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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 126 113
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,600 1,158 2,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.62% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.82% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 582 1,538
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
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 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 9 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 9 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 +26 1,435 £69,986 +7.67% 580
UK excluding London +6 778 £65,000 +4.00% 396
London +26 662 £80,000 +6.67% 276
Work from Home +39 513 £67,500 +3.85% 311
North of England +78 282 £67,500 +17.39% 121
South East -29 182 £62,500 -3.85% 130
Midlands +1 143 £60,000 -4.00% 61
Yorkshire +32 126 £70,000 +16.67% 30
North West +46 122 £63,000 +20.00% 75
West Midlands +4 103 £62,500 +4.17% 42
East of England +13 61 £71,000 +1.43% 17
South West -77 58 £55,100 -8.17% 36
Scotland -13 40 £70,000 +16.67% 16
East Midlands -22 38 £55,000 -13.39% 19
North East -16 34 £60,000 +20.00% 19
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 9
Northern Ireland -38 3 £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
1 151 (9.44%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (5.81%) Apache Spark
3 72 (4.50%) Apache
4 35 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
6 18 (1.13%) 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%) IIS
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 68 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.00%) 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 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.13%) SAP MDG
3 15 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
11 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
13 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.13%) Markit EDM
13 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
14 1 (0.063%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 683 (42.69%) Azure
2 438 (27.38%) Power Platform
3 406 (25.38%) AWS
4 234 (14.63%) GCP
5 174 (10.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (9.56%) Snowflake
7 141 (8.81%) dbt
8 128 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 118 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
10 84 (5.25%) Serverless
11 79 (4.94%) Amazon S3
12 61 (3.81%) Power Automate
13 60 (3.75%) SaaS
14 52 (3.25%) GitHub
15 48 (3.00%) PowerApps
16 46 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 31 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
19 31 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.50%) 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%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.13%) SMS
3 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (0.13%) VPN
4 1 (0.063%) CTI
4 1 (0.063%) HTTP
4 1 (0.063%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (24.88%) Power BI
2 303 (18.94%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (12.13%) Metadata
4 192 (12.00%) Data Lake
5 118 (7.38%) Tableau
6 114 (7.13%) SQL Server
7 102 (6.38%) Relational Database
8 87 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 86 (5.38%) BigQuery
10 74 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
11 63 (3.94%) NoSQL
12 57 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 52 (3.25%) Semantic Layer
13 52 (3.25%) Star Schema
14 48 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 47 (2.94%) Looker
16 46 (2.88%) Power Query
17 45 (2.81%) Delta Lake
18 44 (2.75%) MySQL
19 40 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 112 (7.00%) Git
2 42 (2.63%) JIRA
3 38 (2.38%) MLflow
4 27 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.88%) ERwin
5 14 (0.88%) GitLab
5 14 (0.88%) Postman
6 12 (0.75%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.38%) Toad
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.19%) JUnit
9 3 (0.19%) NUnit
10 2 (0.13%) ESLint
10 2 (0.13%) Gradle
10 2 (0.13%) Maven
10 2 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 532 (33.25%) Social Skills
2 496 (31.00%) Finance
3 441 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.38%) Law
7 67 (4.19%) Marketing
8 59 (3.69%) Retail
9 47 (2.94%) Banking
10 44 (2.75%) Financial Institution
11 42 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.38%) Legal
13 34 (2.13%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.31%) Billing
17 18 (1.13%) Advertising
17 18 (1.13%) Local Government
18 15 (0.94%) Games
19 14 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 385 (24.06%) Data Engineer
2 338 (21.13%) Architect
3 335 (20.94%) Senior
4 222 (13.88%) Data Architect
5 205 (12.81%) Analyst
6 191 (11.94%) Lead
7 181 (11.31%) Developer
8 115 (7.19%) Data Analyst
9 108 (6.75%) Senior Data Engineer
10 75 (4.69%) Consultant
11 53 (3.31%) Business Analyst
12 52 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 49 (3.06%) Data Modeller
14 46 (2.88%) Lead Data Engineer
15 45 (2.81%) Senior Architect
16 44 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
17 40 (2.50%) Data Manager
17 40 (2.50%) Senior Developer
18 37 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
18 37 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (9.06%) REST
2 114 (7.13%) PySpark
3 107 (6.69%) Kafka
4 68 (4.25%) .NET
5 67 (4.19%) SOAP
6 61 (3.81%) React
7 60 (3.75%) JSON
8 54 (3.38%) Middleware
9 52 (3.25%) Node.js
10 50 (3.13%) CSS
10 50 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
11 46 (2.88%) XML
12 43 (2.69%) LangChain
13 42 (2.63%) RESTful
14 39 (2.44%) PyTorch
14 39 (2.44%) TensorFlow
15 37 (2.31%) scikit-learn
16 35 (2.19%) HTML
17 30 (1.88%) Visualforce
18 27 (1.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 131 (8.19%) Data Structures
3 93 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 46 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 35 (2.19%) Low-Code
10 35 (2.19%) Public Cloud
11 34 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (1.88%) Reinsurance
13 25 (1.56%) Clustering
14 21 (1.31%) Social Media
15 20 (1.25%) Replication
16 19 (1.19%) AI Agents
17 14 (0.88%) e-Learning
18 13 (0.81%) FMCG
18 13 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.88%) Windows
2 11 (0.69%) Linux
3 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 2 (0.13%) Android
4 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (45.50%) Analytics
2 537 (33.56%) Business Intelligence
3 508 (31.75%) Data Governance
4 470 (29.38%) Data Engineering
5 453 (28.31%) ETL
6 414 (25.88%) Data Pipeline
7 403 (25.19%) Agile
8 402 (25.13%) AI
9 394 (24.63%) Decision-Making
10 378 (23.63%) CI/CD
11 375 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
12 361 (22.56%) Data Architecture
13 304 (19.00%) DevOps
14 250 (15.63%) Mentoring
15 240 (15.00%) Machine Learning
16 208 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 201 (12.56%) Roadmaps
18 192 (12.00%) Data Strategy
19 168 (10.50%) Translating Business Requirements
20 165 (10.31%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 833 (52.06%) SQL
2 683 (42.69%) Python
3 115 (7.19%) Java
4 98 (6.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 88 (5.50%) JavaScript
6 70 (4.38%) TypeScript
7 65 (4.06%) C#
8 52 (3.25%) Scala
9 48 (3.00%) Apex Code
10 40 (2.50%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 28 (1.75%) R
12 18 (1.13%) Bash
12 18 (1.13%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.13%) SOQL
12 18 (1.13%) SOSL
13 9 (0.56%) C++
13 9 (0.56%) Perl
14 8 (0.50%) Go
14 8 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 189 (11.81%) Degree
2 171 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 113 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 32 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.69%) ACCA
13 11 (0.69%) CIMA
14 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.44%) PMP
15 7 (0.44%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.25%) CCA
16 4 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 539 (33.69%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.63%) GDPR
3 54 (3.38%) QA
4 46 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.56%) 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 81 (5.06%) Docker
2 11 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.063%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 93 (5.81%) Terraform
2 65 (4.06%) 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
1 330 (20.63%) Databricks
2 312 (19.50%) Microsoft
3 108 (6.75%) Salesforce
4 102 (6.38%) Oracle
5 89 (5.56%) SAP
6 51 (3.19%) Google
7 38 (2.38%) Informatica
8 31 (1.94%) Foundry
8 31 (1.94%) Palantir
9 27 (1.69%) Cloudera
10 23 (1.44%) Dell
10 23 (1.44%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.06%) Talend
13 12 (0.75%) Sparx
14 10 (0.63%) IBM
14 10 (0.63%) Workday
15 9 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.56%) UiPath