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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 120 123
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,664 1,213 2,017
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.47% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.74% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 617 1,281
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
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 £100,000 £105,000 £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 73,631 44,290 76,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 90.03% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 50,962 24,903 52,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +18 1,526 £69,973 +3.66% 629
UK excluding London 0 796 £62,500 - 357
London +25 706 £80,000 +6.67% 354
Work from Home +21 526 £66,500 +2.31% 287
North of England +91 299 £63,500 +5.83% 101
South East -49 186 £62,500 -3.85% 119
North West +60 144 £62,500 +8.70% 52
Midlands -6 144 £60,000 -5.51% 51
Yorkshire +21 106 £66,250 +8.16% 21
West Midlands +9 102 £62,500 +8.70% 34
South West -68 79 £60,000 -14.29% 44
East of England 0 55 £71,000 +18.33% 14
North East -8 49 £65,000 +36.84% 29
East Midlands -20 42 £55,000 -13.39% 17
Scotland -23 19 £70,000 +5.66% 20
Wales - 11 £66,000 - 7
Northern Ireland -64 3 £60,000 - 4

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 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (7.03%) Apache Spark
3 78 (4.69%) Apache
4 32 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.08%) SAS
6 14 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 14 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.66%) Confluence
8 8 (0.48%) CMS
8 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.12%) Appian
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 78 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.060%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.20%) SAP MDG
3 18 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.48%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.42%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.18%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 659 (39.60%) Azure
2 476 (28.61%) Power Platform
3 432 (25.96%) AWS
4 245 (14.72%) GCP
5 178 (10.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 162 (9.74%) Snowflake
7 138 (8.29%) dbt
8 125 (7.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 101 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (5.41%) Amazon S3
11 88 (5.29%) Serverless
12 66 (3.97%) SaaS
13 59 (3.55%) Power Automate
14 53 (3.19%) PowerApps
15 51 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
16 47 (2.82%) GitHub
17 41 (2.46%) Microsoft Purview
18 38 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
19 35 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
20 33 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.64%) Broadband
2 6 (0.36%) BGP
2 6 (0.36%) DNS
2 6 (0.36%) IPsec
2 6 (0.36%) VPN
3 4 (0.24%) Internet
3 4 (0.24%) NGN
4 3 (0.18%) LTE
4 3 (0.18%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) 4G
5 2 (0.12%) 5G
5 2 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.060%) CTI
6 1 (0.060%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (26.38%) Power BI
2 344 (20.67%) Data Warehouse
3 213 (12.80%) Data Lake
4 194 (11.66%) Metadata
5 127 (7.63%) SQL Server
6 125 (7.51%) Tableau
7 108 (6.49%) Relational Database
8 92 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 91 (5.47%) BigQuery
10 88 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
11 72 (4.33%) Big Data
12 69 (4.15%) Star Schema
13 64 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
14 62 (3.73%) MySQL
15 61 (3.67%) NoSQL
16 56 (3.37%) Delta Lake
17 51 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
17 51 (3.06%) Data Vault
17 51 (3.06%) Power Query
18 49 (2.94%) Looker
Development Applications
1 109 (6.55%) Git
2 35 (2.10%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.10%) JIRA
3 33 (1.98%) MLflow
4 28 (1.68%) Claude Code
5 17 (1.02%) GitLab
6 11 (0.66%) ERwin
7 6 (0.36%) Postman
7 6 (0.36%) Toad
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
11 1 (0.060%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.060%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.060%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 553 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 515 (30.95%) Finance
3 454 (27.28%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.21%) Retail
7 69 (4.15%) Law
8 67 (4.03%) Marketing
9 55 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (3.13%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.88%) Legal
12 34 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 33 (1.98%) Banking
14 23 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.26%) Billing
16 21 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.02%) Advertising
19 15 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 408 (24.52%) Data Engineer
2 376 (22.60%) Architect
3 351 (21.09%) Senior
4 265 (15.93%) Data Architect
5 194 (11.66%) Developer
6 192 (11.54%) Analyst
7 187 (11.24%) Lead
8 112 (6.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 97 (5.83%) Data Analyst
10 79 (4.75%) Consultant
11 58 (3.49%) Senior Architect
12 49 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 48 (2.88%) Business Analyst
14 46 (2.76%) Data Modeller
15 44 (2.64%) Senior Data Architect
15 44 (2.64%) Senior Developer
16 43 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 40 (2.40%) Lead Data Engineer
17 40 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (2.16%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (7.57%) REST
2 119 (7.15%) PySpark
3 114 (6.85%) Kafka
4 70 (4.21%) Node.js
5 66 (3.97%) React
6 59 (3.55%) .NET
6 59 (3.55%) JSON
7 52 (3.13%) SOAP
8 51 (3.06%) Middleware
9 49 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
10 45 (2.70%) XML
11 41 (2.46%) LangChain
12 38 (2.28%) CSS
13 31 (1.86%) PyTorch
13 31 (1.86%) RESTful
13 31 (1.86%) TensorFlow
14 28 (1.68%) AngularJS
14 28 (1.68%) scikit-learn
15 27 (1.62%) HTML
16 25 (1.50%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 130 (7.81%) Data Structures
3 81 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 39 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 32 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 32 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.62%) Clustering
11 26 (1.56%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.56%) Low-Code
12 24 (1.44%) Reinsurance
13 22 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
13 22 (1.32%) Social Media
14 20 (1.20%) Mobile App
15 18 (1.08%) Replication
16 15 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.26%) Linux
2 16 (0.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.060%) Unix
3 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (47.30%) Analytics
2 579 (34.80%) Business Intelligence
3 524 (31.49%) Data Governance
4 504 (30.29%) AI
5 477 (28.67%) Data Engineering
6 459 (27.58%) ETL
7 445 (26.74%) Data Pipeline
8 429 (25.78%) Decision-Making
9 395 (23.74%) Agile
10 381 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
11 378 (22.72%) Data Architecture
12 377 (22.66%) CI/CD
13 284 (17.07%) DevOps
14 271 (16.29%) Roadmaps
15 266 (15.99%) Machine Learning
16 262 (15.75%) Mentoring
17 246 (14.78%) Data Strategy
18 229 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
19 183 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 180 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 863 (51.86%) SQL
2 692 (41.59%) Python
3 111 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (6.13%) Java
5 80 (4.81%) TypeScript
6 75 (4.51%) C#
6 75 (4.51%) JavaScript
7 60 (3.61%) Scala
8 45 (2.70%) Apex Code
9 41 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.44%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.38%) R
12 20 (1.20%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.02%) SOQL
13 17 (1.02%) SOSL
14 14 (0.84%) Bicep
15 13 (0.78%) Bash
16 11 (0.66%) C++
16 11 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 199 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 185 (11.12%) Degree
3 125 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.60%) SnowPro
14 9 (0.54%) CIPD
15 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.36%) ACCA
16 6 (0.36%) CIMA
16 6 (0.36%) IIBA
17 5 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 568 (34.13%) Data Quality
2 123 (7.39%) GDPR
3 58 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 53 (3.19%) QA
5 28 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.42%) GRC
7 7 (0.42%) PMO
8 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.24%) IFRS
9 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.24%) MiFID
9 4 (0.24%) PERC
9 4 (0.24%) SLA
10 3 (0.18%) WCAG
11 2 (0.12%) HL7
11 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.060%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.060%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (5.23%) Docker
2 13 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) NDS
4 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 101 (6.07%) Terraform
2 58 (3.49%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.78%) Ansible
4 8 (0.48%) Grafana
4 8 (0.48%) Packer
5 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) QRadar
9 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.060%) SCCM
Vendors
1 346 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 340 (20.43%) Databricks
3 117 (7.03%) Oracle
4 104 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 101 (6.07%) SAP
6 51 (3.06%) Google
7 29 (1.74%) Informatica
8 27 (1.62%) Cloudera
9 23 (1.38%) Dell
9 23 (1.38%) Palantir
10 19 (1.14%) Foundry
11 17 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.02%) Talend
12 13 (0.78%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.72%) IBM
14 11 (0.66%) Workday
15 10 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 9 (0.54%) HubSpot
17 7 (0.42%) SYSPRO