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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 122 103
Rank change year-on-year +14 -19 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,552 1,118 2,467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.70% 2.56% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.75% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 967 582 1,541
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.44% +0.83% +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 68,096 40,631 82,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.48% 93.01% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,564 22,679 59,766
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.95% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +11 1,360 £69,000 +2.22% 792
UK excluding London -1 760 £65,000 +7.44% 560
London +43 632 £77,500 +3.33% 363
Work from Home +32 543 £70,000 +7.69% 403
North of England +29 223 £70,932 +23.36% 128
South East -31 195 £60,000 -7.69% 194
Midlands +7 146 £60,000 -4.00% 102
Yorkshire +17 113 £75,000 +25.00% 45
West Midlands +5 107 £60,000 - 68
North West -2 92 £70,000 +33.33% 63
Scotland -2 70 £70,000 +13.14% 25
East of England +13 59 £67,500 - 39
South West -79 58 £54,575 -9.04% 43
East Midlands -25 37 £51,825 -19.96% 34
North East -15 18 £60,000 +7.91% 21
Wales -19 8 £67,586 +80.23% 19
Northern Ireland -39 1 - - 14

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
1 141 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (5.73%) Apache Spark
3 57 (3.67%) Apache
4 32 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
6 19 (1.22%) Confluence
7 18 (1.16%) SAS
8 12 (0.77%) Appian
9 9 (0.58%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.064%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.064%) Luigi
Applications
1 76 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.064%) Notion
7 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.064%) SPSS
7 1 (0.064%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.97%) SAP MDG
3 12 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
6 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.064%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.064%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.064%) SAP MDG-M
Cloud Services
1 728 (46.91%) Azure
2 430 (27.71%) Power Platform
3 364 (23.45%) AWS
4 222 (14.30%) GCP
5 198 (12.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 186 (11.98%) Snowflake
7 150 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 146 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
8 146 (9.41%) dbt
9 86 (5.54%) Serverless
10 73 (4.70%) GitHub
11 64 (4.12%) Amazon S3
12 59 (3.80%) Power Automate
13 51 (3.29%) SaaS
14 44 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (2.84%) PowerApps
15 39 (2.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 35 (2.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 34 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
18 29 (1.87%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.06%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.19%) NGN
3 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
4 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.064%) CTI
5 1 (0.064%) DHCP
5 1 (0.064%) DNS
5 1 (0.064%) LTE
5 1 (0.064%) Modbus
5 1 (0.064%) MQTT
5 1 (0.064%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.064%) SMS
5 1 (0.064%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (25.45%) Power BI
2 343 (22.10%) Data Warehouse
3 211 (13.60%) Data Lake
4 194 (12.50%) Metadata
5 120 (7.73%) Tableau
6 116 (7.47%) SQL Server
7 100 (6.44%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (5.28%) BigQuery
10 70 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
11 68 (4.38%) NoSQL
12 56 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 53 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 52 (3.35%) Power Query
15 45 (2.90%) Looker
16 43 (2.77%) Snowflake Schema
17 42 (2.71%) MySQL
18 40 (2.58%) Delta Lake
19 38 (2.45%) Star Schema
20 36 (2.32%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 116 (7.47%) Git
2 52 (3.35%) JIRA
3 42 (2.71%) MLflow
4 20 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.16%) Postman
6 16 (1.03%) ERwin
7 11 (0.71%) GitLab
8 9 (0.58%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.19%) Gradle
11 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.19%) NUnit
11 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) TestNG
11 3 (0.19%) Toad
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
General
1 532 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 505 (32.54%) Finance
3 433 (27.90%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.64%) Law
7 71 (4.57%) Marketing
8 53 (3.41%) Banking
9 49 (3.16%) Financial Institution
10 46 (2.96%) Retail
11 41 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.74%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.48%) Legal
16 21 (1.35%) Advertising
17 18 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 16 (1.03%) Retail Banking
19 14 (0.90%) Billing
19 14 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 360 (23.20%) Data Engineer
2 337 (21.71%) Architect
3 312 (20.10%) Senior
4 223 (14.37%) Data Architect
5 205 (13.21%) Analyst
6 175 (11.28%) Developer
7 167 (10.76%) Lead
8 121 (7.80%) Data Analyst
9 91 (5.86%) Senior Data Engineer
10 77 (4.96%) Consultant
11 54 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.03%) Lead Data Engineer
13 46 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
13 46 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
14 45 (2.90%) Business Analyst
14 45 (2.90%) Data Modeller
15 41 (2.64%) Senior Architect
16 35 (2.26%) Data Manager
16 35 (2.26%) Senior Developer
17 34 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (9.02%) REST
2 108 (6.96%) Kafka
3 99 (6.38%) PySpark
4 71 (4.57%) SOAP
5 58 (3.74%) JSON
6 57 (3.67%) .NET
7 54 (3.48%) Lightning Web Components
8 52 (3.35%) Middleware
8 52 (3.35%) RESTful
9 45 (2.90%) XML
10 43 (2.77%) React
11 42 (2.71%) PyTorch
11 42 (2.71%) TensorFlow
12 40 (2.58%) CSS
12 40 (2.58%) scikit-learn
13 37 (2.38%) LangChain
14 34 (2.19%) HTML
15 31 (2.00%) OpenAPI
15 31 (2.00%) Pandas
15 31 (2.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 130 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 123 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 108 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (3.09%) Onboarding
7 45 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (2.64%) Low-Code
9 38 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 31 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.68%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.48%) Clustering
14 21 (1.35%) Social Media
15 20 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.16%) e-Learning
17 17 (1.10%) Replication
18 16 (1.03%) Taxonomies
19 15 (0.97%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.97%) Windows
2 12 (0.77%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Android
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (46.52%) Analytics
2 524 (33.76%) Business Intelligence
3 494 (31.83%) ETL
4 488 (31.44%) Data Governance
5 458 (29.51%) Data Engineering
6 415 (26.74%) Agile
7 412 (26.55%) Data Pipeline
8 371 (23.90%) CI/CD
9 365 (23.52%) AI
10 361 (23.26%) Data Architecture
11 357 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
12 353 (22.74%) Decision-Making
13 320 (20.62%) DevOps
14 226 (14.56%) Mentoring
15 220 (14.18%) Machine Learning
16 216 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 198 (12.76%) Data Integration
18 180 (11.60%) Data Strategy
19 177 (11.40%) Data Management
19 177 (11.40%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 805 (51.87%) SQL
2 671 (43.23%) Python
3 124 (7.99%) Java
4 93 (5.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 85 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 67 (4.32%) C#
7 65 (4.19%) TypeScript
8 53 (3.41%) Apex Code
9 45 (2.90%) Scala
10 43 (2.77%) T-SQL
11 35 (2.26%) PowerShell
12 30 (1.93%) R
13 23 (1.48%) Bash
14 14 (0.90%) C++
15 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.71%) VBA
17 10 (0.64%) Perl
17 10 (0.64%) SOQL
17 10 (0.64%) SOSL
18 8 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 195 (12.56%) Degree
2 151 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.97%) ACCA
12 15 (0.97%) CIMA
13 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.45%) PMP
15 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.39%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.26%) CBAP
16 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 486 (31.31%) Data Quality
2 101 (6.51%) GDPR
3 61 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 51 (3.29%) QA
5 26 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 15 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.58%) SLA
8 8 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.45%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.39%) MiFID
11 5 (0.32%) GRC
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.19%) PERC
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) WCAG
14 1 (0.064%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.064%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.064%) PMO
14 1 (0.064%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 66 (4.25%) Docker
2 13 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.064%) Firmware
3 1 (0.064%) iptables
Systems Management
1 89 (5.73%) Terraform
2 63 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.84%) Grafana
4 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.064%) Argo
9 1 (0.064%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.064%) SCCM
Vendors
1 338 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 322 (20.75%) Databricks
3 107 (6.89%) Salesforce
4 105 (6.77%) Oracle
5 82 (5.28%) SAP
6 51 (3.29%) Informatica
7 46 (2.96%) Google
8 33 (2.13%) Palantir
9 32 (2.06%) Cloudera
9 32 (2.06%) Talend
10 31 (2.00%) Foundry
11 23 (1.48%) Dell
11 23 (1.48%) OpenAI
12 22 (1.42%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.10%) Sparx
15 13 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.84%) UiPath
16 12 (0.77%) IBM
17 11 (0.71%) Workday