19 731 £63,500 +7.40% 463
London +56 612 £80,000 +10.34% 266
Work from Home +41 540 £70,932 +9.34% 325
South East +27 252 £63,000 -1.18% 184
North of England -5 170 £70,000 +33.33% 96
Midlands +6 110 £60,000 - 90
Scotland +22 96 £87,500 +44.05% 29
Yorkshire -3 95 £74,250 +41.43% 25
West Midlands +15 83 £60,000 +4.35% 71
North West -18 64 £65,000 +23.81% 60
South West -18 48 £64,350 +17.00% 35
East of England +22 41 £55,000 -12.70% 29
East Midlands -14 25 £58,750 -9.27% 19
North East -5 11 £53,750 -12.18% 12
Wales +6 10 £67,586 +80.23% 6
Northern Ireland -18 6 £40,500 - 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 76 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 48 (3.33%) Apache
4 21 (1.46%) Confluence
5 19 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.25%) Appian
6 18 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.83%) SAS
8 7 (0.49%) CMS
8 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Camunda
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.069%) Luigi
12 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 164 (11.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
6 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.069%) Notion
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.069%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 30 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.97%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.42%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) iTrent
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.069%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.069%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.069%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.069%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.069%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.069%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 726 (50.35%) Azure
2 453 (31.41%) Power Platform
3 295 (20.46%) AWS
4 192 (13.31%) Snowflake
5 182 (12.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 159 (11.03%) GCP
7 147 (10.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 136 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
9 118 (8.18%) dbt
10 92 (6.38%) GitHub
11 88 (6.10%) Serverless
12 67 (4.65%) SaaS
13 64 (4.44%) Amazon S3
14 50 (3.47%) Power Automate
15 48 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
16 45 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (2.57%) PowerApps
18 35 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
20 31 (2.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.35%) HTTP
2 3 (0.21%) Broadband
2 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.21%) VPN
3 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.069%) ADSL
4 1 (0.069%) CTI
4 1 (0.069%) DHCP
4 1 (0.069%) DNS
4 1 (0.069%) Internet
4 1 (0.069%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.069%) Modbus
4 1 (0.069%) MQTT
4 1 (0.069%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.069%) TCAP
4 1 (0.069%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (29.20%) Power BI
2 387 (26.84%) Data Warehouse
3 245 (16.99%) Data Lake
4 185 (12.83%) Metadata
5 132 (9.15%) SQL Server
6 94 (6.52%) Tableau
7 77 (5.34%) SAP BW
8 67 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 67 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (4.51%) Power Query
9 65 (4.51%) Relational Database
10 63 (4.37%) NoSQL
11 61 (4.23%) MySQL
12 59 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
13 53 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 48 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 45 (3.12%) Big Data
16 40 (2.77%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (2.70%) BigQuery
18 35 (2.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 90 (6.24%) Git
2 57 (3.95%) JIRA
3 34 (2.36%) ERwin
4 20 (1.39%) ER Studio
5 17 (1.18%) MLflow
6 16 (1.11%) Postman
7 12 (0.83%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.76%) GitLab
9 8 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.49%) JUnit
11 6 (0.42%) Selenium
12 5 (0.35%) git-flow
13 3 (0.21%) Gradle
13 3 (0.21%) Maven
13 3 (0.21%) NUnit
13 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.21%) Snyk
13 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.21%) TestNG
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 584 (40.50%) Social Skills
2 501 (34.74%) Finance
3 389 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (6.66%) Public Sector
6 85 (5.89%) Marketing
7 70 (4.85%) Law
8 66 (4.58%) Banking
9 52 (3.61%) Financial Institution
10 40 (2.77%) Retail
11 31 (2.15%) Retail Banking
12 29 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (1.87%) Legal
15 22 (1.53%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.25%) Advertising
18 14 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 337 (23.37%) Architect
2 281 (19.49%) Senior
3 268 (18.59%) Data Engineer
4 228 (15.81%) Data Architect
5 213 (14.77%) Analyst
6 189 (13.11%) Lead
7 145 (10.06%) Developer
8 107 (7.42%) Data Analyst
9 96 (6.66%) Senior Data Engineer
10 52 (3.61%) Consultant
11 46 (3.19%) Lead Data Engineer
12 41 (2.84%) Report Analyst
13 40 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 40 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Lead
14 38 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
14 38 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
15 35 (2.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 34 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
17 33 (2.29%) Azure Architect
17 33 (2.29%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (7.91%) REST
2 72 (4.99%) Kafka
3 57 (3.95%) SOAP
4 48 (3.33%) .NET
5 46 (3.19%) PySpark
6 43 (2.98%) RESTful
7 41 (2.84%) JSON
8 39 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
9 33 (2.29%) CSS
10 32 (2.22%) React
11 30 (2.08%) Middleware
11 30 (2.08%) OpenAPI
11 30 (2.08%) Swagger
12 29 (2.01%) XML
13 28 (1.94%) HTML
14 22 (1.53%) Web Services
15 21 (1.46%) Pandas
16 20 (1.39%) Django
16 20 (1.39%) OAuth
16 20 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 92 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 88 (6.10%) Cloud Native
4 65 (4.51%) Management Information System
5 60 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.08%) Low-Code
9 30 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.46%) Reinsurance
11 16 (1.11%) e-Learning
11 16 (1.11%) FMCG
12 15 (1.04%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.69%) Life Science
15 9 (0.62%) Reference Data
15 9 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.76%) Linux
1 11 (0.76%) Unix
2 9 (0.62%) Windows
3 7 (0.49%) Android
4 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (45.15%) Analytics
2 538 (37.31%) Business Intelligence
3 455 (31.55%) ETL
4 423 (29.33%) Data Governance
5 407 (28.22%) Agile
6 389 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
7 367 (25.45%) Data Engineering
8 354 (24.55%) Data Architecture
9 326 (22.61%) CI/CD
10 324 (22.47%) Data Pipeline
11 313 (21.71%) Decision-Making
12 292 (20.25%) DevOps
13 278 (19.28%) AI
14 240 (16.64%) Data Integration
15 234 (16.23%) Mentoring
16 194 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 192 (13.31%) Data Strategy
18 182 (12.62%) Data Management
19 167 (11.58%) Data Science
20 166 (11.51%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 669 (46.39%) SQL
2 552 (38.28%) Python
3 112 (7.77%) Java
4 91 (6.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 91 (6.31%) JavaScript
5 87 (6.03%) C#
6 67 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 48 (3.33%) Scala
8 42 (2.91%) T-SQL
9 40 (2.77%) Apex Code
10 36 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.87%) R
12 19 (1.32%) Bash
13 13 (0.90%) C++
14 12 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.76%) VBA
16 9 (0.62%) ANSI SQL
17 7 (0.49%) PHP
18 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 305 (21.15%) Degree
2 110 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 93 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 82 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 69 (4.79%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (2.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 34 (2.36%) Master's Degree
10 30 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.25%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.83%) ACCA
13 12 (0.83%) CIMA
13 12 (0.83%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.69%) PMP
15 8 (0.55%) SnowPro
16 7 (0.49%) OCP
16 7 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (29.68%) Data Quality
2 84 (5.83%) GDPR
3 77 (5.34%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.70%) QA
5 26 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 20 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.69%) SLA
8 9 (0.62%) MiFID
9 6 (0.42%) GRC
10 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.28%) COBIT
11 4 (0.28%) ITGC
11 4 (0.28%) NIST
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
13 1 (0.069%) IFRS
13 1 (0.069%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 52 (3.61%) Docker
2 13 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.55%) HDFS
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.069%) iptables
6 1 (0.069%) KVM
6 1 (0.069%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 60 (4.16%) Terraform
2 44 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.62%) Grafana
5 7 (0.49%) Ansible
5 7 (0.49%) Control-M
6 6 (0.42%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.28%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.069%) Argo
8 1 (0.069%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.069%) Puppet
Vendors
1 343 (23.79%) Microsoft
2 219 (15.19%) Databricks
3 156 (10.82%) SAP
4 84 (5.83%) Salesforce
5 75 (5.20%) Oracle
6 55 (3.81%) Informatica
7 45 (3.12%) Google
8 33 (2.29%) Talend
9 30 (2.08%) Palantir
10 26 (1.80%) Foundry
11 21 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.25%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.25%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.11%) UiPath
14 14 (0.97%) IBM
15 13 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.90%) Sparx
15 13 (0.90%) Workday
16 10 (0.69%) Cisco
16 10 (0.69%) Dataiku