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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 126 120
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,735 1,236 1,801
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.48% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.78% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 640 1,105
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,350 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +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 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 11 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 11 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 +10 1,603 £69,973 +3.66% 1,046
UK excluding London -2 843 £62,500 - 541
London +15 737 £80,000 +6.67% 630
Work from Home +13 543 £65,000 - 436
North of England +76 329 £62,500 +4.17% 132
South East -62 187 £62,500 -3.85% 163
North West +50 148 £62,500 +6.84% 78
Midlands -14 147 £60,000 -5.51% 88
Yorkshire +26 112 £65,000 +1.96% 36
West Midlands -9 103 £60,900 +4.55% 67
South West -66 94 £63,750 -8.93% 55
North East -3 69 £55,000 +12.82% 19
East of England -18 52 £71,000 +18.33% 37
East Midlands -25 44 £59,000 -9.23% 21
Scotland -18 24 £70,000 +5.66% 44
Wales - 8 £64,750 - 12
Northern Ireland -70 2 £60,000 - 11

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
1 134 (7.72%) Apache Airflow
2 125 (7.20%) Apache Spark
3 82 (4.73%) Apache
4 30 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 16 (0.92%) SAS
6 12 (0.69%) Confluence
7 11 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) 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 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.12%) Tornado
13 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 74 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.17%) Blender
6 3 (0.17%) Maya
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.12%) Windchill
8 1 (0.058%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.15%) SAP MDG
4 14 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.12%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 680 (39.19%) Azure
2 492 (28.36%) Power Platform
3 459 (26.46%) AWS
4 260 (14.99%) GCP
5 179 (10.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 177 (10.20%) Snowflake
7 142 (8.18%) dbt
8 132 (7.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 104 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (5.24%) Amazon S3
11 86 (4.96%) Serverless
12 64 (3.69%) SaaS
13 56 (3.23%) Power Automate
14 55 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 54 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
16 53 (3.05%) GitHub
17 50 (2.88%) PowerApps
18 39 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
19 37 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
20 35 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.54%) Broadband
2 7 (0.40%) VPN
3 6 (0.35%) BGP
3 6 (0.35%) DNS
3 6 (0.35%) IPsec
4 4 (0.23%) Internet
4 4 (0.23%) NGN
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
5 3 (0.17%) Network Security
6 2 (0.12%) 4G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G
6 2 (0.12%) SMS
7 1 (0.058%) DMZ
7 1 (0.058%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.058%) IPv4
7 1 (0.058%) Modbus
7 1 (0.058%) OSPF
7 1 (0.058%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (26.46%) Power BI
2 359 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
3 226 (13.03%) Data Lake
4 220 (12.68%) Metadata
5 140 (8.07%) Tableau
6 128 (7.38%) SQL Server
7 112 (6.46%) Relational Database
8 99 (5.71%) BigQuery
9 95 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 86 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
11 80 (4.61%) Big Data
12 77 (4.44%) Star Schema
13 70 (4.03%) Semantic Layer
14 67 (3.86%) NoSQL
15 63 (3.63%) Delta Lake
16 57 (3.29%) Looker
17 55 (3.17%) Data Vault
18 54 (3.11%) Power Query
18 54 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
19 53 (3.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 124 (7.15%) Git
2 41 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 36 (2.07%) JIRA
4 33 (1.90%) MLflow
5 30 (1.73%) Claude Code
6 21 (1.21%) GitLab
7 11 (0.63%) ERwin
8 6 (0.35%) Toad
9 4 (0.23%) Ant
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 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.12%) Postman
General
1 573 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 554 (31.93%) Finance
3 466 (26.86%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 129 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 80 (4.61%) Law
6 80 (4.61%) Marketing
7 79 (4.55%) Retail
8 59 (3.40%) Manufacturing
9 57 (3.29%) Legal
10 55 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (2.31%) Banking
12 30 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.27%) Billing
13 22 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
14 21 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (0.98%) Front Office
16 16 (0.92%) Advertising
17 15 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 424 (24.44%) Data Engineer
2 403 (23.23%) Architect
3 366 (21.10%) Senior
4 292 (16.83%) Data Architect
5 191 (11.01%) Developer
6 185 (10.66%) Analyst
7 176 (10.14%) Lead
8 104 (5.99%) Senior Data Engineer
9 86 (4.96%) Data Analyst
10 77 (4.44%) Consultant
11 59 (3.40%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.11%) Business Analyst
12 54 (3.11%) Data Modeller
13 51 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 46 (2.65%) Senior Data Architect
15 43 (2.48%) Senior Developer
16 42 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
18 38 (2.19%) Data Consultant
19 35 (2.02%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (7.61%) PySpark
2 121 (6.97%) REST
3 119 (6.86%) Kafka
4 66 (3.80%) Node.js
5 65 (3.75%) React
6 58 (3.34%) .NET
7 53 (3.05%) Lightning Web Components
7 53 (3.05%) SOAP
8 51 (2.94%) Middleware
9 49 (2.82%) JSON
10 42 (2.42%) LangChain
11 37 (2.13%) XML
12 35 (2.02%) CSS
13 31 (1.79%) AngularJS
14 29 (1.67%) PyTorch
14 29 (1.67%) TensorFlow
15 26 (1.50%) pgvector
15 26 (1.50%) RESTful
15 26 (1.50%) scikit-learn
16 25 (1.44%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 174 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 124 (7.15%) Data Structures
3 92 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 74 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 60 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.73%) Clustering
11 29 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.56%) AI Agents
12 27 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
13 26 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.38%) Social Media
15 23 (1.33%) Low-Code
16 19 (1.10%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.10%) Reinsurance
17 18 (1.04%) Replication
18 17 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.38%) Linux
2 19 (1.10%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.12%) Solaris
5 1 (0.058%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (48.01%) Analytics
2 614 (35.39%) Business Intelligence
3 576 (33.20%) AI
4 547 (31.53%) Data Governance
5 494 (28.47%) Data Engineering
6 487 (28.07%) ETL
7 479 (27.61%) Data Pipeline
8 440 (25.36%) Decision-Making
9 427 (24.61%) Data Architecture
10 422 (24.32%) Agile
11 401 (23.11%) CI/CD
12 381 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
13 305 (17.58%) Roadmaps
14 291 (16.77%) Machine Learning
15 290 (16.71%) DevOps
16 273 (15.73%) Data Strategy
17 269 (15.50%) Mentoring
18 237 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
19 213 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
20 205 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 901 (51.93%) SQL
2 719 (41.44%) Python
3 111 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 107 (6.17%) Java
5 80 (4.61%) TypeScript
6 79 (4.55%) C#
7 70 (4.03%) Scala
8 67 (3.86%) JavaScript
9 47 (2.71%) Apex Code
10 38 (2.19%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.61%) R
12 19 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 18 (1.04%) Bicep
13 18 (1.04%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.98%) SOQL
14 17 (0.98%) SOSL
15 11 (0.63%) C++
15 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.58%) Bash
17 8 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 222 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 190 (10.95%) Degree
3 137 (7.90%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 47 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 31 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 31 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.86%) SnowPro
13 9 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.52%) CIPD
14 8 (0.46%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.35%) IIBA
16 5 (0.29%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.23%) CBAP
17 4 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 591 (34.06%) Data Quality
2 127 (7.32%) GDPR
3 66 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 57 (3.29%) QA
5 29 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.40%) PMO
6 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.29%) GRC
7 5 (0.29%) IFRS
7 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.23%) MiFID
8 4 (0.23%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.12%) HL7
10 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.058%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.058%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 90 (5.19%) Docker
2 7 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.058%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 110 (6.34%) Terraform
2 58 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.98%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Packer
5 6 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.23%) Grafana
6 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.17%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Argo
8 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.058%) QRadar
9 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.058%) SCCM
Vendors
1 365 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 359 (20.69%) Databricks
3 113 (6.51%) Oracle
4 105 (6.05%) SAP
5 104 (5.99%) Salesforce
6 59 (3.40%) Google
7 26 (1.50%) Cloudera
7 26 (1.50%) Informatica
8 23 (1.33%) Dell
9 19 (1.10%) Palantir
10 17 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 16 (0.92%) Talend
12 15 (0.86%) Foundry
13 13 (0.75%) IBM
14 12 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 11 (0.63%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.58%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.52%) HubSpot
18 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO