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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 122 121
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,757 1,252 1,787
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 2.51% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.81% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 636 1,097
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,875 £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% +4.37%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,348
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% +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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 15 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 15 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 +5 1,625 £69,973 +3.66% 1,566
UK excluding London -4 857 £62,500 -0.79% 677
London +12 749 £80,000 +6.31% 1,050
Work from Home +19 547 £65,000 -2.26% 612
North of England +79 333 £62,500 +4.17% 170
South East -61 192 £62,500 -3.85% 190
Midlands -4 148 £60,000 -5.51% 99
North West +53 147 £62,500 +6.84% 105
Yorkshire +24 112 £65,000 -1.89% 44
West Midlands +2 105 £60,900 +2.35% 71
South West -63 95 £63,750 -3.77% 79
North East +1 74 £55,000 +10.00% 22
East of England -7 53 £71,000 +18.33% 44
East Midlands -25 43 £59,366 -8.67% 28
Scotland -21 25 £70,000 +14.29% 52
Wales - 11 £63,500 - 16
Northern Ireland -69 2 £60,000 - 28

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
1 132 (7.51%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (7.17%) Apache Spark
3 84 (4.78%) Apache
4 30 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 17 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 14 (0.80%) Confluence
7 12 (0.68%) SAS
8 11 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.40%) CMS
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.23%) Luigi
11 4 (0.23%) WordPress
12 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) CICS
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
14 1 (0.057%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 76 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.057%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 37 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.14%) SAP MDG
4 13 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 689 (39.21%) Azure
2 501 (28.51%) Power Platform
3 464 (26.41%) AWS
4 258 (14.68%) GCP
5 185 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 173 (9.85%) Snowflake
7 145 (8.25%) dbt
8 134 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 109 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (5.41%) Amazon S3
11 89 (5.07%) Serverless
12 66 (3.76%) SaaS
13 58 (3.30%) Power Automate
14 57 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
15 56 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
16 54 (3.07%) GitHub
17 53 (3.02%) PowerApps
18 42 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
19 38 (2.16%) Amazon EMR
20 34 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.50%) Broadband
2 7 (0.40%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
4 4 (0.23%) Internet
4 4 (0.23%) NGN
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
6 2 (0.11%) 4G
6 2 (0.11%) 5G
6 2 (0.11%) Network Security
6 2 (0.11%) SMS
7 1 (0.057%) ATM
7 1 (0.057%) DMZ
7 1 (0.057%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.057%) IPv4
7 1 (0.057%) Modbus
7 1 (0.057%) OSPF
7 1 (0.057%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (26.52%) Power BI
2 367 (20.89%) Data Warehouse
3 229 (13.03%) Data Lake
4 220 (12.52%) Metadata
5 142 (8.08%) Tableau
6 131 (7.46%) SQL Server
7 113 (6.43%) Relational Database
8 97 (5.52%) BigQuery
9 93 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 87 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (4.67%) Big Data
12 80 (4.55%) Star Schema
13 70 (3.98%) Semantic Layer
14 67 (3.81%) NoSQL
15 63 (3.59%) Delta Lake
16 57 (3.24%) Data Vault
16 57 (3.24%) Looker
17 56 (3.19%) Snowflake Schema
18 54 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
19 53 (3.02%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 127 (7.23%) Git
2 42 (2.39%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.28%) JIRA
4 33 (1.88%) MLflow
5 31 (1.76%) Claude Code
6 24 (1.37%) GitLab
7 9 (0.51%) ERwin
8 6 (0.34%) 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%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 587 (33.41%) Social Skills
2 562 (31.99%) Finance
3 475 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 84 (4.78%) Marketing
7 82 (4.67%) Law
8 81 (4.61%) Retail
9 60 (3.41%) Legal
9 60 (3.41%) Manufacturing
10 56 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.56%) Banking
12 29 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.31%) Billing
14 22 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.97%) Advertising
16 17 (0.97%) Front Office
17 15 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 433 (24.64%) Data Engineer
2 400 (22.77%) Architect
3 367 (20.89%) Senior
4 293 (16.68%) Data Architect
5 191 (10.87%) Analyst
6 190 (10.81%) Developer
7 179 (10.19%) Lead
8 107 (6.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 90 (5.12%) Data Analyst
10 74 (4.21%) Consultant
11 57 (3.24%) Business Analyst
11 57 (3.24%) Data Modeller
12 53 (3.02%) Senior Architect
13 49 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 44 (2.50%) Senior Data Architect
15 43 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
16 42 (2.39%) Senior Developer
16 42 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (2.11%) Data Consultant
17 37 (2.11%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (7.80%) PySpark
2 122 (6.94%) Kafka
3 121 (6.89%) REST
4 67 (3.81%) React
5 66 (3.76%) Node.js
6 59 (3.36%) .NET
7 52 (2.96%) Lightning Web Components
8 51 (2.90%) SOAP
9 49 (2.79%) Middleware
10 47 (2.68%) JSON
11 43 (2.45%) LangChain
12 35 (1.99%) XML
13 34 (1.94%) CSS
14 31 (1.76%) AngularJS
15 29 (1.65%) PyTorch
15 29 (1.65%) TensorFlow
16 27 (1.54%) pgvector
17 26 (1.48%) RESTful
17 26 (1.48%) scikit-learn
18 24 (1.37%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 178 (10.13%) Cloud Native
2 123 (7.00%) Data Structures
3 92 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 74 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.71%) Clustering
11 29 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
13 27 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.37%) Social Media
15 23 (1.31%) Low-Code
16 19 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.08%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.08%) Reinsurance
17 18 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.37%) Linux
2 20 (1.14%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.057%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (47.87%) Analytics
2 620 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 582 (33.12%) AI
4 549 (31.25%) Data Governance
5 507 (28.86%) Data Engineering
6 499 (28.40%) ETL
7 488 (27.77%) Data Pipeline
8 445 (25.33%) Decision-Making
9 431 (24.53%) Data Architecture
10 427 (24.30%) Agile
11 410 (23.34%) CI/CD
12 387 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
13 312 (17.76%) Roadmaps
14 296 (16.85%) DevOps
15 293 (16.68%) Machine Learning
16 275 (15.65%) Data Strategy
17 270 (15.37%) Mentoring
18 243 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
19 223 (12.69%) Stakeholder Management
20 212 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 918 (52.25%) SQL
2 729 (41.49%) Python
3 110 (6.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 109 (6.20%) Java
5 81 (4.61%) C#
6 80 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 73 (4.15%) Scala
8 66 (3.76%) JavaScript
9 46 (2.62%) Apex Code
10 37 (2.11%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.65%) R
12 19 (1.08%) Bicep
13 18 (1.02%) PowerShell
14 17 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.97%) SOQL
14 17 (0.97%) SOSL
15 11 (0.63%) Bash
15 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.57%) C++
17 8 (0.46%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 224 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 193 (10.98%) Degree
3 137 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 48 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.31%) DBS Check
12 16 (0.91%) SnowPro
12 16 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.51%) CIPD
14 7 (0.40%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.34%) IIBA
15 6 (0.34%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.23%) CBAP
16 4 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (34.72%) Data Quality
2 128 (7.29%) GDPR
3 69 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 62 (3.53%) QA
5 30 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.40%) PMO
6 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.28%) GRC
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.23%) MiFID
8 4 (0.23%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.057%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.057%) NIST
System Software
1 90 (5.12%) Docker
2 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.057%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 111 (6.32%) Terraform
2 57 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.97%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Packer
5 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.23%) Grafana
6 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.17%) Kibana
8 2 (0.11%) Argo
8 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.057%) QRadar
9 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 375 (21.34%) Microsoft
2 360 (20.49%) Databricks
3 114 (6.49%) Oracle
4 105 (5.98%) SAP
5 104 (5.92%) Salesforce
6 60 (3.41%) Google
7 27 (1.54%) Informatica
8 26 (1.48%) Cloudera
9 23 (1.31%) Dell
10 18 (1.02%) Palantir
11 17 (0.97%) Foundry
11 17 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 17 (0.97%) Talend
12 13 (0.74%) IBM
12 13 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 12 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.63%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.57%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.51%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO